An Act of Gratitude 1&2 of 2 unique artworks
Idris Khan
2023
Watercolour and aluminium
2 panels, each approximately 1270 x 1515 mm
Located at the Ground Floor Courtyard Entrance
Leading British artist Idris Khan OBE is renowned for his minimal yet profound artworks. For The OWO, Khan crafted two unique paintings, employing key words from Winston Churchill’s famed speech of August 20, 1940, imagining Churchill drafting it at the Old War Office. They are Khan’s first works of this size using a new technique that bonds paper to aluminium to emphasise the brushwork and stamped text. Designed to resonate with the building’s architecture, they showcase a contemporary yet historically connected aesthetic. Idris Khan retains the works’ copyright.
