There are over two thousand works in the University’s fine art collection and selected works can be seen on display around the University’s campuses.   

The collection, which is managed by Arts and Culture, includes a substantial number of 19th century engravings of romantic landscapes by JMW Turner as well as paintings by noted South West artists such as Patrick Heron, Harold Harvey, Sir Terry Frost, Kurt Jackson and Alan Cotton.

A large number of the University’s oil paintings can be viewed online at [Art UK](https://artuk.org/).

You can also see a selection of works from the collection on [Wikimedia Commons images](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_University_of_Exeter_Fine_Art_Collection).  

The University also holds a sculpture collection which includes works by Dame Barbara Hepworth, Michael Ayrton and Paul Mount.   We welcome the public to come and enjoy the Streatham Campus Sculpture Walk.

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Find out more about artworks in the University's Fine Art Collection.

Scroll down to see a series of monthly blogs, each one about an individual artwork in the University's Fine Art Collection.

Click on the images to find out more about each artwork.

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'Exeter' copper engraving by JT Jeavons, 1827 after a painting by JMW Turner.

Exeter engraving after a painting by JMW Turner

The University of Exeter holds over two thousand works in its fine art collection, managed by Arts and Culture. Part of the collection includes the University's sculptures, many of which are on public display.


Fine Art Collection

The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum is home to one of the largest collections of material relating to the moving image in Britain. It is both an accredited public museum and an academic research facility and holds a collection of over 75,000 items. Over 1,000 of the items are on display in its Galleries and are available to be viewed by the public seven days a week (except bank holidays and between Christmas and New Year). Its research facilities are open to all each weekday. 

Museum displays explore both the development of pre-cinema visual culture up to 1910 and celebrate cinema from 1910 to the present. 

Find out more about the Museum and its collections, including an online catalogue by clicking [here](https://www.bdcmuseum.org.uk/).

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Magazines on display in the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum

Bill Douglas Cinema Museum

__Special Collections manages unique and distinct collections of archives and rare books which are used extensively in university teaching and research. __

Their archive, rare book and manuscript resources cover all subject areas with major highlights in Twentieth-Century South West Writing, Literature and Visual Culture, Victorian Culture and Imperial Endeavour, Arab and Islamic Studies, and Religious and Parish book collections.

Materials from Special Collections are used in assessed essays, workshops, seminars, student dissertations and exhibitions. 

Special Collections are open by advance appointment only from 10am - 5pm Monday to Friday. You are requested to contact them at least 24 hours in advance if you wish to arrange a visit. 

Find out more about Special Collections, access their archive catalogue and see highlights from their collections [here](http://www.exeter.ac.uk/special-collections/).



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RJW17 from the Hudson Transparencies collection courtesy Special Collections University of Exeter

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The University of Exeter holds over two thousand works in its fine art collection, managed by Arts and Culture. Special Collections feature  unique and distinct collections of archives and rare books and the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum collection is home to one of the largest collections of material relating to the moving image in Britain. 