Ana Maria Pacheco at work on a sculpture.

Ana Maria Pacheco: New Painting and Sculpture on Tour from the National Gallery

29 September 1999 - 9 January 2000, Sunley Room, National Gallery, London
21 January - 2 April 2000, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton
15 April - 25 June 2000, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
7 July - 15 October 2000, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
28 October 2000 - 28 January 2001, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield

Supported by The Bernard Sunley Charitable Foundation, The Henry Moore Foundation and The Elephant Trust

Ana Maria Pacheco was the fourth National Gallery Associate Artist, and to mark the end of the two years she had spent in this role, the Gallery mounted a touring exhibition of her work. The brief for the Associate Artist is to make work inspired by the Collection, so demonstrating the importance of the past for artists working today.

Then Gallery Director, Neil MacGregor, wrote in the foreword to the catalogue: 'Pacheco is the first Associate Artist who is not European. She was born in Brazil and her work reflects the rich diversity of a culture steeped in a Roman Catholic tradition, with an admixture of African art reminding one of the slave trade's links with Brazil, an art education system promoting international modernism, and a highly developed sense of national identity. In Pacheco's case her long residence in Britain has added many other elements to the mixture, leading to a totally independent trajectory as an artist, unmoved by fashion.'

'Pacheco is also the first Associate Artist to be sculptor, painter and printmaker. She moves freely between media, and this exhibition develops themes in sculpture first explored in prints, new ideas generated by the experience of being in the Gallery, and long-matured thoughts about certain subjects - a fascination with mysterious containers, with severed heads, with mythic figures like the sphinx.'

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