A BBC documentary will put images of the Black Country, taken from Dudley Council’s art collection, in the spotlight this weekend.
Hidden Paintings, which is due to air on BBC1 on Sunday (June 26), will feature six museum collections from across the West Midlands including Dudley, Birmingham, Coventry and Wolverhampton.
The Dudley slot focuses on artists inspired by the area’s industrial heritage and it includes late 19th century etchings of the Black Country by R.S. Chattock plus modern watercolours by Arthur Lockwood recording the decline of manufacturing industry in the area.
The programme, presented by Nick Hancock, also includes an interview with renowned Wordsley artist Rob Perry, who specialises in painting panoramas of the Black Country landscape from different vantage points around the borough.
Councillor David Stanley, Dudley’s cabinet member for environment and culture, said: “Dudley Council owns a small but significant art collection and we are honoured the programme producers have chosen to feature our collection alongside the collections of our neighbours such as Birmingham and Wolverhampton.”
Hidden Paintings will air at 10.25pm on Sunday.
The council owned paintings featured in the programme can be viewed at Dudley Museum and Art Gallery which is open free of charge from 10am to 4pm from Monday to Saturday.
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