FBA Library

PS Archival Documents
PS Archival Documents

FBA Library

Welcome to the FBA Library, housed at Mall Galleries.

The library holds annual exhibition catalogues of the FBA member art societies from 1961, when the Federation of British Artists was founded, to today.

Download our PDF guide to discover which catalogues we hold in our collection:

Painting of a crowd gathering around the latest catalogue
1961 to Today

As a collection of annual exhibition catalogues by the art societies within the Federation of British Artists since 1961, the FBA Library offers an insight into the development of the societies, their artists, and art, over the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

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Contact Us

Please direct enquiries to Kate Towsey, Exhibitions Coordinator, at kate@mallgalleries.com

(If you would like to donate a catalogue that is missing, we would be most grateful)

A Personal Record

A personal recollection of the founding of the Federation of British Artists and its move to Mall Galleries

Then

Images: New Catalogue by Julian Bailey NEAC; Album by Zara Matthews

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