The Badminton Game

The Badminton Game is a 1973 painting by the English painter David Inshaw. It was inspired by the gardens of Devizes and the landscape of Wiltshire. Inshaw has described how the place gave him a feeling of "mystery and wonder". He wrote about the painting: "my main aim was to produce a picture that held a moment in time, but unlike a photograph, which only records an event. I thought a painting could give a more universal, deeper meaning to that moment by composing one instant from lots of different unrelated moments."[1] Its original title was a line from Thomas Hardy's poem "She, to Him": Remembering mine the loss is, not the blame.[2]

The Badminton Game
ArtistDavid Inshaw
Year1972–3
Dimensions152.4 cm × 183.5 cm (60.0 in × 72.2 in)
LocationTate, London

The painting was exhibited at the ICA Summer Studio exhibition in London. It is in the collection of the Tate Gallery since 1980. According to The Guardian, it is "one of the most enduringly popular images in the museum's collection".[3] As of 2017, it was not on display.[1]

In 2011 it was the subject of an episode in BBC's series Hidden Paintings of the West.[4]

See also

References
  1. "The Badminton Game, David Inshaw, 1972-3". Tate. Retrieved 2017-06-07.
  2. "The Badminton Game, David Inshaw". Badminton England. Retrieved 2017-06-07.
  3. Lambirth, Andrew (2015-10-02). "Another England: how David Inshaw changed the landscape of art". The Guardian. Retrieved 2017-06-07.
  4. "Your Paintings: The Badminton Game". BBC. 2011-06-23. Retrieved 2017-06-07.
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