Me, Myself, I – Artists’ Self-Portraits, comprises more than 70 works with historical material exploring the traditions and ways artists have presented themselves, complemented by modern and contemporary works revealing the complexities of identity in Britain since the 1940s. The exhibition examines how the genre of self-portraiture in Britain has increasingly offered artists the means to take control and represent themselves, challenging society to re-think social mores of the time.

With the exception of two sketches of himself in army uniform in 1917 and a late drawing, there are no self-portraits in Henry Moore's oeuvre; he drew only his hands. This original approach to self-portraiture provides a fascinating insight into the sculptor and will form part of an exploration of alternative depictions of the self. The exhibition includes one drawing by Moore, Sectional Line: The Artist's Hands Holding a Pebble, made in 1981.