Blast To Freeze was an exhibition of works selected by Henry Meyric Hughes and Gijs van Tuyl charting the development of British art in the 20th century. A substantial catalogue in English and German editions, with essays Robert Hewison, Richard Cork, Penelope Curtis, Charles Harrison and Richard Shone amongst others, was published to accompany the show. Each chapter that covered a different period in time was given a different typographic approach.

It included work by:
Kenneth Armitage, Keith Arnatt, Edward Burra, Patrick Caulfield, Alan Davie, Richard Deacon, Frederick Etchells, Lucian Freud, Anthony Hill, Roger Hilton, Howard Hodgkin, Percy Wyndham Lewis, Henry Moore, Paul Nash, Ben Nicholson, Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Victor Pasmore, Bridget Riley, William Scott, Graham Sutherland, William Tucker, Rachel Whiteread