Unit One was a British grouping of
Modernist artists founded by
Paul Nash. The group included painters, sculptors and architects, and was active from 1933 to 1935. It held one exhibition, which began at the
Mayor Gallery in
Cork Street,
London, and then went on an extended tour, closing in Belfast in 1935. A book by
Herbert Read,
Unit One: the modern movement in English painting, sculpture, and architecture, was published at the time of the exhibition. Despite its brief period of activity, the group is regarded as influential in establishing the pre-eminence of London as a centre of modernist and abstract art and architecture in the mid-1930s.