Tag: Gwen John

  • Gwen John: Strange Beauties

    To mark the 150th anniversary of Gwen John’s birth, this intimate and characterful exhibition more than celebrates her often veiled talent

  • Now You See Us. Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920

    Monumental and momentous, this exhibition does away with any lingering notion that there have been ‘no great women artists’, offering as evidence more than 100 names and 200 works

  • Augustus John and the First Crisis of Brilliance

    Augustus John was a star around whom many significant artists were in orbit. This enlightening exhibition paints a lively picture of their interface

  • Kaye Donachie – interview: ‘My portraits are spectres, images conjured through art and writing’

    Donachie, whose first UK solo institutional exhibition is now at Pallant House Gallery, reflects on her cast of reimagined muses, the influence of poetry and cinema on her imagery and the ongoing conversation between her paintings

  • Gwen John: Art and Life in London and Paris

    With her focus on quiet domestic interiors and sensitive portraits of women, Gwen has long been seen as a shy recluse, but this show makes clear that she was anything but

  • Challenging Convention

    This exceptionally well-curated exhibition brings together four female artists, from a pivotal point in British social and art history, and explores how each, in her own way, challenged conventions and restrictions to become a successful painter

  • Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired By Her Writings

    The great modernist writer serves as a presiding spirit in an inclusive, multifarious group show, displayed in the town that triggered her childhood imagination

  • Masterpiece Fair 2017

    The fair is a theatrical display of extravagance, peppered with instantly recognisable works by big names, which it is a joy to stumble across. But there are also rarer treasures, from a previously unseen Andy Warhol sketch to a recently…

  • Rodin

    Rodin Royal Academy of Arts, London 23 September 2006-1 January 2007