Tag: Laura Knight

  • Gladys Hynes: Radical Lives

    Running the gamut from ardent to whimsical, Gladys Hynes is a character well worth recovering from the annals of history

  • 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

  • Laura Knight: A Panoramic View

    With more than 160 works, this ambitious retrospective highlights Knight’s considerable achievements in the context of women’s rights and her evident skill. What it fails to do is address the criticism that her work lacks substance

  • 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

  • Laura Knight: A Working Life

    This small but delightful display, comprising largely sketches from the RA’s collection, beautifully illustrates the key themes of Knight’s working life: the countryside, the nude, and scenes from the theatre, ballet and circus

  • 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

  • Queer British Art 1861-1967

    To mark the 50th anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of sex between men, Tate Britain’s contribution to the plethora of queer exhibitions across the UK is a well-curated, well-balanced, aesthetically compelling tribute to sexualities and genders across the spectrum

  • Strange Worlds: Visions of Angela Carter

    To mark the 25th anniversary of Carter’s death, this exhibition brings together works that influenced the writer and works inspired by her, creating a visceral, violent and, at times, unpalatable celebration of magic realism and fairyland pornography