Tag: Virginia Woolf

Women of Influence: The Pattle Sisters

Seven sisters made their mark on Victorian art and culture and deserve to be far more than just distant relatives and distant memories today
London’s Statues of Women – book review

This exhaustive yet compact guide to London’s statues of women presents a motley crew, not just of queens and heroines, but of ‘normal’ women of all shapes and forms
Catharsis: A Grief Drawn Out – book review

To what extent can the visual language of grief be translated? Janet McKenzie looks back over 20 years’ worth of drawings in search of words
Vanessa Bell

To accompany its exhibition Vanessa Bell: A World of Form and Colour, organised in partnership with Charleston, the MK Gallery held a one-day conference at which experts and enthusiasts discussed the pioneering painter and founder member of the Bloomsbury Group
Dora Carrington: Beyond Bloomsbury

For the first time, the “unpindownable” Carrington is defined in terms of her own person and her art, not her male lovers
Vanessa Bell: A Pioneer of Modern Art

This exhibition focuses on the 1910s, the most radical and experimental period of an artist who individually, and as a member of the Bloomsbury set, changed the face of British art
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
Vanessa Bell (1879-1961)

While Vanessa Bell stands strong as an artist in her own right, her art can nevertheless not be separated from her life at the centre of the Bloomsbury Group
Virginia Woolf: Art, Life and Vision

National Portrait Gallery, London 10 July – 26 October 2014
Radical Bloomsbury: The Art Of Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell, 1905

Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Brighton 16 April–9 October 2011