Dulwich Picture Gallery - What's On - Jan-Apr 2017
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EXHIBITIONS<br />
VANESSA BELL (1879-1961)<br />
Vanessa Bell 1879–1961,<br />
Self–Portrait, ca. 1915, Yale<br />
Center for British Art, Paul<br />
Mellon Fund. © The Estate<br />
of Vanessa Bell, courtesy<br />
of Henrietta Garnett<br />
8 February - 4 June <strong>2017</strong><br />
Widely acclaimed as a central figure of the Bloomsbury<br />
Group, the modernist painter, Vanessa Bell (1879-<br />
1961) was a pivotal player in 20th century British art,<br />
inventing a new language of visual expression.<br />
Sister of Virginia Woolf, muse to fellow artists<br />
such as Roger Fry and mastermind of the idyllic<br />
Bloomsbury life at Charleston – Bell’s reputation as<br />
an artist has long been overshadowed by her family<br />
life and romantic entanglements. A radical innovator<br />
in the use of abstraction, colour and form, Bell will be<br />
presented for fresh consideration in the first major<br />
exhibition of her work.<br />
Approximately 100 paintings as well as fabrics and<br />
photographs will be arranged thematically to reveal<br />
Bell’s pioneering work in the genres of portraiture, still<br />
life and landscape, focusing on her most distinctive<br />
period of experimentation in the 1910s.<br />
Generously supported by the Vanessa Bell Syndicate<br />
RELATED EVENTS<br />
Exhibition Curator’s Lecture<br />
Thursday 9 February<br />
12.30 – 1.30pm<br />
£12, £10 Friends<br />
SPECIAL EVENT<br />
Exhibition Late: Woolf Works<br />
9 February<br />
6.30pm-9.30pm<br />
£20 Adults, £15 Students/<br />
Concessions<br />
Join us for a special evening<br />
during the opening week of<br />
Vanessa Bell. Enjoy the show<br />
after hours and see a live<br />
performance from Wayne<br />
McGregor’s acclaimed ballet,<br />
Woolf Works, inspired by the<br />
literature of Bell’s sister. This<br />
will be followed by a panel<br />
discussion with Uzma Hameed,<br />
dramaturg and Sarah Milroy,<br />
co-curator of the exhibition.<br />
Also enjoy a special reading<br />
by author Alison MacLeod and<br />
an in conversation with Bell’s<br />
granddaughter and writer,<br />
Virginia Nicholson.<br />
Join exhibition co-curator and Sackler Director<br />
of <strong>Dulwich</strong> <strong>Picture</strong> <strong>Gallery</strong>, Ian Dejardin, for an<br />
exploration of Vanessa Bell.<br />
See In View magazine for an exclusive article on<br />
the exhibition by co-curator Sarah Milroy<br />
4 Book online at dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk
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