25 November 2021 - 13 February 2022
Millennium Gallery, Sheffield
Beyond Bloomsbury: Life, Love and Legacy explores the lives and
works of an extraordinary group of writers, artists and thinkers, known as the
Bloomsbury Group. Key figures include
the great writer and pioneer of feminist thought Virginia Woolf, her sister the
painter Vanessa Bell, and the circle of friends that gathered around these
young women and became well-known as the ‘Bloomsbury Group’, named after the
area of London where they lived in the first decades of the twentieth-century.
Primarily drawn from the National Portrait Gallery’s Collection and
enhanced with key works from Sheffield Museums and York Museums Trust, this
exhibition includes portraits of those most intimately associated with the
Bloomsbury Group, but also fascinating friends and colleagues who were not
central to the original group. The works include paintings, sculpture, drawings
and photographs. Most of these
representations are informal and intimate and were often made as tokens of
friendship and sometimes of love – when displayed together they bring to life
an intensely creative group of people who were passionate about their work and
about each other. The exhibition will also include new works by the artist
Sahara Longe specially commissioned by York Museums Trust and Sheffield Museums
to respond to the exhibition and the work of Bloomsbury artists.
https://www.npg.org.uk/beyond/exhibitions/partnership/2021/beyond-bloomsbury-life-love-and-legacy-sheffield
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