Author of classic texts including To the Lighthouse and the pioneering feminist text A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf spent much of her childhood in St Ives.
This exhibition is led by her writing, which will act as a prism through which to explore feminist perspectives on landscape, domesticity and identity in modern and contemporary art - with works by over 80 artists, including Laura Knight, Gwen John, Vanessa Bell, Winifred Nicholson, Sandra Blow, Barbara Hepworth, Claude Cahun and Dora Carrington.
The exhibition tours to Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, 26 May – 16 September and The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 2 October – 9 December 2018.
This exhibition was made possible with a Jonathan Ruffer Curatorial Research Grant from Art Fund.
Ethel Sands
The Chintz Couch
(c.1910–1)
Tate
Vanessa Bell
Interior with a Table
(1921)
Tate
Frances Hodgkins
Wings over Water
(1930)
Tate
Margaret Mellis
Blue Anemone
(1957)
Tate
Laura Knight The Dark Pool 1908-18. Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle © Reproduced with permission of The Estate of Dame Laura Knight DBE RA 2018. All Rights
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Rocks, St Mary's, Scilly Isles 1953. City Art Centre, City of Edinburgh Museums & Galleries © Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust
Linder She/She (detail) 1981, printed 2007. Tate © Linder
Mary Kelly How to use the shelter as a table 2012. Collection: Audrey Wallrock, UK. Courtesy the artist and Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London
