Tate St Ives

Porthmeor Beach
TR26 1TG St. Ives

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artists & participants

Vanessa Bell,  Sandra Blow,  Claude Cahun,  Dora Carrington,  Barbara Hepworth,  Gwen John,  Laura Knight,  Winifred Nicholson,  Hannah Wilke 

curator

Laura Smith 

press release

Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired by Her Writings 10.02.2018 - 29.04.2018

Laura Knight, Gwen John, Vanessa Bell, Winifred Nicholson, Sandra Blow, Barbara Hepworth, Claude Cahun, Dora Carrington, Hannah Wilke ...

Curated by Laura Smith

Discover art from 1850 to the present, inspired by the writing of this celebrated author

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.