[108815] Sheffield : Millennium Gallery - Lady Ottoline Morrell

Millennium Gallery, Arundel Gate, Sheffield.

Exhibition - Beyond Bloomsbury: Life, Love and Legacy.

25 November 2021-13 February 2022.

 

Lady Ottoline Morrell.

Henry Lamb (1883-1960).

Chalk on paper, c1912.

National Portrait Gallery, London.

 

Lady Ottoline Morrell (born Ottoline Cavendish-Bentinck 1873-1938) was an aristocrat and Society hostess. She hosted literary and political gatherings at her homes in Bedford Square in Bloomsbury and at Garsington Manor in Oxfordshire. Morrell's social gatherings provided opportunities for Bloomsbury writers and artists to discuss ideas and meet patrons.

 

Morrell was a highly valued friend of the Bloomsbury Group. During the First World War she invited conscientious objectors such as Duncan Grant, Clive Bell and Lytton Strachey to take refuge at Garsington.

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The extraordinary writers, artists and thinkers of the Bloomsbury Group had a profound effect on British art and literature. Prolific, passionate and hugely gifted, their story is just as compelling as the remarkable work they created.

 

This major exhibition, in partnership with York Museums Trust and the National Portrait Gallery, chronicles the lives, loves and work of the group during the first half of the 20th century. As well as celebrating the group’s key figures, including writer and feminist pioneer Virginia Woolf and her sister, painter Vanessa Bell, the displays shine a spotlight on their often overlooked peers and reflect on the group’s place in queer art history.

 

Displays feature paintings, sculpture, drawings and photographs by Bell and her contemporaries, including Dora Carrington, Roger Fry, Duncan Grant, Paul Nash, Gwen Raverat and Ray Strachey, alongside new work by contemporary artist, Sahara Longe, responding to the Bloomsbury artists.

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