Beyond Bloomsbury: Life, Love & Legacy at York Art Gallery

Nadja Moncolova, Contributor
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Beyond Bloomsbury: Life, Love & Legacy at York Art Gallery, York 4 March — 5 June 2022 Tickets from £5.00 — Book now

Beyond Bloomsbury: Life, Love & Legacy is a new exhibition that explores the lives and works of the Bloomsbury Group – an extraordinary group of writers, artists and thinkers, active in England in the first half of the twentieth-century.

Key figures include Virginia Woolf – the great writer and pioneer of feminist thought, Vanessa Bell – painter and Virginia’s sister, and the young women’s circle of friends.

This York Art Gallery‘s exhibition includes new works by the artist Sahara Longe, and newly commissioned Bloomsbury-inspired murals by graphic artist Lydia Caprani.

Beyond Bloomsbury: Life, Love & Legacy at York Art Gallery, York 4 March — 5 June 2022 Tickets from £5.00 Book now

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