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Bloomsbury Group interior designs on exhibit in Bath this summer

Posted in art, Bloomsbury, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell, tagged , , on Monday 23 May 2016| Leave a Comment »

The new major summer exhibition at the Bath & North East Somerset Council-run Victoria Art Gallery will recreate some of the famous Bloomsbury Group’s interior designs. The exhibition, A Room…

Source: ‘Designs’ on the Bloomsbury Group

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‘Collaboration at Cambridge: Bloomsbury Heritage in Domestic Aesthetic’

Posted in art, Bloomsbury, Charleston Farmhouse, Duncan Grant, The Space Between Society: Literature and Culture, Virginia Woolf, tagged , , , , on Thursday 14 April 2016| Leave a Comment »

The two new interns at Charleston continue to unearth work by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant as part of the Angelica Garnett Gift. They are photographing, cataloguing and publishing Grant and Bell’s works for viewing online.

Here’s the interns’ most recent post about two sketchbooks by Duncan Grant dated circa 1919 and 1923.

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Love Bloomsbury? Follow the Charleston Attic

Posted in Bloomsbury, Charleston Farmhouse, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell, tagged , , , , on Friday 26 February 2016| Leave a Comment »

If you don’t already, follow The Charleston Attic blog, a record of the work of graduate student interns as they catalogue, research and interpret the Angelica Garnett Gift Collection from the home’s attic.

Charleston, home of twentieth century artists, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, and their daughter Angelica Garnett, was the Sussex retreat of the Bloomsbury Group. The internships are funded by the Heritage Lottery.

Here are links to this month’s posts:

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New song cycle features Virginia Woolf’s letters

Posted in Bloomsbury, Duncan Grant, music, Vanessa Bell, tagged , , , , , on Saturday 25 July 2015| Leave a Comment »

Three songs from a new song cycle using Virginia Woolf’s letters to her sister, painter Vanessa Bell, are available online via SoundCloud.

Composed by Richard Barnard, they are titled ‘As A Writer‘, Nessa and Duncan, and A Dancing Light. They were recorded by Rhys Maslen at St Augustine’s Chapel, Bristol, and this part of the project was supported by Arts Council Wales.

Here are the descriptions of the songs, as copied from Barnard’s blog:

  1. ‘As A Writer’: Woolf frequently used Vanessa’s art as a metaphor for her own work. Here she describes the writing process as feeling beauty “which is almost entirely colour”, condensing ideas like pouring “a large jug of champagne over a hairpin”.
  2. ‘Nessa and Duncan’: A brilliantly teasing letter in which Woolf imagines a scene at Vanessa and Duncan Grant’s home as they discuss her recently published novel To The Lighthouse (clearly nervous of their judgement!)
  3. ‘A Dancing Light’: Part of a letter of 1937 written soon after the death of Vanessa’s son Julian in the Spanish Civil War.


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The 1940 Venice Biennale – ‘I think you’re really getting too famous’

Posted in Bloomsbury, Duncan Grant, Virginia Woolf, tagged on Sunday 21 June 2015| Leave a Comment »

Duncan Grant and the 1940 Venice Biennale

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