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Bloomsbury Group interior designs on exhibit in Bath this summer

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

The new major summer exhibition at the Bath & North East Somerset Council-run Bloomsbury Rooms: Modernism, Subculture, Domesticity 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 Bloomsbury Group, Charleston Farmhouse, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf 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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Free lectures kick off summer season at Charleston

Posted in art, Bloomsbury, Charleston Farmhouse, Virginia Woolf, tagged Angelica Garnett Gift, Charleston, Duncan Grant, Rebecca Birrell, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, Zoe Wolstenholme on Monday 21 March 2016| Leave a Comment »

The summer season will kick off at Charleston, the Sussex retreat of the Bloomsbury Group, with free lectures by Charleston interns, beginning March 24 at 2 p.m.

Charleston

The house will also be open via guided tours, which you can book here.

The lectures, which will take place in the historic barns, include:

Vanessa Bell’s Faceless Portraits and The Angelica Garnett Gift by Rebecca Birrell
Dressing Modern Identity: Victorian style re-imagined in The Angelica Garnett Gift by Zoe Wolstenholme

You can also book a place on the Spotlight lectures.

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Love Bloomsbury? Follow the Charleston Attic

Posted in Bloomsbury, Charleston Farmhouse, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell, tagged Bloomsbury, Charleston, Charleston Attic, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell 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:

Lyric Charm and Quiet Wit – Duncan Grant’s Tangier landscapes
The Process of Abstraction – Vanessa Bell’s and Duncan Grant’s experiments in abstract art using “the tangible ephemera of everyday life.”
“The Maternal Paradox: The Private Portraiture of Vanessa Bell” –
Vanessa Bell’s Bathers
“New honours come upon him, like our strange garments” – Duncan Grant’s Modernist designs for Harley Granville-Barker’s production of Macbeth, planned for 1912.

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Rummage through The Charleston Attic

Posted in Bloomsbury, Charleston Farmhouse, tagged Bloomsbury Group, Charleston Attic, Duncan Grant on Friday 21 August 2015| Leave a Comment »

Rummage through the attic at Charleston with 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.