Wendy Hitchmough | Vanessa Bell: The Life & Art of a Bloomsbury Radical
Recorded: Fri 25 Apr 2025
Duration: 1 hr
Wendy Hitchmough | Vanessa Bell: The Life & Art of a Bloomsbury Radical
Spring 2025
Vanessa Bell’s approach to life as well as to art was trail-blazing: she rejected conventions and challenged the structures of early twentieth–century society. A leading figure within The Bloomsbury Group and known for her unconventional lifestyle, Vanessa Bell’s work as a painter, designer and decorator has often been overlooked and relegated within the bombastic, male-dominated field of British modernism.
Wendy Hitchmough, writer of Vanessa’s new biography and former curator of the Bloomsbury artists’ home, Charleston, joins Gardening Bohemia: Bloomsbury Women Outdoors’ curator Claudia Tobin to discusses the impact of this most radical and influential of artists with Bloomsbury scholar Frances Spalding.
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