Wendy Hitchmough | Vanessa Bell: The Life & Art of a Bloomsbury Radical

Fri 25 Apr 2025 | 4:30pm - 5:30pm

Wendy Hitchmough & Frances Spalding
Vanessa Bell book
Frances Spalding

Vanessa Bell’s approach to life as well as to art was trail-blazing: she rejected conventions and challenged the structures of early twentiethcentury 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, discusses the impact of this most radical and influential of artists with Bloomsbury scholar Frances Spalding.  

Venue: Palmerston Room

Duration: 1 hour

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4.30pm | 25 April | Palmerston Room
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Author Biography

Wendy Hitchmough is emeritus senior lecturer at the University of Sussex and was curator at the Bloomsbury artists’ home, Charleston, for over twelve years. She is author of The Bloomsbury Look.

Chair Biography