Vanessa Bell at Dulwich Picture Gallery

The first major solo retrospective of the work of Vanessa Bell effectively brings her singular skill and brave aesthetic to the forefront.
By collating more than 100 works, from post-impressionistic paintings to abstract designs for ceramics, fabrics and furniture, Bell's work is shown to capture a particular moment in interwar art and to stand on its own as pivotal to 20th century British art. Over a long career, from student works in 1905 to her last self-portraits before her death in 1961, Bell developed her own distinctive way of seeing the world, boldy experimenting with abstraction, colour and form and inventing a new language of visual expression.
Bell exhibited with Picasso before establishing the avant-garde decorative arts cooperative in London, the Omega Workshop, and creating the country retreat, Charleston farmhouse in East Sussex, for the Bloomsbury Group. Her considerable creative contribution has often been overshadowed by the other members of the Bloomsbury set, her sister Virignia Woolf, her husband the art critic Clive Bell, as well as her lovers the artists Duncan Grant and Roger Fry.
This tribute to Vanessa Bell aims to let her be seen in her own light.
Vanessa Bell at Dulwich Picture Gallery until 4 June 2017