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TALK: The Art and Enigmatic Life of Dora Carrington by David Boyd Haycock
Thursday, June 18, 2026
- Museum Hall
- Members £12, Non-Members £15
7:30pm
Dora Carrington was a deeply attractive enigma to many of the people who met her. ‘She seems to be an artist,’ mused Virginia Woolf in her diary in 1918. ‘I wonder what she’s at, so eager to please, conciliatory, restless & active … but she is such a bustling eager creature, so red & solid, & at the same time inquisitive, that one can’t help liking her.’
This talk by David Boyd Haycock, author of A Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War, will explore the life and work of this ‘bustling eager creature,’ and her relationship with Lytton Strachey, Mark Gertler, C.R.W. Nevinson, and John and Paul Nash, among others.
Image: Dora Carrington by Mark Gertler, 1913, pencil on paper
Private collection
