TALK: The Context of Bloomsbury in Wiltshire by Frances Spalding

7.30pm

Within the context of our exhibition Bloomsbury in Wiltshire, we are joined by art historian, biographer and critic Frances Spalding.

Frances is a specialist in modern British art and the author of a centenary history of the Tate. She has also written several biographies, mostly on artists, including Vanessa Bell, Gwen Raverat, John Minton, Duncan Grant and on the poet and novelist Stevie Smith. In 2014 she guest-curated for the National Portrait Gallery the exhibition, Virginia  Woolf: Art, Life and Vision, and wrote the accompanying book with the same title. She taught for 15 years at Newcastle University, becoming Professor of Art History, and left to become  Editor of the Burlington Magazine.