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Untitled (Key) (c. late 1970s to mid-1980s), fine line pen on paper. Courtesy of University of Sussex Special Collections and The Estate of Anna Mendelssohn.
Exhibition
Anna Mendelssohn: Speak, Poetess
11 Oct 2023 – 21 Jan 2024
Regular hours
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 21:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
Address
- 77-82 Whitechapel High Street
- London
- e1 7qx
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Bus: 25, 205, 254
- Aldgate East / Aldgate
- Liverpool Street
This autumn we present the first institutional display of works by the poet, writer, and artist, Anna Mendelssohn, who was also known as Grace Lake.
About
This archival exhibition presents a selection of Mendelssohn’s poetry and works on paper. Through the confluence of poetry and visual art, Mendelssohn explores—amongst other things—the socio-historical mechanisms which influence the creation and destruction of language in public and private spheres. Anna Mendelssohn: Speak, Poetess brings together works which examine how iniquities such as war, fascism, and incarceration influence the ways we express and give form to history and social experience.
Anna Mendelssohn: Speak, Poetess is curated by Eugene Yiu Nam Cheung, the 2023 Asymmetry Curatorial Fellow at Whitechapel Gallery, with Sara Crangle, Professor of Modernism & the Avant-Garde at the University of Sussex as curatorial consultant.
