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Enid Marx, Wally Dogs, 1960, Linocut with pastels on paper private collection © the Estate of Enid Marx.
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Barbara Jones - Fairground Credit line: private collection, image © the Estate of Barbara Jones
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Wilhelmina Barns-Graham - Inside Outside No.2 Credit line: private collection, image © Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust
Exhibition
Parallel Lives: Eight Women Artists
16 Sep 2023 – 13 Jan 2024
Regular hours
- Monday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Sunday
- Closed
Cost of entry
Tickets cost £6 with Gift Aid or £5.45 without and can be bought on the door, no pre-booking needed. Concessions available, please see https://www.stbarbe-museum.org.uk/visit/opening-times/
Opening times are Monday - Saturday 10am - 4pm.
Address
- New Street
- Lymington
England - SO41 9BH
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Bluestar No 6 from Southampton. Morebus X1 or X2 from Bournemouth or Christchurch.
- 5 minutes walk from Lymington Town railway station
A retrospective exhibition of eight women artists from the Modern British period, featuring the likes of Enid Marx, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham and Prunella Clough; Parallel Lives shines a light on their unique contributions to modern art.
About
Parallel Lives looks at the careers and experiences of eight women artists, all born within twenty years of each other and whose lives spanned the twentieth century: Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Prunella Clough, Ithell Colquhoun, Evelyn Dunbar, Gertrude Hermes, Barbara Jones, Enid Marx and Monica Poole. Their work covers a range of media: sculpture, painting, printmaking, textile design and book illustration. Stylistically diverse, they drew selectively on art movements with some at the forefront of developments within their artistic fields including neo-romanticism, realism, surrealism, folk art and abstraction.
What binds them together is an independent outlook and a willingness to pursue a singular artistic vision often in defiance of prevailing fashions and influences. Each was an original and innovative creative force, who built a career on their own terms and developed a significant and enduring body of work.
The exhibition follows their successes while considering the challenges they had to address, noting also the moments when their lives and experiences overlapped or corresponded.
Curated by Gill Clarke and Steven Marshall, Parallel Lives is a celebration of these artists’ individuality, their remarkable lives and their unique contributions to British art.
The exhibition runs from the 16th September 2023 and is open until 13th January 2024
A catalogue of the exhibition will be published by Sansom & Company and will be available online at the launch of the exhibition through St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery’s Online Shop: shop.stbarbe-museum.org.uk
