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On 24 January 2025, a one-day conference at MK Gallery from 10am to 5pm
This one-day conference in MK Gallery’s 150-seat Sky Room auditorium includes an exciting line up of experts and enthusiasts and will also be live-streamed online. Tickets to the conference will include entrance into the exhibition Vanessa Bell: A World of Form and Colour.
Contributors
Dr Rebecca Birrell is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the University of St Andrews and writer of This Dark Country: Women Artists, Still Life and Intimacy in the Early Twentieth Century (Bloomsbury, 2021).
Dr Darren Clarke is Head of Collections, Research and Exhibitions at the Charleston Trust. He has curated several exhibitions including Orlando at the present time (2018), and Post-Impressionist Living: The Omega Workshops (2019).
Rob Gifford is a cultural activist and co-curator of StonyWords, an annual community literary festival in Stony Stratford, Milton Keynes.
Dr Wendy Hitchmough is emeritus senior lecturer at the University of Sussex. She is the author of The Bloomsbury Look (Yale, 2020) and former curator at Charleston (2001-13). She is the author of a forthcoming book, Vanessa Bell. The Life and Art of a Bloomsbury Radical (Yale, 2025).
Dr Hana Leaper is Reader in History of Art and Exhibition Studies at Liverpool John Moores University. She completed her PhD Vanessa Bell and the Significance of Form in 2014.
Dr Sophie Pickford is an Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of History of Art, University of Cambridge whose current research focuses on the cross-cultural interaction between the Bloomsbury Group and the Ballets Russes in the 1920s and ‘30s.
Frances Spalding is an art historian, biographer and cultural historian. Projects include the biography Vanessa Bell (Bloomsbury, 2006) and an exhibition on Virginia Woolf (National Portrait Gallery, 2014).
Dr Claudia Tobin is a Senior Research Associate at the Intellectual Forum, Jesus College Cambridge, and curator of Gardening Bohemia: Bloomsbury Women Outdoors (Garden Museum, 2024).
About the exhibition
Vanessa Bell (1879–1961) was a pioneering modernist painter and founding member of the Bloomsbury Group, a circle of influential English artists, writers and intellectuals in the first half of the twentieth century. Vanessa Bell: A World of Form and Colour at MK Gallery – her largest-ever solo show – provides an in-depth overview that includes drawings, paintings, ceramics and furniture.
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