Tate Britain celebrates the extraordinary five-decade creative partnership between Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) and Duncan Grant (1885-1978), two of the most influential British artists of the 20th Century. Associated with the trailblazing Bloomsbury Group, Bell and Grant’s radical experimentation and unconventional approach to life reshaped art, literature and societal thought in Britain.
Featuring over 300 works, Vanessa Bell & Duncan Grant: Inside Bloomsbury is the first major exhibition to chart the duo’s relationship and artistic trajectory – from early post-impressionist and abstract paintings to late naturalistic self-portraits, landscapes, and still lifes. Demonstrating how they broke down the boundaries between art and everyday life, the show will bring together furniture, ceramics and textiles adorned with their modernist designs.
For the very first time, the artists’ studio that they shared until 1939 will be relocated to Tate Britain, offering a snapshot of the duo’s shared vision that continues to inspire generations, one in which art and everyday life are indivisible.
