Pathways to Pre-Raphaelitism
This exhibition curated by Pamela Gerrish Nun will present to our audience for the first time the contribution of women artists to the Pre-Raphaelite movement.
The exhibition recognises the various pathways to Pre-Raphaelitism that women artists had to take, and illustrates the individuality of their responses to that new idea. It shows that, struggling with tradition and prejudice, women became the Pre-Raphaelites it suited them each to be. With this approach, it offers to the audience not only those artists who have been taken into the Pre-Raphaelite roll-call during the last thirty years but a number of creative women whose names may be quite new to most visitors and whose works will present an expansion and refreshment of the field.
The exhibition spans the period 1850-1914, covering consecutive phases of the style: its origins in the 1850s, its establishment by the 1860s, its reworking in a Burne-Jones or Rossetti form, its manifestation in the Arts and Crafts movement, and the ‘neo-pre-Raphaelitism’ of the early 20th century.
Included in the exhibition are two works on loan from the RSA, by Phoebe Traquair HRSA (1852-1936).
