Laura Knight by Alice Strickland /// #4

Laura Knight by Alice Strickland /// #4OverviewLaura Knight (18771970) was an English Realist painter who documented life and culture in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century. Educated at a time when studying life drawing was the preserve of male artists, Knight railed against social restrictions of the day and established her own life studio. She was a consummate documentarist and her studies of the ballet, as well as her government commissioned depictions of womens

For these women

Lucie Rie published by Eiderdown Books is her first book

with an introduction by Jeanette Winterson

"The detective work Davies has undertaken with this project to piece together fragments of other people's stories to bring Mabel to life is remarkable

But by the 1950s

11 - MABEL NICHOLSON by Lucy Davies

shot through with imagination

women artists forged new boundaries in artmaking

Louise Bourgeois

including Tate

where she was responsible for a series of international historic and contemporary projects

key to a glittering bohemian circle and