Vanessa Bell, sister of Virginia Woolf and co-director of the Omega Workshops, played a pivotal role in the Bloomsbury Group but has been historically overshadowed. A new exhibition at Charleston gallery celebrates her legacy, showcasing 136 works—the largest collection of Bell's art to date. Bell, a Victorian woman raised in a bourgeois family with limited opportunities, fostered her creativity alongside Woolf, often taking a maternal role after the death of family members. This exhibition seeks to rectify her overlooked contributions to modern art.
"A new exhibition at Charleston's gallery spaces in nearby Lewes brings together the largest number of Bell works in history, 136 in total."
"Whereas her two younger brothers attended school and university, Bell and Woolf were educated in the home. Always creating, Bell once recalled: 'I cannot remember a time when Virginia did not mean to be a writer and I a painter.'"
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