Exhibition inspired by Virginia Woolf`s writings opens at Pallant House Gallery
(Artdaily.org)

This major touring exhibition, featuring 80 female artists from 1854 to the present day, has at its heart the pioneering writings of novelist Virginia Woolf. It seeks to show how her perspectives on feminism and creativity have remained relevant to a community of creative women across time: visual artists working in photography, painting, sculpture and film who have sought to record the vast scope of female experience and to shape alternative ways for women to be. ‘Virginia Woolf: an exhibition inspired by her writings’ acts as a lens through which ideas around landscape, domesticity and identity – recurring ideas in Woolf’s writing – have been dealt with across a century of art. The exhibition is divided into four key themes: Landscape and place explores how landscape and nature have been used by artists including Laura Knight, Winifred Nicholson,