Lee’s Surreal Menagerie
Lee’s Surreal Menagerie reveals Lee Miller’s playful, uncanny imagination: a cabinet of creatures and objects that seem to slip between reality and dream.
The walls of Farleys Farm House are covered with art, providing a fitting perimeter to its asymmetrical rooms. Quite a stark contrast to the exterior of the house, then, which could be mistaken for any other dwelling in the village. Farleys today provides a window into the extraordinary lives of its former inhabitants, Lee Miller and Roland Penrose, which visitors enjoy each year from April through to October.
Lee’s Surreal Menagerie reveals Lee Miller’s playful, uncanny imagination: a cabinet of creatures and objects that seem to slip between reality and dream.
Talismanic presents Elaine Duigenan’s surrealist-leaning sculptures, created from found objects (many of them mudlarked from the Thames) transformed into curious, charged forms.
Following on from a record-breaking Tate exhibition, this is a special opportunity to see Lee Miller’s work in the context of her home. This exhibition focuses on her early-war years, documenting the Blitz and women’s contribution to the war effort, including images not seen since publication in the 1940s. Ends 30th October.
Farleys’ much-loved annual fancy-dress Surrealist Picnic will now have a mini-festival around it, with screenings, performances, lectures, and opportunities for visitors to enjoy the sculpture garden and gallery spaces free of charge. Dress code: dream-sequence eccentric. We are proud to be partners of this event.
