A collection of photographs and archival materials, capturing the essence of Miller and Penrose’s summer of love on the Côte d’Azur, an interlude of romance, artistic exchange, and fleeting freedom as the dark clouds of war gathered overhead. This is shown alongside a sister exhibition, Beach to Beachhead.
Farleys House and Gallery has crafted various workshops to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Lee Miller and Roland Penrose moving to Farleys. The photography workshop led by Elizabeth Doak and Gisela Torres looks into the theme of memory, and observes how the nature of photography evokes thoughts of the past.
A real crowd puller at Farleys House, pairing stills from the Hollywood movie Lee, by official photographer Kimberley French, and Lee Miller’s wartime photographs that inspired the film. In 1940 the American Surrealist was made an official war photographer, working in London during the Blitz and on the front line in Italy and France. Lee, […]
Coming to Farley’s House and Gallery in April is ‘The Rivers Melt’, a collection of works by photographer Hanna-Katrina Jędrosz. Exploring nature, history, political ideology and environmentalism, the exhibition takes its viewer on ‘a journey along the European Green Belt and the Iron Curtain borderlands’. Covering a wide expanse of land which once divided the […]
Documentary photographer Jenny Matthews has since 2020 been making quilts and hangings of edits of her photos, which depict the effects of war on women and communities. A particularly powerful recent series, Facial De-recognition, depicts Afghan women with embroidery obliterating their facial features, to mark the effect the Taliban’s takeover of the country has had […]
