Friday 27 September | 6pm

1937 and the eve of war in Europe. For three women, life is about to change forever. As the three are celebrated – Miller in the movie Lee, Carrington in the exhibition at Newlands House Gallery, and Guggenheim in an exhibition at Petersfield Museum and Art Gallery – Joanna Moorhead tells the story of their pivotal year. She describes how it brought the three together, and how it would leave a lasting impact on the world of art.

Join us on Friday 27 form 6pm September for this compelling talk at Newlands House Gallery with Joanna Moorhead, exhibition curator for ‘Leonora Carrington: Rebel Visionary’

Tickets: £20

Welcome drinks from 6pm
Talk begins at 6:30pm
Tickets include access to the ‘Leonora Carrington: Rebel Visionary’ exhibition.

This event is free for Newlands House Gallery Art Pass Holders.
Contact enquiries@newlandshouse.gallery to reserve your place.
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Joanna Moorhead:
In 2006 journalist Joanna Moorhead discovered that her father’s cousin, Prim, who had disappeared many decades earlier, was now a famous artist in Mexico. Although rarely spoken of in her own family (regarded as a black sheep, a wild child; someone they were better off without) in the meantime Leonora Carrington had become a national treasure in Mexico, where she now lived, while her paintings are fetching ever-higher prices at auction today.Intrigued by her story, Joanna set off to Mexico City to find her lost relation. Later she was to return to Mexico ten times more between then and Leonora’s death in 2011, sometimes staying for months at a time and subsequently travelling around Britain and through Europe in search of the loose ends of her tale.They spent days talking and reading together, drinking tea and tequila, going for walks and to parties and eating take away pizzas or dining out in her local restaurants as Leonora told Joanna the wild and amazing truth about a life that had taken her from the suffocating existence of a debutante in London via war-torn France with her lover, Max Ernst, to incarceration in an asylum and finally to the life of a recluse in Mexico City.

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Location: Newlands House Gallery, Pound Street, GU28 0DX
For more information contact enquiries@newlandshouse.gallery