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Lunchtime Lecture: Edna Clarke Hall: Poetry and Painting
This event is part of the free Lunchtime Lecture series. No booking is required.
Edna Clarke Hall (1879-1979) was a prodigious artistic talent known for her lively, expressive drawings and watercolours and considered ‘the star of her generation’ at the Slade School of Fine Art in the 1890s. There she was part of a vibrant social circle of ambitious and talented young artists that included the Welsh painter Gwen John (1876-1939) and her brother Augustus John (1878-1961).
Join Iona Glen for this Lunchtime Lecture to explore the V&A’s rich collection of Edna Clarke Hall’s art, from her visions of Emily Brontë’s gothic and elemental Wuthering Heights (1847) to the striking ‘poem paintings’ of the 1920s.
Iona Glen is undertaking a doctoral placement at the V&A in Paintings, Drawings and Illustration. She is an AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Partnership student at the University of Bristol, Amgueddfa Cymru (National Museum Wales) and Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru (National Library of Wales). Her current research is focused on reassessing the collections of Augustus John in Wales.
Header image: Seated woman, watercolour, by Edna Clarke Hall, 1923, Britain Museum no. E.2934-1948