New Exhibition: Sisters, Sirens and Saints: Imagining the Women of Beatrice Offor plus Conference on 21st March

Centenary Exhibition of Portraits by Beatrice Offor (1864-1920) at Bruce Castle Museum, Tottenham

From 21 March until September 2020

Commemorating the centenary of artist Beatrice Offor (1864-1920) who lived in Tottenham, this exhibition explores her beautiful portraits and the imaginings and portrayals of the women she painted.

Bringing together her artworks from the collections at Bruce Castle Museum alongside recently discovered paintings, this exhibition draws on new research, the influences in her life and the recent invigorated interest in her art. Beatrice Offor is celebrated as being amongst the first women students who trained at The Slade, going on to become one of the few commercially-successful Edwardian female artists.

An unusual forward-thinking artist for her time.

Bruce Castle Museum

PLUS

SPECIAL EVENT

Conference & Launch of the Centenary Exhibition of Portraits by Beatrice Offor (1864-1920)

Sisters, Sirens and Saints: Imagining the Women of Beatrice Offor

• Saturday 21 March
• Morning conference of talks - 10.30am to 12.30pm. Doors open 10am for refreshments
• Launch of exhibition with keynote speaker, Dr Jan Marsh - 2pm

Programme of speakers:

• Geraldine Beskin  -  The Atlantis Bookshop, and Researcher
• Dr Charlotte de Mille - The Courtauld Institute of Art
• Dr Alan Walker - Florida State University (London)
• Deborah Hedgecock  -  Curator, Bruce Castle Museum

The conference will be introduced by Dr Jan Marsh of the National Portrait Gallery

(Curator of the recent Pre-Raphaelite Sisters); and she will officially launch the exhibition.

Booking required for the morning conference, by email: museum.services@haringey.gov.uk.

All welcome.