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To Pallant House Gallery, to view two wonderful exhibitions\nfeaturing women artists. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Of course, if I were a real diarist, I would then go on to talk casually about the famous people of the day that I had lunch\/tea\/drinks with etc. But as I\u2019m just a humble blogging dame I will actually tell you about these two brilliant exhibitions currently running at Pallant House in Chichester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Let\u2019s start with Jessica Dismorr and her Contemporaries<\/strong>. Dismoor was an artist at the forefront of the avant-garde in Britain. The exhibition explores how she and her female contemporaries engaged with modernist literature and radical politics through their art, including their contributions to campaigns for women\u2019s suffrage and the anti-fascist organisations of the 1930s. There are 80 works are show, including paintings, sculptures, graphic art and archival materials, some of which have never been exhibited before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ,Artists included in the exhibition are Dismorr\u2019s fellow Rhythmists, Anne Estelle Rice and Ethel Wright; Helen Saunders, the only other female founding signatory of the Vorticists; Paule Vezelay, who showed with Dismorr with the London Group, and Sophie Fedorovitch and Winifred Nicholson who exhibited at the Seven and Five Society in the 1920s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Dismorr was one of only seven British women at D.O.O.D (de\nOlympiade onder Dictatuur) Amsterdam in 1936, the exhibition designed to\ncounter Josef Goebbels\u2019 Nazi Art Olympiad, and her work will be seen for the\nfirst time in the company of other women who exhibited with anti-fascist\norganisations in the 1930s, including Edith Rimmington, Betty Rea and Barbara\nHepworth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The quality and depth of the works on show are stunning; I don\u2019t have the space here to go into much detail about individual paintings and drawings, but Dismorr\u2019s Portrait of George Barker<\/em> is beautifully drawn. Her Separated Forms, Red<\/em> is stunning in its use of form and colour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There is a mine of fascinating information to be found in the boards throughout the exhibition, so allow plenty of time to take all this in too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As you leave Dismorrr and her chums, your eyes fall upon a riot of colour and forms. You\u2019ve landed in Jann Haworth: Close Up. <\/strong>Haworth is a pop artist who was married for some time to Peter Blake. Together they worked on the iconic cover for the Beatles\u2019 album Sgt Pepper\u2019s Lonely Hearts Club Band. <\/em>Perhaps typically, Blake received the lion\u2019s share of the credit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This exhibition redresses that balance nicely in terms of acknowledging Haworth\u2019s role, as it affords visitors the first chance in the UK to see Haworth and her daughter Liberty Blake\u2019s mural, Work in Progress<\/em>. The 28ft mural is the result of a collaborative community project and celebrates women who were catalysts for change in the arts, sciences and social activism. Featuring over 100 women spanning over 3000 years, it highlights how many of these different lives and endeavours have become marginalised or forgotten throughout history. The mural is intriguing and informative; not all the women featured are ones that I would have termed \u2018obvious\u2019, although it was reassuring to see Anne Frank, Alice Walker and Ada Lovelace. It is impossible not to be reminded of Judy Chicago\u2019s The Dinner Party<\/em>. Needless to say, Emily Dickinson features in both, and Haworth has included Chicago herself as one of her chosen 100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Alongside the mural are sculptural and wall-based works by\nHaworth. She challenges the conventional perception on form and appropriate\nsubject matter for sculpture, recreating instead the elderly, doughnuts,\nnewspaper comic sections, charm bracelets and cowboys \u2013 all cast in cloth. They\nrange from the comic to pure surreal; Old Lady II<\/em> has the elderly woman\nmerging into her rocking chair. Paula\nis True<\/em> is a glorious homage to Paula Rego, and Mae West Dressing Table <\/em>takes\nyou straight into the actor\u2019s dressing room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Both exhibitions run until February 23rd<\/sup> 2020. 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