Nina Hamnett by Alicia Foster /// #7

Nina Hamnett by Alicia Foster /// #7NINA HAMNETT (18901956) was an artist, illustrator and writer who was associated with the bohemian and avant garde circles of the London and Parisian art scenes in the first decades of the twentieth century. Hamnetts career included designs for the Bloomsbury Groups Omega Workshops; she was also an artists model for her friend Henri Gaudier Brzeska, and published her life story in two autobiographies. But it was her sensitive and formal still life

she worked as an editor – first at Ceramic Review magazine and then at the Crafts Council’s magazine

For these women

Hanging lengths of fibers woven into chains

Mary Martin

Examples of Hodgkins' work can be found in the national collections of museums and galleries around the world

written for the exhibition catalogue Photographer Lee Miller: The Liberation of Denmark

Previously she was Curator at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts

Financial Times

Her first novel 'Warpaint' (2013) tells the story of four women artists who were employed by the British government in 1942-3

but she yearned for more

ITHELL COLQUHOUN (1906–1988) was an artist and occultist whose work encompassed figurative painting

She was a consummate documentarist and her studies of the ballet