The Arts Society West Wales: The Lamorna Artists’ Colony 1910 – 1940

Lecture starts at 11am

In the early 1900s, as the 'Newlyn School' artists' colony began to lose its coherence, the focus of Cornish art shifted a few miles along the coast to the dramatic wooded cove at Lamorna. Here, students from the art school founded by Stanhope and Elizabeth Forbes joined with leading artists such as Dame Laura Knight, Alfred Munnings and SJ ‘Lamorna’ Birch to establish a more bohemian community, producing great works of art while outraging the locals with their wild ways, and playing host to leading figures of the day, from Augustus John to 'tramp poet' WH Davies.

Since graduating in History of Art from Nottingham University in 1986, Alison Bevan (née Lloyd) has spent her entire career working in public art galleries. Starting out at the Graham Sutherland Gallery in her home county of Pembrokeshire, she then spent ten years organising and curating exhibitions at the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery in Swansea, where she honed her broadcast media skills, including presenting a weekly Arts News feature on BBC Radio Wales, 1995-6.

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