On Monday my friend and I had a lovely drive over to Scarborough, a seaside town on the East Yorkshire coast. We were going to see a piece of my work in an exhibition – it was pretty exciting as I’ve never had something exhibited like that before!
Back in the summer I heard about a project being organised to celebrate 200 years since Anne Bronte’s birth. Anne was one of the famous literary Bronte sisters, she was born in Haworth, just up the road from here, but she died aged about 30 in Scarborough.
She wrote two books, Agnes Grey and the Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Over the years she’s been a bit overlooked by her more famous sister Charlotte,but actually Anne was quite radical in her time, a feminist in a male dominated era. She wrote about how life was for many women, with alcoholic, abusive husbands and no legal means of escape. This didn’t necessarily make her popular with those who preferred the sanitised version of life in their times.
This exhibition and lots of other events in Scarborough this year aim to set the record straight! It’s the brainchild of Lindsey Tyson, she’s done an amazing job getting 200 artists organised! She’s a textile artist herself working from her studio in Scarborough, her work is beautiful.
200 artists were each given a page from a vintage copy of The Tenent of Wildfell Hall and we had to create something inspired by the page, or by Anne herself. I wrote about my piece and how it came about here.
The exhibition opened on Friday at Woodend Gallery on The Crescent in Scarborough. There’s an amazing variety of art media on display, painting, calligraphy, book art, as well as embroidery. I felt pretty proud of my piece!
There’s also a book been published which has a photo of each piece and the artists description…so I’m in print!!! I picked up my book on Monday, it was beautifully gift wrapped!
If you’re in the area it’s well worth a visit, though don’t go this Saturday as there’s some event on so it’s not open. There’s been alot in the press about it, with TV and radio interviews, so hopefully it will be well supported. You never know, I might even sell my piece!
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Congratulations, your piece looks wonderful, and it is exciting to be in the art gallery. I plan on going over next week to see the exhibition, I shall claim bragging rights over having seen yours on your blog!
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There’s a little coffee shop in the gallery too which does very nice cake, though not as nice as the soup and cheese scone we had in the farm shop just outside Scarborough 🙂
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Congratulations! Your piece is lovely, and it must feel wonderful to be a part of the project!
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Your piece looks fabulous. My book Is on order so hopefully will arrive soon
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My book has arrived and like yours it is so beautifully wrapped I don’t want to undo it 😊
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You are rightly proud of your piece and how exciting to have it immortalised in a real book!
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How exciting to have some of your work on display in this special exhibit! I want to walk down the path you have created…
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What an amazing exhibit!!!!! Congrats on participating, I remember your post on this. Thank you for the update.
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ooooh in print, eh??? How exciting!
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This is exciting! Congratulations… If your piece doesn’t sell I hope that you frame it as a keepsake. You do such great work. I am glad you are getting some recognition.
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Congratulations! I shall pop down and take a look!
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Congratulations!p❣️ Wish I could pop over for a viewing, and enjoy some cake after. 😘
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How exciting that the exhibition is finally here. The book will be a marvelous keepsake for you, but how wonderful to see the exhibit in person too. Congratulations Margaret!
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Wow what an exhibit and I did not realize Charlotte Bronte had a sister who wrote!
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There were six siblings altogether, two died as young children, Anne, Charlotte and Emily all wrote books, all six children and their mother had died before their 30’s, such were the times 😦
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Well done! Very exciting and how wonderful to be part of something so unique. It’s been years since I read The Tenant of Wildfell Hall when I was a teenager! If I lived closer I would have loved to visit the exhibition. Thank you so much for giving us a little peek here.
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Very exciting Margaret! Your piece sits so well with the others.I would love to have got to see the exhibition ~ what a shame I am just that little bit too far away!
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I’d have ordered a copy of the book as there’s no way I could attend the exhibit. Fear of toxins from the printed page kept me from even ordering the book though. 😦 I’m sure the exhibit will be enjoyed and appreciated by all who see it.
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The Anne Bronte exhibit sounds wonderful
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Many congrats & best of luck!
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Congratulations! What a great exhibition to be a part of.
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