Thanks to Suzanne and Alan for this latest update from Dimbola Museum and Galleries. Ed
Dimbola Curator, Brian Hinton, recently announced the museum had secured a major feature for the Spring of 2015.
World renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz’s collection entitled ‘Pilgrimage’ will take pride of place in the gallery. This body of work is linked to people she admires and respects including Charles Darwin and to this end Annie visited Dimbola recently and was impressed by what she saw.
At present ‘Pilgrimage’ is touring the USA.
200th anniversary
Brian also said that 2015 would mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Julia Margaret Cameron a pioneer amongst early photographers and whose home and workplace was at Dimbola between 1860 and 1875. Dimbola was named after the family’s tea plantations in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka.
Therefore, it is apposite that one of the first exhibitions for 2015 would feature an artist of Sri Lankan descent, who at present has work featured in the current show at St. Martin’s in the Field, London.
collaborative exhibition
‘Retracing the Eye: Giving a Voice to the Voiceless’ is a new collaborative exhibition of etches, wood-cuts and photography by visual artists, Sunara Begum and Dunstan Perera. These two British artists of Bangladeshi and Sri Lankan descent look at the work of Julia Margaret Cameron.
Their exhibition explores, researches and collects images taken by Cameron in Ceylon in order to re-imagine the life of her silent subjects over a century later. Both artists stage a new interpretation of Cameron’s work by engaging the local community in a new relationship with the images, whilst documenting their stories and revealing their hidden narratives.
Image: © Annie Leibovitz
