Beyond Bloomsbury: Designs of the Omega Workshops 1913-19 - Last Chance to See Show

Posted by Frances Spiegel Sep 3, 2009

Beyond Bloomsbury is a fascinating exhibition showing designs by Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, Wyndham Lewis, Frederick Etchells, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Winifred Gill and other artists who were associated with the Omega Workshops.

The Workshops were established by Stephen Fry, in London in1913. Fry insisted that all designs were produced anonymously, bearing only the Greek letter Ω (Omega) in a square.

The show explores the relationships between the artists, their customers, and the Workshops, through modernist crafts and design in the early 20th Century.

Omega Workshop customers included George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, W.B. Yeats and E.M. Forster and high society figures like Lady Ottoline Morrell and Maud Cunard.

The exhibition, which is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue, will be open until 20th September 2009 and further details can be obtained from The Courtauld Gallery.

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