Secret Self, today

As we published some weeks ago, today (July 1) is the official opening of the Secret Self exhibition by Victoria Brookland at the Brontë Parsonage Museum.

Secret Self, the new exhibition, features fourteen works by the Leicester based artist, who has used dresses in the museum’s collection as her inspiration, transforming them into powerful evocations of the Brontës’ enduring mystery.

You can find more information about the exhibition in these posts. The artist comments on the exhibition:

What I found most moving and unsettling about the dresses was the way they evoked thoughts of melancholy and absence, of a great depth of silence and yearning. It seemed to suggest the unspoken aspects of womens’ lives - feelings too acute to be written, voices not heard. Not just the Brontës’ voices - but all womens’. I was struck by the realisation that despite being the most examined and analysed women writers in history the Brontës still retained absolutely their mystery, the secret of their deepest selves died with them - albeit with a wealth of tantalising clues left behind. (Victoria Brookland)

More samples of Victoria Brookland's works in this post.

Categories: Art-Exhibitions, Brontë Parsonage Museum