Writers' Rooms at the Parsonage

A press release from the Brontë Parsonage Museum:
Picture: Beryl Bainbridge’s room by Eamonn McCabe

WRITERS’ ROOMS: AN EXHIBITION OF PHOTOGRAPHS BY EAMONN MCCABE

A special exhibition of photographs by Eamonn McCabe, from his series Writers’ Rooms published every Saturday in The Guardian, goes on display at the Brontë Parsonage Museum on Friday 1 May until Monday 6 July 2009.

Writers’ Rooms features photographs of the rooms where authors have created their famous works, and the series documents the writing spaces of novelists, biographers and poets in The Guardian each week. This exhibition features a selection of original prints from the series, including Alan Sillitoe, Sue Townsend and Jacqueline Wilson’s rooms.

The exhibition takes place as part of the Brontë Parsonage Museum’s contemporary arts programme.

“One of the most exciting aspects of a visit to the Brontë Parsonage Museum is to see the very room in which the Brontës wrote their famous novels. With this new exhibition we can also offer a fascinating glimpse into the writing rooms of some of the most important contemporary writers working today”.

Jenna Holmes, Arts Officer

Eamonn McCabe made his name as a sports photographer for The Observer in the late 1970s and 1980s. In 1988 he became Picture Editor of The Guardian and has been awarded Picture Editor of the Year six times. In 2001 he returned to full-time photography, specializing in portraiture. A selection of photographs from his series Artists and their Studios was exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, London, in 2008.

The exhibition is free with normal admission to the Brontë Parsonage Museum.

EDIT: Also in The Telegraph & Argus and again.

Categories: Art-Exhibitions, Brontë Parsonage Museum