Wearer Unknown

Victoria Brookland returns to the Parsonage with a new exhibition:

Friday 21 May - Sunday 18 July

Victoria Brookland: Wearer Unknown

A series of new paintings by artist Victoria Brookland, inspired by the dresses in the Brontë Parsonage Museum collection.

Victoria Brookland has been painting and exhibiting for over twenty years and has spent the past few years exploring the lives and writing of ninetheenth century women. Her first series of Brontë-inspiured paintings, Secret Self, was exhibited at the Brontë Parsonage Museum in 2007. Her most recent exhibbition, Seeing in the Night Time, was at the Mercer art Gallery in Harrogate and featured a series of works exploring the lives of the Brontës and Emily Dickinson.

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

Next June 4 at 3.30pm, Artist Victoria Brookland in conversation about her work and current exhibition Wearer Unknown, followed at 6.45pm by a cheese and wine supper and a chance to hear specialist musical instrument restorer Ken Forrest talking about his painstaking restoration of the Bronte family's piano. This will be followed by a recital featuring pianist Maya Irgalina and soprano Catherine McDonald. A marvellous opportunity to hear the Bronte piano played within the Parsonage for the first time in more than 150 years...

Categories: Art-Exhibitions, Brontë Parsonage Museum