Brontëan Abstracts in London

Twenty years ago, Cornelia Parker presented at the Brontë Parsonage Museum the exhibition Brontëan Abstracts. Now, some parts of the exhibition can be seen this summer in London:

Summer Show: Multiple Narratives

3 Jul - 7 Aug 2026

Frith Street Gallery

17–18 Golden Square, London, W1F 9JJ

Multiple Narratives brings together works by eight gallery artists. The pieces are linked through their use of repetition, series and classification; some are narrative-driven, while others focus on visual exploration. Spanning drawing, sculpture, photography and found objects, the exhibition ranges from the minimal and abstract to the richly figurative.

The show includes Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press, Anna Barriball, Tacita Dean, Shilpa Gupta, Cornelia Parker, Raqs Media Collective, Thomas Schütte, and Dayanita Singh.

Adjacent is Parker’s Brontëan Abstracts (2006) – photographs of Charlotte Brontë’s original manuscripts for Jane Eyre which are held in the British Library. These images give us a direct insight into the immediacy of the progress of the celebrated novel. Here Parker invites the viewer to be present at the author’s elbow, we enter Brontë’s consciousness as she edits her masterpiece and become privy to her ideas as they emerge and recede.