I've just heard about a great exhibition running from the 22nd June- 13th September in Southampton City Art Gallery.

This is from their website; This exhibition will take a thematic approach, looking at the ways in which artists have responded to Shakespeare’s faeries (A Midsummer’s Night Dream, The Tempest); Spencer’s Faire Queen; Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market and J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan. The Flower Fairies of Cicely Mary Barker and Margaret Tarrant form a theme in their own right. There will be bad faeries (goblins), as well as good faeries and even fake fairies (the Cottingley Fairies and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle). This exhibition hopes to chart a living tradition, taking as its starting point the ‘golden age’ of illustration, from the 1860s to the 1930s, culminating with the revival of fairy art in the 1970s, which will bring the story up to the present day. Southampton City Art Gallery hopes to draw on public (V&A, Heath Robinson Trust and Cecil Higgins Art Gallery) and private collections to create an exhibition that will appeal to a wide audience. Wendy Froud’s work is largely sculptural, adding a new dynamic to the show; it is also hoped to include costumes.

And the site is; [link]

I think I might be taking the train down to Southampton every day for the next few months!



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Fantastic, amazing work;


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