Newlands House Gallery in Petworth, UK will present an exhibition of Leonora Carrington’s works from 12th July to 26th October 2024. Curated by Joanna Moorhead, an award-winning journalist, author and also cousin of Carrington, who has penned two biographical books on the artist, the exhibition will span her entire oeuvre.

Born in Britain in 1917, Mary Leonora Carrington became a naturalised Mexican Surrealist painter and author, and died in 2011. Carrington was one of the last surviving members of the Surrealist movement of the 1930s and spent the majority of her adult life in Mexico City. In the 1970s, she also became a pioneer of the women’s freedom movement in Mexico.

Rebel Visionary will explore five decades of her extensive career. Most of the pieces are on loan from the Leonora Carrington Council from Mexico and the UK, and will be seen for the first time on British soil. A series of masks created for a theatrical production of The Tempest in the 1950s, original lithographs, tapestries, sketches, sculptures, jewellery, photos from the archives of her husband and photographer Emérico “Chiki” Weisz and Lee Miller, as well as paintings, will feature in the show.

“The Leonora Carrington Council and I are delighted, to be supporting the exhibition, ‘Leonora Carrington: Rebel Visionary’ at Newlands House Gallery in the UK. We are very pleased to have contributed with significant loans from Mexico, on display in the country for the very first time” – Pablo Weisz Carrington said.

The exhibition aims to demonstrate the full range of Carrington’s prolific and original output across a career that spanned eight decades, shown at a time where Carrington’s position in the art canon has increased in the last few years.

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