Bloomsbury Stud among The Art Newspaper's picks of London Art Week 2023 By Anna Brady and Kabir Jhala
July 5, 2023
“The devastation of all hearts”. That is how Virginia Woolf described the sculptor Stephen Tomlin, a now little-known member of the Bloomsbury group who died at the age of just 35. He is the subject of Philip Mould’s LAW exhibition, Bloomsbury stud: The Art of Stephen Tomlin (from 5 June to 11 August). As the exhibition’s title not-so-subtly suggests, Tomlin had numerous affairs, with men and women, including Duncan Grant and Dora Carrington, the writer David Garnett, the photographer Barbara Ker-Seymer and Tomlin's own wife’s uncle, Lytton Strachey. The show will include a bust of Strachey, alongside those of Grant and Woolf (both on loan from the Charleston Trust).
