Writing

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Henry Flitcroft biography

Henry Flitcroft is the subject of a major biography by Gill Hedley

→ note on the biography The Ingenious Mr Flitcroft: Palladian Architect Henry Flitcroft 1697-1769 published by Lund Humphreys autumn 2023

Arthur Jeffress biography and other writing

Arthur Jeffress is the subject of a major biography by Gill Hedley

→ article 'A subversive little collection': the story of the Arthur Jeffress Bequest to Southampton City Art Gallery and Tate for the ArtUK website, April 2020 (www)
→ note on publication of the biography A Life in Art published by Bloomsbury April 2020. ISBN 978-1-8386-0281-9 → outline of biography of Arthur Jeffress
→ paper Arthur Jeffress for Painting on Arthur Jeffress and the Hanover Gallery
→ Arthur Jeffress and his gallery's Manifesto for Painting

Erica Brausen memoir and photos

Erica set up the Hanover Gallery in London and was Francis Bacon's first dealer.

→ memoir of Erica Brausen written by Jean-Yves Mock, translated by Gill Hedley
→ French original of memoir (PDF)
→ English translation of memoir (PDF)
→ photographs of Erica Brausen provided by Jean-Yves Mock

AXISweb Articles

AXIS is the online resource for UK contemporary art. (www)
→ article on the new galleries in Fitzrovia, April 2012
→ review of the new Jerwood Gallery as A Postcard from Hastings, April 2012 Each year the AXIS MAstars programme invites curators to select and write about an MA student from that summer’s student shows (www).
→ Sonke Faltien, 2011
→ Sascha Mikloweit, 2010
→ Maya Ramsay, 2009
→ Kate Owen, 2008

Books and Major Catalogues

→ note: in preparation biography of Noel Evelyn Norton. Possibly due 2024

→ note on forthcoming biography of 18th century architect Henry Flitcroft. Due 2023

→ note on publication of biography Arthur Jeffress, A Life in Art, published by Bloomsbury, April 2020. ISBN 978-1-8386-0281-9

→ note on publication of Free Seats for All: The Church Building Boom After Waterloo. Commissioned by Hoares Bank with the National Churches Trust. Published by Umbria Press, June 2018. ISBN 978-1-910074-16-6

→ Julia Manheim The Shifting Emphasis. Published by Bellew Publishing in collaboration with Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, 1995. Foreword by the editor Barbara Taylor. ISBN 1 85725 107 5

→ New Voices British Council, 1992, with an essay about the YBAs by Gill Hedley and comprehensive biographical and bibliographical notes. ISBN 0 86355 142 4

→ Let Her Paint: Ten Women Painters in Southampton City Art Gallery. Written in connection with an exhibition of Victorian Women painters, 1988 (PDF)

→ Pleasure Grounds: The Gardens and Landscapes of Hampshire, edited by Gill Hedley and Adrian Rance and published by Milestone Publications, with a foreword by Sir Hugh Casson. In connection with the exhibition of the same name at Southampton Art Gallery, 1987. ISBN 1 85265 104 0

→ exhibition catalogue for Capability Brown and the Northern Landscape a Tyne and Wear County Council Museums exhibition, 1983. ISBN 13: 9780905974125

→ exhibition catalogue for The Picturesque Tour in Northumberland and Durham c.1720-1830 at the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne April-May, 1982. Published by Tyne and Wear County Council Museums. ISBN 0 905974 06 9

→ magazine article on The Picturesque Tour (PDF)

→ co-writer of An Anthology of Victorian and Edwardian Paintings from the collection of the City Art Gallery, Bristol. Catalogue for exhibition at the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Oct 1975.