Gill Hedley is a writer, an independent curator and a consultant on contemporary visual arts. The menu to the left leads to different aspects of her work. On some pages blue links in bullet points open for more detail. Below are current and recent projects, with more on the archive pages.
On the publication of 'Blythe Spirit', Ian Collins' excellent biography of Ronald Blythe, Gill Hedley has written an illustrated essay for ArtUK looking at the artists who were friends, neighbours and heroes in his native Suffolk and beyond.
Link https://search.app/aRt8UQE3Rk4suNs26 (www)Northumbria University, previously Newcastle Polytechnic, held a round table discussion, chaired by Gill Hedley, to celebrate 50 years of the degree course in the History of Modern Art and Design.
Peter Norton with Field Marshall Montgomery
The next biography, currently at the research stage, will be of Lady Norton. Born Noel Evelyn Hughes, always known as Peter, she founded The London Gallery in 1936 until her husband’s diplomatic career took them first to Poland, then to Switzerland during the war and finally to the British Embassy in Greece.
She was a dealer, a collector, patron, fundraiser and a tireless worker for children’s charities. She was an expert skier, worked in the advertising business in the 1920s and was a supporter of Bauhaus emigrés in the 1930s, especially her close friends Marcel Breuer and Herbert Bayer, who she met skiing. Supporting artists, especially the international avant-garde, was the main function of The London Gallery. Helping people, with scant regard for propriety, was her raison d’être.
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