Victorian Radicals: From the Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts and Crafts Movement

Kate Elizabeth Bunce, Melody, 1895/1897, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.

Fresh from an award-winning tour of the US, Victorian Radicals is the first comprehensive showing of Birmingham’s Pre-Raphaelite and Arts and Crafts collections for over five years. It features the works of three generations of British artists, designers and makers who revolutionised the visual arts in the second half of the nineteenth century: the Pre-Raphaelites, William Morris and his circle, and the men and women of the Arts and Crafts movement. Paintings by artists including Kate Bunce, Joseph Southall and Arthur Gaskin combined the poetry and intensity of the Pre-Raphaelites’ work with a distinctive identity all their own. The exhibition also includes drawings, jewellery, glass, textiles and metalwork.