F75: Collaborations

As part of the Farleys 75th Anniversary Celebrations three Lee Miller photographs will be featured as part of the upcoming exhibition Our Sporting Heritage, launching at The Blandford Fashion Museum to celebrate the 2024 Olympic Games. This exciting exhibition looks at the history of sportswear and fashion from the 1800s to today.

Curator Katie Godman-Sinclair said; “We are thrilled that as part of Our Sporting Heritage we will be showing three photographs taken by Lee Miller for Vogue in the 1940s.”

In this exhibition, Lee Miller’s warm and witty photos of the 1950s capture the convivial atmosphere of Farleys House and its grounds. At its heart is a selection of tongue-in-cheek portraits Miller took for an article called Working Guests, published in British Vogue’s July 1953 edition, where she has apparently set visitors mundane household tasks.

The photographs in this exhibition were loaned from the Lee Miller Archives as part of Farleys 75th anniversary celebrations.

Throughout 2024 The Hellenic Centre will be displaying four works by Lee Miller as part of the Farleys 75th Anniversary Celebrations. Alongside the display of the works, Antony Penrose, Miller’s son will be giving a talk at The Hellenic Centre on 4th June 2024.

As part of the Gaelic Athletic Association Museum’s 2024 programme Lee Miller’s 1946 photograph Martello Tower With Children Playing Football will be displayed as part of their exhibition entitled Early Years of the GAA.

The photograph is being loaned as part of the Farleys 75th Anniversary Celebrations.

As part of the Peggy Guggenheim: Petersfield to Palazzo exhibition at Petersfield Museum two works by Lee Miller have been loaned as part of Farleys 75th Anniversary Celebrations.

The exhibition will ‘delve into the extraordinary life of Peggy Guggenheim, the 20th-century self-proclaimed ‘art addict’ who called Yew Tree Cottage near Petersfield home from 1934 to 1939.’

Miller photographed Peggy Guggenheim during 1948’s Venice Biennale and one of these images will be on display as part of this exhibition alongside a portrait of Miller’s husband, Roland Penrose.

Falmouth Art Gallery are celebrating the centenary of Surrealism with displays from their ‘Surrealists in Cornwall’ collection that link to Farleys and our 75th anniversary celebrations.

Lee and her husband, the Surrealist artist Roland Penrose, were part of an extraordinary group of Surrealist artists that came on holiday to Lambe Creek, near Falmouth, in the Summer of 1937.

The exhibition will feature works by Lee Miller, Roland Penrose, Eileen Agar and Max Ernst.

As part of Farleys 75th Anniversary Celebrations the Hastings Museum & Art Gallery will be displaying three photographic works by Lee Miller alongside their permanent display throughout 2024.

The three works, taken in Greece, Egypt and Italy respectively were taken in the 1930s and ’40s, will be displayed alongside the array of works and objects that make up Hastings’ global collection.

Two works by Lee Miller will be displayed in the Ancient Lives gallery at Maidstone Museum alongside their Egyptian collections.

Of the display of Miller’s works, curator Alex Gurr has said; “Lee’s works will help to contextualise the objects of the ancients with 1930s Egypt.”

These works are being loaned as part of the Farleys 75th Anniversary Celebrations.

An exciting free display at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology sheds light on the photography of surrealist artist Lee Miller in Egypt (1907-1977). ‘Seeing and Unseeing the Pyramids: Lee Miller in Egypt’ tells the story of how ‘Egypt’ has been constructed and deconstructed in the human imagination, drawing upon different perspectives over thousands of years.

This is the Petrie Museum’s first collaboration with Farleys, and their new display will weave stories from Lee Miller’s time in Egypt together with a range of ancient and modern narratives in the Petrie Museum.

As part of the recently reopened ‘Experiencing Colour’ room at The Scottish National Gallery Of Modern Art, Lee Miller by Pablo Picasso will be on display throughout 2024.

The portrait was painted by Picasso in 1937 while Miller and her then future husband Roland Penrose were holidaying with Picasso in the south of France when the artist made five paintings of Lee Miller, all of which were done from memory and sketches. Penrose felt that it perfectly captured Miller’s vivid beauty and vitality.’