An exhibition of Claude Cahun’s photographs, who made the Island her home in 1937, opened at the National Gallery in London yesterday. It also features the works of English conceptual artist and Turner Prize winner Gillian Wearing.
The curator of the exhibition, Sarah Howgate, said: ‘Gillian Wearing and I had the privilege of examining Cahun’s exquisite prints and negatives in the Jersey Archive, some of which have been the inspiration for new collaborative works.
‘The National Portrait Gallery is so grateful for Jersey Heritage’s efforts in preserving these remarkable works and lending them to the exhibition.’
Claude Cahun was the pseudonym of Lucy Schwob, a French artist, photographer and writer who settled in Jersey in 1937 with her lover and stepsister Suzanne Malherbe. She died in 1954 and is buried at St Brelade’s Parish Church.
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