Gladys Hynes: Radical Lives

The first major exhibition devoted to Gladys Hynes (1888–1958), ‘Radical Lives’ reintroduces a pioneering artist whose work and politics were inseparable.The exhibition takes its title from the many lives Hynes lived within one lifetime: as an artist working across painting, sculpture, illustration and design, and as a pacifist, feminist, suffragist and Irish Republican.

Moving through avant-garde circles including the Newlyn School, the Bloomsbury group’s Omega Workshops, as well as Vorticism and Surrealism, Hynes continually reinvented her practice in response to the world around her.Seen today, her work speaks to questions of identity, belief and creative commitment that remain pressing.