Dora Carrington & others @ The Lightbox

A Spirit Inside brings together work of a selection of women artists from The Ingram Collection and The Women’s Art Collection in Cambridge; to showcase artworks borne out of a strength of spirit and touch upon the elemental, fantastical, spiritual and political.

The exhibition’s title is lifted from a letter written by Carrington explaining why she chose not to marry at that time.  A Spirit Inside is explored through the work of artists such as Leonora Carrington, Lubaina Himid and Paula Rego, revealing the myriad ways in which artists from the 20th century to the present day use subject matter, technique, scale and material to contain and express their spirit inside.