Édouard Vuillard: The Poetry of the Everyday

About Belinda ThompsonChris Stephens

Belinda Thomson is a freelance art historian and Honorary Professor in History of Art at the University of Edinburgh. A specialist in late 19th-century French painting particularly Gauguin and the Nabis she published a monograph on Vuillard in 1988 (Phaidon). In 1991-2 she curated the Vuillard exhibition for the South Bank Centre which was seen in Glasgow Sheffield and Amsterdam and in 1994 co-curated Bonnard at le Bosquet London and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. In 2010-11 she was lead curator of Gauguin: Maker of Myth at the Tate Modern London and at the National Gallery of Art Washington. Dr Chris Stephens has been Director of the Holburne Museum since 2017. Prior to that he worked at Tate for over 20 years as Head of Displays Tate Britain for much of that time and also as Head of Modern British Art. Exhibitions in London and St Ives included Barbara Hepworth: Centenary (2003) Francis Bacon (2008) Henry Moore (2010) Picasso and Modern British Art (2012) Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture for a Modern World (2015) and David Hockney (2017). His book St Ives: The Art and the Artists was published by Pavilion in 2018.