Bodleian Library, Oxford
HELEN MUSPRATT was a noted photographer who came to prominence during the inter-war years yet, like so many women artists, her life and work had been largely ignored before being recently “rediscovered.”
Muspratt decided to make a career for herself in photography early in life. After completing a photographic course at the Regent Street Polytechnic, and still in her early twenties, she began working as a receptionist for the fashionable Mayfair photographic studio of Donald Donovan.
In 1928, full of confidence, she set up her own studio in the High Street in Swanage where her parents lived. Here she utilised her newly developed skills as a portrait photographer to establish a flourishing business.
Betts Project opens the first retrospective exhibition of the works of Zoe Zenghelis
Zoe Zenghelis, Urban Landscape, 1981. Acrylic on Card, 40 x 49 cm.
LONDON
.-Betts Project is hosting Do you remember how perfect everything was?, the first retrospective exhibition of the works of Zoe Zenghelis. As a two part exhibition with the Architectural Association, Betts Project presents the first part as a review of Zenghelis early paintings from the 1960s, her years at OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture) including works of the Hotel Sphinx project along side Roosevelt Island, Antiparos and Parc Citroën through to recent works made in 2020. Stretched between abstract metropolitan tectonics and landscape structures, the selection of Zenghelis paintings represent an enquiry into absent architectural projects. An exhibition catalogue published by Betts Project accompanies the exhibition, while the second part of the project will be hosted by the AA in Janurary 2021.