ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses women who lived, studied, painted, networked and often modelled throughout London’s houses in multiple occupancies. In the modernist period, the bedsits of Bloomsbury and the surrounding areas also functioned as studios, teaching rooms and the salons of exhibiting societies. Stardom depended–even for the more bohemian modernist practitioners – on circulating their work and ideas, and simultaneously promoting their personalities, through networks that convened in and around public exhibitions, pubs, cafes, eateries and invitation-only salons hosted by patrons. Canadian artist Emily Carr is renowned for her depictions of the Canadian landscape and West Coast First Nations’ people and culture. While living in a bedsit in Grafton Street in 1913, and ‘feeling brave one morning’, Nina Hamnett went to the Fitzroy Square Omega headquarters and introduced herself to Fry.
