Maeve Gilmore
Dinah Tea Towel
£20
Limited edition printed tea towel featuring the work of Maeve Gilmore, exclusive to House of Voltaire
Edition Size
100
Dimensions
65 x 47cm
Courtesy the estate of Maeve Gilmore
About The Artwork
Much of Gilmore's work was autobiographical, beginning with assured early self-portraits and still-life studies, Gilmore developed more explorative narrative works influenced by the modernist and avant-garde movements she studied during her travels through mainland Europe. Though often presenting familiar subjects, Gilmore’s works appear surreal and dreamlike in composition and attitude. This limited edition was made in close collaboration with the Maeve Gilmore Family Estate.
About Maeve Gilmore
Maeve Gilmore’s (b.1917–d.1983, London, UK) exhibiting career began in the late 1930s at the Wertheim and Redfern Galleries, following her enrolment at the Westminster School of Art. However, it is a trajectory that was gradually cut–short; initially by War, then by motherhood and later by the work and career of her husband, Mervyn Peake. Gilmore wrote a memoir of their life together which was published as A World Away in 1970, and gave a lot of her time to promoting, publishing and exhibiting Peake’s work.
Despite this Gilmore continued with her own artistic and literary projects, exhibiting at the Langton Gallery in 1979 and writing and publishing a number of short stories. In 1981 she published a children’s book Captain Eustace and the Magic Room: the characters of which were dolls made by Gilmore and their story was set in the family home 1 Drayton Gardens in Chelsea, which itself featured the murals that she painted throughout the house.