Daniéle Lamarche, Damp © Daniéle Lamarche

Earthly Paradise: Radical Living in the UK, is a major touring exhibition that explores the people and places that have helped shape art and activism across Britain over the last 200 years. Through objects, painting, drawing, photography, sound and archival material, Earthly Paradise highlights individuals and communities that defied contemporary conventions and the homes they created to explore their new visions of society. The exhibition considers the role that money and class have played in providing access to these spaces and the freedom to challenge social norms. It traces the roles activist groups and those excluded from and overlooked by mainstream society have played in imagining new ways of living and seeing the world.

Spanning two centuries, the exhibition spotlights the homes of many important British artists
and thinkers, including William Morris’s Red House; Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant’s
modernist home, Charleston; Cedric Morris’s Benton End; Derek Jarman’s Prospect Cottage;
and Dial House, the self-sustaining anarcho-pacifist open house founded in 1967 by Penny
Rimbaud and Gee Vaucher, members of the influential anarchist punk band Crass.

The urge to live differently is central to the lives and practices of many artists, writers and thinkers. Challenging the rules and restrictions of mainstream society often begins at home. Earthly Paradise recognises that utopian visions and burgeoning ideologies found in venerated works of art and literature can also be found in the domestic and the everyday.

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