Dorothy Bohm: About Women is latest exhibition at Lee Miller Gallery
Dorothy Bohm: About Women is the latest exhibition at the Lee Miller Gallery, running from April 2-July 26.
The venue is Farleys House & Gallery, Chiddingly, East Sussex, BN8 6HW. It is open: Thursday, Friday, Sunday and selected Saturdays, Apr-Oct, 10am-4.30pm.
https://www.farleyshouseandgallery.co.uk/
Elaine Wardekker O’Brien, gallery coordinator: exhibitions, events and workshops, said: “Widely considered one of the doyennes of late twentieth century British photography, Dorothy Bohm was born Dorothea Israelit in Germany in 1924. Sent to the safety of England in 1939, she attended school in Sussex and studied photography in Manchester before setting up her own portrait studio there. Her first exhibition was held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, in 1969, where she met Roland Penrose who memorably commented that ‘her camera does not only see, it also feels.’
“In the early 1970s Dorothy was closely involved with the founding of The Photographers’ Gallery in London where she did much to introduce a British public to the great names of contemporary photography as well as to nurture the careers of younger photographers.
“In the mid-1980s Dorothy abandoned black and white photography for colour, infusing her images with texture and spatial ambiguity to convey humanity in increasingly abstract and allusive forms. Dorothy Bohm died in March 2023 at the age of nearly 99. She had continued to take photographs until her early nineties.”
Elaine added: “We are delighted to exhibit About Women at the Lee Miller Gallery, a show that features a significant number of delightful images taken in Sussex in the 1960s and 1970s. This important exhibition includes both black and white and colour photographs. Taken across the world over many decades with women as their subject, they capture moments in ordinary lives with profound humanity and an instinctive eye for composition.” When asked, Dorothy stated; “I think of women as the most natural subjects for me.” The exhibition title is taken from her book About Women, which was first published 2015 and is still in print.
“Dorothy’s images of women are always intensely empathetic and, at times, reveal an astute, implicitly critical, awareness of the male gaze.”
2026 Exhibitions in Farleys Gallery and Café:
Lee Miller: Street Life, Sundays, Thursdays and Fridays 02.04.26-24.05.26
Denise Fisk, Keith Pettit, Lee Miller: Forest Inspired, Sundays, Thursdays and Fridays 28.05.26-19.07.26
Elaine Duigenan: Talismanic, Sundays, Thursdays and Fridays 23.07.26-13.09.26
Alison Hand: Surreal Paintings, Title TBC, Sundays, Thursdays and Fridays 17.09.26-30.10.26
In Farleys Café Gallery: Lee Miller’s Surreal Menagerie, Sundays, Thursdays and Fridays 02.04.26-30.10.26.
2026 Exhibitions in the Lee Miller Gallery:
Dorothy Bohm – About Women, Sundays, Thursdays and Fridays 02.04.26 – 26.07.2026
Grim Glory and wrens on Camera, an exhibition from the Lee Miller Archives, Sundays, Thursdays and Fridays 30.07.26-30.10.2026.
Farleys Annual Surrealist Picnic will be held on: 30.08.2026 4-8pm.