Narrative portraits: structured elegance: bookbindings and jewellery by Romilly Saumarez Smith

A curated exhibition, the first to show both facets of the artist's work and to explore the relationship between them.

A passion for both materials and process fueled Romilly Suamarez Smith’s twenty-five year career as one of Britain’s most highly acclaimed bookbinders. In the 1990s she began to use metal more frequently in her binding, gradually turning her attention to making jewellery. Structured Elegance featured a selection of her sophisticated and elegantly bound books along with a number of her subtle and intricate brooches, rings, and necklaces.

Eileen Hogan was a co-curator (with Elisabeth Fairman Senior Curator at the YCBA) for the exhibition at Yale as well as an exhibitor: Romilly Saumerez Smith, Oil on paper 2010 portrait courtesy of the artist.

This is an ongoing project which relates to earlier outputs and will continue, including further work with the Yale Center for British Art and also with the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.

Other relevant outputs include being on a a panel at the National Portrait Gallery 28 October 2010 (Part of the Inside Out festival – New Statesman with Jonathon Derbyshire, David Barrie, Mark Pomeroy and Tot Taylor) and my work being included in a book published by the National Portrait Galley to coincide with the twenty-first anniversary of the BP Portrait Award

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