Fast and Furious. The life & times of Nina Hamnett - ACE178.2

Nina Hamnett’s words VO explaining that everyone was "furious" at her "having been born a girl… but it had certain advantages". Various photographs of Hamnett as a child. Commentary says that Hamnett was "a celebrated Bohemian personality in Paris, but her status as an artist suffered as a consequence". Photograph of Hamnett becomes a jigsaw puzzle. Photographs of Hamnett wearing American sailor’s hat and in other poses; arious VOs describing her. Edward Booth-Clibborn opens folder of Hamnett’s drawings he found in her flat after her death in 1956, some of which are sketches of himself as a boy and a young man; other portrait sketches, sketches of café life, James and Margaret Hepburn. Margaret Hepburn’s VO over photographs of the Hamnett children and their mother and of Hamnett in checked dress. Hamnett rebelled in order to get away from her conventional home life. Hamnett’s words VO over portraits of Hamnett in checked dress (1918) and in black sweater, both by Roger Fry, saying that her father "had quite given up" on her "becoming a decent human being". Hamnett VO continues over photograph of art school studio where her grandmother sent her. A drawing of art school students sketching. Hamnett VO speaks of her father’s attitude to her art studies. Some of Hamnett life drawings; her VO talks about taking a room in Grafton Street, Fitzroy Square, and of cutting her hair. Black and white portrait of her with short hair, wearing black hat. Jane Farrington, Birmingham City Art Gallery, talks about the influence of the Camden Town group on Hamnett’s early work, and her "curiously English" subdued palette. A number of paintings, including Hamnett’s Orchard I (1918), The Landlady (1917), and circus scenes. Booth-Clibborn with Hamnett’s news cuttings and scrapbook collection, showing photographs of a number of portraits (and other paintings) not known to survive, in a style that Hamnett called "psychological portraiture" as explained by Farrington VO. Booth-Clibborn re Hamnett showing at Albert Hall alongside Henri Gaudier-Brzska. Photos of Gaudier-Brzeska; Hamnett VO describing how they posed nude for each other.