Bloomsbury Comes to Millbank: Duncan Grant's Studio Rebuilt at Tate

In 2026 Tate Britain pulled off something unusual: it relocated an entire artist's studio. The show centres on Duncan Grant, the prolific Bloomsbury Group painter, and includes a once-in-a-lifetime restaging of his studio from Charleston, the famous farmhouse in Sussex he shared and decorated with Vanessa Bell.

Across painting, ceramics, textiles and furniture, the exhibition explores the 50-year creative and personal partnership between Grant and Bell — a bohemian world where every surface, from walls to wardrobes, became a canvas.

It's a portrait not just of two artists but of a whole way of living, in which art and daily life were gloriously, inseparably entangled.

Image: “Charleston Farmhouse, East Sussex - geograph.org.uk - 2459194” — nick macneill, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.