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Author: Gabriela Frost

Gabriela Frost is currently studying towards her MPhil in European, Latin American and Comparative Literatures and Cultures, with a particular interest in Francophone and Italophone culture and arts. She studied her undergraduate BA in French and Italian across several universities (Trinity College Dublin, Università degli Studi di Siena, Université Aix-Marseille, Royal Holloway) before taking a year out of academia to work in a contemporary art gallery and to fulfil a long-term dream of visiting India prior to arriving at Cambridge. Her research interests centre on early twentieth century art, literature, culture and thought in Europe, with an emphasis on the immigrant artists of the École de Paris, and on the involvement of women as cultural producers and patrons. Aside from academic interests, she loves creating and making and enjoys crochet, printmaking, pottery, photography and all things crafty. She is a keen walker and an amateur ornithologist, and also a big foodie who loves cooking (and eating!).

Josephine Baker by Catel and Bocquet – a triumph of research and astounding detail

22nd June 202030th June 2020  Gabriela Frost

Dancer, singer, actress, activist and spy: Josephine Baker took both the stage and lectern by storm, as beautifully and boldly conceived in Catel and Bocquet’s graphic novel. But when it comes to her queer relationships they’re decidedly silent, writes our reviewer Gabriela Frost.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Biography, Bobino Theatre, Bocquet, Cabaret, Catel, Catel Muller, comic, graphic novel, Into the Night: Cabarets and Clubs in Modern Art, José-Louis Bocquet, Josephine Baker, LGBTQ+, Martin Luther King, Night, Night / Shift, Pride, Queer Relationships, SelfMadeHero, UK Black Pride

Women’s Weird – Stunning short stories that fright (& fight) with their social commentary

13th November 201929th January 2020  Gabriela Frost

Melissa Edmundson’s short story collection, Women’s Weird, is full of literary greats such as Edith Wharton, May Sinclair and Edith Nesbit. Their stories are packed with ghosts, ghouls and weird occurrences, but, says Gabriela Frost, the most chilling aspect is the social treatment of women.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Allison Devers, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edith Nesbit, Edith Wharton, Handheld Press, horror, Kate Mcdonald, Kerfol, Mary Butts, May Sinclair, Melissa Edmundson, Night / Shift, Richard Redgrave, Second Shelf, Short Stories, The Second Shelf, Women's Weird

Tim Walker: Wonderful Things at the Victoria & Albert Museum

7th October 20197th October 2019  Gabriela Frost

By raiding the V&A’s archives and permanent collections, fashion photographer Tim Walker has created an immersive exhibition that’s enchanting and full of promise.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, FashionTagged: Cecil Beaton, Fashion, Grayson Perry, Joanna Lumley, Margaret Atwood, Photography, Shona heath, Tim Walker, Tim Walker: Wonderful Things, V&A, Wonderful Things

Natalia Goncharova at Tate Modern

1st July 20191st July 2019  Gabriela Frost

Tate Modern’s latest retrospective of the Russian avant-garde artist, Natalia Goncharova, is a triumph of colour, style and artistic brilliance, writes our arts contributor Gabriela Frost.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Architecture, Ballets Russes, costume, Diaghilev, drawing, Matthew Gale, Mikhail Larionov, Mikhailova Art Salon, Natalia Goncharova, Natalia Sidlina, painting, Russian Folk art, sculpture, Tate, Tate Modern

Dorothea Tanning at Tate Modern

3rd April 20193rd April 2019  Gabriela Frost

Tate Modern opens a door into the deliciously dark, intimate and, at times, comical world of Dorothea Tanning, a surrealist for our times.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: art, Boccioni, De Chirico, Dorothea Tanning, gothic, Leonora Carrington, Max Ernst, painting, Peggy Guggenheim, sculpture, Soft Sculpture, Surrealism, Tate Modern, Whitney Chadwick

Threads by William Henry Searle – a rich and brilliant tapestry of nature’s wilds

19th March 201928th August 2019  Gabriela Frost

William Henry Searle’s Threads is a call to order and serves to remind us of our material and spiritual reliance on the natural world. But is Searle’s encounter with nature relatable? asks our arts writer Gabriela Frost.

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Posted in Arts, Books, EnvironmentTagged: Chris Packham, creative non-fiction, Environment, Environmentalism, Fingers in the Sparkle Jar, memoir, nature, New Forest, Snowdonia, Threads, William Henry Searle
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