Online exhibitions

Here you will find our latest exhibitions online. They showcase the breadth of Royal Holloway’s own art collections as well as celebrating treasures from other institutions which were temporarily on display in the Davison Building Exhibition Space.

Adventurers All: Bedford Travel Stories

This online exhibition delves into the Archives and Art Collections at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College to shine a light on the various journeys that were undertaken by former Bedford students, staff, associated artists, and the college itself. Adventurers All was curated by doctoral placement students Heathcliff Newman and Gareth Hughes.

Modern Portraits for Modern Women: Principals and Pioneers in the Royal Holloway and Bedford New College Art Collection

Modern Portraits for Modern Women explores this unique collection of paintings created by two of the earliest women’s university colleges. Seen together for the first time these portraits reveal the intersection between the development of modern portraiture and the history of women’s higher education.

Impressions of Modern Life: Prints from The Courtauld Gallery exhibition online

Impressions of Modern Life online showcases a selection of 13 prints by world-renowned artists such as Édouard Manet, Paul Gauguin, Berthe Morisot and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, with additional narration by Rachel Sloan, Assistant Curator of Works on Paper at The Courtauld.

Spotlight: 20th Century Art in Focus (September - December 2019) 

Focusing largely on British artists, the works featured were by the leading practitioners of the day and depict the changes brought by two world wars, new social mobility and greater ease of travel to all corners of the globe.