Hayward Gallery Touring announces Paula Rego: Visions of English Literature, opening in Nottingham this September

This new exhibition, premiering at Lakeside Arts’ Djanogly Gallery at the University of Nottingham (21 September 2024–5 January 2025) showcases the artist’s printmaking practice, taking a deep look into the literary influences that have inspired Rego’s work.

From menacing oversized creatures etched into life from children’s nursery rhymes such as Little Miss Muffet and Three Blind Mice, to the almost hallucinatory depictions of Neverland from Peter Pan and the tumultuous relationships based on power read about in Jane Eyre, Rego's work tells stories that combine fantasy and imagination, innocence and cruelty, in order to explore the complexities of life and the experience of women in particular, in all its strangeness and mystery. 

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Image: Paula Rego, Captain Hook and the Lost Boy, 1992

Coloured etching and aquatint on Somerset paper

Courtesy Ostrich Arts Ltd and Cristea Roberts Gallery