If mononymic names are now par for the course, artist Carrington – or, as she was born, Dora Carrington – was a pioneer: she was known by only her surname in the early 20th century. That, however, is only one example of how she spurned convention. A new exhibition, ‘Beyond Bloomsbury’, at Pallant House Gallery in Chichester, West Sussex, explores a life lived among better-known names, including Virginia Woolf, Roger Fry and her great (if largely platonic) love, writer Lytton Strachey.
