Galleries - August 2022

BETWEEN THE SHEETS EXHIBITION OF NUDES AT TURNER’S HOUSE IN TWICKENHAM An exhibition of J.M.W. Turner’s intimate and erotic images opens in his former home in Twickenham on Saturday 9th July, thanks to a generous loan from Tate. JMW Turner, Nude Swiss Girl and a Companion on a bed, Swiss Figures Sketchbook, c.1805-15,274 x 375 mm Credit: Tate Between the Sheets , displayed in a bedroom at Sandycombe Lodge, the house J.M.W. Turner designed and lived in himself, will feature his controversial and rarely seen works of nude women and bedroom scenes. This small-scale yet significant exhibition offers a rare chance to consider Turner’s engagement with the naked female form. It will consider how the private work in his sketchbooks and on paper inform