Farleys House & Gallery, Home Of Surrealists Lee Miller & Roland Penrose

The sunflowers are peeping out of the window as we are looking forward to welcoming the visitors to Farleys House & Gallery today.
Image: Sunflowers in the gallery window, Farleys, East Sussex 2018 by Tony Tree #rolandpenrose #surrealism #leemiller #sunflowers #gallery #sculpturegarden #sussex #eastsussex #visitors #thingstodotoday

Great article about our annual Surrealist Picnic in Viva Lewes & Viva Brighton. If you have yet to get your tickets still. We recommend you do now in order to avoid disappointment. There are only 12 tickets left! For tickets use link in bio or https://www.tickettailor.com/events/farle ysleemiller/152726# #leemiller #rolandpenrose #surrealism #surrealistpic #picnic #scultpuregarden

The Royal Photographic Society (RPS) has launched a top 100 list of #100HistoricalHeroines along side its main campaign of #100heroines which is to celebrate a hundred photographic contemporary heroines.
Who is your heroine?
To nominate use hashtag #100HistoricalHeroines or use nomination form at ... http://www.rps.org/100-heroines/nominate- here
The same form can be used for both #100heroines & #100HistoricalHeroines @rps100heroines
Our first nomination for RPS Historical Heroines is of course Lee Miller not just for her part in the use of the solarisation technique in photography but also for her integrity and work as a fashion, portrait & Surrealist photographer and a war correspondent. #100HistoricalHeroines
Images: •Margaret Bourke-White, 97th Bombardment Group, 8th Bomber Command, Polebrook, Northamptonshire, England 1942 by Lee Miller •Therese Bonney, London, England 1942 by Lee Miller •Lee Miller, Vogue Studio, London, England 1943 by David E. Scherman © Lee Miller Archives, England 2018. All rights reserved. #leemiller #theresebonney #margaretbourkewhite #blancoynegro #blackandwhite #noiretblanc #noiretblancphotographie #100historicheroines #wwii #warcorrespondent #femalephotographer #femalewarcorrespondents
@ Farleys House & Gallery, Home of Surrealists Lee Miller & Roland Penrose
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‘Mummy mummy they are talking about Syria on the telly!’ A place where she has heard beautiful tales of her mother’s childhood the innocent delight was unaware of the war torn country that it is know as today. Wanting his daughter to know her mother’s country in it’s beauty prompted Piers Metcalfe to re-visit his photographs of his trips there. Syrian Road exhibition is open in Farleys Gallery 10-4.30pm each Sunday until 9th Sept. FREE ENTRY 20% of all sales from the exhibition go to Syria Relief uk. @syria_relief @syrian_road_book #syriarelief #syriareliefuk #syria #farleyshg #photography #colourphotography #colourphoto #piersmetcalfe #beautifulcountry

Wishing everyone one a fabulous Pride today in Brighton from us all at Farleys & the Lee Miller Archives.
‘Jean Cocteau and I fell into each other’s arms, he was greatly persecuted but survived.[..] His new movie La Belle et la Bête [Beauty & the Beast] is all prepared.’ Extract from manuscript by Lee Miller about the liberation of Paris 1944.
Image: Jean Cocteau, Palais Royale, Paris France 1944 by Lee Miller © Lee Miller Archives, England 2018. All rights reserved. www.le...emiller.co.uk
#leemiller #jeancocteau #hero #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephoto #liberationofparis #director #palaisroyale #palaisroyal #labelleetlabête #noiretblanc #photography #pride🌈 #brightonpride #brighton #pridemonth
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Enjoying our limited edition Lee Miller tea-set and tableware in her dining room. The shapes of them are very similar to those she used herself so it fits perfectly in her own home. Made with a Lee Miller swimwear fashion image on them and a platinum edging by @melodyrose_uk in collaboration with @hepworthwakefield and us here at Farleys in celebration of the Lee Miller and Surrealism in Britain exhibition they capture Lee’s style and quirky unique side elegantly. Available ...in our & @hepworthwakefield shop. .
Image: Lee Miller tea-set in Farleys dining room by Tony Tree © Tony Tree courtesy Lee Miller Archives, England 2018. All rights reserved. www.leemiller.co.uk #fishfashion #fishplatter #farleyshg #leemiller #teasets #unique #limitededition #ceramics #ceramicedition #cupandsaucer #teapot #teapots #bigfish #madeinbritain #leemillerarchives #teaset
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We are looking for a new member to join our Team based here at Farleys: This position is an exciting opportunity to be part of a small but dynamic team and experience the depth of a unique archive. You would be in our copyright licensing team, assisting picture and academic researchers with image enquires and archival information as well as entering reproduction rights negotiations, track jobs in progress and maintaining our licensing database.
About us: Based at Farleys th...e Lee Miller Archives, is a collection of over 60,000 of her images, ephemera and manuscripts alongside The Penrose Collection, which is mostly Roland Penrose’s work as an artist, biographer & curator and their combined art collection. The Lee Miller Archives, managed by Farleys House & Gallery Ltd, holds and is responsible for licensing the copyright for her work, that of Roland Penrose and other photographers, creates books and loans to exhibitions alongside conserving and cataloguing our holding of work. We aim to promote scholarship and dissemination of Lee Miller & Roland Penrose’s work worldwide in a manner commensurate with their artistic and humanitarian principles.
For more info see full ad on Arts Jobs online: http://www.artsjobs.org.uk/…/post/repro duction-rights-assi…/ #leemiller #artsjobs #licensing #rolandpenrose #copyrightlicensing #leemillerarchives #reproduction #reproduction-rights #copyright #copyrightclearance #picturelibrary #picturelibrarian
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Have you decided on your outfit for our Surrealist Picnic yet? We can’t wait to see everyone’s costumes & picnics! It’s going to be great fun. Parsley ice cream anyone??
Tickets: from our website, link in biog. There are not many places left!
... Image: Picnic costume idea by Tony Tree, © Tony Tree, courtesy Lee Miller Archives, England 2018. All rights reserved. #surrealpic #picnic #picnics #fancydress #surrealistpicnic #farleyshg #blackandwhite #tonytree
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Currently on show in our Gallery an exhibition that remembers the beauty of Syria - Syrian Road by Piers Metcalfe. ‘In May 2008 we went on a trip through the desert: it would be fun, an adventure. We could see the sites like Palmyra again... when I got home I had the films developed, filed them and forgot about them. Revisiting them now is much harder than I thought. Many of these places have been looted or destroyed and as I look at the nameless figures in some of the image...s and when I contemplate their unknown fate I feel only fear and guilt and find it hard to breathe.’ Piers Metcalfe, extract from the book that accompanied the exhibition. 20% of all Sales or works in the exhibition will be donated to Syria Relief www.syriarelief.org.uk More than 50% of the book sale price also goes to Syria Relief. Exhibition is FREE ENTRY Sundays 10-4.30pm until 9th Sept 2018
#beautyofsyria #syria #syriarelief #piersmetcalfe #photography #freeexhibition #freeentry @syrian_road_book #colourphotography #colourphoto #remember
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Happy 120th Birthday Henry Moore! Born on this day 30th July 1898. Henry Moore the British artist famous for his large abstract sculptures was a good friend of both Roland Penrose and Lee Miller who also collected some of his work. Lee Miller photographed Henry on several occasions both in his studio and relaxing with his family.
Images: top left = Mary & Henry Moore, Farleys Garden, Farley Farm, East Sussex, England 1953 by Lee Miller Top right = Henry Moore taken during t...he filming of ‘Out of Chaos’, Holborn Underground, London, England 1943 by Lee Miller Bottom left = Henry Moore, Perry Green, Hertfordshire, England 1943 by Lee Miller Bottom right = Irena and Henry Moore, Hertfordshire, England 1942 by Lee Miller © Lee Miller Archives, England 2018 www.leemiller.co.uk
#otd #bornonthisday #henrymoore #scupture #leemiller #family #happybirthday #artistsstudio #artistportrait #artist #portraitphotography #portraiture #rolandpenrose #blackandwhite #blancoynegro #noiretblanc #noiretblancphotographie #blackandwhitephoto
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From 1943 Lee Miller & David E. Scherman covered some of the same war correspondent assignments. It is interesting to see the difference in what they both captured with their camera. Whilst David’s LIFE Magazine photographs are now owned and represented by Getty Images, before he died David E. Scherman gifted the Lee Miller Archives his personal photographs of Lee like this one of her with her Rolleiflex camera & flash gun in Portsmouth which we now represent. A great support...er of the formation of the Lee Miller Archives, David E. Scherman gave us hours of interview and wrote the forward for the @thamesandhudson book of Lee’s writing from the war ‘Lee Miller’s War’.
Image: Lee Miller, Portsmouth, England 1943 by David E. Scherman © David E. Scherman, courtesy Lee Miller Archives, England 2018. All rights reserved. #leemiller #davidescherman #leemillerarchives #gettyimages #portraiture #portraitphotography #rolleiflex #blackandwhite #noiretblanc #noiretblancphotographie #blancoynegro #blackandwhitephoto #wartime #wwii #warcorrespondent
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The Man Behind the Mask #2.... In 1941, David E. Scherman was on board an Egyptian liner called the Zamzam, heading for an assignment in South Africa. The ship was attacked and sunk by a German war ship disguised as a merchant vessel. David took pictures from the lifeboat and when he was taken prisoner by the Germans and hid the films in tubes of shaving cream and toothpaste which he later smuggled back to LIFE Magazine to publish. The pictures of the ship enabled the Britis...h Navy to track down the surface raider and sink it.
Image: David E. Scherman after the German surrender at St. Malo, France 1944 by Lee Miller © Lee Miller Archives, England 2018. www.leemiller.co.uk #zamzam #wwii #navy #royalnavy #forgottenhero #forgottenhistory #davidescherman #leemillerarchives #lifemagazine #leemiller #warcorrespondent #blancoynegro #photography #photographie #blackandwhitephoto
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The man behind the mask... David E.Scherman LIFE Magazine photographer & war correspondent. It was David E. Scherman or ‘Davie’ as Lee called him that first advised Lee to become a correspondent with the US army during wwii. They met in 1942 and although Davie was 9 years younger they became close friends and lovers. David E.Scherman moved in with Lee & her other partner Roland Penrose and they lived together until Davie was sent on assignment to Europe in 1944.
Image: David E. Scherman dressed for war, London, England 1942 by Lee Miller © Lee Miller Archives, England 2018. All rights reserved. #photographie #wwii #gasmask #blancoynegro #blackandwhitephoto #photography #noiretblanc #blackandwhite #davidescherman #leemiller #leemillerarchives

Through the Lens, photography festival in Hastings. Guest speaker event on 1st Sept @stmaryinthecastle with: Martin Parr, Mark Power, Antony Penrose, Peter Dench & JJ Waller. Tickets available through @ttl2018 website & @eventbriteuk http://ttlfest.co.uk/tickets/
#photography #photographie #photofestival #photofest #martinparr #markpower #antonypenrose #peterdench #jjwaller #hastings #throughthelens #photoevent

Exercises, part of the series that we posted previously but this time using a triple exposure to illustrate the movement. The shoot took place in British Vogue studio during the Second World War.
Image: Exercises, Vogue Studio, London, England 1942 by Lee Miller © Lee Miller Archives, England 2018. All rights reserved. www.leemiller.co.uk
... #leemiller #london #leemillerarchives #voguestudio #vogue #britishvogue #london #exercise
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On radio 4 this morning at 8.20am, catch Antony Penrose being interviewed about his mother Lee Miller and the exhibition of her work ‘Lee Miller and Surrealism in Britain’ @hepworthwakefield
Image: Antony Penrose making speech at opening of the Lee Miller exhibition at Hepworth Wakefield museum.
#leemiller #leemillerarchives #thwleemiller #surrealism #radio4 #radio4today #interview #bbc #bbcradio4

Remembering Lee Miller, who died today 21st July in 1977. Mistress of self re-invention, she started as a model for Vogue & Vanity Fair, then crossed to the other side of the camera becoming a photographer of portraits, Surrealist images & fashion. In WWII she became a war correspondent for Vogue, covering fashion, combat & the advance of the allies through Europe. Recording the horror of the death camps Dachau & Buchenwald with her camera. Post war was difficult for her and... she struggled with the effects of what she had seen. Today she would probably be diagnosed with having PTSD. She also battled with Post Natal depression after the birth of her only child, Antony at the age of 40. Eventually she learnt to cope reinventing herself one final time as a Gourmet cook. When she died was again being celebrated in magazines but this time a celebrity for her skills at entertaining and in the kitchen.
Lee Miller’s ashes are in the garden here at Farleys her home and also the home of her Archives that continues to care for her legacy today.
Image: detail from- Lee Miller, Lambe Creek, Cornwall, England 1937 by Roland Penrose #leemiller #leemillerarchives #femalephotographer #surrealism #wwii #rip #gourmet #gourmet-cook #ptsd #postnataldepression #portraiture #warcorrespondent #fashion
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Opening on Sunday in ours Gallery- Syrian Road, an exhibition that celebrates and reminds us of the beauty of Syria.
In 2008 Piers Metcalfe went on a road trip through the desert in Syria with his Syrian wife. During the journey he captured some hauntingly beautiful photographs of their travels with a plastic toy camera.
‘…it may be the fear that it could be a very long time before we can roam freely here again that make these pictures so important to me.’ Piers Metcalfe.
... Gallery is open 10-4.30pm on Sundays, entry is FREE
Image by Piers Metcalfe © artists estate, England. All rights reserved. #syria #syrianroad #piersmetcalfe #toycamera #landscape #desert #farleyshg
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Egyptian Onions in dry soil in Lee’s herb patch, Farleys Garden by Tony Tree. The hovering rain clouds of this morning have disappeared without releasing a drop! The garden is still a great place to explore. Open on Sundays 10-4.30pm
Image by Tony Tree © courtesy of Lee Miller Archives, England 2018 www.leemiller.co.uk #sculpture #herb #herbgarden #onions #egyptianonion #drysoil #gardentovisit #garden #sculpturegarden

What a beautiful home, so inspired and fascinated in what I saw today. The tour was brilliant, nice intelligent girl who showed us around. Lee Miller home is something which I expected to have some good memories and moments made in this place. The only thing which would of made this tour even better, if there was more of Lee Miller personal things on display, more of her writings, camera equipment and more personal photographs of her life and also at her home and the people who come to visit. I'm just amazed that Picasso spent time here ( Sussex) , and think of all the other people who must of come to visit and created things here. I sure was born in the wrong time.

We absolutely adored it! Such beautiful gardens and the house was really interesting

I would love to go again,it's every bit as special as Charleston and Monk's House and Antony Penrose was really welcoming.

This is real art immersion. The extended tour includes a fascinating personal, and compelling talk by Antony Penrose. One of the best experiences and a rare opportunity not to be missed!

The house is colourful and stuffed with fabulous art and interesting objects. The gardens are beautiful and peaceful and we enjoyed the sculptures. Our tour guide was very knowledgeable and we learnt a lot about Lee Miller and her life as well as famous visitors to the farmhouse. My one quibble is the tour was too short - only half an hour instead of the 50 minutes we thought we were getting - and felt slightly rushed as there was another group right behind us. Well worth a visit, and I will be back!

Magical. The garden was beautiful. The house fascinating. Lovely staff and volunteers. Mr Penrose picked the mint personally for the mint tea available in the small tea facilities. Down to earth but ethereal at the same time. Will be visiting again X

I visited as I am a big fan of Lee millers photography work but Farley Farm House is soo much more. Wonderful experience and I've already recommended it to several friends

I had the pleasure of finding out about lee millers Farley homestead last summer and was blown away! I absolutely loved it and making it my number one priority to visit on my next trip. I want to experience more of the inspirational place.

Fascinating tour, and beautiful decor. I loved roaming the sculpture garden as well.

Beautiful house and gardens. Jenny, our tour guide was excellent in bringing us a snapshot of the lives and works of Miller and Penrose and their surrealist friends. A real treat to be able to experience their stories and works in their own home. Thank you Anthony for allowing us to visit your home.

Beautiful home and fascinating extended tour.

Anyone with even a passing interest in 20th century Art and History will find something to treasure at Farley Farm House.

A wonderful visit, so interesting, full of the most amazing art, books and memories of this family. Thank you for your warmth and welcome.

A wonderful visit to Farley Farmhouse the home of Lee Miller and Roland Penrose. A lovely afternoon with a knowledgeable tour guide Belinda. I can't imagine anyone not enjoying it here, the house is packed with surrealist treasures, stories interweaving the objects. My favourite pieces were the original contact sheet of the Hitler Bathtub shoot, and Lee's silver plated knuckle dusters! The original poster for the first surrealist exhibition by Max Ernst was incredible to see as well, all the artwork is gorgeous. Just go!

A wonderful place to visit so much to learn about two amazing people, and a lovely feel to a home, not a stately pile.

A brilliant and informative tour of a home essentially, where you are ushered into intimate spaces that have been occupied by the artists I grew up reading about at school. It's as if they have only just left the room.



I really like the continuing tradition of support by the next generation of the family, of upcoming artists exhibited in the barn.

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