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On the shoulders of giants: roaming among England’s famous chalk figures

Ancient hill carvings of horses, giants and gods have fascinated artists, writers and travellers for centuries. I went in search of their stories

The Guardian - UK · Apr 7

The daring women artists of last century were often sidelined as muses. A new book celebrates their brilliance

When I first studied art history in the late 1960s, all artists were men. It seemed, back then, that the act of rendering an image in line and colour, or visualising pure emotion, was confined to the gender that controlled society at the time.

The Conversation · Oct 15, 2025

What can another Lee Miller exhibition tell us about the model-artist-photographer? A lot, it turns out

IN FOCUS: For too long, Lee Miller’s life and work has been seen through the lens of her personal life as Man Ray’s lover and muse to Picasso. A new retrospective at Tate Britain affords her wider recognition for her Surrealist artistry, writes Mark Hudson

The Independent UK · Aug 19, 2025

Kate Winslet insisted her film about Lee Miller must have female director

Cinematographer Ellen Kuras, who was hired by actor to make her directorial debut, says biopic of photojournalist shows woman plunged ‘into heart of darkness’

The Guardian - UK · Sep 8, 2024

Lee Miller’s unbelievable life: From Hitler’s bathtub to tomato soup cake

Photographer Lee Miller, the subject of a major new film starring Kate Winslet, used her camera lens to pioneer a new way of seeing conflict. Later, broken by what she saw during the Second World War, she found respite in a Sussex farmhouse called Farleys, where she would begin her…

The Independent UK · Sep 8, 2024

In the footsteps of Lee Miller and the surrealists: a tour of her arty Sussex retreat

A film about the war photographer and model Lee Miller will be released this year. Her son is our guide for a trip to Farleys, her art-filled Sussex home

The Guardian - UK · Jun 22, 2024

Suzannah Pettigrew's 'tender and ghostly' new show at Surrealist photographer Lee Miller's former home in East Sussex

London-based artist Suzannah Pettigrew's photographic stills create a snapshot of her Sussex coast childhood, conjuring up a hallucinatory world of memory

Wallpaper · Jun 19, 2024

‘Picasso nearly fell over backwards when he saw her’ – Lee Miller’s son on their intense relationship

She was a model-turned-photographer whose unflinching eye captured the horror of the Nazis. But for too long, this extraordinary woman was defined as ‘Picasso’s muse’. As a new show puts this right, her son looks back

The Guardian - UK · Sep 5, 2022