{"id":676300,"date":"2026-07-06T07:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T07:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/676300\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T07:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T07:59:09","slug":"compton-verney-visit-inspires-exhibition-into-enid-marxs-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/676300\/","title":{"rendered":"Compton Verney visit inspires exhibition into Enid Marx&#8217;s life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The exhibition, running between 18 July and 3 January 2027, also reunites many of the personal items Marx chose to leave to the gallery following her visit, including textiles, folk art and a handmade valentine&#8217;s card exchanged between Marx and Lambert.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Senior curator Oli McCall said: &#8220;Enid Marx visited Compton Verney in 1995. The house was being transformed into an art gallery, and [Enid] chose to donate the collection of popular art she had lovingly assembled with Margaret Lambert.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That remarkable collection has delighted visitors ever since, making Compton Verney the perfect venue for this exhibition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Since then, this treasure-trove of objects with which Marx and Lambert lived, and which inspired Marx&#8217;s design work in many ways, has delighted audiences here, making Compton Verney the perfect venue for this groundbreaking exhibition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McCall said the exhibition had been &#8220;underpinned by years of research&#8221; by Dr Az Crawford into Marx&#8217;s life and work, and that it would give visitors an &#8220;unparalleled insight into the work of one of the most significant designers in modern British history.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The exhibition, running between 18 July and 3 January 2027, also reunites many of the personal items Marx&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-676300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}