In Focus: Florence Nightingale’s bedroom at White Cube at Claydon ✨
At the far end of Claydon’s upper floor, the former bedroom of Florence Nightingale – a regular visitor between 1857 and 1890 – houses works by Julie Curtiss, Tracey Emin and Mona Hatoum that draw on a surrealist language of the domestic to uncanny effect.
Handcrafted garments fashioned from human hair by Mona and Julie hang alongside Tracey’s embroidered vision of a nightmare, transfiguring the bedroom into a site of psychic intensity.
📍 ‘White Cube at Claydon’ is on view at Claydon House, Buckinghamshire, until 14 September 2026.
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Images:
1, 2, 5, 7: ‘White Cube at Claydon House’, Buckinghamshire, UK, 6 June - 14 September 2026. Photo © White Cube (Theo Christelis).
3–4: Tracey Emin, ‘It Just happened Nightmare drawing’ (20...