Vanessa Bell and Patti Smith at Dulwich Picture Gallery

Gallery director Ian AC Dejardin discusses the photographic dialogue that exists between the two artists who lived 100 years apart

I didn't know Patti Smith as anything other than a rock icon – the hair, the image – but when my co-curator Sarah Milroy saw photos she took of Charleston, the home of Vanessa Bell, I was intrigued. I thought it could make an interesting parallel display for our Bell exhibition and the more we got involved with the idea, the more perfect a match it seemed.

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