Candida Cave is a practising painter, playwright and art historian. In 1978, she and artist Nicholas Cochrane founded Hampstead
Hampstead Fine Arts College, an independent sixth form college specialising in the study of Arts and Humanities, where she is Principal.
Crewe studied painting at the
Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art
The Ruskin School of Art, known as the Ruskin, is an art school at the University of Oxford, England. It is part of Oxford's Humanities Division.
History
The Ruskin grew out the Oxford School of Art, which was founded in 1865 and later became ...
, Oxford. She paints in oil and tempera and her work is inspired by medieval miniatures, illuminated manuscripts and Gothic stained glass. Her work has been exhibited at the
Mall Galleries
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* Esplanade
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, London and the Limetree Kitchen and in the ARTWAVE Visual Arts Festival.
Her plays include ''Still Lives'', ''Savonarola'', ''Bonfires and Vanities'' and ''Lotte's Journey'' Her most recent play, about the
Mitford sisters
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, had a rehearsed reading at the
Lyric Studio, Hammersmith. Cave’s plays are often set in an historical context and have been performed at the
Royal Academy of Arts
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, the
British Museum
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,
Tate Britain
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, the
National Portrait Gallery, London theatres and for the British Council in Florence, Bologna and Rome.
References
Review of Lotte’s Journey, the TimesArt Exhibition at LimeTree KitchenFrom ArtWave 2014
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
British dramatists and playwrights
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