Major new exhibition: Wyndham Lewis at Imperial War Museum North

Tickets are on sale for the Imperial War Museum North’s biggest visual arts exhibition to date. Opening in June, Wyndham Lewis: Life, Art, War celebrate one of the most influential British artists of last century. In the early 1910s, Lewis was one of the founders of Vorticism, a modernist movement inspired by Cubism. It rejected the traditional landscapes and nudes, and instead embraced geometric abstraction. The movement was launched in the irreverent art magazine BLAST, for which Lewis was the Editor. Despite his rebellious background, in 1917, Lewis was appointed the official war artist for the British government. He later became a writer, penning both fiction and non-fiction works, many of which garnered controversy. His reputation recovered in later years, and for over half a century now, he has been recognised as a major cultural talent. The exhibition will comprise of more than 160 of his artworks, books, journals, and pamphlets from major collections.

Fri 23 Jun 2017 – Mon 1 Jan 2018, IWM North, Trafford Wharf Road, Stretford, Manchester, M17 1TZ, Tel: 0161 836 4000, times vary, from £4, www.iwm.org.uk