Leilah Barbirye features in 'From Joséphine Bowes'

Leilah Barbirye features in From Joséphine Bowes: Trendsetters and Trailblazers, a landmark exhibition celebrating 200 years of The Bowes Museum's spirited co-founder, Joséphine Bowes. With works spanning three centuries, the exhibition features more than 60 artists, designers, and makers shaping trends in western culture today. 

The Bowes Museum explores the contemporary continuation of Joséphine’s vast collection. Highlights from the museum's eclectic and expansive eighteenth and nineteenth-century collections are paired with significant loans from twentieth-century European history and new works by leading artists today in the North of England. 

Major exhibiting artists include Leilah Barbirye, Daisy Collingridge, Charlotte Hodes, Mary Kelly, Sir Grayson Perry, Pablo Picasso, Dame Magdalena Odundo, Sophie Anderson, Matt Smith and Gillian Wearing .