Lost world of local artist in new museum exhibition

Researcher reveals lost world of local artist in new museum exhibition. University of Sussex art historian Alexandra Loske's trip to a Lewes antique shop led to her own exhibition of rarely seen works at Brighton Museum and Art Gallery. Alexandra, who is currently carrying out doctoral research into the décor of Brighton Pavilion, bought an etching by an artist called Robert Goff. She then discovered that Goff was a Hove-based artist and that Brighton Museum had a sizeable collection of his works. Alexandra's subsequent research into Goff's life and work led to an invitation to curate an exhibition in the Museum's Prints and Drawings Gallery. Alexandra was able to draw on the museum's archives and the help of the museum team, including curator of Fine Art Jenny Lund and paper conservator Heather Wood, to create an overview of the etcher's art and to highlight the best of Goff's work. The exhibition - Robert Goff: An Etcher in the Wake of Whistler - is devoted to 50 of Goff's exquisite black and white etchings and other works, not displayed since the 1920s, depicting scenes of Edwardian Brighton and Hove, industrial London and the Thames and evocative images of Egypt, Italy and Japan.