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1926
 
   
English potter Michael Cardew sets up a studio at Winchcombe, in Gloucestershire      
Earhenware jar, Michael Cardew
Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
1927
 
    
Stanley Spencer completes his large visionary canvas The Resurrection: Cookham       
1927
 
    
28-year old Staffordshire potter Clarice Cliff launches a range of highly coloured geometric designs that she calls Bizarre Ware       
'Berries' candlestick, Clarice Cliff, c.1935
Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
1927
 
     
English typographer Eric Gill designs a type face without serifs, commissioned by Monotype and to be known as Gill Sans-Serif        
1927
 
    
Stanley Spencer begins his murals in the Memorial Chapel for Henry Sandham at Burghclere, in Hampshire       
1928
 
    
English sculptor Henry Moore receives his first public commission, for the headquarters of London Underground       
1928
 
    
English sculptor Barbara Hepworth has her first solo exhibition, at the Beaux Arts gallery in London       
Barbara Hepworth, photograph by Ida Kar, 1962
National Portrait Gallery, London

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1928
 
   
English sculptor Henry Moore has his first solo exhibition, at the Warren Gallery in London      
Henry Moore, photograph by Ida Kar, 1954
National Portrait Gallery, London

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1930
 
     
Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson begin to create a garden at Sissinghurst in Kent        
Vita Sackville-West, photo 1921
Mary Evans Picture Library

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c. 1932
 
  
The British artist Graham Sutherland, after an early career as a printmaker, takes up painting relatively late in life     
Graham Sutherland, self-portrait, 1977
National Portrait Gallery, London

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