This new exhibition casts a spotlight on her remarkable practice as a graphic artist, and particularly the British literary influences that inspired her most ambitious bodies of works in printmaking: Nursery Rhymes, Peter Pan and Jane Eyre. Showcasing each series of prints combined with unseen preparatory sketches, etching plates and other ephemera, this rare exhibition offers an insight into how Rego transforms this material into startlingly original and unexpected pictures.

Paula Rego: Visions of English Literature is a Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition. It has been developed with the support of Paula Rego’s Estate.

Main image: Sing a Song of Sixpence (The Queen in the Parlour) (from the Nursery Rhymes series) 1989 by Paula Rego. © The Estate of Paula Rego. All Rights Reserved, 2024.