Nowhere to hide – Eric Gill’s legacy at Ditchling
David Jones’ Our Lady of the Hills
Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft
His crimes, uncovered after his death, changed the way the world saw Eric Gill – and yet his work remains central to the story of twentieth- century art. At the museum in the Sussex village where he lived, they’re taking a new approach. Joanna Moorhead visited Ditchling
For Eric Gill, 1913 was momentous. Within the space of 12 months he became a Catholic; he negotiated a commission to create a series of Stations of the Cross for Westminster Cathedral; and he moved his family out of the village of Ditchling in East Sussex to a cottage three miles north, which would be the beginning of the community of artists and craftspeople he went on to found.
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