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OPENING 9th JULY MERVYN PEAKE
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Biography Maeve Gilmore was born in south London, the sixth and youngest child of an Irish medical doctor and his English wife. Maeve's father's practice was at Acre Lane, Brixton, where the owners of houses in the then affluent middle-class area each had an acre of land. At an early age Maeve was sent away to a Catholic convent at St Leonards in Sussex where she excelled at languages and art. At sixteen she was sent away again, this time to a Swiss finishing school where she learned German and fell in love with Beethoven and Bach. Later, she would regularly play on the family piano to her own delighted family. Maeve Gilmore was a totally committed champion of her husband's work, and paid for her all-consuming support of his art, herself succumbing to a premature end. Her conclusion to Mervyn Peake's trilogy, which she called Titus Awakes, will be launched at the gallery on the 9th of July. |
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