Bloomsbury Group Bloomsbury Group The Bloomsbury Group—or Bloomsbury Set—was a group of associated English writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists in the first half of the 20th century, including Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster and Lytton Strachey. This loose collective of friends and relatives was closely associated with Cambridge University for the men and King's College London for the women, and they lived, worked or studied together near Bloomsbury, London. According to Ian Ousby, "although its members denied being a group in any formal sense, they were united by an abiding belief in the importance of the arts." Their works
East London Group preventing the Group reassembling after the Second World War. Several Group members continued to paint but they never exhibited as the East London Group again. Comparisons are sometimes drawn with the work of other artists. These include: Most of the East London Group’s work is held privately, often by members of the artists’ families. Around 80 pieces are in public collections in Britain and abroad. Awareness of the Group’s achievements has been rekindled in recent years. There have been a number of exhibitions (in central London and at Bow Arts' Nunnery Gallery) and the publication of a book, From Bow