Dora Carrington: Beyond Bloomsbury review – tinsel treasures from a polyamorous bohemian

Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
Her famous friends and avant garde love life can threaten to overshadow her work, but some of it is amazing – although it almost gets lost in the galleryA challenge for anyone confronting the art of the Bloomsbury Group is the way the magnetic chaos of their interpersonal drama can overpower the art. At Pallant House, the curators strike a tenuous balance between the two. Though Dora Carrington, who preferred to be known simply as Carrington, wasn’t