Iris Murdoch artworks from secret room go on display – including self-portrait

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1. Fri, 14 August 2026

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     Iris Murdoch artworks from secret room go on display – including self-portrait

     Second world war paintings and sketches show novelist ‘engaging with her world in a new light’ For decades, they lay in a secret room in her attic gathering dust. Now, newly discovered artworks by the Booker prize-winning author Iris Murdoch – including the only self-portrait she is known to have painted, four surrealist landscape paintings and three sketches of female nudes – will go on display for the first time on Friday. The artworks were created at the start of the second world war when...