A talk with Ami Bouhassane, author and co-director of Farleys House & Gallery, on the work and legacy of her grandmother, Lee Miller - celebrating the Lee Miller: A Woman at War exhibition at the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum (23 May - 13 September 2026).
Farleys House & Gallery Ltd is the organisation managing the Lee Miller Archives, the Penrose Collection and Farleys House - the home of her grandparents, Lee Miller and Roland Penrose.
About Ami Bouhassane
Managing Director of Farleys House & Gallery Ltd, the organisation that manages the Lee Miller Archives and Farleys House, home of her grandparents Lee Miller and Roland Penrose. Through Farleys Bouhassane organises exhibitions in connection with their work, collections and contemporaries that are exhibited internationally as well as in the gallery spaces on site. Author, curator, podcast presenter and lecturer on both Miller and Penrose, Bouhassane has worked extensively with their material for over 28 years.
Her first book ‘Lee Miller: A Life with Food, Friends and Recipes (2017) won 3 awards, including the IACP (International Association of Culinary Professionals) Jane Grigson award for scholarship. She is currently recording her third podcast series based on manuscripts and letters written by Miller held in the Lee Miller Archives.
Publications:
Lee Miller in Print by Saskia Kampen-Prein, 2x contributed essays by Ami Bouhassane, Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen 2023. ISBN: 978 906 918 3305
Lee Miller. Man Ray: Fashion - Love – War, Skira 2023 Ed. Victoria Noel Johnson, contributed essay by Ami Bouhassane. ISBN: 978-8857244150
Lee Miller: Fashion in wartime Britain by Ami Bouhassane, Amber Butchart & Robin Muir, Lee Miller Archives Publishing, 2021 ISBN: 978-0953238989
Lee Miller: A Life with Food, Friends & Recipes by Ami Bouhassane, paperback, Lee Miller Archives publishing, 2021 ISBN: 978-1-914298-0-28
Grim Glory: Lee Miller’s Britain at war by Ami Bouhassane, Lee Miller Archives Publishing, 2020, ISBN: 978-0953-23-8965
Lee Miller by Ami Bouhassane, Eiderdown Press, 2019, ISBN: 978-1-9160416-4-6
Photographer Lee Miller: The liberation of Denmark, May 1945, One of 2 contributors, essay ‘Lee Miller and the Mermaid’ by Ami Bouhassane, The Museum of National History at Frederiksberg, 2018. ISBN: 978-87-93049-21-5
Lee Miller: A Life with Food, Friends & Recipes by Ami Bouhassane, Grapefrukt Forlag with Penrose Film Productions Ltd, 2017 ISBN: 978-82-997574-5-4
Photo Credit: Jim Holden
