In the rush to rediscover artists who have been unfairly marginalized by art history’s reverence for white men, a new name is coming to the fore. The painter, writer, and occultist Ithell Colquhoun ...
ST IVES, ENGLAND — For Ithell Colquhoun, the world was alive. Energies, mythical forces, and solar alignments imbued landscapes with powers that wove together human beings, ecologies, and the cosmos, ...
Since her death, Ithell Colquhoun (1906-88) has been better known as an occultist than an artist. Now, her reputation as a leading figure of British Surrealism is being restored, in an exhibition ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Saturated with innuendo: detail from Edward Burra’s John Deth (Hommage to Conrad Aiken), 1931 - The estate of Edward Burra, ...
A thought-provoking exhibition of archival material and related artworks celebrating the centenary of the College of Psychic Studies’ move to Queensberry Place in south-west London. London Art Fair is ...
Ithell Colquhoun, Genius of the Fern Loved Gully, Amy Hale. Strange Attractor Press. Amy Hale has done an excellent job of writing a fascinating book which is well worth the investment of time and ...
Colquhoun described it as the view she saw lying in the bath – a triangle of pubic hair and two thighs sticking out of the water. In the painting these are transformed into phallic rocks jutting out ...
Is this a safe space to share how much I loathe the blockbuster art exhibition? Overcrowded galleries full of gawpers taking photos of famous paintings, with no room to engage with an artist’s life’s ...
Exquisitely strange, British Celtic surrealist artist, literary writer and occultist Ithell Colquhoun’s memoir of her travels in Ireland in the first half of the 1950s is now republished as a Pushkin ...
Tommy Wieringa, Flemish and Dutch literature, Fashion in fiction, Stewart Lee on Ithell ColquhounTommy Wieringa, Flemish and Dutch literature, Fashion in fiction, Stewart Lee on Ithell Colquhoun ...
Saturated with innuendo: detail from Edward Burra’s John Deth (Hommage to Conrad Aiken), 1931 - The estate of Edward Burra, courtesy Lefevre Fine Art Tate Britain’s latest offer? Two exhibitions for ...