Tag: Surrealism

  • The Medium is the Message

    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

  • Holly Stevenson – interview

    Following in the female surrealist tradition, Holly Stevenson makes cathectic objects from clay, which distort and intrigue

  • Forbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal Landscapes

    Ambiguous images and twisted and brooding forms rewrite the meaning of landscape in this exploration of subconscious desires, dreams and irrationality

  • Enchanted Alchemies: Magic, Mysticism, and the Occult in Art

    In 1924, the surrealist manifesto stated that art serves as a magical act, invoking mysteries beyond the visible world and turning the mundane into something wondrous. This exhibition, spanning the century from then until now, whets the appetite for an…

  • Leonora Carrington: Rebel Visionary

    The sculptures, masks, lithographs and tapestries in this exhibition introduce a cast of characters from the fantastical other worlds of the English Mexican surrealist artist’s magnificently mad mind

  • Gillian Wearing: Wearing Masks

    This thoughtful and comprehensive retrospective spans more than 30 years of Wearing’s work, in which she explores the nature of identity and self and the masks – literal and metaphorical – behind which we hide

  • Surrealism Beyond Borders

    For three months in New York, and then at the Tate Modern, visitors will be treated to that increasingly rare phenomenon in museum show business – a teaching exhibition. A blockbuster, yet not, so bouleversé you may not be, but…

  • Cathie Pilkington – interview: ‘It’s great to have a title that makes people think’

    The artist talks about the importance of democracy in her practice, how she feels she sits – or doesn’t! – within the patriarchal tradition, and how she has a resistance to finalising a work and defining where it begins and…

  • Eileen Agar: Angel of Anarchy

    A packed retrospective of the surrealist fellow-traveller spirals off in all sort of directions, offering an argument for the spirit of play

  • Prabhakar Pachpute – interview: ‘I juxtapose memories and what is happening in real life’

    Prabhakar Pachpute talks about growing up in a coal-mining region in India, and how its associated landscape and characters have become his subject matter