Art - Upcoming Digital Events

Pin buttons and Protests: Katy Norris on the Art of Sylvia Pankhurst
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
Sylvia Pankhurst was raised in a socialist household and sought to lead a creative life.
Oct 16th 2023

Painting British Folk Customs – Ben Edge
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
Join Ben Edge for this Zoom talk as he takes you into the heart of British Folklore and shares his own journey as an artist and gives insights into his creative practice
Oct 24th 2023

Nina Hamnett: Life or Art? The Challenge of Writing about Women Artists by Alicia Foster
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
Nina Hamnett (1890–1956) was an artist, illustrator and writer who was associated with the bohemian and avant-garde circles of the London
Nov 06th 2023

Model turned artist: Sara Cooper on Eileen Mayo
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
Eileen Mayo (1906–94) was a dedicated and multi-talented artist – at once a painter, print-maker, tapestry designer, engraver and illustrator
Nov 13th 2023

Mermaids across the Millennia – a Zoom talk with Professor Sarah Peverley
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
This illustrated Zoom talk will explore one of the most popular and long-lived of all the mythical creatures that humans have invented.
Nov 23rd 2023

Queer as Folklore – a Zoom talk with Sacha Coward
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
Sacha Coward takes us on an illustrated Zoom talk through the hidden queer history of myths and monsters.
Nov 28th 2023

Art - Past Digital Events

A Hat for Eating Bouillabaisse: The Surreal world of Eileen Agar by Laura Smith
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
Eileen Agar was an artist who explored painting, photography, collage and sculpture. Her independent and inventive experiments
Sep 18th 2023

Circus Troupes and Parachutes: The Many Lives of Laura Knight with Alice Strickland
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
Laura Knight (1877–1970) was an English Realist painter who documented life and culture in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century.
Aug 21st 2023

Geomitica – the Mythology of Shape – Adrian Fisher
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
It creatively combines surface shapes with artistic and allegorical narrative. Parables and symbolism abound.
Aug 16th 2023

“Man, woman or vegetable growth?” Lucy Howarth on Rediscovering Marlow Moss
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
Marlow Moss (1889–1958) was a British Constructivist artist and a central figure in the development of European non-figurative art.
Jul 17th 2023

Inventing the Green Man – a Zoom talk with Dr Alex Woodcock
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
In this illustrated Zoom talk Dr Alex Woodcock will explore one of the most familiar images from medieval art.
Jul 12th 2023

From Buttons to Bowls: Isabella Smith on Ceramicist Lucie Rie
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
In this exciting new introduction by Isabella Smith, Lucie Rie’s tumultuous life is explored through her extraordinary work.
May 29th 2023

“I’d rather take a picture than be one”: Lee Miller by Ami Bouhassane
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
Lee Miller (1907-1977) was a fashion model, a photo-journalist and an artist who captured extraordinary moments of modern life.
Apr 10th 2023

Leonora Carrington in Spain by Carlos Martin
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
Curator Carlos Martin will discuss Leonora Carrington's retrospective in Madrid.
Mar 22nd 2023

The Artist as Medium – Jacqui McIntosh
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
In this illustrated talk she will examine key works by artists such as Yves Tanguy, Ithell Colquhoun, Austin Osman Spare & Ann Churchill
Mar 15th 2023

The Creative Life of Tirzah Garwood Ravilious by Lotte Crawford
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
Tirzah Garwood (1908 - 51) excelled in marbling, wood-engraving, collage and a style of painting which fused English romanticism with her domestic life.
Mar 13th 2023

Gargoyles and Grotesques – a Zoom talk with Dr Alex Woodcock
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
In this illustrated Zoom talk Dr Alex Woodcock will explore why there are monsters, wild figures and faces carved on our medieval churches.
Mar 09th 2023

Visions of the Occult – Victoria Jenkins – zoom lecture
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
She will explore the hidden artworks and ephemera left behind by artists and shed new light on our understanding of the art historical canon
Mar 08th 2023

Vodou and Art : Between the altar and the market by Leah Gordon on zoom
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
Leah Gordon will discuss the possibilities and problematics of exhibiting Haitian art from her experience of co-curating PÒTOPRENS
Dec 13th 2022

“The Devil’s Gateway” – Daughters of Eve in the Middle Ages – Professor Elizabeth Archibald
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
This Zoom lecture by Professor Elizabeth Archibald will explore the complex medieval attitudes with which women were regarded.
Nov 08th 2022

She is Perversity: Queer Currents within Twentieth-Century Discourses on Lilith by Brennan Kettelle
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
First, my talk will provide a brief overview of Lilith’s presence within folklore, art, and literature from antiquity to the present
Sep 12th 2022

Between Two Worlds: On Art & Loss by Rochelle Roberts
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
Rochelle Roberts writes about her personal experience with the lingering ghost of grief and the ways in which she uses visual art
Aug 07th 2022

Emily Rapp Black: Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
Emily Rapp Black is a New York Times-bestselling author. Her most recent book, Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg
Jul 03rd 2022

Hilma af Klint & the occult milieu in turn of century Sweden by P Faxneld
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
The talk offers a guided tour through the occult milieu she was part of in Sweden
Jun 16th 2022

Mighty Lewd Books: Pornography in the Eighteenth Century by Julie Peakman
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
Jun 09th 2022

Open Sesame: Dorothea Tanning’s Bibliographic Surrealism
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
Join Dr Catriona McAra for a lecture on Dorothea Tanning
Jun 06th 2022

The Development of Austin Osman Spare’s Work – Michael Staley – zoom
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
In this illustrated talk, Michael Staley on the development of Austin Osman Spare's artwork
Jun 05th 2022

Surreal Things – Surrealism and Design – Ghislaine Wood – Zoom
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
Ghislaine Wood will discuss her influential 2007 exhibition at The V&A
May 26th 2022

The fluid world of Ithell Colquhoun – Dr. Richard Shillitoe
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
Her navel is a pool of water lilies": the fluid world of Ithell Colquhoun - Dr. Richard Shillitoe - hosted by Dr. Amy Hale
May 15th 2022

The Satanic Vampire: Death and devil symbolism in Nosferatu (1922), and the film’s occult connections by Per Faxneld
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
May 04th 2022

Kenneth Grant – Austin Osman Spare Abstract by Michael Staley on zoom
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
In this illustrated talk, Michael Staley discusses Kenneth Grant's presentation of Austin Osman Spare
Apr 03rd 2022

British Women Surrealists by Nayia Yiakoumaki – zoom lecture
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
Mar 23rd 2022

Eroticism and Surrealist Sewing Machines by Dr Abigail Susik – Zoom
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
Surrealist sewing machines and the surrealist movement’s interest in female masturbation as a form of social-sexual resistance
Feb 22nd 2022

Austin Osman Spare with Phil Baker by zoom
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
This talk will offer insights into Spare’s art, mind and world, reconnecting him with the art history that ignored him
Feb 16th 2022

Occult World, Art & Poetry of Marjorie Cameron – Dr. Manon Hedenborg White
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
This zoom talk will delve into Cameron’s art, poetry, and occultism, situating her as one of the most enigmatic mystical visionaries
Feb 06th 2022

Kate MccGwire’s Marvellous Menagerie by Dr Catriona McAra – Zoom Lecture
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
Kate MccGwire is joined by Catriona McAra to explore the themes of the feminine grotesque that have come to characterize MccGwire's work
Jan 24th 2022

The Flying House of Loreto – Dame Marina Warner
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
The story of this holy house and its ‘wondrous flittings’ in relation to ideas about losing home and remaking it, exile & settlement
Nov 30th 2021

Leonora Carrington. A World Made of Magic – Teresa Arcq – Zoom Lecture
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
In Leonora Carrington´s oeuvre, fantastic animals and beings inhabit magical worlds.
Nov 22nd 2021

The Magical Mind of Ithell Colquhoun, Surrealist & Occultist – Dr. Amy Hale – Zoom Talk
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
Lecture on one of the most interesting, dynamic, and theoretically sophisticated women Surrealists & Occultists by Dr.Amy Hale
Nov 07th 2021

Transformation and Identity in Austin Osman Spare by Michael Staley by zoom
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
In this illustrated talk, Michael Staley discusses Spare’s vision with particular reference to a number of pictures
Oct 17th 2021

Surrealism and Crime: A Live Zoom Lecture by Jonathan P. Eburne
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
Join Professor Jonathan P. Eburne to explore how crime informed the surrealist movement in Europe
Oct 04th 2021

Women Surrealists with Professor Dawn Ades on Zoom
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
Join Professor Dawn Ades to explore the paradoxical role of Surrealist women artists in a movement that both elevated and silenced them
Sep 12th 2021

Charles Waterton, Ecentric Taxidermist by Dr. Pat Morris, Live on Zoom
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
Charles Waterton used his texidermy skill to fabricate imaginary creatures,
Sep 06th 2021

A Look at Walter Potter’s Curious World of Taxidermy with Joanna Ebenstein
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
Walter Potter's Curious World of Taxidermy with Mexico based curator, author and co-founder of Morbid Anatomy
Jul 12th 2021

The Unnatural History Museum – NMM Cornwall – Viktor Wynd’s Zoom Tour
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
Join Viktor Wynd in Cornwall via Zoom) for a Guided tour of his Cornish UnNatural History Museum - nestled within The National Maritime Museum Falmouth
Jul 08th 2021

In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States – Tere Arcq
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
Live on Zoom from Mexico City Teresa Arcq will discuss her LACMA exhibition In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and The United States
Jun 27th 2021

Leonora Carrington, My Mother – Gaby Weisz – Zoom Lecture
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
Leonora Carrington's Son - Gaby Weisz - talks about his recent memoir of his mother with Viktor Wynd - Zoom Lecture in collaboration with Morbid Anatomy
Jun 13th 2021

The Archaeology Of British Surrealism: A Lecture By David Haycock On Zoom
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
Join art historian Dr David Boyd Haycock to explore the fascinating history of the Surrealist movement in Britain
Jun 08th 2021

The Botanical Mind: Art, Mysticism & The Cosmic Tree – Gina Buenfeld – Zoom
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
This talk will explore the ways in which plants have informed artists, mystics and scientists throughout history and around the world.
Jun 06th 2021

Mexican Masks & Rituals – Phyllis Galembo – Zoom Lecture
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
This illustrated Lecture will look closely at the extraordinary range of Masks and traditions current in contemporary Mexico
Jun 02nd 2021

The Tarot Deck of Austin Osman Spare – Jonathan Allen – Zoom Lecture
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
Explore English occultist Austin Osman Spare's Tarot Deck with author Jonathan Allen on Zoom
May 19th 2021

On The Monstrous Pictures of Whales – Philip Hoare – Zoom Lecture
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
Philip Hoare on how to depict the impossible, a monster more bizarre than any medieval Apocalypse or engravings of krakens and rhinoceroses?
May 16th 2021

The Marquis De Sade & The Avant-garde: Illustrated Zoom Talk by Alyce Mahon
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
Join Professor Alyce Mahon to trace how the Marquis de Sade became an icon of free expression and explore his influence on Surrealist art
May 04th 2021

Freud’s Pandemics: A Live Zoom Lecture with Professor Brett Kahr
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
Join Dr Brett Kahr to learn what Freud—having lived through WWI, the Spanish Flu, and Nazi occupation—can teach us in this new pandemic
Apr 26th 2021

Mike Jay on Mescaline & Art – Zoom Lecture
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
Mike Jay on Mescaline & Art - Zoom Lecture in Collaboration with New York's Morbid Anatomy
Apr 18th 2021

John Waters In Conversation With Viktor Wynd – Zoom Talk
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
Join Legendary Film Director, Artist & Author John Waters in Conversation, by zoom, with Viktor Wynd
Apr 17th 2021