British Surrealism Curator Talk & Q&A

Dulwich Picture Gallery

Tune in for a special online talk and Q&A from British Surrealism curator and Modern British Art expert David Boyd Haycock. David will be exploring the surrealist movement in Britain through the work of Conroy Maddox, F.E. McWilliam, Leonora Carrington, Marion Adnams, Ithell Colquhoun and more. He’ll also be answering some of your questions, and will be on hand in the chat if you’d like to know anything further.

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Artworks featured:

Conroy Maddox, OnanisticTypewriter I, 1940. Photocredit: The Murray Family Collection (UK&USA) The Lesson, 1938/1970, © Christie’s Images Limited, both given with the kind permission of the artist’s daughter.

Edith Rimmington, Family Tree, 1938, The Murray Family Collection (UK & USA) © Estate of Edith Rimmington

Henry Fuseli, The Weird Sisters, Macbeth, c.1783, RSC Theatre Collection

Leonora Carrington The Old Maids and The Pomps of the Subsoil, both 1947 © Estate of Leonora Carrington / ARS, NY and DACS,London 2019, UEA 27. Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia. Photographer: James Austin

Ithell Colquhoun, The Pine Family, 1940, Photo: The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, © Samaritans, Spire Healthcare, and by kind permission of the Noise of Abatement Society

Edward Burra, Dancing Skeletons, 1934. Copyright © Tate

F.E. McWilliam, Spanish Head, 1938-39, The Estate of the Late Dr Jeffrey Sherwin and the Sherwin family

Marion Adnams, L’infante égarée (The Lost Infanta), 1944. Photo: Manchester Art Gallery / Bridgeman Images

Footage of the exhibition filmed by acap media

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