Institutional Collection

Ithell Colquhoun (1906 - 1988)

Tree Anatomy, 1942

SKU: 9970

Oil on panel
57 x 29 cm

Size:
Height – 57cm
Width – 29cm

DESCRIPTION

Provenance:
The Sherwin Family
Presentation:
framed

Holy

The hole is the holy
At the heart of the omen,
A gash at the neck
Of a neglected amen,
A tear in the mourning
That dried up the sun
Shedding light
Through the wound
To the womb
of the Crone
I am becoming,
Crowned between my legs
By this raw readiness,
My forgetting flesh
Birthing this
Rapturous rupture.
Holy is the hole
In the home of the heart
(The earth’s ear)

Poem by Sasha Siem. Siem is a writer and musician who has performed her work around the world. Her first two albums, Most of the Boys and Bird Burning, were recorded in Iceland with producer Valgeir Sigur√∞sson. She also teaches metaphysics and esoteric philosophy.

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THE ARTIST

Ithell Colquhoun - Tree Anatomy
Ithell
Colquhoun
1906 - 1988

Ithell Colquhoun studied at Cheltenham Art School (1925’7) and
the Slade School of Fine Art (1927’31), winning joint first prize
with Elizabeth Leslie Arnold (1909′ 2005) in the 1929 Summer
Composition Competition.

After discovering Surrealism in Paris in 1932, she held her first
solo exhibition at Cheltenham Art Gallery in 1936 and in 1939
joined the British Surrealist Group, showing alongside Roland
Penrose (1900’1984) at the Mayor Gallery that June. She was
particularly interested in automatic painting and how it could unlock
not just the unconscious mind but also the mystical.

Despite her expulsion from the English Surrealist Group
in 1940 due to her increasing preoccupation with the occult,
Colquhoun remained active in Surrealist circles ‘ she was married to
Toni del Renzio from 1943’48. She wrote and illustrated numerous
books, including The Living Stones: Cornwall (1957), and exhibited
at the Leicester Galleries and with the LG and WIAC. She took part
in several Surrealist retrospectives in the 1970s, including a solo show
at the Newlyn Gallery in 1976, and the terms of her will bequeathed
her studio (over 3000 works) to the National Trust.

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