FREE EVENT: “This current drew you”: Ithell Colquhoun’s Erotic Energies and Sacred Landscapes, with Amy Hale, Art Historian and Author of Sex Magick, Diagrams of Love, Ithell Colquhoun - November 19
Date: Tuesday, November 19th
Time: 7pm
Admission: FREE
This event will take place online, via Zoom!
Between 1939 and 1943 Ithell Colquhoun created an incredible collection of very explicit drawings and paintings that likely pointed to the development of a system of sex magic. During this time period, Colquhoun also painted some of her most theoretically interesting paintings of megalithic sites in Cornwall, exploring the notion of subterranean energies welling up from under the earth. It is very likely that these two projects were connected for Colquhoun, becoming an expression of her animism and also part of a wider investigation of the vital energies that can be harnessed and exchanged between people and with the earth. This explicitly illustrated talk will compare images from Colquhoun’s erotic corpus and some of her images of sacred landscapes, exploring ideas about energy exchange and union with the divine in all its guises. Bio:
Amy Hale is an Atlanta based writer, curator and critic with a PhD in Folklore and Mythology from UCLA (1998). Her research interests include contemporary magical practice and history, art, culture, women and Cornwall. She has written widely on artist and occultist Ithell Colquhoun, and is currently an academic advisor to the upcoming Colquhoun retrospective planned for 2025 at Tate St. Ives and Tate Britain. She wrote the first scholarly biography of Colquhoun, Ithell Colquhoun: Genius of the Fern Loved Gully (Strange Attractor, 2020) followed by the collection Sex Magic: Diagrams of Love, (Tate Publishing, 2024), an exploration of Colquhoun’s World War Two era erotic corpus. A Walking Flame: Selected Magical Essays of Ithell Colquhoun is due out with Strange Attractor in early 2025. She is also the editor of the groundbreaking collection Essays on Women in Western Esotericism: Beyond Seeresses and Sea Priestesses (Palgrave 2022). She has written extensively on magic and contemporary art, and has written for Tate, Burlington Contemporary, Art UK, The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Correspondences Journal and other fine institutions.She is an Honorary Research Fellow with Falmouth University in Cornwall, a trustee of the UK Charity Rediscovering Art by Women (RAW) and a member of the British Art Network.
This event is scheduled to be hosted on Zoom. Participants will receive the event link via email on the morning of the event day. Should you encounter any issues accessing the link, please do not hesitate to reach out to us at info@arcane17.co for assistance. Additionally, we are pleased to inform our Members that a recording of this event will be available on our Patreon page.
Date: Tuesday, November 19th
Time: 7pm
Admission: FREE
This event will take place online, via Zoom!
Between 1939 and 1943 Ithell Colquhoun created an incredible collection of very explicit drawings and paintings that likely pointed to the development of a system of sex magic. During this time period, Colquhoun also painted some of her most theoretically interesting paintings of megalithic sites in Cornwall, exploring the notion of subterranean energies welling up from under the earth. It is very likely that these two projects were connected for Colquhoun, becoming an expression of her animism and also part of a wider investigation of the vital energies that can be harnessed and exchanged between people and with the earth. This explicitly illustrated talk will compare images from Colquhoun’s erotic corpus and some of her images of sacred landscapes, exploring ideas about energy exchange and union with the divine in all its guises. Bio:
Amy Hale is an Atlanta based writer, curator and critic with a PhD in Folklore and Mythology from UCLA (1998). Her research interests include contemporary magical practice and history, art, culture, women and Cornwall. She has written widely on artist and occultist Ithell Colquhoun, and is currently an academic advisor to the upcoming Colquhoun retrospective planned for 2025 at Tate St. Ives and Tate Britain. She wrote the first scholarly biography of Colquhoun, Ithell Colquhoun: Genius of the Fern Loved Gully (Strange Attractor, 2020) followed by the collection Sex Magic: Diagrams of Love, (Tate Publishing, 2024), an exploration of Colquhoun’s World War Two era erotic corpus. A Walking Flame: Selected Magical Essays of Ithell Colquhoun is due out with Strange Attractor in early 2025. She is also the editor of the groundbreaking collection Essays on Women in Western Esotericism: Beyond Seeresses and Sea Priestesses (Palgrave 2022). She has written extensively on magic and contemporary art, and has written for Tate, Burlington Contemporary, Art UK, The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Correspondences Journal and other fine institutions.She is an Honorary Research Fellow with Falmouth University in Cornwall, a trustee of the UK Charity Rediscovering Art by Women (RAW) and a member of the British Art Network.
This event is scheduled to be hosted on Zoom. Participants will receive the event link via email on the morning of the event day. Should you encounter any issues accessing the link, please do not hesitate to reach out to us at info@arcane17.co for assistance. Additionally, we are pleased to inform our Members that a recording of this event will be available on our Patreon page.
Date: Tuesday, November 19th
Time: 7pm
Admission: FREE
This event will take place online, via Zoom!
Between 1939 and 1943 Ithell Colquhoun created an incredible collection of very explicit drawings and paintings that likely pointed to the development of a system of sex magic. During this time period, Colquhoun also painted some of her most theoretically interesting paintings of megalithic sites in Cornwall, exploring the notion of subterranean energies welling up from under the earth. It is very likely that these two projects were connected for Colquhoun, becoming an expression of her animism and also part of a wider investigation of the vital energies that can be harnessed and exchanged between people and with the earth. This explicitly illustrated talk will compare images from Colquhoun’s erotic corpus and some of her images of sacred landscapes, exploring ideas about energy exchange and union with the divine in all its guises. Bio:
Amy Hale is an Atlanta based writer, curator and critic with a PhD in Folklore and Mythology from UCLA (1998). Her research interests include contemporary magical practice and history, art, culture, women and Cornwall. She has written widely on artist and occultist Ithell Colquhoun, and is currently an academic advisor to the upcoming Colquhoun retrospective planned for 2025 at Tate St. Ives and Tate Britain. She wrote the first scholarly biography of Colquhoun, Ithell Colquhoun: Genius of the Fern Loved Gully (Strange Attractor, 2020) followed by the collection Sex Magic: Diagrams of Love, (Tate Publishing, 2024), an exploration of Colquhoun’s World War Two era erotic corpus. A Walking Flame: Selected Magical Essays of Ithell Colquhoun is due out with Strange Attractor in early 2025. She is also the editor of the groundbreaking collection Essays on Women in Western Esotericism: Beyond Seeresses and Sea Priestesses (Palgrave 2022). She has written extensively on magic and contemporary art, and has written for Tate, Burlington Contemporary, Art UK, The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Correspondences Journal and other fine institutions.She is an Honorary Research Fellow with Falmouth University in Cornwall, a trustee of the UK Charity Rediscovering Art by Women (RAW) and a member of the British Art Network.
This event is scheduled to be hosted on Zoom. Participants will receive the event link via email on the morning of the event day. Should you encounter any issues accessing the link, please do not hesitate to reach out to us at info@arcane17.co for assistance. Additionally, we are pleased to inform our Members that a recording of this event will be available on our Patreon page.
