The exhibition will continue to celebrate the 100 years of Surrealism with an intergenerational group of female artists tracing the importance of women in the movement and those whose work they have touched, from its inception to today. The exhibition will be co-curated by Sim Smith and artist Emily Hunt.
The exhibition looks to the devotion to practice that female artists in the movement sustained, which has inspired countless generations of artists after them to travel into deeper corners of their practice. With this response in mind, this is an exhibition that speaks to the relationship that women have with their work. In particular, women artists who use artistic language that is dream-like, coded, magical and Surrealist to question reality. The Surrealist movement emerged between the World Wars and this exhibition will span historical works to contemporary pieces, which examine the female artists' response to the times they lived and continue to live through. The Surrealist terrain has continued to evolve and unfold over the years and it has been female artists that have continued the conversation. This exhibition is an extension of this conversation. It will ask how female artists delve fearlessly into the magical to question and make sense of the reality of the world we live in, how they connect our daily lives to the world of fantasy, dreams and desire and the revolutionary potential of Surrealism in the hands of Divine Feminine power.
Ithell Colquhoun
Oread, 1970
indian ink and watercolour
20.3 × 20.3 cm (8 × 8 in)