Members of Leeds Surrealist Group are participating in the exhibition ‘Little Shop of Magic 2’, organised by Wedgwood Steventon, at Centre Space Gallery, Spode Works, Stoke-on-Trent
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Surrealist Collage in 2018
Members of Leeds Surrealist Group are participating in the exhibition ‘Le Collage surréaliste en 2018’, organised by the Paris Surrealist Group, in Amarrage, 88 rue des Rosiers, Saint Ouen
S for Spellbound: Anthony Earnshaw and Surrealism
Kenneth Cox will be giving a talk at Inkwell Arts at 7.30pm on Friday, 28th June 2018 about Anthony Earnshaw.
http://www.anthonyearnshaw.com
Born in Ilkley in 1924, the same year as the publication of the first Manifesto of Surrealism, Anthony Earnshaw died in Saltburn-by-Sea in 2001, and is fondly remembered by his many friends. Most of his life was spent in Leeds, where, as a young factory worker, he discovered Surrealism through books in the city’s Central Library. From starting to paint “strange” pictures, he eventually left the factory behind in his mid-life, to become an art lecturer and full-time practitioner. He was an extraordinary artist, perhaps best known for his boxed assemblages, but also painted and drew; he was an occasional writer and aphorist, producing several illustrated books, including the highly-original Musrum, co-written with his great friend, Eric Thacker. Those who knew Tony will recall his subversive and oblique wit, the humour that was leaning at every corner, waiting to deflate pretension and pomposity. Surrealism – together with anarchism and jazz – proved to be an abiding inspiration that brought him into contact with many kindred spirits, rebels and poets. As Earnshaw himself put it, “Surrealism for me was home. I was among friends at last, having been away in a foreign land all my life. The spell of it then cast remains a frisky imp haunting my life.”
Derelict Marvels
LEEDS SURREALIST GROUP are holding an exhibition ‘Derelict Marvels’ at Inkwell Arts, Chapel Allerton, Leeds LS7 3LW from 14th June to 17th July 2018
Further information can be found on the Inkwell Arts website here.
The Archeology of Hope
The Archaeology of Hope was launched on the winter solstice of 2016, with an invitation to a game that culminated on the summer solstice of 2017, which included the participation of three members of Leeds Surrealist Group.
The book is a catalogue of the results of the game, and a record of the exhibition and performance ritual that sprang from it.
Available to buy at cost price as a print-on-demand paperback from Lulu
Also available as a free downloadable pdf
