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Surrealist Photography in the World 2021

Members of Leeds Surrealist Group are participating in the exhibition ‘La Photographie surréaliste dans le monde en 2021’, organised by the Paris Surrealist Group, at the Espace André Breton, located in the Rignault Museum (which adjoins the Maison André Breton), Saint-Cirq-Lapopie. The opening will be held at 3pm on Saturday, 20th March and will include readings and a talk, further details can be found here.

leedssurrealistgroup Events

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.”