Ithell Colquhoun 1906-1998: A contextual study of the artist's imagery and working practices focussed on Tate's newly expanded collection and archive

本博士课程将引导Ithell Colquhoun如何定位为艺术家，作家和原始女权主义者，并参考同时代的视觉文化和背景来评估她的生活。Colquhoun作品的多样性和档案的庞大规模将使跨学科的工作至关重要，因为我也想在她自己的作品中寻找Colquhoun的形象和工作实践的背景。这位艺术家对自动主义、神话和炼金术的神秘而具体的融合感兴趣，在她的同时代人中是独一无二的，对尚未部分编目的档案的调查将为英国现有的超现实主义学术贡献重要的一层。博士学位将研究科尔克霍恩的工作室，以及她的遗产的历史编纂，以及它是如何受到无数因素的影响的，包括深度性化的图像和文学禁忌，经济问题和制度团体结构（包括她在1940年与英国超现实主义团体决裂的进一步研究）。它将进一步探索艺术家对局部和区域民族主义的调查，特别是康沃尔郡和爱尔兰前基督教和异教徒仪式的文化遗产：随着英国在政治领域继续与苏格兰、欧洲和爱尔兰共和国之间复杂的内部和外部关系作斗争，这一研究领域看起来变得越来越重要。

This PhD will navigate how Ithell Colquhoun is positioned as an artist, writer and proto-feminist, and evaluate her life with reference to contemporaneous visual culture and context. The diversity of Colquhoun's output and the substantial size of the archive will make interdisciplinary work vital, as I would also seek to contextualise Colquhoun's imagery and working practices within her own writings. The artist's dedicated interest in the occult and specific amalgamation of automatism, mythology and alchemy was unique among her contemporaries, and investigation into the as yet partially uncatalogued archive will contribute a significant layer to existing scholarship on Surrealism in Britain. The PhD will investigate Colquhoun's studios, as well as tackling the historiography of her legacy and how it was shaped by myriad factors including deeply sexualised imagery and literary taboo, financial concerns and institutional group structures (including further work on her break with the British Surrealist Group in 1940). It will further explore the artist's investigations into localised and regional nationalisms, specifically the cultural legacy of pre-Christian and pagan ritual in Cornwall and Ireland: a research strand which looks to become increasingly important as, in its political sphere, the UK continues tograpple with its complex internal and external relationships - with Scotland, Europe and the Republic of Ireland.