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

这个博士将导航如何伊瑟尔Colquhoun被定位为艺术家，作家和原女权主义者，并参考当代视觉文化和背景评估她的生活。Colquhoun作品的多样性和档案馆的巨大规模将使跨学科的工作至关重要，因为我也会寻求将Colquhoun的图像和工作实践置于她自己的作品中。这位艺术家对神秘和特定的自动主义，神话和炼金术的融合的专注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超现实主义的现有奖学金做出重要贡献。博士将调查Colquhoun的工作室，以及处理她的遗产的历史编纂，以及它是如何由无数因素，包括深刻的性意象和文学禁忌，财务问题和机构团体结构（包括她与英国超现实主义集团在1940年打破进一步的工作）形成的。它将进一步探索艺术家对本地化和区域民族主义的调查，特别是康沃尔和爱尔兰的前基督教和异教仪式的文化遗产：随着英国在其政治领域继续努力解决其复杂的内部和外部关系-与苏格兰，欧洲和爱尔兰共和国-这一研究链看起来越来越重要。

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.