Art of an extraordinary unknown chapter of modernism

It seems as if the unknown chapter of Art history is writing itself at the moment and people are queuing up to see what all the fuss is about. It was by chance that Hilma af Klint was even discovered and… Continue Reading

Mystic Artists – Sacred Geometry & other Links

5 Mystics who created Sacred Geometry Art from LABYRINTHOS Art and spirituality have always had a close relationship, from the early days of the church commissioning works by artists, to the questions that more modern artists ask of themselves in… Continue Reading

As Above, So Below – Opens this Week

As Above, So Below: Portals, Visions, Spirits & Mystics   As Above, So Below Portals, Visions, Spirits & Mystics Major group exhibition and accompanying programme of events exploring spirituality in visual art to open at IMMA 13 April – 27… Continue Reading

The Spiritual in Art and Zombie formalisms

George Graham: The Creation Paintings Hastings Museum and Art Gallery will hold an exhibition devoted to George Graham’s mysterious Creation Paintings from 20 January to 7 May 2017. Alex Brattell offers a preview. The spiritual in art is having one… Continue Reading

THE KEEPER: New Museum Exhibition

  THE KEEPER This Awe inspiring exhibition features Harry Smith’s String figures, Paintings of Hilma Af Klint and some mysterious Theosophically inspired Artworks admits a maelstrom of objects and media and incredible installations – BWH NEW MUSEUM EXHIBITION ‘ “The Keeper” is… Continue Reading

The Hidden Hand: Tate Etc. ‘guided’ by forces beyond their control

The Hidden Hand ‘Art is usually made by the ‘hand of the artist’, but for centuries artists, from William Blake and Georgiana Houghton to Matt Mullican, have been ‘guided’ by forces beyond their control’ Marco Pasi writes for the latest edition… Continue Reading

The Psychic Paintings of Spiritualist Artist Georgiana Houghton

Spiritualist artist Georgiana Houghton gets UK exhibition Overlooked painter is becoming recognised as being decades ahead of abstract pioneers such as Wassily Kandinsky. She has been dismissed as an eccentric, amateur artist who claimed to talk to the dead and… Continue Reading

Hilma af Klint: Painting the Unseen, SERPENTINE GALLERIES

Hilma af Klint: Painting the Unseen 3 MARCH – 15 MAY 2016 SERPENTINE GALLERY “Serpentine Galleries presents an exhibition of Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (1862 – 1944), who is now regarded as a pioneer of abstract art. While her… Continue Reading