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

Studying Spirit Drawings

Georgiana Houghton: Spirit Drawings Study Day   This one-day symposium which is being held in conjunction with the Georgiana Houghton: Spirit Drawings exhibition will bring together a range of artists, curators, art historians and historians of spiritualism to explore the… 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