Amy Hale on Ithell Colquhoun

The Great Women Artists

Katy Hessel

Arts

4.8 • 877 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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I am so excited to say that my guest on the GWA Podcast is the world expert in myths, folklore, and occultism in art, Dr. Amy Hale speaking on the great surrealist Ithell Colquhoun! An Atlanta based writer, curator and critic, Hale’s interests range from contemporary magical practice to the history of art, culture, women and Cornwall. She has helped crack open this side of art history, and that is why I am so excited to be speaking with her today – and focussing on the artistic polymath, Ithell Colquhoun, who, as well as being the most brilliant painter – creating scapes of dreamlike worlds, with organic, bodily-like shapes – was a novelist, poet, essayist, and more. Her output was always concerned spiritual transcendence. Born in 1906 in India, before studying at the Slade, Colquhoun became involved with the Surrealists in the 1930s – making dazzling paintings of sea monsters – and it was at this moment that her interest in the occult soared. In the 1940s, she relocated from London to Cornwall, and invented a way of working that connected her to the earth, and ancient times. Colquhoun, according to Hale, had a “magical mind that never stopped” – and Hale has dedicated her career to writing her noted biography Ithell Colquhoun: Genius of the Fern Loved Gully (Strange Attractor) and, more recently, the collection Sex Magic: Diagrams of Love, and is editing a selection of her esoteric essays. So I couldn’t be more delighted to find out more! -- LINKS: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/ithell-colquhoun-931 Amy's books: https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/ithell-colquhoun-genius-of-the-fern-loved-gulley-amy-hale https://shop.tate.org.uk/sex-magic-ithell-colquhouns-diagrams-of-love/28593.html Ithell's paintings: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/colquhoun-ithell-19061988 -- THIS EPISODE IS GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY THE LEVETT COLLECTION: https://www.famm.com/en/ https://www.instagram.com/famm_mougins // https://www.merrellpublishers.com/9781858947037 Follow us: Katy Hessel: @thegreatwomenartists / @katy.hessel Sound editing by Nada Smiljanic Music by Ben Wetherfield

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0:00.0	Welcome back to series 11 of the Great Women Artists podcast. It's great to have you back and do we have an exciting series for you? But just before we get to this, I am so excited to say that this series is supported by the Levitt Collection, a vast and varied art collection of which a major portion is dedicated to works by women artists.
0:25.8	Christian Levitt's support for women in the arts is such that after publishing the major book Abstract Expressionists, The Women in 23, he will soon be opening the first private museum
0:32.1	in Europe, entirely dedicated to female artists on the 21st of June, 2004, in Mugin near Cannes in the south of France.
0:42.1	FAMM, standing for female artists of the Mujan Museum, will unveil to the public over 100 works
0:48.7	created by more than 80 female artists from around the world. The museum will exhibit a breathtaking array of
0:55.2	incredible artworks from the Levitt Collection, including paintings, sculptures and photographs
0:59.8	by top women artists who have marked the major artistic movements from the 19th century to the
1:05.3	present day. Opening on the 21st of June, tickets are now on sale at www.famm.com and in the meantime, stay tuned
1:15.4	at at fam underscore Mujan. I hope you enjoy this episode.
1:25.2	Hello everyone and welcome to the Great Women Artist podcast with me, Katie Hessel.
1:31.6	Some of you might know me from The Great Women Artists, an Instagram account I set up in October 2015,
1:37.2	which celebrates female artists on a daily basis, ranging from young graduates to old masters.
1:43.2	Well, in a similar fashion to the Instagram,
1:46.0	this podcast is all about celebrating female artists
1:49.0	from a variety of backgrounds and histories.
1:51.7	And I am so excited to be interviewing artists on their career
1:55.1	or artists, writers, curators, or general art lovers
1:58.3	on the women artist who means most of them.
2:02.2	What I want this podcast to do is celebrate female artists in all different capacities so you, the listener, can gain a
2:08.3	look into the greatest female artists working now or from art history. I am so excited to say that my guest on the Great Woman Artist podcast is the world expert in
2:21.6	myths, folklore and occultism in art. Dr. Amy Hale. An Atlanta-based writer, curator and critic,
2:30.0	Hale's interests range from contemporary magical practice to the history of art, culture, women and Kormon.
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