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11 de sept. de 2016 · 16 June – 11 September 2016. Georgiana Houghton (1814-1884) was a Spiritualist medium who, in the 1860s and 70s, produced an astonishing series of abstract watercolours. Detailed explanations on the back of the works declare that her hand was guided by various spirits, including several Renaissance artists, as well as higher angelic beings.
Georgiana Houghton war das siebte Kind einer englischen Händlerfamilie auf der Kanareninsel La Palma, die jedoch wieder nach England zurückkehrte, so dass Georgiana ihre Schulausbildung dort erhielt. Im Jahr 1851 starb eine ihrer Schwestern, mit der sie sich innerlich sehr verbunden fühlte; sie wollte mit ihr auch weiterhin in Kontakt ...
11 de sept. de 2016 · Houghton, a trained artist as well as a medium, pioneered the use of drawing as a method of channelling and expressing communications with spirit entities. During the 1860s and 1870s, she produced a series of unprecedented abstract watercolours as part of her practice as a spirit medium. Houghton called these works ‘spirit drawings’.
Georgiana Houghton’s first spirit drawings were created with a small wooden mechanism called a planchette. In the catalogue for her exhibition in 1871 Georgiana described them as: Study of Curves, A little more Design, Still more Design, Cecil’ s Flower, Cecil’ s Fruit, Zilla’s Flower: with pencils of two colours, left unfinished, as ...
15 de jun. de 2016 · The discovery of Georgiana Houghton turns that nonsense upside down. This woman was a genius – yet she could only create and show her art by attributing it, quite literally, to dead white males.
21 de feb. de 2024 · When Georgiana Houghton first exhibited her paintings at a London gallery in 1871, their wild eddies of colour and line were unlike anything the public had seen before — nor would see again until the rise of abstract art decades later. But there was little intentionally abstract about these images: Houghton painted entities she met in the spirit regions. Viewing her works through the prism ...
1 de nov. de 2020 · The Drawing Room and Hayward Gallery Touring presents Not Without My Ghosts: The Artist As Medium, a major exhibition of artists and works inspired by mediumistic methodologies and their deep cultural history. 10th September to 1st November 2020. The Drawing Room. 1-27 Rodney Place, London SE17 1PP.
