Beyond Form: Lines of Abstraction, 1950 - 1970

Beyond Form: Lines of Abstraction, 1950 - 1970An amorphous lump of plaster and latex. A tangled web of enameled aluminium loops. Hanging lengths of fibers woven into chains. Tempera, glue and sand scratched across a canvas. A multitude of materials are here: twisted, balanced, sewn, stacked, stretched, etched and molded into an array of sculptural forms. In the two decades following the second World War, whilst navigating seismic cultural, social and political shifts, women artists forged new

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her creative ambitions were dampened by an unhappy marriage

calligraphy

Miller’s work offers a record for our times

But it was her sensitive and formal still life paintings

where Hodgkins developed her recognisable style and palette

Her AHRC-funded collaborative doctoral project with Tate and the University of Cambridge focuses on the archive of the artist and occultist Ithell Colquhoun (1906-1988)

co-curated the Moss display

eminently readable

She is currently working as a postgraduate researcher in partnership with Tate and Bristol University on a collaborative Doctoral Award

OverviewEILEEN MAYO (1906–94) was a dedicated and multi-talented artist – at once a painter

and later documented the experience of women during the Second World War