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Tag: dreams

‘Insomnia’ and other poems by Elodie Rose Barnes

19th January 202120th January 2021  Elodie Rose Barnes

Sleeplessness gives way to the dreamy promise of luscious fruits, beautiful bodies and fantastical lands in Elodie Rose Barnes’ poetry, inspired, in part, by Leonora Carrington and H. D.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: dreams, H. D., Images, Imagism, Imagist poetry, Insomnia, Leonora Carrington, Lullaby, Poetry, Sleep, surreal, Surrealism, unconscious, Women surrealists

‘Gold Top’ by Rym Kechacha

21st September 202021st September 2020  Rym Kechacha

In this beautiful creative non-fiction piece, ‘Gold Top’, Rym Kechacha uses Remedios Varo’s painting, Celestial Pablum, to explore her own experiences of breastfeeding her baby daughter through the night.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: art, Breast feeding, Celestial Pablum, creative non-fiction, dreams, Janet Kaplan, Motherhood, mothers, Night / Shift, painter, painting, Remedios Varo, Rym Kechacha, Sleep, Surrealism, unconscious

Postcards in Isolation 14: Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare, 1782

12th July 202012th July 2020  Miriam Al Jamil

Delving into the rich traditions of gothic literature, sentimental fiction and old folk tales, Henry Fuseli’s The Nightmare, 1782, appears from another world. But not so, says Miriam Al Jamil, who recognises in the painting an awareness of human psychology foreshadowing that found in modern psycho-analysis, dream theory and psychiatry.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Covid-19, Dreaming, dreams, eighteenth-century, Freud, Gothic Fiction, Henri Fuseli, Lockdown Living, Miriam Al Jamil, painting, Postcards in Isolation, Psycho-analysis, Psychology, Rochelle Roberts, Romantics, Sigmund Freud, The Nightmare

Daria Martin: Tonight the World at The Curve, Barbican Centre

7th February 20198th February 2019  Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

In Tonight the World, Daria Martin brings her grandmother’s dream diaries to life through exquisite 16mm films, thus shining a light on past trauma.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Film and Media, GeneralTagged: Barbican, Barbican Centre, Daria Martin, dreams, Film, Freud, Jarman Award, Jungian Analysis, Susi Stiassni, The Curve, videogames
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