British Surrealist Group

In May 1936, the first issue of the periodical Contemporary Poetry and Prose was published, a month before the International Surrealist Exhibition was held in London. ^[1] It was edited by nineteen-year old Roger Roughton, who was a member of what he called the 'loosely-constituted English Surrealist group'. It was followed in April 1938, by the first issue of the London Bulletin which was edited by E.L.T. Mesens, who was one of the organizers of the exhibition. ^[2]

Members

• Eileen Agar (1899–1991) ^[3]
• Paul Nash (1889–1946)
• Emmy Bridgwater (1906–1999)
• Ithell Colquhoun (1906–1988) ^[4]
• David Gascoyne (1916–2001)
• Henry Moore (1898–1986)
• Herbert Read (1893–1968)
• Humphrey Jennings (1907–1950)
• Len Lye (1901–1980)
• Conroy Maddox (1912–2005)
• E.L.T. Mesens (1903–1971)
• Desmond Morris (1928)
• Roland Penrose (1900–1984)
• Toni del Renzio (1915–2007)
• Edith Rimmington (1902–1986)
• Philip Sansom (1916-1999)
• Julian Trevelyan (1910–1988)
• John Tunnard (1900–1971)
• Simon Watson Taylor (1923–2005)

Notes

1. Ray 1971 , p. 182-183. See also 'Archive' below.
2. Ray 1971, p. 218.
3. Gaze 1997, p. 170.
4. Atkin 2021, p. 144–145.

References

• Atkin, Will, ed. (2021). Historical Dictionary of Surrealism. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN   978-1-5381-3343-9 . Retrieved 16 August 2025.
• Gaze, Delia, ed. (1997). Dictionary of Women Artists (Volume 1 Introductory Surveys Artists, A-I ed.). Taylor & Francis. ISBN   1-884964-21-4 . Retrieved 16 August 2025.
• Ray, Paul C. (1971). The surrealist movement in England. London: Cornell University Press. ISBN   0-8014-0621-8 . Retrieved 16 August 2025.

Archive

• "Roger Roughton". Modernist Magazines. Modernist Magazines Project. Retrieved 16 August 2025.

Further reading

• Morris, Desmond (3 March 2022). The British Surrealists. Thames & Hudson. ISBN   978-0-500-77728-2.

External links

• Emmy Bridgwater
• Julian Trevelyan

See also

• Surrealism
• Birmingham Surrealists