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Emmy Bridgwater, Stark Encounter
Talk
An introduction to Birmingham’s forgotten female surrealist, Emmy Bridgwater
14 Sep 2023
Regular hours
- Thu, 14 Sep
- 18:00 – 19:00
Free admission
Address
- 4 Brook Street
- Birmingham
England - B3 1SA
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- The 101 bus runs from Birmingham City Centre down Newhall Street. For timetables and bus stops, please check National Express West Midlands.
- The RBSA Gallery is in walking distance from St Paul's Metro tram stop
- The RBSA Gallery is in walking distance from Snow Hill and Birmingham New Street train stations
Join art historian and author of MUSE, Ruth Millington, for a talk about the life and work of overlooked Birmingham surrealist, Emmy Bridgwater.
About
As both a regional and female artist, Emmy Bridgwater has been largely forgotten. However, Ruth Millington will uncover Bridgwater’s pivotal role in Surrealism. With one of her works belonging to the RBSA Collection, and a new blue plaque not long ago installed in Edgbaston, Bridgwater’s story begins in Birmingham, however, she also made her mark in London and Paris. Employing the same striking symbolism of birds and eggs across poetry, drawing, collage and painting, she impressed her contemporaries; André Breton himself said that “Bridgwater brought a new purity of outlook to British Surrealism”. One of the movement’s most subversive artists, it’s about time that her story was told.
A 45 min talk will be followed by Q&A.
