Amy Hale
Amy Hale PhD is an Atlanta based writer and critic who has researched Ithell Colquhoun for 25 years. She has written extensively about her life and work, most notably the acclaimed biography, Ithell Colquhoun: Genius of the Fern Loved Gully and Sex Magic: Diagrams of Love.
Alyce Mahon
Alyce Mahon is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge. She is the author of Surrealism and the Politics of Eros, 1938-1968 (2005), Eroticism & Art (2005 and 2007), The Marquis de Sade and the Avant-Garde (2020 and 2025), Dorothea Tanning: A Surrealist World (forthcoming with Yale University Press, 2025) and the edited catalogue Dorothea Tanning (Reina Sofia/ Tate Publishing, 2018), as well as numerous published essays on Surrealist, avant-garde, and feminist art. She was Curatorial Advisor for Ithell Colquhoun: Between Worlds, her curatorial work includes the first major retrospective of Dorothea Tanning for the Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid and Tate Modern, London (2018-2019) and SADE: Freedom or Evil for the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (2023)
Katy Norris
Katy Norris is Exhibitions and Displays Curator at Tate St Ives, a researcher and writer specialising in women artists, feminism and reform movements in Britain during the early twentieth century. She formerly held the position of Curator at Pallant House Gallery and has worked as advisor for the Modern Women Artists book series published by Eiderdown Books.
Emma Sharples
Emma Sharples is a researcher of modern British art and visual culture. 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), examining the ways in which she navigated the blurred boundaries between her art and occult practices. Emma has presented her research at the Paul Mellon Centre, Tate Britain, the Fitzwilliam Museum, and the Women's Art Collection, Cambridge, and in 2022 co-convened the British Art Network-funded seminar 'Curating Magic'. Ithell Colquhoun is number 12 in the Modern Women Artists series published by Eiderdown Books.
Richard Shillitoe
Dr Richard Shillitoe spent his working life in the NHS. He has been enchanted by Ithell Colquhoun, since falling under her spell whilst still a schoolboy and subsequently visited her at her studio. He is the author of Ithell Colquhoun: Magician Born of Nature (2009) and has edited editions of her novels and shorter prose. He runs the website www.ithellcolquhoun.co.uk
