Tag Archives: Stewart Lee

Colquhoun the Writer

Posted on 1st November 2016 by Nick Kent

In the foreword to The Crying of the Wind: Ireland and The Living Stones: Cornwall, the writer and comedian Stewart Lee dissects the mystical prose of Ithell Colquhoun.           STEWART LEE, writer-clown:    Ithell Colquhoun – Your Gnostic … Continue reading →

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Who Was Ithell Colquhoun?

Posted on 31st October 2016 by Nick Kent

  The daughter of a civil servant in India, Colquhoun was born in Assam in 1906, but was soon sent back to England. She studied at Cheltenham Art School and the Slade School of Art, after which she took studios … Continue reading →

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The Illustrated Travelogues of Ithell Colquhoun with Stewart Lee

Posted on 17th October 2016 by Nick Kent

  “How I envy you if you are about to read either, or both, of Ithell Colquhoun’s gnostic travelogues for the first time, for soon you too will be post-Colquhoun and everything will seem ever so slightly altered.” —Stewart Lee … Continue reading →

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