Edith Rimmington

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Edith Rimmington (born April 10, 1902 in Leicester , England , † August 12, 1986 in Bexhill-on-Sea , England) was a British artist , photographer and poet . Rimmington is considered a representative of British surrealism .

Life

Edith Rimmington was born in Leicester, England, in 1902. From 1919 to 1922 she studied in Brighton at the Brighton School of Art . Shortly afterwards, she met the artist Leslie Robert Baxter , whom she married in 1926. The couple later moved to Manchester . Little is known about her early work.

In 1936, Rimmington attended the International Surrealist Exhibition in London , which turned out to be a turning point in her life. The following year Rimmington settled in London. She got to know, among others, the artist Gordon Onslow Ford and the writer ELT Mesens , at whose invitation she became a member of the British Surrealist Group . She attended the group's regular meetings. The first Surrealist paintings were shown in the 1937 Surrealist Objects exhibition at the London Gallery. She had close ties with the other women in the group, particularly Eileen Agar and Emmy Bridgewater . She remained active there during the Second World War , but painted less and less and wrote more and more. The pictures from this creative phase often show metamorphoses , as well as death, wounds and amputations. Her texts and poems have appeared in The London Bulletin (1940), Arson (1942), Fulcrum (1944), Message from Nowhere (1944) and Free Unions (1946). Her surviving poems include The Growth at the Break (1946) and The Sea Gull (1946).

In 1947 her works were shown in the International Surrealist Exhibition of the Maeght Gallery in Paris (1947). After the British Surrealist Group disbanded in 1947, Rimmington increasingly turned to automatic writing and experimental photography .

In the 1950s, Rimmington settled in East Sussex on the English Channel . In the last few years, mainly color photographs of the coast have been taken. In 1986 she died in Bexhill-on-Sea .

In 2020, works by Rimmington were featured in the Fantastic Women. Surreal worlds from Meret Oppenheim to Frida Kahlo shown in the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Edith Rimmington. In: Dreaming with Open Eyes: The Vera, Silvia and Arturo Schwarz Collection of Dada and Surrealist Art in the Israel Museum. Muzeʼon Yiśraʼel (Jerusalem), Israel Museum, 2000, 247 pages.
  2. ↑ Katy Deepwell: Ten Decades: Careers of Ten Women Artists Born, 1897-1906 . Norwich Gallery, Norfolk Institute of Art and Design, 1992, ISBN 978-1-8724-8205-7 .
  3. ↑ a b Ingrid Pfeiffer (Ed.): Fantastic women. Surreal worlds from Meret Oppenheim to Frida Kahlo. Hirmer, 2020, ISBN 978-3-7774-3413-1 .
  4. ^ Philomena Epps: Six women artists of British Surrealism . In: artuk.org from May 4, 2020.
  5. ↑ Penelope Rosemont (Ed.): Surrealist Women: An International Anthology . University of Texas Press, 1997, ISBN 978-0-2927-7088-1 , p. 176.
personal data
SURNAME Rimmington, Edith
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British painter, photographer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Leicester , England , UK
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1986
Place of death Bexhill-on-Sea , England, United Kingdom