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The Institute for Creative Enterprise invites you to join Joanna Moorhead (Journalist, co writer of ‘Surreal Friends’ and cousin of Leonora Carrington) as she discusses the life and work of Leonora with Francesco Manacorda, Tate Liverpool’s Artistic Director.

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The Institute for Creative Enterprise invites you to join Joanna Moorhead (Journalist, co

writer of ‘Surreal Friends’ and cousin of Leonora Carrington) as she discusses the life

and work of Leonora with Francesco Manacorda, Tate Liverpool’s

Artistic Director.

Leonora Carrington: Transgressing Discipline

Tate Liverpool6 March – 31 May

2015

Leonora Carrington: Transgressing Discipline, installation view, Tate Liverpool6 March – 31 May 2015

El mundo mágico de los mayas 1964, casein on panel, 2130 x 4570 mm, Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes – Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia

Leonora Carrington: Transgressing Discipline, installation view, Tate Liverpool6 March – 31 May 2015

The Giantess (The Guardian of the Egg) c. 1947, tempera on wood, 1170 x 680 mm, Miguel S. Escobedo

José Horna and Leonora Carrington, cradle made for Norah Horna, 1949, wood, fabric, metal grommets, rope and paint, 1380 x 1290 x 660 mm, Private Collection

Leonora Carrington: Transgressing Discipline, installation view, Tate Liverpool6 March – 31 May 2015

The Old Maids 1947, oil paint on board, 582 x 738 mm, Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Collection, Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, UK

Evening Conference 1949, oil paint on canvas, 495 x 724 mm, Private Collection

Leonora Carrington: Transgressing Discipline, installation view, Tate Liverpool6 March – 31 May 2015

Leonora Carrington: Transgressing Discipline, installation view, Tate Liverpool6 March – 31 May 2015

Backwards 1971, poem with drawing, ink on paper, approx. 297 x 210 mm, Private Collection

Tapestry c. 1950, wool, 1067 x 1676 mm, Private Collection

Do You Know My Aunt Eliza? 1941, ink on paper, 270 x 207 mm. Tate: Purchased 2004

I am an Amateur of Velocipedes 1941, ink on paper, 270 x 210 mm. Tate: Purchased 2004

Leonora Carrington: Transgressing Discipline, installation view, Tate Liverpool6 March – 31 May 2015

The House Opposite 1945, tempera on panel, West Dean – The Edward James Foundation

Leonora Carrington: Transgressing Discipline, installation view, Tate Liverpool6 March – 31 May 2015

Leonora Carrington: Transgressing Discipline, installation view, Tate Liverpool6 March – 31 May 2015

Green Tea (La Dame Ovale) 1942, oil paint on canvas, 610 x 760 mm, Private Collection

Darvault c. 1950, oil paint on canvas, 800 x 650 mm, Miguel S. Escobedo

And then we saw the Daughter of the Minotaur 1953, oil paint on canvas, 600 x 700 mm, Private Collection

Leonora Carrington: Transgressing Discipline, installation view, Tate Liverpool6 March – 31 May 2015

Leonora Carrington: Transgressing Discipline, installation view, Tate Liverpool6 March – 31 May 2015

Leonora Carrington: Transgressing Discipline, installation view, Tate Liverpool6 March – 31 May 2015

Programme and mask from a production of The Tempest 1959, Mexico, dir. Leonora Cardiff, set and costumes designed by Leonora Carrington, Private Collection

Costume design for a production of Much Ado About Nothing 1962, Mexico, dir. Leonora Cardiff, Private Collection

Photograph from production of Penelope 1957, conceived and designed by Leonora Carrington

Operation Wednesday 1969, tempera on board, 605 x 447 mm, Private Collection

Kati Horna, photographs from the series Oda a la necrofilia 1962, Private Collection

Film stills from The Mansion of Madness 1973, dir. Juan López Moctezuma, set and costumes: Leonora Carrington

Leonora Carrington: Transgressing Discipline, installation view, Tate Liverpool6 March – 31 May 2015

Hat designs, Chapeau rouge and Chapeau mystère, c. 1952, gouache and ink on paper, 248 x 159 mm and 251 x 162 mm, Private Collection