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Ithell Colquhoun’s Taro As Colour

Following our 2017 title Taro As Colour, we will be releasing a working deck of Ithell Colquhoun’s ground-breaking designs later this year.

The boxed deck will include an essay by Robert Shehu-Ansell (pictured here with the deck) that explores Colquhoun’s interest in the tarot, commencing with her days at The Slade School of Fine Art and ending with her development of the radical, Taro As Colour. The analysis will trace her influences and the various appearances of tarot designs in her work between 1930-1970.

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Into the Mylar Chamber

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Major Arcana: Leonora Carrington

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Leonora Carrington
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– 22 Major Arcana cards
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Trans-States: The Art of Crossing Over

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Enchanted Modernities: Theosophy, the Arts and the American West

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Interview

IO:EVOE The Transvocatory Media of Barry William Hale

Artist Barry William Hale talks with Robert Fitzgerald about his work.

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Meeting Le Maître

An introduction to the Art of Michael Bertiaux with an interview conducted by Ariock Van de Voorde.

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Interview with Christine Ödlund

Here the artist discusses her multi-media practice and inspirations including Synaesthesia and Theosophy.

Praxis

Ellen Hausner

In this regular feature, the artist Ellen Hausner shares the role of spirituality in her work.

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Endless Shifting: A Feast of Images, Swallowed By Sound

Writer, lecturer and curator Jack Sargeant interviews artist and musician Adi Newton for Abraxas 2.

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Afruz Amighi

In this regular feature, the artist Afruz Amighi shares the role of spirituality in her work.

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Hilma af Klint: Painting with Spirits

PhD candidate Hedvig Martin gives insights into the paintings, life and spiritualism of Hilma af Klint.

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Lorenzo De Los Angeles

In this regular feature, the artist Lorenzo De Los Angeles shares the role of spirituality in his work.

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The Metamorphic Self

The artist Cristina Francov talks with Robert Shehu-Ansell about body, vision and transfiguration.

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TONIGHT, 7pm UK TIMEGhosts I Have Seen: Austin S

TONIGHT, 7pm UK TIMEGhosts I Have Seen: Austin Spare, Spirits and SpiritualismAn online talk by Robert Shehu-Ansell hosted by @thecollegeofpsychicstudiesThis fully illustrated zoom talk draws upon decades of material to explore Spare’s relationship with spirit entities and Spiritualism over the course of his life. 1hr + Q&AFull details and tickets via the @thecollegeofpsychicstudies website. #austinosmanspare #spiritualism

Many of you have been waiting, we know. So we’re

Many of you have been waiting, we know. So we’re happy to share news that we will offer the final batch of Leonora Carrington Major Arcana decks on Thursday 22nd July at 2pm UK time via our website. There are limited stocks, so we are limiting purchases to one per customer. Regrettably, we cannot accept pre-orders for this release.

The wonderful team @thecollegeofpsychicstudies hav

The wonderful team @thecollegeofpsychicstudies have invited me to give an online talk discussing Austin Spare’s long relationship with spirits and spiritualism. It will begin with his early interest c.1903 and encompass his automatic drawing, his interest in spiritualism, a few ghost stories and later large pastel series, Ghosts I Have Seen. The talk will be fully illustrated.22 July 2021, 7-8.30pm BSTYou can reserve a ticket (£20.00) via the College of Psychic Studies website: collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk
@thecollegeofpsychicstudies#ghosts #spiritualism #austinosmanspare

Our Summer Sale is now live! We have some rare out

Our Summer Sale is now live! We have some rare out-of-print titles and deep discounts on select current stock. And we’ve opened shipping to the EU… just for the sale. But watch out for those customs charges! Link to sale in BIO above.

Tomorrow is the tenth anniversary of Leonora Carri

Tomorrow is the tenth anniversary of Leonora Carrington’s death. In her memory our friends @ignotabooks are hosting a special Zoom event where Susan Aberth and Tere Arcq will discuss Carrington’s extraordinary life and work and their recent discovery of her tarot Major Arcana published by FULGUR PRESS. The event is hosted by the author Pam Grossman and begins at 7pm British Summer Time (2pm Eastern Time in the USA). You can participate with a donation of your choosing. Full details via ignota.org or their IG @ignotabooks.

We are working hard on a new edition of ‘Hidden

We are working hard on a new edition of ‘Hidden Lore’ by Kenneth and Steffi Grant. Published originally between 1959-1963 as a series of monographs with magical diagrams hand-drawn by Steffi Grant, the Carfax Monographs were limited to 100 copies each. There have been two reprints since, but this new edition draws on the Grant archive to provide full citations and a bibliography of sources, plus fresh high-resolution scans of Steffi’s extraordinary art. It is due for release in late September 2021. This image is the Microcosm of Vitruvius: the top of the altar used by The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, drawn by Steffi Grant c.1947 and reproduced here in one of her large sketchbooks.

We’ve just received news that The College of Psy

We’ve just received news that The College of Psychic Studies in London is holding a wonderful summer exhibition between 5 June and 6 August 2021, 11-5 Tuesday to Sunday.
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The College of Psychic Studies invites you to Strange Things Among Us, an exhibition that promises to fulfil your curiosity with the ethereal and ghostly, as well as offering a little something out of the ordinary as we emerge from lockdown.
Through artworks, photography and artefacts, the show will take visitors on a journey to discover how the invisible has been portrayed from Victorian times to the present day. An intriguing display of spiritual belief, scientific theories, artistic endeavours and psychical investigations will prompt you to contemplate the unseen and think about the world around us and beyond. By focusing on what we cannot normally see such as energies, auras, souls, visions, spirits and ghosts, our aim is to prove that it is the strange things among us that have the power to evoke awe and wonder in our lives.
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And we are told there will be an entire room of Austin Osman Spare!#austinosmanspare #collegeofpsychicstudies

It is rare these days we receive an actual typescr

It is rare these days we receive an actual typescript, but we could not be happier to find this in our mailbox. The fruit of twenty years research, ‘The Alchemical Feminine: Women, Gender and Sexuality in Alchemical Images’ is a substantial and sweeping study from M. E. Warlick. Publication likely in 2022-23. All details via our Newsletter, as usual. #alchemy #feminism

Leonora Carrington was born 104 years ago today. A

Leonora Carrington was born 104 years ago today. And by way of birthday gifts we are delighted with the fabulous review in April’s Artforum of ‘The Tarot of Leonora Carrington’ by @terearcq and @aberthsusan. Susan is also giving an online talk today courtesy of @philosophical_research_society, where she will be exploring Carrington’s occult themes alongside co-guest @jesshundley, series editor for Taschen’s @thelibraryofesoterica.

Golly, this cover....Touch Me Not: A Most Rare Com

Golly, this cover....Touch Me Not: A Most Rare Compendium of the Whole Magical Art, published by us in 2017 and reprinted because you loved it completely out-of-print in a matter of weeks. This is the 2019 edition... #grimoire #witch #fulgurpress

We’re busy preparing the deluxe copies of The St

We’re busy preparing the deluxe copies of The Star edition of The Tarot of Leonora Carrington for dispatch next week. Just eighty-seven examples bound in full white morocco, custom endpapers and silk box, all signed by Gabriel Weisz Carrington, the artist’s son. The edition is completely SOLD OUT. For those of you waiting; we are aiming to dispatch these with the remaining copies of the IBIS edition by the middle of next week.

DEAREST VERA: A Kaleidoscope of Facsimile Holograp

DEAREST VERA: A Kaleidoscope of Facsimile Holograph Letters to his Friend, the Poet and Painter Vera Wainwright from Austin Osman Spare - compiled by Kenneth and Steffi Grant, FULGUR PRESS, 2010.
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Deluxe edition bound in violet goatskin with illustrated endpapers and a custom slipcase. Signed by Kenneth and Steffi Grant.
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In his late creative life, Spare was sought out by artists and writers eager to receive insights of experience from the ‘Walworth Road Surrealist.’ And yet, there were very few indeed who became good friends. Vera Wainwright was one such friend. Dearest Vera is an account of their friendship told by Spare himself, through the many letters sent to his new pupil.
Those familiar with Spare will find new insights to his life and theories on art, while newcomers will discover an eccentric and gifted artist sharing a lifetime’s experience with an eager pupil.

We’re busy this week dispatching copies of The T

We’re busy this week dispatching copies of The Tarot of Leonora Carrington IBIS edition to all those buyers who have been patiently waiting since December. The edition is assembled by hand, by us. A second batch of 120 parcels went out yesterday... and we’re aiming to finish next week when the STAR edition arrives. Big thanks to everyone who has supported this important project! #leonoracarrington

The Tarot of Leonora Carrington project made an ap

The Tarot of Leonora Carrington project made an appearance in The Observer today. So it seems timely to say that we will be closing the wait-list for the reissue of the Major Arcana on February 19th. The sign-up can be found on our website homepage.

In 2016 we released the first full publication of

In 2016 we released the first full publication of Ithell Colquhoun's Decad of Intelligence, one of her most important works. If you wanted this title, we only have a handful of copies left!
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Description: Building on Colquhoun’s work with the kabbalah, the Decad of Intelligence was developed during the 1970s and is based on the list of sephirotic intelligences as set out in the Sepher Yetzirah. The work was designed to be a small book of ten enamel pieces, each depicting a different sephira, accompanied by a description of their properties.
Colquhoun intended this work to be used as a guide to contemplation for understanding the deep nature of each of the sephiroth, both in isolation and in completeness.

I:MAGE – An Inaugural Exhibition of Esoteric Art

I:MAGE – An Inaugural Exhibition of Esoteric Artists. May 19-25, 2013 was conceived and hosted by FULGUR.
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The first I:MAGE was a seven day interdisciplinary exhibition and events programme, curated by FULGUR at The Store Street Gallery, London. Shown here is one of the highlights of the event, the first public exhibition of Austin Osman Spare's Formula of Zos vel Thanatos, kindly loaned by Steffi Grant. There were also a series of important works by Ithell Colquhoun; a rare loan from the National Trust.
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Taken from the introductory talk of the exhibition - ". . . contemporary esoteric art has too often been subsumed into other categories. It has been considered post-symbolist art, art brut, surrealist art, outsider art, magical realism, neo-romanticism, or visionary art – to name a few. But while these categories are useful, they do not seem adequate to express the broad scope and inner complexities of this esoteric imagery." In light of Thursday's Leonora Carrington feature in the Daily Telegraph, which made explicit reference to her occult leanings, it is gratifying to know that the seed I:MAGE was trying to plant all those years ago is beginning to bloom. Esoteric art is a legitimate category in and of itself, worthy of acknowledgment, interest and academic exploration.