Image credit: Left: Edward Burra Three Sailors at a Bar 1930 Private collection, courtesy of Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert. © The estate of Edward Burra, courtesy Lefevre Fine Art, London. Right: Ithell Colquhoun Scylla 1938 Tate Purchased 1977 © Spire Healthcare, © Noise Abatement Society, © Samaritans.

Edward Burra is one of the 20th Century’s most distinctive gay British artists. Burra is renowned for his vibrant, satirical scenes of the uninhibited urban underworld and queer culture during the ‘Roaring Twenties.’ He was a master of watercolour painting, and the exhibition will show how Burra pushed the boundaries of the traditionally delicate medium to create bold and vivid scenes.

Explore Burra’s career through over 80 paintings, drawings, and materials from the Edward Burra archive at Tate, offering visitors insight into the artist’s remarkably imaginative creative process.

Ithell Colquhoun was one of the most radical queer artists of her generation and played a significant role in British Surrealism during the 1930s and 1940s. As an innovative writer and practicing occultist, Colquhoun charted her own path by exploring surrealist techniques for unconscious picture-making. She fearlessly delved into the realms of myth and magic. Explore Colquhoun’s enthralling, multi-layered universe through writings, drawings, and paintings, many of which have never been shown publicly.