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Donna Huddleston’s Witch Dance
How alternative ways of understanding the world are inspiring contemporary artists.

Ithell Colquhoun’s Scylla
Celebrating the artist who championed automatism, feminism and the value of other realms.

Estella Canziani's The Piper of Dreams
Fairy fever and art’s response to World War I.

Wassily Kandinsky’s Composition V
The roles of spiritualism and women artists at the beginning of western abstraction.

Hilma af Klint’s The Ten Largest
Jennifer Higgie traces the impact of the spirit world on modernist art.