Curator's Tour of The Traumatic Surreal

Join co-curator Professor Patricia Allmer for a guided tour of our current major exhibition, The Traumatic Surreal.

The exhibition brings together sculptures and films made between 1964 and 2017 that explore women’s experiences in this context, using surrealist traditions to critique and subvert patriarchal constructions of women as ‘objects’.

In these tours, the curators reveal the stories behind the artworks and discuss the ongoing influence of Surrealism in its centenary year.

Both tours have the same content and cover the same topics.

Lunchtime tour: 13:00–14:00
Evening tour: 18:00–19:00

About the speaker

Professor Patricia Allmer
Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History, University of Edinburgh

Patricia Allmer is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at the University of Edinburgh. Her many books, exhibitions, and essays have transformed the study of modern and contemporary women artists and surrealism, starting in 2009 with her curation of the award-winning Angels of Anarchy: Women Artists and Surrealism at Manchester Art Gallery, the first major exhibition on this topic.

Her books include Lee Miller: Photography, Surrealism, and Beyond (2016) and The Traumatic Surreal (2022). Professor Allmer is also a major international scholar of René Magritte, publishing three books on the artist, and delivering the prestigious 2017-18 International Émile Bernheim Programme lectures in Brussels on his work.