Rachel Ashenden

Co-founding editor of @TheDebutante_ 👁️ writes and works in the arts ✍️ probably planning my next exhibition trip

[Rachel Ashenden @RachelAshenden]

A colourful stew of nostalgia and sentimentality, it is hard to not feel warmed and nourished by the current retrospective of Norman Gilbert at @GlasgowTramway.

Thank you @theskinnymag for this spread, and @nicolajeffs for your fab PR-ing! I really loved writing this 🧡

[Rachel Ashenden @RachelAshenden]

@RKovitch_ @SomersetHouse @anti_worlds @_fayedowling Can't wait to see this exhibition next week. Also saw the Blu Ray in stock at Richard Saltoun gallery today. ✂️

[The Debutante @TheDebutante_]

Sophie von Hellermann's paintings are characterised by their large scale, eery and ephemeral quality.

"Sophie von Hellermann's paintings are underpinned by the inner workings of her subconscious." — Charlotte Eytan

1) Dawn, 2018
2) Light Disco, 2018

[Rachel Ashenden @RachelAshenden]

Patricia Paludanus' spellbinding pencil drawings feature in @TheDebutante_ issue 03 ✏️

[The Debutante @TheDebutante_]

Patricia Paludanus' pencil works transport us through magical portals into surrealist realms to draw us back to an early magical seeing when our eyes were brand new.

https://t.co/6BYvtOzgod

Lost in Translation, 2022
Old Timber to New Fires, 2022
Alchemy, 2019
Projection, 2022

[Rachel Ashenden @RachelAshenden]

@tor_scott @NatGalleriesSco Looking forward to seeing your display next week ☺️ you're very welcome!

[Rachel Ashenden @RachelAshenden]

More Surrealist treats have arrived at @NatGalleriesSco's archive 💖

[National Galleries of Scotland @NatGalleriesSco]

In the last two years, we have been lucky enough to have been gifted not one, but two, small collections containing personal ephemera, photographs and sketches by the Surrealist poet and painter, Edith Rimmington (1902-1986). 🎁

[Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou @hhgsparkles]

'‘My hope is that the viewer will have an urge to reach out and stroke the surface of the painting, or imagine what it might be like to exist within the work’'

A super profile by @RachelAshenden on @Brookfield_Nell's fantastically strange & evocative works on @LucyWriters today

[Lucy Writers' Platform @LucyWriters]

Rachel Ashenden (@RachelAshenden) talks to artist Nell Brookfield (@Brookfield_Nell) about how her evocative paintings’ capture the strange in the quotidian and unleash the animalistic in the human.

https://t.co/W2ovY3IlN6

[The Debutante @TheDebutante_]

Can you spot The Debutante issue 03 in this month's @SNACKmag? 👁️

[Lucy Writers' Platform @LucyWriters]

In 'Your Retreating Shadow', Rochelle Roberts’ (@rochellerart ) speaker moves back and forth through the porous gateway of memory in an uncanny debut that's full of magic and memory, writes @Jennifer_Brough. Read the full review here:

https://t.co/yqxJ1R642b

[Rachel Ashenden @RachelAshenden]

In 'Letters to Gwen John' 📖

[Rachel Ashenden @RachelAshenden]

Just love Celia Paul's description of Gwen John's 'La Chambre sur la Cour':
"a dark coat [...] flows over her knees and gives her a sort of tail when it reaches the floor, as if she is a mermaid and wants to lure some lost sailor to her peaceful abode."

[Rachel Ashenden @RachelAshenden]

Aw, years ago I was reading Maggie Nelson's 'The Argonauts' on the train from Edi to LDN and someone next to me pulled out the same book from their bag. We ended up not reading at all and chatted throughout the journey (in the quiet carriage, whoops). It was quite lovely.

[Ben Morgan @B_Morgan14]

I so want to tell the girl on the next seat pair on the train who’s reading autobiography of red that I love that book. But it’s just impossible. You can’t start with ‘hi, it’s ok, I’m a gay poet.’ The train hasn’t even left Paddington - unthinkable

[Rachel Ashenden @RachelAshenden]

'The Truth About Comets' by Dorothea Tanning (1945). 💫

Thinking about sirens in surrealism and rekindling undergrad research in some shape or form...Especially drawn to this gorgoeus image because of the snow in Edinburgh today.

[Rachel Ashenden @RachelAshenden]

@SabinaStent This has been my laptop background for 5 years 😍

[Rachel Ashenden @RachelAshenden]

@SabinaStent The catalogue arrived in the post today and she immediately claimed it 🪑🐈‍⬛

[Rachel Ashenden @RachelAshenden]

"The cat is my medium" - Carolee Schneemann.

[Dr Sabina Stent @SabinaStent]

Wrote a bit about Germaine Dulac for Substack paid subs:
https://t.co/C32gWDYIeC

[National Galleries of Scotland @NatGalleriesSco]

Madeline of France’s portrait as a child is on show – the youngest ever depiction of her!

She became Queen of Scots in 1537 when she married James V at 16 years old. Upon arriving in Scotland, she only lived for 2 months, hence why she is sometimes known as the “Summer Queen”.

[The Debutante @TheDebutante_]

🪄Last chance to order before we rest up!

We will be closing orders this Friday (9 Dec) for the festive break.

We'll still be on social media, but we'll be back in 2024 with some exciting plans for the future of The Debutante. Issue 04 is on our agenda. 🌟

[Rachel Ashenden @RachelAshenden]

@SabinaStent Thank you lovely 😘 I will manifest it.

[Rachel Ashenden @RachelAshenden]

Itching to write about Carolee Schneemann's intimate and engrossing Life Books but have also realised that this would require a trip to her archives in LA and New York. What. A. Shame.