Selected Writings and Media
Books
A Walking Flame: Selected Magical Writings of Ithell Colquhoun. London: Strange Attractor Press, 2025 (Forthcoming)
Sex Magic: Diagrams of Love, Ithell Colquhoun. London: Tate Publishing, 2024.
(edited) Essays on Women in Western Esotericism: Beyond Seeresses and Sea Priestesses. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Ithell Colquhoun: Genius of the Fern Loved Gully. London: Strange Attractor Press, 2020.
The Taro of Ithell Colquhoun. Somerset: Fulgur Ltd. 2018.
Journal of the Academic Study of Magic 5. Co-edited with Susan Johnston Graf. Oxford: Mandrake Press, 2009.
New Directions in Celtic Studies. Co-edited with Philip Payton. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2000.
Inside Merlin’s Cave: A Cornish Arthurian Reader. Co-edited with Alan M. Kent and Tim Saunders. London: Francis Boutle Press, 2000.
Contemporary Art and Art History (Exhibition Texts, Podcasts, Reviews and Essays)
“From the Start, the Gods Made Women Different: Charting the Imaginal Spaces of Women’s Power” Catalogue essay for The Infinite Woman. Villa Carmignac, Porquerolles Island April 26, 2024 - November 2, 2024.
“Hilma’s Ghost: A Love Letter to the Wyrd, Feminist Magics, and the Spirits of the Future” Catalogue Essay for Hilma’s Ghost: Spectral Visions. Secrist Beach Gallery, Chicago. 12 April, 1 June, 2024.
Zach Blas’ CULTUS: Conjuring the Dark Gods of Silicon Valley’s Technocracy. Written for Zach Blas’ installation CULTUS, arebyte gallery, London, October 11, 2023 to February 17, 2024.
Zach Blas’ Tales from a Stony Troll and the Shady Mystics of Silicon Valley in Data Relations, Melbourne: Australian Centre for Contemporary Art Publications, 2023.
The Polar Night written for Fiona Finnegan’s exhibition The Polar Night, Arusha Gallery, Bruton, December 22, 2022 to January 25, 2023.
“The Unbroken Cycle of our Interdependency” essay for The Neon Hieroglyph by Tai Shani, Strange Attractor Press, 2022.
“Ithell Colquhoun’s Occulted Feminism” in The Debutante 03: Feminist-Surrealist Alchemy, 2022.
“How Ithell Colquhoun Has Chosen Her Moment” for Rediscovering Women Artists, October 28, 2022.
“Atlanta Surrealists’ Underground show promises eerie, immersive, sensory feast” in ArtsATL/Atlanta Journal Constitution, October 28, 2022.
Introduction to Bonsoir, by Ithell Colquhoun. Tate Publishing, May 2022.
“The Earth is a Woman and She Will Rise” in Radical Landscapes: Art, Identity and Activism, edited by Darren Pih. Tate Publishing, 2022.
“La Cathédrale Engloutie” Catalogue essay for Rediscovering Women Artists, May 2022.
Communist Witches and Cyborg Magic: The Emergence of Queer, Feminist, Esoteric Futurism Burlington Contemporary Journal, June, 2022.
Love Paintings Essay written for Kate Walters exhibition Love Paintings Arusha Gallery, June 24-July 24, 2022.
The Witch’s House. Essay written for Ilona Szalay’s exhibition The Witch’s House Arusha Gallery, March 17 2022 to April 17 2022
“Ways of Knowing through the Changing Landscapes of Esoteric Art” Lecture for Harvard Divinity School, March 30, 2022.
“Only Half with The Visible” Fern Thomas’ Spirit Mirror. Essay written for Fern Thomas’ exhibition Spirit Mirror, Glynn Vivian Gallery, January 8 2022 - March 20 2022.
Tresor (Treasure) Essay for the release of Gwenno Saunders’ third full length album. For Heavenly Records, February 2022.
Fountains of Hecate Written for Lucy Stein exhibition The Wet Room, Spike Island Bristol, September 25 2021,- January 16, 2022.
John Abell’s Visionary World of Playful Impermanence Written for John Abell’s exhibition Through Great Waters Arusha Gallery, November 2021.
Conjuring Strange and Ancient Larvae: Barry William Hale and the Negotiations of Occult Performance . Correspondences Journal Vol 9, No. 1 (2021) pp. 89-118.
Tai Shani and Amy Hale: On the Occult Feminism of Ithell Colquhoun. The MIT Press Podcast, December 2020.
A Feminist Psychedelic Mythology. Burlington Contemporary, 21 May, 2021.
"Colours are Forces, The Signatures of the Forces": An Exploration of Colour as Entity. Revised for Medium, first version I:MAGE Travelling with Unfamiliar Spirits (Exhibition Catalog) Robert Ansell and Livia Filotico eds. Somerset, Fulgur Ltd. 2014
The Magic Surrealism of Ithell Colquhoun. Art UK 17 June, 2020
Ithell Colquhoun’s Extra Dimensional Consciousness. Botanical Mind Online, Camden Arts Centre.
"Considering the Esoteric Aesthetic: Practice, Context and Reception" in Black Mirror Zero, Territory. Judith Noble, Dominic Shepherd and Robert Ansell eds. Somerset, Fulgur Ltd. 2014
Esoteric Culture and History
"Navigating Praxis: Pagan Studies vs. Esoteric Studies” in The Pomegranate: Journal of International Pagan Studies 15 [ 1-2 ] 2013.
“The Art and Magic of Ithell Colquhoun” in Handbook of Modern Western Magic. Edited by N. Drury. Ars Concrescent Press, 2012.
“White Men Can’t Dance: Evaluating Race, Class and Rationality in Ethnographies of the Esoteric” in Ten Years After Triumph of the Moon edited by D. Green and D. Evans. Bristol: Hidden Publishing, 2009.
Cultural Politics
"John Michell, Radical Traditionalism and the Emerging Politics of the Pagan New Right” in The Pomegranate: Journal of International Pagan Studies. 13 (1), 2012, pp. 77-97.
“Swords of Meteoric Iron: Archangel Michael and the Politics of Celtic Spirituality” in The Harp and the Constitution: Myths of Celtic and Gothic Origin 1700-2000, edited by J. Parker. Leiden: Brill Publishing, 2016.
“Marketing "Rad Trad": The Growing Co-Influence Between Paganism and the New Right” in Bringing Race to the Table: Exploring Racism in the Pagan Community. Taylor Ellwood, Crystal Blanton and Brandy Williams editors. London: Immanion Press, 2015
Cornwall
‘Selling Celtic Cornwall: Changing Markets and Meanings’ in Tourism, Consumption and Representation: Narratives of Place and Self edited by Meethan, K, Anderson, A. and Miles, S. Wallingford: CABI Publishing, 2006.
‘The Land Near the Dark Cornish Sea: The Development of Tintagel as a Celtic Pilgrimage Site’. In The Journal for the Academic Study of Magic Issue 2, 2004.
‘Creating a Cornish Brand: Discourses of Traditionality in Cornish Economic Regeneration Strategies’ in Culture and Economy: Contemporary Perspectives, edited by Kockel, U. London, Ashgate, 2002.
‘Cultural Studies and Cornish Studies: A Retrospective’ in Cornish Studies 10 edited by Payton, P. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2002.
‘Representing the Cornish: Contesting Heritage Interpretation in Cornwall’. In Tourism Studies 1(2), 2001 pp. 185-196.
‘In the Eye of the Sun: the Relationship between the Cornish Gorseth and Esoteric Druidry.’ In Cornish Studies 8, edited by Philip Payton. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2000.