Until 5 Feb. Convulsive Beauty explores the legacy of the Surrealist's psychological, physical, spacial and sexual freedom in a selection of vintage works from the past century.

"Convulsive Beauty will be veiled-erotic, fixed-explosive, magic-circumstantial or will not be." - André Breton

The themes of this exhibition derive from an appreciation of the precedence given to photography within the Surrealists' visual practise and the appropriation and use of photography in its journals (including Atget, Brassai and Man Ray). These also provide a context, for engaging with the more recent practise of Francesca Woodman in the early 1970s and Anna Fox in recent years, both of whom, like the Surrealists, place the female predicament at the heart of their work. Convulsive Beauty tackles the limitless expanse of the Surreal, presenting a varying selection of vintage works of the past century.