In this creative blog, Kelda (Skulls and Sheets) demonstrates some of their magnificent mari lwyd drawings in black and white and traces their Beardsleyesque sources.
Category: creative post
Beardsley and Mari Lwyd
Valentine’s Day à la Beardsley: A New Animation by the Artist in Residence
Will Beardsley be your valentine? A new animation by the Artist in Residence of the Aubrey Beardsley Society Hanna Strizh will help to answer the question.
Season’s Greetings from the Aubrey Beardsley Society
The Aubrey Beardsley Society would like to thank the AB 2020 members and supporters for your commitment to the case of Beardsleyism this year. We wish you and your loved ones happy winter holidays and are looking forward to sharing more decadent delights with you in 2021.
Artist in Residence: Hanna Strizh
AB 2020: The Aubrey Beardsley Society is delighted to introduce the Artist in Residence Hanna Strizh. This post contains an exhibition of her Beardsley-inspired artworks.
Venus Nipples
Martha Kapos contributes an ekphrastic poem meditating on the delicious eroticism of Beardsley’s imagery.
A Peacock Is a Poem
After Aubrey Beardsley
Dr Golnoosh Nour’s poem explores the definitions and ramifications of poetry as an art form through a Beardsleyesque lens. ‘A Peacock is a Poem’ is inspired by Beardsley’s decadent illustrations as well as his use of language in the unfinished queer tale ‘Under the Hill’ (1896).
La TRISTE d’ÉMIL
Émile Herm’s homage to Beardsley examines the tension between interior and exterior selves in which narratives are synthesised into a single or unified entity.
Seated lady x Ivy-leafed toadflax
(x Aubrey Beardsley)
L Kiew responds to Beardsley’s image A Seeress (1893) with a shimmering poem, seductive like a devil’s ribbon.
like three Salomes
Nic Stringer’s poem ‘like three Salomes’ is from the collection Hemispheres, to be published by Guillemot Press in 2021; three Salomes (triptych) is part of the accompanying visual project. Sound and music, created in collaboration with Fractured Strings, will also be available in 2021.