World Gone Mad, 2006

Published to coincide with the exhibition World Gone Mad: Surrealists in Recent British Art (21 April – 04 June 2006) at Castlefield Gallery, curated by Bob Matthews and organised by the Herbert Read Gallery, University College of the Creative Arts, Canterbury. This exhibition catalogue is fully illustrated in colour with essays by Dr. Johanna Malt of King’s College London, critic Sally O’Reilly, and a foreword by JJ Charlesworth, Herbert Read Gallery curator.

World Gone Mad: Surrealists in Recent British Art was not a continuation or re-working of Surrealist philosophies, manifesto pledges or ideals, even if the artists in this exhibition acknowledged and in some cases celebrated the connection. It was an exploration of those visual devices, strategies and forms first innovated by the Surrealist painters, sculptors, photographers and collagists, and which continue to exert an influence on current artistic activity.