Leonora Carrington At Last
Christina Cacouris | Liberties | 15th May 2026
Slowly, Carrington’s place in 20th century art is being revised. Long seen as a surrealist “affiliate”, the macho character of that group (unsurprisingly) put her off. After the war, she ended up in Mexico where her art became a synthesis of pictorial imagination, feminism and the Celtic cosmology of her youth. Says one writer, the home for her became a “site of feminine power and magical metamorphosis. [For] Carrington, art was not an illustration of magic but its continuation by other means”.