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SUMMARY:Edith Tudor Hart: A Life Reframed
DESCRIPTION:To mark the recent publication of her new biography of Edith Tudor Hart A Woman Named Edith – the first in English – Daria Santini will illuminate the creative and investigative process behind the book. A gifted Austrian photographer from a prominent Jewish family at the heart of social-democratic Vienna between the wars\, the communist Tudor Hart – born Edith Suschitzky in 1908 – married an Englishman\, moved to London in the early 1930s and\, while continuing to turn her camera on scenes of social injustice and championing progressive causes\, embarked on a clandestine career in the service of the Soviet Union\, for which she delivered some of Stalin’s most valuable British recruits. \nOpening with an account of her research and the gradual unearthing of successive layers of her subject’s life and personality\, Santini’s talk will focus on Tudor Hart’s wide circle of friends and acquaintances in Britain. Bringing fresh understanding to the perennial question of her devotion to the Soviet cause – and eschewing sensationalism throughout – the author places Tudor Hart firmly within the cultural and political world she inhabited. \nSeen from this perspective\, Edith Tudor Hart emerges not only as one of the most significant photographers of her generation\, but as a profoundly connected figure: a woman fully\, and not least tragically\, of her time whose continuing relevance\, both as an artist and as an activist\, remains beyond question. \nDaria Santini is a biographer and cultural historian. Born in Rome and educated both in Italy and Germany\, she eventually made her home in England\, where she went on to pursue an academic career in German language and literature. She now writes full-time and lives between London and Italy. Her latest book A Woman Named Edith. Émigré\, Photographer\, Secret Agent – The Extraordinary Life of Edith Tudor Hart\, follows The Exiles: Actors\, Artists and Writers Who Fled the Nazis for London (Bloomsbury\, 2019)\, a group portrait of some of the key figures in the German-speaking émigré community in 1930s London. \nTo book\, click here.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/edith-tudor-hart-a-life-reframed/
LOCATION:Insiders Outsiders\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Lectures,Photography
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260611T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260611T193000
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SUMMARY:Lida & Zika Ascher & the Mohair Rage\, Henry Nathan: Émigré\, textile manufacturer & entrepreneur
DESCRIPTION:Textile designers and manufacturers Zika (1910 – 1992) and Lida (1913 – 1983) Ascher won international acclaim for their innovative collaborations with fine artists such as Henry Moore\, Graham Sutherland and Henri Matisse. The couple married in 1939 and were forced to flee to England that same year on account of Zika’s Jewish heritage\, when Czechoslovakia was annexed to Germany. They established their own print works in West London and collaborated with textile manufacturers in France\, Italy\, and Scotland. By the end of the 1940s the company was increasingly focussed on providing textiles for the haute couture trade\, opening premises on the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré. Continuing to innovate and push technical and aesthetic boundaries\, the Aschers introduced a range of woollen and mohair fabrics in 1957 to great critical reception. \nNational Museums Scotland have recently acquired a large collection of Ascher couture fabrics\, and this talk by Lisa Mason will focus on this acquisition\, situating them within the wider context of high fashion and émigré textile designers practicing in post-war Britain. \nLisa Mason is Assistant Curator of Modern & Contemporary Design at National Museums Scotland\, where her research interests include the contribution of émigrés from the Jewish diaspora to British visual culture\, interior design and politics in the Cold War\, and site-specific architectural tapestry in post-war Scotland. She has published widely on twentieth century textile design. Previous exhibitions include Archie Brennan: Tapestry Goes Pop! (co-curated with Kate Grenyer) at the Dovecot Studios in 2021 and Bernat Klein: Design in Colour at the National Museum of Scotland in 2022. She is chair of the Dress & Textile Specialists. \nLisa’s presentation will be paired with one by Dr Gina Pierce\, who will introduce us to the life and career of successful but still little-known textile manufacturer Henry Nathan. Managing director of a firm manufacturing furnishing fabrics in Germany until the 1930s\, he was allowed to transfer to London to escape the rise of the Nazi party\, and in the postwar period to set up in business on his own. \nWhen Gina encountered his fabrics during her research into the furniture company Parker Knoll\, she determined to investigate. The research led her to Northern Ireland where he established a manufacturing centre named Tapestry Weavers (Ulster) Ltd\, employing local people and where he featured regularly in the press. His promotional skills resulted in him having encounters with royalty and supplying high end residences\, mainly in overseas markets. Yet there appears to be almost no evidence of any fabrics remaining and his name has disappeared from textile histories. Her research has discovered some surprising results\, although the mystery surrounding his career and the whereabouts of his textiles continues. \nDr Gina Pierce is a Senior Lecturer at London Metropolitan University\, and has for many years combined teaching textile design and theory with a career as a designer of furnishing fabrics. As a researcher practitioner\, she leads the Tangible Archive Research Group\, and currently delivers a programme of workshops connecting the public\, charity and health groups to archives through creativity. \nTo book\, click here\nImage: Presentation of six tapestry cushion covers\, by Eileen Roberta Simpson\, made by Tapestry Weavers (Ulster) Ltd\, Crevillyvalley\, to Queen Elizabeth II\, in Ballymena\, 3.7.1953. By kind permission of Mid-Antrim Museum (Mid and East Antrim Borough Council).
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/lida-zika-ascher-the-mohair-rage-henry-nathan-emigre-textile-manufacturer-entrepreneur/
LOCATION:Insiders Outsiders\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Design,Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260616T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260616T193000
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SUMMARY:The Circle: Refugee Architects and Engineers in Britain
DESCRIPTION:In their effort to relocate to Britain and rebuild their lives\,  architects fleeing Nazi-dominated Europe were supported not only by the various refugee organisations active in the country but also by their British colleagues\, especially through the activities of the RIBA Refugee Committee and the Architects Refugee Fund. \nHowever\, the climate was not always favourable to these newcomers: antisemitism was not uncommon in 1930s Britain\, and in addition part of the profession saw them as competitors in a period of great economic uncertainty. In reality\, émigré architects often struggled to find employment because their qualifications\, even those obtained in the most prestigious architecture schools in Europe\, were not recognised in Britain. \nIn order to establish a network of support and solidarity among refugee architects and engineers\, in 1943 some of them formed the London-based association ‘The Circle’\, which remained active until 1968. It provided an environment that allowed its members to preserve and nurture elements of their original cultures\, but at the same time encouraged them to take an active part in the public life of the profession in their adoptive country. This presentation by Valeria Carullo will outline the context in which The Circle was founded and the role it played in bringing together displaced architects from different European countries. \nValeria Carullo is Curator of the Robert Elwall Photographs Collection at the Royal Institute of British Architects. An architect by background\, she lectures and writes on both architectural and photographic subjects. In 2019 she published Moholy-Nagy in Britain 1935-1937 (Lund Humphries). Valeria has curated and co-curated several exhibitions\, and is the lead researcher of the ongoing RIBA Refugee Committee project\, whose first major output was the international conference Displaced Lives: Architects Seeking Refuge on the Brink of WWII (RIBA\, June 2024). The RIBA Refugee Committee Papers online database was launched earlier this year. \nImage: Detail of menu for meal organised by The Circle\, 1966 © Architectural Press Archive / RIBA Collections
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/the-circle-refugee-architects-and-engineers-in-britain/
LOCATION:Insiders Outsiders\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Lectures
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SUMMARY:Designing From Home
DESCRIPTION:Designing From Home is a new short documentary film co-directed by Harriet Atkinson and Sue Breakell and produced by Banyak Films\, which explores the north London house where influential graphic designer FHK Henrion (1914-1990) lived and worked for over forty years\, and features interviews with his four children alongside original archive material from Henrion’s archive at the University of Brighton Design Archives. Its primary focus is on the complex meanings of home for Henrion\, a German-Jewish émigré who arrived in London in 1936\, having fled Germany for Paris in 1933. The film is winner of the award for Best Short Documentary at the London Independent Film Festival 2026. \nYou can watch the trailer here. And for more information about the project\, click here. \nA screening of this informative and surprisingly poignant film will be followed by an ‘in conversation’ between its directors\, Harriet Atkinson and Sue Breakell and Insiders/Outsiders founding director Monica Bohm-Duchen as well as a Q&A. \nDr Harriet Atkinson (h.atkinson2@brighton.ac.uk) is a historian of art and design at University of Brighton’s Centre for Design History. She leads University of Brighton’s MA Curating Collections and Heritage in collaboration with Brighton and Hove Museums. Her recent research focuses on propaganda and protest design\, published as Showing Resistance: propaganda and modernist exhibitions in Britain\, 1933-53 (Manchester University Press\, 2024\, Winner\, 2026 Historians of British Art Book Award for Exemplary Scholarship on the Period 1800-1960) and she is the director of the documentary film Art on the Streets (2023). \nDr Sue Breakell (S.M.Breakell@brighton.ac.uk) is Archive Director and Principal Research Fellow at the University of Brighton Design Archives\, and co-leads the Museums\, Archives\, Exhibitions strand of the University’s Centre for Design History. Recent research centres on archives as subject and method in art and design history. She co-edited (with Wendy Russell) The Materiality of the Archive: Creative Practice in Context (Routledge\, 2023). \nImage: FHK Henrion and Daphne Hardy Henrion in the garden of their home in Hampstead\, c.1947. Photograph by Anneli Bunyard\, courtesy Estate of Anneli Bunyard.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/designing-from-home/
LOCATION:Insiders Outsiders\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Lectures
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260623T193000
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SUMMARY:Refugee Artists and Craftworkers in Derry\, Northern Ireland
DESCRIPTION:Derry city\, aka Londonderry\, was one of the first places in Northern Ireland to which refugee workers from Vienna came to escape Nazi persecution. A Viennese businessman who had already settled in London was able to take advantage of Northern Irelands New Industries Development Act (1937) to found enterprises in Newtownards and in Derry\, comprised of workshops run by crafts workers from Vienna with local trainee employees. Many of the master craftsmen employed had run their own businesses in Vienna\, designing\, manufacturing and selling machine knitwear\, leather work\, wooden and stuffed toys\, hats and ornaments. Outside of work\, several of the immigrant workers had other skills in the arts\, such as piano playing and photography. \nThis talk by Philippa Robinson will focus on two visual artists employed at “Londonderry Continental Novelties”\, who did not run manufacturing businesses\, but did have useful design skills. Henrietta Friedek Roddy had illustrated childrens’ books and Zerline “Nini” Steiner was an accomplished portrait painter. \nAnother way for women to get permission to come to the UK was to work as a domestic servant. After the war was over\, survivor Edith Hofmann of Prague came to stay with her older sister who had come to Derry as a domestic worker. Edith spent two years in school at Londonderry High School before moving to London for further study. As an artist\, Edith Hofmann Birkin later became particularly well-known for her powerful depictions of ghetto and death camp scenes. \nPhilippa Robinson has spent most of her adult life in Northern Ireland. Although she knew of the still functioning synagogue in Belfast\, it was only on a visit to the Irish Jewish Museum in Dublin that she learned that there was once a Londonderry Hebrew Synagogue (1894-1948). Her interest in learning more became stronger after she returned from temporary work teaching English in Poland. She has presented talks locally\, and prepared an exhibition for Holocaust Memorial Day which was exhibited in Waterside and Central Libraries. She also wrote an article in Irish for “Lá” about the refugee resettlement camp in Millisle\, Co Down. \nTo book\, click here \nImage: Portrait by Zerline “Nini” Steiner
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/refugee-artists-and-craftworkers-in-derry-northern-ireland/
LOCATION:Insiders Outsiders\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Design,Fine Art,Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260625T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260625T193000
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SUMMARY:Marian Mahler: both famous and mysterious
DESCRIPTION:Marian Mahler (1909-1982) was born in Wies\, Austria and settled in the UK in 1937. She studied at the Vienna Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Arts and Crafts) as well as architecture\, with Josef Hoffmann\, from late 1928 until early 1933. His friendship with Alistair Morton of Edinburgh Weavers led to her first designs for a UK company\, in 1939\, with other influential British manufacturers following suit. Postwar she became a respected and prolific designer\, producing book covers\, textiles\, wallpaper and other graphic products\, most notably for David Whitehead\, contracted to this Lancashire firm until c.1970. However\, she is only well-known as a 1950s’ “star” and much of her work and life is difficult to pin down. This lecture by eminent design historian Mary Schoeser aims both to introduce her life and career to a wider audience\, and to reassess her position and influence within the world of British professional designers. \nMary Schoeser FSRA is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the V&A\, and Patron of both the Bernat Klein Foundation and the School of Textiles\, Coggeshall. She is a writer\, curator\, archivist and lecturer who has specialised in textiles and wallpaper for 46 years. \nImage: textile design by Marian Mahler\, rayon\, c.1947
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/marian-mahler-both-famous-and-mysterious/
LOCATION:Insiders Outsiders\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Design,Lectures,What's On
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