Judith Noble

Judith Noble is Head of Academic Research at Plymouth College of Art. She is the co-founder and joint Co-ordinator of the Black Mirror International Research Network which publishes on contemporary and modernist art and the occult and esoteric. She organised the symposium Seeking The Marvellous: Ithell Colquhoun, British Women and Surrealism (Plymouth 2018) and co–organiser of the Cambridge interdisciplinary conference: Visions of Enchantment (2014). Her research centres on avant-garde film in the UK and US (1940-80) with specific emphasis on the work of Maya Deren and women film makers, on surrealism and film, and on film, the esoteric and the occult.

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Fulgur Press, Dance of Sun and Moon, Ithell Colquhoun, Frances Colquhoun, Judith Noble, Tilly Craig, Victoria Ferentinou, Tifaine Bachet, Isabel Seligman, Andrea Kollnitz, Terri Geis, Amy Hale, Steve Patterson, Richard Shillitoe, Jesse Bransford

The Dance of Sun and Moon

Fulgur Press, Dance of Sun and Moon, Ithell Colquhoun, Frances Colquhoun, Judith Noble, Tilly Craig, Victoria Ferentinou, Tifaine Bachet, Isabel Seligman, Andrea Kollnitz, Terri Geis, Amy Hale, Steve Patterson, Richard Shillitoe, Jesse Bransford

Straddling the worlds of Surrealism, occultism and modernist literature, Ithell Colquhoun (1906–88) was widely respected in her lifetime, but her transgressive, esoteric and poetic paintings and writings were long neglected until Richard Shillitoe’s 2009 book Ithell Colquhoun: Magician Born of Nature initiated her revaluation

Fulgur Press, Dance of Sun and Moon, Ithell Colquhoun, Frances Colquhoun, Judith Noble, Tilly Craig, Victoria Ferentinou, Tifaine Bachet, Isabel Seligman, Andrea Kollnitz, Terri Geis, Amy Hale, Steve Patterson, Richard Shillitoe, Jesse Bransford

Fulgur Press, Judith Noble, Merlin Cox, Daniel Zamani, Gražina Subelytė, Christiane Gruber, Antje Bosselmann-Ruickbie, D. Lyle Dechant, Deanna Petherbridge, Antoine Faivre, Nikola Piperkov, M. E. Warlick, Nathan J. Timpano, Leo Ruickbie, Victoria Ferentinou

Visions of Enchantment

Fulgur Press, Judith Noble, Merlin Cox, Daniel Zamani, Gražina Subelytė, Christiane Gruber, Antje Bosselmann-Ruickbie, D. Lyle Dechant, Deanna Petherbridge, Antoine Faivre, Nikola Piperkov, M. E. Warlick, Nathan J. Timpano, Leo Ruickbie, Victoria Ferentinou

Since Antiquity, the idea of the artist as a magician, trickster and powerful creator of new realities has established itself as a fertile idea in the discussion of image-making. The conjuring of illusions, the inherent link between the material and the spiritual and the wish to make the invisible visible are all part of this wider discourse.

Fulgur Press, Judith Noble, Merlin Cox, Daniel Zamani, Gražina Subelytė, Christiane Gruber, Antje Bosselmann-Ruickbie, D. Lyle Dechant, Deanna Petherbridge, Antoine Faivre, Nikola Piperkov, M. E. Warlick, Nathan J. Timpano, Leo Ruickbie, Victoria Ferentinou

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Black Mirror, Jesse Bransford, Judith Noble, Dominic Shepherd, Gražina Subelytė, Vanessa Sinclair, Kristin Trammell, Willem de Bruijn, Jason Martin, Andrew Paul Wood, Richard Kaczynski, Kelly E. Hayes

Black Mirror: Issue 2 - Elsewhere

Black Mirror, Jesse Bransford, Judith Noble, Dominic Shepherd, Gražina Subelytė, Vanessa Sinclair, Kristin Trammell, Willem de Bruijn, Jason Martin, Andrew Paul Wood, Richard Kaczynski, Kelly E. Hayes

In this volume we explore the philosophy and practice of elsewhere. Throughout the twentieth century both occult practitioners and artists explored the effects of the patriarchal monotheistic heritage that divorced the mind from the body, privileging the intellect as spiritual and negating and subjugating the corporeal.

Black Mirror, Jesse Bransford, Judith Noble, Dominic Shepherd, Gražina Subelytė, Vanessa Sinclair, Kristin Trammell, Willem de Bruijn, Jason Martin, Andrew Paul Wood, Richard Kaczynski, Kelly E. Hayes

Black Mirror, Judith Noble, Dominic Shepherd, Robert Shehu-Ansell, Jesse Bransford, Susan L. Aberth, Natan Alexander, Lindsey Bull, David Burrows, Tom Butler, Gean Moreno, Kristoffer Noheden, Katerina Pantelides, Deanna Petherbridge, Daniel Zamani

Black Mirror: Issue 1 - Embodiment

Black Mirror, Judith Noble, Dominic Shepherd, Robert Shehu-Ansell, Jesse Bransford, Susan L. Aberth, Natan Alexander, Lindsey Bull, David Burrows, Tom Butler, Gean Moreno, Kristoffer Noheden, Katerina Pantelides, Deanna Petherbridge, Daniel Zamani

In this volume we explore the philosophy and practice of embodiment. Throughout the twentieth century both occult practitioners and artists explored the effects of the patriarchal monotheistic heritage that divorced the mind from the body, privileging the intellect as spiritual and negating and subjugating the corporeal.

Black Mirror, Judith Noble, Dominic Shepherd, Robert Shehu-Ansell, Jesse Bransford, Susan L. Aberth, Natan Alexander, Lindsey Bull, David Burrows, Tom Butler, Gean Moreno, Kristoffer Noheden, Katerina Pantelides, Deanna Petherbridge, Daniel Zamani

Black Mirror, Judith Noble, Robert Shehu-Ansell, Jesse Bransford, Amy Hale, Massimo Introvigne, Julian Vayne, Marie von Heyl, Daniel Zamani, Gavin Parkinson, Ulli Seegers

Black Mirror: Issue 0 - Territory

Black Mirror, Judith Noble, Robert Shehu-Ansell, Jesse Bransford, Amy Hale, Massimo Introvigne, Julian Vayne, Marie von Heyl, Daniel Zamani, Gavin Parkinson, Ulli Seegers

Black Mirror is a peer-reviewed series that seeks to examine ways in which the occult and the esoteric have been at the heart of art practice now and throughout the modernist period.

Black Mirror, Judith Noble, Robert Shehu-Ansell, Jesse Bransford, Amy Hale, Massimo Introvigne, Julian Vayne, Marie von Heyl, Daniel Zamani, Gavin Parkinson, Ulli Seegers

Fulgur Press, Abraxas, Jack Sargeant, Leon Marvell, Denah A. Johnston, John Cline, Jon Crabb, Judith Noble, Michael Spann, William Fowler, Anthony Buchanan, Lindsay Hallam, Patricia MacCormack

Abraxas: Special Issue Volume 2 - Luminous Screen

Fulgur Press, Abraxas, Jack Sargeant, Leon Marvell, Denah A. Johnston, John Cline, Jon Crabb, Judith Noble, Michael Spann, William Fowler, Anthony Buchanan, Lindsay Hallam, Patricia MacCormack

Luminous Screen is our second Special Issue of Abraxas. It is a collection of essays commissioned by guest editor Jack Sargeant that seek to explore the impact of esotericism on cinema.

Fulgur Press, Abraxas, Jack Sargeant, Leon Marvell, Denah A. Johnston, John Cline, Jon Crabb, Judith Noble, Michael Spann, William Fowler, Anthony Buchanan, Lindsay Hallam, Patricia MacCormack

Fulgur Press, Abraxas, Daniel Zamani, Imma Ramos, Shandra E. Lamaute, Monika Winiarczyk, Lililana Leopardi, Alexandra Marraccini, Lisa Hanstein, Judith Noble

Abraxas: Special Issue Volume 1 - Charming Intentions

Fulgur Press, Abraxas, Daniel Zamani, Imma Ramos, Shandra E. Lamaute, Monika Winiarczyk, Lililana Leopardi, Alexandra Marraccini, Lisa Hanstein, Judith Noble

Our first Special Issue of Abraxas Journal offers 128 large format pages of essays and art drawn from selected papers presented at the 2012 University of Cambridge Conference, Charming Intentions: Occultism, Magic and the History of Art.

Fulgur Press, Abraxas, Daniel Zamani, Imma Ramos, Shandra E. Lamaute, Monika Winiarczyk, Lililana Leopardi, Alexandra Marraccini, Lisa Hanstein, Judith Noble

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