Michael Eden
@michaeledenart.bsky.social
Artist and researcher. Academic Lecturer at University of Arts London. PhD from Middlesex University.
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Those who teach and research Sir Gawain and the Green Knight will be interested in this fantastic research hub concerned with historic and contemporary creative responses to the late medieval poem. They're also looking for contributors, so do get in contact with @michaeledenart.bsky.social! 👇
Representing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Representing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a research hub concerned with historic and contemporary creative responses to the late medieval poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (circa 1370). Illu...
www.representing-sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight.com
October 3, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Those who teach and research Sir Gawain and the Green Knight will be interested in this fantastic research hub concerned with historic and contemporary creative responses to the late medieval poem. They're also looking for contributors, so do get in contact with @michaeledenart.bsky.social! 👇
My PhD thesis is cited in Wyndham Lewis: Modernism and the New Radical Right
by Luke Gilfedder a few times, he takes issue but represents me accurately, your in there too @malrog.bsky.social I try to expose Lewis's anti temporal sympathy by applying your ideas so I have dragged you into this fight!
by Luke Gilfedder a few times, he takes issue but represents me accurately, your in there too @malrog.bsky.social I try to expose Lewis's anti temporal sympathy by applying your ideas so I have dragged you into this fight!
October 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
My PhD thesis is cited in Wyndham Lewis: Modernism and the New Radical Right
by Luke Gilfedder a few times, he takes issue but represents me accurately, your in there too @malrog.bsky.social I try to expose Lewis's anti temporal sympathy by applying your ideas so I have dragged you into this fight!
by Luke Gilfedder a few times, he takes issue but represents me accurately, your in there too @malrog.bsky.social I try to expose Lewis's anti temporal sympathy by applying your ideas so I have dragged you into this fight!
This is a wonderful publication, intelligent and engaging
The So What is on Bluesky! Check out our website at www.arthuriana.com/tsw to read our first two issues!
Blog 2 — Arthuriana
www.arthuriana.com
August 23, 2025 at 9:47 PM
This is a wonderful publication, intelligent and engaging
I'm cited here in a PhD thesis 'Feminist Horror After #MeToo: A24’s Monstrous White Women' www.proquest.com/openview/7e3...
by Dr Laurel Anne Carlson
by Dr Laurel Anne Carlson
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July 8, 2025 at 9:11 AM
I'm cited here in a PhD thesis 'Feminist Horror After #MeToo: A24’s Monstrous White Women' www.proquest.com/openview/7e3...
by Dr Laurel Anne Carlson
by Dr Laurel Anne Carlson
For those who may be interested ☺️ my slides and painting from my talk 'Gawain is Not a Hero' from the @themamoconf.bsky.social are available to view on the UAL research depository (no transcript as yet since its in peer review but plenty of information) ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/24...
Gawain is Not a Hero? Tensions Between the Heroic and the Complex Subject in Representations of Sir Gawain in Art - UAL Research Online
UAL Research Online is the online showcase of the research produced at University of the Arts London. We hold, manage, share and preserve the research material produced by the University's researchers...
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July 6, 2025 at 9:11 AM
For those who may be interested ☺️ my slides and painting from my talk 'Gawain is Not a Hero' from the @themamoconf.bsky.social are available to view on the UAL research depository (no transcript as yet since its in peer review but plenty of information) ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/24...
Some of today’s drawings, pareidolia/observations from the Ashridge woods.
July 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Some of today’s drawings, pareidolia/observations from the Ashridge woods.
Some more images from MAMO conference @themamoconf.bsky.social I’m with esteemed company here, Professor Sarah Salih (KCL), Dr Josh Davies (KCL), and the wonderful Dr Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social (Oxford). Such a rich experience for me and lots of new friends made 😊
June 29, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Some more images from MAMO conference @themamoconf.bsky.social I’m with esteemed company here, Professor Sarah Salih (KCL), Dr Josh Davies (KCL), and the wonderful Dr Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social (Oxford). Such a rich experience for me and lots of new friends made 😊
1/3: Delivering the keynote @themamoconf.bsky.social 2025 has been a wonderful (if daunting) highlight of my research activity, the painting below was made as a response to the invitation, it and the plenary were attempts to understand the women of the poem as more temporally complex figures...
June 27, 2025 at 9:47 AM
1/3: Delivering the keynote @themamoconf.bsky.social 2025 has been a wonderful (if daunting) highlight of my research activity, the painting below was made as a response to the invitation, it and the plenary were attempts to understand the women of the poem as more temporally complex figures...
Reposted by Michael Eden
The plenary talk by @michaeledenart.bsky.social at @themamoconf.bsky.social on Gawain & the Green Knight was ✨MAGNIFICENT✨ Michael’s artwork- incl his painting here, Gawain between Two Deaths- is fantastic 👏 Also, a total pleasure to chat to Michael at the conf too! 😘
June 26, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The plenary talk by @michaeledenart.bsky.social at @themamoconf.bsky.social on Gawain & the Green Knight was ✨MAGNIFICENT✨ Michael’s artwork- incl his painting here, Gawain between Two Deaths- is fantastic 👏 Also, a total pleasure to chat to Michael at the conf too! 😘
My article for Trebuchet Magazine “Drawing the Unseen: Landscape as Ideological Frame and Perceptual Rupture” can be read here: www.trebuchet-magazine.com/drawing-the-...
June 6, 2025 at 2:20 PM
My article for Trebuchet Magazine “Drawing the Unseen: Landscape as Ideological Frame and Perceptual Rupture” can be read here: www.trebuchet-magazine.com/drawing-the-...
My article Alien: Romulus and the Problematic Saviour is published in the iconic Foundation Journal, 150, 54.1 (spring 2025). This continues my interest in the potent, and influential, aesthetics of the Alien franchise.
March 31, 2025 at 6:39 PM
My article Alien: Romulus and the Problematic Saviour is published in the iconic Foundation Journal, 150, 54.1 (spring 2025). This continues my interest in the potent, and influential, aesthetics of the Alien franchise.
I'm really looking forward to delivering a plenary at MAMO conference at Kings College London themamo.org titled 'Gawain is Not a Hero? Tensions Between the Heroic and the Complex Subject in Representations of Sir Gawain in Art'
March 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I'm really looking forward to delivering a plenary at MAMO conference at Kings College London themamo.org titled 'Gawain is Not a Hero? Tensions Between the Heroic and the Complex Subject in Representations of Sir Gawain in Art'
Applications open until 25th April for our call out ‘Bodies in Process’
📣 CALL FOR PAPERS: Bodies in Process
⏳ Deadline 25 April 2025 (31 March for abstracts for academic submissions)
🔗 Full details here:
www.intellectbooks.com/jaws-journal...
⏳ Deadline 25 April 2025 (31 March for abstracts for academic submissions)
🔗 Full details here:
www.intellectbooks.com/jaws-journal...
March 5, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Applications open until 25th April for our call out ‘Bodies in Process’
1/2: I had a wonderful time with @ihrmedievalism.bsky.social discussing Sir Gawain's contemporary relevance and my artistic responses to the poem, which included the painting below 'Gawain Between Two Deaths' (2025), created for the event.
February 13, 2025 at 12:56 PM
1/2: I had a wonderful time with @ihrmedievalism.bsky.social discussing Sir Gawain's contemporary relevance and my artistic responses to the poem, which included the painting below 'Gawain Between Two Deaths' (2025), created for the event.
The pre-print for my paper 'Time, Horror, and Iconoclasm: Creative Responses to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' is available here.
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Agrégation (articles des colloques) | Association des Anglicistes Médiévistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur
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February 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
The pre-print for my paper 'Time, Horror, and Iconoclasm: Creative Responses to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' is available here.
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Green Knight's Head (Point of no Return), oil on board.
February 11, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Green Knight's Head (Point of no Return), oil on board.
Looking forward to this talk (12th Feb, booking in the link). I will discuss my art practice, and in thinking about the contemporary relevance of the poem, I take an issue with X, Richard Dawkins, Justin Welby, and the perpetrators of war crimes,
www.history.ac.uk/events/faile...
www.history.ac.uk/events/faile...
Failed Seriousness and a Subject Worth Fighting For: Representing Sir Gawain
www.history.ac.uk
February 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Looking forward to this talk (12th Feb, booking in the link). I will discuss my art practice, and in thinking about the contemporary relevance of the poem, I take an issue with X, Richard Dawkins, Justin Welby, and the perpetrators of war crimes,
www.history.ac.uk/events/faile...
www.history.ac.uk/events/faile...
My article: The Armoured Self, Un-becoming the Subject: Reading Julia Ducournau’s Titane (2021) Via Wyndham Lewis and Vorticism, is published in Modernist Cultures, Volume 19 Issue 2-3, Page 208-235, ISSN 2041-1022 www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...
January 4, 2025 at 4:42 PM
My article: The Armoured Self, Un-becoming the Subject: Reading Julia Ducournau’s Titane (2021) Via Wyndham Lewis and Vorticism, is published in Modernist Cultures, Volume 19 Issue 2-3, Page 208-235, ISSN 2041-1022 www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...
(Anyone speak Russian) I'm cited here in a book called 'Post-Postmodernism: How Social and Cultural Theory Explain Our Time' (2020). If anyone speaks Russian I'd love to know if I'm being given a kicking or agreed with? Either way its a citation :)
books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&...
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December 31, 2024 at 8:09 PM
(Anyone speak Russian) I'm cited here in a book called 'Post-Postmodernism: How Social and Cultural Theory Explain Our Time' (2020). If anyone speaks Russian I'd love to know if I'm being given a kicking or agreed with? Either way its a citation :)
books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&...
books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&...
My text in @arthurianajrnl.bsky.social Representing Sir Gawain and Green Knight is cited in The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology (JCCT) Vol. 10, No. 6, pp.703-708. See chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://koreascience.kr/article/JAKO202434141758689.pdf
December 8, 2024 at 8:42 PM
My text in @arthurianajrnl.bsky.social Representing Sir Gawain and Green Knight is cited in The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology (JCCT) Vol. 10, No. 6, pp.703-708. See chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://koreascience.kr/article/JAKO202434141758689.pdf
So looking forward to discussing a range of my artworks at the @ihrmedievalism.bsky.social early next year,
12 February 2025, 5:30PM - 7:00PM book here: sas.sym-online.com/registration...
www.history.ac.uk/events/faile...
12 February 2025, 5:30PM - 7:00PM book here: sas.sym-online.com/registration...
www.history.ac.uk/events/faile...
Failed Seriousness and a Subject Worth Fighting For: Representing Sir Gawain
www.history.ac.uk
December 7, 2024 at 5:28 PM
So looking forward to discussing a range of my artworks at the @ihrmedievalism.bsky.social early next year,
12 February 2025, 5:30PM - 7:00PM book here: sas.sym-online.com/registration...
www.history.ac.uk/events/faile...
12 February 2025, 5:30PM - 7:00PM book here: sas.sym-online.com/registration...
www.history.ac.uk/events/faile...
My attempt to paint what Lewis wanted as tragedy rather than triumph, his madness was to think you can make dehumanization work for you.
December 6, 2024 at 9:09 PM
My attempt to paint what Lewis wanted as tragedy rather than triumph, his madness was to think you can make dehumanization work for you.
My portrait of Lewis 'Sir Percy The Knight of Human Resources' and 'Lady with Photocopier'. Seamus Perry's article isn't a bad contextualization for these (now that's some narcissism Lewis would have appreciated!) www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
December 6, 2024 at 8:58 PM
My portrait of Lewis 'Sir Percy The Knight of Human Resources' and 'Lady with Photocopier'. Seamus Perry's article isn't a bad contextualization for these (now that's some narcissism Lewis would have appreciated!) www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
In the great Art Wars I am, in the end, a 'flux' man, with Heraclitus and Bergson all the way! Lewis, a tempting misanthropic vampire is of course 'Repelled by Bergsonian flux', to understand his thought really recalls Gandalf refusing to touch the one ring,
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
December 6, 2024 at 8:53 PM
In the great Art Wars I am, in the end, a 'flux' man, with Heraclitus and Bergson all the way! Lewis, a tempting misanthropic vampire is of course 'Repelled by Bergsonian flux', to understand his thought really recalls Gandalf refusing to touch the one ring,
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Lewis is compelling in his desperation to impose his project and establish a hierarchy in which the artist is at the apex, above even the 'action-man tragic heroes' that move history along, for Lewis the artist should be a ruthless cultural mediator. Tempting...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Seamus Perry · My God, they stink! Wyndham Lewis goes for it
If the style of Lewis’s prose is in some ways bad, it is bad in the same way that Hulme praised Lewis’s paintings...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 6, 2024 at 8:37 PM
Lewis is compelling in his desperation to impose his project and establish a hierarchy in which the artist is at the apex, above even the 'action-man tragic heroes' that move history along, for Lewis the artist should be a ruthless cultural mediator. Tempting...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...