Dreaming in Colour: dreamlike images and uneasy visions flood London’s Opera Gallery

By Pippa Catterall, Professor of History and Policy, University of Westminster

Dreaming in Colour, a new exhibition at the Opera Gallery in London, revisits the surrealists of the previous century, more in homage than imitation.

I suspect few of the emerging artists included here – and certainly none of those I spoke to on opening morning – would consciously describe themselves as surrealists. Yet the surrealist aspiration to evoke a sense of the marvellous and mysterious in the everyday is certainly…

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