Coral Woodbury will be the inaugural artist to participate in the new collaborative project between Southcombe Barn and Talking on Corners
Woodbury will join the residence at Southcombe as part of a new transatlantic research project on the artist, illustrator, writer, publisher, folklorist & occultist Pamela Colman Smith (1878-1951): The Pixie of Manhattan and the Moors.
Colman Smith came to Woodbury’s attention when she discovered that the unnamed artist of the most famous tarot card deck was a woman. The set was known only as the Rider-Waite deck for over a century, omitting Colman Smith’s name and authorship, like countless other women before and after her.
Despite the brilliance and notoriety of Colman Smith in the 1800s she died in an unmarked grave in the South West of England where she had lived after spending time in London, New York and Jamaica. Our project proposes to expand and enrich the discourse and knowledge of Colman Smith through new artist commissions and by creating new engagement and scholarship with her work.
