Ithell Colquhoun was a visionary painter bound by no rules. Her works span from symbolistic retellings of ancient mythologies to automatic messages from other planes of existence. Commended for her unapologetic use of often upsetting imagery in a contemporary context, she reframes our beliefs and bodies through an occultist lens. Her importance in today's contemporary art world is defined by her use of the abject to question societal rules that permeate to this day. The abject, is a tool employed by artists to elicit responses of disgust, repulsion and emotional distress. These feelings are created through the crossing of social and physical boundaries that we ascribe to ourselves and the world around us. This causes us to experience a feeling of ‘wrongness’ and re-evaluate where we construct the boundaries we live by. As Colquhoun reimagines life & death, gender, identity or intimacy, her perception of the world around her becomes ever relevant in the disconnected age that we find ourselves in. Bound by social constructs, enforced by the permanent presence of technology, Colquhoun's paintings act as a psychological earthing lines giving us brief reprieve from our convoluted ideas of existence, and remind us that we are all the same in the end, flesh, energy and soil.