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PatronsPickford Waller, Desmond Coke, Ralph Strauss, Lord Howard de Walden, Charles Ricketts, Marc Andr Raffalovich, John Gray, Aleister Crowley. Austin Osman Spare 3. December 1. 88. 6 1. May 1. 95. 6 was an Englishartist and occultist12 who worked as both a draughtsman and a painter. Influenced by symbolism and art nouveau his art was known for its clear use of line,3 and its depiction of monstrous and sexual imagery. 4 In an occult capacity, he developed idiosyncratic magical techniques including automatic writing, automatic drawing and sigilization based on his theories of the relationship between the conscious and unconscious self. Born into a working class family in Snow Hill in London, Spare grew up in Smithfield and then Kennington, taking an early interest in art. Gaining a scholarship to study at the Royal College of Art in South Kensington, he trained as a draughtsman, while also taking a personal interest in Theosophy and Occultism, becoming briefly involved with Aleister Crowley and his AA. Developing his own personal occult philosophy, he authored a series of occult grimoires, namely Earth Inferno 1. The Book of Pleasure 1. The Focus of Life 1. Alongside a string of personal exhibitions, he also achieved much press attention for being the youngest entrant at the 1. Royal Academy summer exhibition. After publishing two short lived art magazines, Form and The Golden Hind, during the First World War he was conscripted into the armed forces and worked as an official war artist. Moving to various working class areas of South London over the following decades, Spare lived in poverty, but continued exhibiting his work to varying success. With the arrival of surrealism onto the London art scene during the 1. Losing his home during the Blitz, he fell into relative obscurity following the Second World War, although he continued exhibiting till his death in 1. Spares spiritualist legacy was largely maintained by his friend, the Thelemite author Kenneth Grant in the latter part of the 2. Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth. Spares art once more began to receive attention in the 1. Britain, with several retrospective exhibitions being held in London. Various books have been written about Spare and his art by the likes of Robert Ansell 2. Phil Baker 2. 01. BiographyeditChildhood 1. Austins father, Philip Newton Spare, was born in Yorkshire in 1. London, where he gained employment with the City of London Police in 1. Snow Hill Police Station. Austins mother, Eliza Osman, was born in Devon, the daughter of a Royal Marine, and married Philip Newton Spare at St Brides Church in Fleet Street in December 1. Together they moved into a tenement called Bloomfield House on Bloomfield Place, King Street in Snow Hill, which was inhabited by the families of police officers, drivers, clerks and market workers. 5 The Spares first child to survive was John Newton Spare, born in 1. William Herbert Spare following in 1. Susan Ann Spare in 1. The couples fourth surviving child, Austin Osman Spare was born shortly after four oclock on the morning of 3. December 1. 88. 6. 5 Spare first attended the school attached to St. Sepulchres Church, at the top of Snow Hill 1. Smithfield meat market, which being an animal lover, he detested. 6 In 1. Spare was seven, the family moved from Smithfield to Kennington, South London, setting up home at 1. Kennington Park Gardens. Here, Spare attended St. Agnes School, attached to a prominent High Anglican church, and as a child he was brought up within the Anglican denomination of Christianity. 7 In later life he claimed to have met an elderly woman, Mrs Patterson known as Witch Patterson at this time. Patterson claimed to be a descended from a line of Salem witches that Cotton Mather had failed to extirpate. 8 She seduced him and first taught him how to practice magic, although later biographer Phil Baker has noted that there is very little evidence that she was ever a real figure, instead perhaps being a later fictional invention of his. 9 Spare, who did not get on well with his real mother as a child, referred to Patterson as his second mother or witch mother. 8 Taking an interest in drawing, from about the age of 1. Lambeth School of Art under the tutorship of Philip Connard. 1. Artistic training 1. In 1. 90. 0, Spare left St. Agnes School and gained employment at Sir Joseph Causton and Sons, a company that focused on the design of posters. Not wanting the commitment of an apprenticeship, after nine months he quit this job and instead began working as a designer at Powells glass working business in Whitefriars Street, which had links to the Arts and Crafts movement and William Morris. In the evenings he attended the Lambeth School of Art. 8 Two visitors to Powells, Sir William Blake Richmond and FH Richmond RBA, came across some of Spares drawings, and impressed, they recommended him for a scholarship to the Royal College of Art RCA in South Kensington. 1. He achieved further attention when his drawings were exhibited in the British Art Section of the St. Louis Exposition and the Paris International Exhibition, and in 1. National Competition of Schools of Art, where the judges, who included Walter Crane and Byam Shaw, praised his remarkable sense of colour and great vigour of conception. 1. Soon, he began studying at the RCA, but was dissatisfied with the teaching he received there, becoming a truant and being disciplined by his tutors as a result. 1. Influenced by the work of Charles Ricketts, Edmund Sullivan, George Frederick Watts and Aubrey Beardsley, his artistic style focused on clear lines, which was in stark contrast to the Colleges emphasis on shading. 1. Still living in his parents home, he began dressing in unconventional and flamboyant garb, and became popular with other students at the college, with a particularly strong friendship developing between Spare and Sylvia Pankhurst, a prominent Suffragette and leftist campaigner. 1. Rejecting Christianity and developing an interest in western esotericism, he read several books on Theosophy by Madame Blavatsky, namely Isis Unveiled, and wanting to explore the topic further, he also read the works of prominent occultists Cornelius Agrippa and Eliphas Levi. 1. Becoming a practicing occultist, during his college years he wrote and illustrated his first grimoire, titled Earth Inferno 1. Blavatskys idea that Earth already was Hell. The work exhibited a variety of influences, including Theosophy, the Bible, Omar Khayym, Dantes Inferno and his own mystical ideas regarding Zos and Kia. Self published by Spare through the Co Operative Printing Society, copies of Earth Inferno were purchased by Pankhurst and other friends from the college. 1. In May 1. 90. 4, Spare held his first public art exhibition in the foyer of the Newington Public Library in Walworth Road. Here, his paintings illustrated many of the themes that would continue to inspire him throughout his life, including his mystical views about Zos and Kia. 1.