 John Melville remained in Birmingham, though he withdrew from public exhibition after the failure of his 1951 exhibition at London's "Hannover Gallery" and was increasingly attracted away from surrealism to forms such as still life and portraiture.Maddox himself, frustrated at his inability to reinvigorate English Surrealism from Birmingham, moved to London in 1955, where he continued to advocate the surrealist cause throughout the rest of the 20th century.In 1978, Maddox made contact with the surrealist revival on the West Coast of the U.S., and members of that movement visited London to show at Maddox's "Surrealism Unlimited" exhibit.