17 May 2014
Open Studios
A vibrant buz all day at Studio 17, Unit 0, Second Floor Studios & Arts. Lots of visitors to our Open Studios, my sales were very encouraging. Looking forward to tomorrow.
Tomorrow I will open my studio at about 11am – 6pm, I hope to meet you!
16 May 2014
Today I showed my etchings at a Pop-Up Shop in the Business Centre of the new S. London development: Kidbrooke Village. The SFSA Spring Open Studios opened yesterday evening.
26 April 20014
The Supper Room: Hakeem Onibudo at Greenwich Dance
The charismatic Hakeem Onibudo invited me to join him and his vibrant dance company Impact Dance, at The Supper Room, Greenwich Dance, to capture the evening through Live Drawings of the event, I was to draw a large sketch that the guests to The Supper Room would be invited to interact with by adding their thoughts and comments to.
A small selection from the many drawings I made during the evening
It was a wonderful evening of Hakeem’s visually arresting choreography from the fabulous Impact Dance, delicious Caribbean food (from Island Flavours) and music you want to dance to
Some of the drawings will be at the next Art Show that I am taking part in:
Studio 75. 75 Lassell Street, Greenwich, SE10 9PJ
12 Artists. Bank holiday weekend. May 2nd – 5th, 10am – 4pm
Private View: Thursday 1st May 6 – 9pm
6th April 2014
As they arrived the audience added to The Interactive Wall and made more wire figures to add to the City Scape
An evening of short dance works followed, completing with a disco. Performers included: Cathy Waller Company, Maxwell Golden, Dickson Mbi, Fully Functioning Individuals as well as a group from local school St Ursulas and the Laban Contemporary Level One.
Here’s a few drawings from the evening
Dickson Mbi
Above and below: Fully Functioning Individuals (FFI)
On Saturday I joined the young people in the classes at Greenwich Dance Saturday classes where they worked towards the City-Scape to be part of Divercity
The work made at Trinity Laban and Greenwich Dance was mounted together to make a large City-Scape Interactive Wall for the visitors to add to on the night.
Luggage tags with comments about our City were tied to a lit up wire figure made by Maxim McKay-Jones
The wire figure ‘selfies’ were added to the Wall
Divercity at Greenwich Dance, Saturday 5th April 6.30pm
12 March 2014
I have printed an etching using the same images as the backdrops for No Strings Attached, the dance choreographed by Charlotte Edmonds in Yorke Dance Project’s Figure Ground. Edition of 30, printed on zerkall paper in burnt-orange coloured ink, can be supplied framed (floating in black box frame) or un-framed.
Print £110,
Frame £50
sales: sallymckay@btinternet.com
10 March 2014
Read a great review given by Luke Jennings in The Observer plus 5 stars given to Yorke Dance Project’s triple bill, I designed and painted the backdrops for Charlotte Edmonds No Strings Attached, the first dance of the evening. I worked from drawings I had made during the rehearsals last summer.
8th March 2014
Eleven Greenwich Printmakers exhibit at The Fountain Gallery
An exhibition of affordable handmade prints. I am exhibiting 6 etchings available framed or unframed.
Sunday 9 March from 1.00pm join us for a drink and Special Viewing
Exhibition runs from 4 – 16 March 2014
Open every day 11.30am 5.30pm
The Fountain Gallery, 26 Bridge Road, Hampton Court, East Molesey, Surrey KT8 9HA
020 8941 5865 www.fountaingallery.co.uk
5 March 2014
Yorke Dance Project perform Figure Ground at the Lilian Baylis, Sadler’s Wells
A week ago at the Lilian Baylis, Yorke Dance Project performed a wonderful preview performance of their touring programme: Figure Ground, an evening of 3 dances from the company. I was commissioned to create the set for the first work of the evening: No Strings Attached, choreographed by Charlotte Edmonds. I spent 3 weeks drawing during the rehearsals in the summer of 2013. Working from the drawings I painted 3 backdrop panels using acrylics each measuring 4m x 2m. I negotiated 6 days in the high ceilinged No Format Gallery near my studio, to paint the canvas so had to have them complete in this time-frame.
It was great to paint on such a large scale – a first for me! In 2012 I created figurative wire sculpture to be on stage with Yolande Yorke-Edgell in Noted.
On Tuesday evening fellow Greenwich Dance Resident Artist, Theo Clinkard, will perform with his company of 6 his life affirming and heart wrenching dance Ordinary Courage, at Laban S. London. I drew this work in 2013 when it was performed at Greenwich Dance in February with Amstatten choreographed by another Greenwich Resident Artist, Robert Clark. I displayed the drawings of Amstatten during the evening and entered the sketchbook into the selected exhibition Sketch 2013 at Rabley Drawing Center. The exhibition has now moved to Black Swan Arts in Frome, Somerset until 8 February.
So see Ordinary Courage, the dance, in London and the sketches of the dance in Frome.
