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Saturday 16th, Sunday 17th November
11.00 ~ 18.00
Second Floor Studios & Arts, Harrington Way, London SE18 5NR
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Archive for the ‘Exhibition’ Category
Open Studio
Saturday, October 12th, 2013My Work on Display at Greenwich Dance
Thursday, September 26th, 2013Beyond Front@: Bridging New Territories
As Resident Artist at Greenwich Dance (GDA) I drew the dancers of Beyond Front@ from Slovenia, Austria, Croatia, Hungary and the UK during a four day Dance Communication Lab at Greenwich Dance in 2012. Over the last year they have continued to meet in the host countries and created a dance, In Reference To The Robbers Cave, with choreographer Rob Clarke.
Performance: In Reference To The Robbers Cave. 27th September 2013
My drawings of the process and an oil painting are on display at Greenwich Dance for the next few weeks. All work is for sale.
For sales contact sallymckay@btinternet.com
Greenwich Dance, The Borough Halls, Royal Hill, London SE10 9HB
Aldeburgh
Sunday, September 8th, 2013September 8th 2013
The Suffolk coast has always been a favorite hideaway for me and my kids. It began when I inherited my Uncle’s caravan when eldest son (now 19) was a toddler. I found a campsite on the Suffolk coast, allowing us the freedom to spend long summers on the beach and in the countryside. I no longer have the caravan but occasionally still manage to escape the metropolis for a weekend by the sea.
Aldeburgh Beach. 2013. 62cm x 140cm. Acrylic, oil and graphite on Fabriano paper
This painting is exhibited at Made in Greenwich until October 20th 2013.
Formed View, Streamed
Saturday, September 7th, 2013September 7 2013
If you missed my live drawings in the multi-media performance installation Formed View on August 16, which you could have watched in the Arbeit gallery or via the live streaming, it is now available to watch on the Hackney Live web site.
See the drawings emerge as I draw, watch Lyle Wheeler while he dances and James Haswell-D’Arcy as he directs him.
Drawings of Formed View
Tuesday, August 20th, 2013August 20 2013
On Friday evening I was privileged to be part of dance artist Christopher Matthews multi-media performance installation, Formed View, at the Arbeit Gallery in Hackney Wick. Formed View was part of Hackney WickED Festival. While dancer Lyle Wheeler created dynamic flowing improvisation and James Haswell-D’Arcy gave him spoken feed back and direction, I made drawings of Lyle as he moved and of James as he responded to Lyle. The dance performance along with the verbal, written and drawn response was streamed live on the Hackney Live website as well as to an audience within the gallery, who watched via the TVs.
A few of the many sketches made during the evening:
Drawing Formed View at Arbeit Gallery
Thursday, August 15th, 2013August 15th 2013
Tomorrow evening I will be drawing at Arbeit Gallery, Hackney. I am part of dance artist Christopher Matthews multi-media performance installation Formed View. Formed View investigates politics of perception of the moving figure through improvisation. I will draw dancers Lyle Weaver and James Haswell D’Arcy while they dance. With us also responding to the improvised movement will be writers Alexandrina Hemsley, Jamila Johnson-Small and Charlotte Ashwell of BELLYFLOP Magazine. Our responses of words and mark making will be filmed and fed to television screens to spectators within the gallery who will be in a different space.
Christopher asks “What is the role of the dancer as he/she is being watched?”, “What is the role that the physical appearance of the dancer plays in the situation?”, “What role does the mode of presentation play in the perception of the moving figure?”, “How does improvisation affect or not the relation between the performer and the spectator?”
Formed View will be streamed live on the Hackney Live website. To be part of the streamed event follow on Twitter -@hackneylive and like Hackney Live on Facebook -fb/hackneylive. The drawings will be posted on this blog over the weekend.
Formed View is part of Hackney WickED Festival
Friday 6-9pm. August 16th 2013
Arbeit Gallery, Unit 4, White Post Lane, Queens Yard, Hackney Wick, London E9 5EN
SKETCH 2013
Wednesday, August 14th, 2013Rabley Drawing Centre‘s SKETCH 2013 Open Sketchbook Drawing Prize is a selected touring exhibition of artists’ sketchbooks. I am delighted to tell you that my sketchbook of the wonderful Ordinary Courage choreographed by Theo Clinkard has been selected for the exhibition.
Ordinary Courage
Touring Exhibition Dates
Rabley Drawing Centre, 16 September -12 October 2013
Black Swan Arts Frome , 10 January – 8th February 2014
Plymouth College of Art, 17 March – 22 April 2014
Midsummer Art Fair
Saturday, June 22nd, 2013June 20th 2013
This weekend 21st – 23rd June, the Landmark Arts Centre is running a Midsummer Art Fair. Based in Teddington, the Landmark Arts Centre is housed in a 19th century former church complete with beautiful stained glass windows. My stand is 38, I am on a raised area at the front of the building.
I am selling 4 new etchings never seen before, so new that I haven’t yet photographed them, as well as the 3 sugar lift and aquatint etchings, part of the series with SUB, and also other etchings some framed, some in my browser, drawings and and smaller paintings.
Breathing Space
Firebird
The Call of The Tide
I am also showing (and hopefully selling) Marilyn, the wire sculpture I created to go on stage with Yolande York-Edgell while she performed the dance about Marilyn Monroe last year. Marilyn would be equally happy in a house, office entrance hall or garden she is made of galvanised wire and sprayed with lacquer.
Marilyn was created in 2012 when I was Artist in Residence with Yorke Dance Project, to be on stage with dancer Yolande Yorke Edgell in a moving dance about Marilyn Monroe.
Marilyn
Yolande Yorke Edgell on stage with the shadow of Marilyn behind
Buyers Day at The Royal Academy
Thursday, June 6th, 20136th June 2013
The edition is sold out within a few hours
Another Private View at the Royal Academy, this one is ‘Buyers Day’, I take my daughter hoping for a couple of red dots under my etching so she can feel proud and I can feel pleased, but what a treat – a whole row of red dots waiting for us. I have sold the whole edition!
This week I’ve been etching in the print studio, printing new work based on recent drawings of dance.
As well as printing I have been drawing Arthur Pita‘s 100 Hours Dance Marathon at Greenwich Dance in my role as Resident Artist at Greenwich Dance. Now day 4, the 8
dancers look surprisingly bright and lively on so little sleep. Now 22.49 p.m., my kids have turned in and I am about to go back to draw till 1.00am. I’ve filled several sketch books, this evening I will draw on bigger sheets.
The RA web site, SUB 3rd from left, 3rd down
Varnishing Day at the Royal Academy
Tuesday, June 4th, 2013
Standing below SUB at the private view
Today was the first day of the celebrations for the opening week of the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts. Called Varnishing Day, it’s the day the Artists are invited to the Academy for a Private View of the selected work.
Welcomed to the exhibition with a glass of champagne and a meringue, there was a very happy party atmosphere, particularly in the 2 rooms showing the prints, where many London printmakers know each other from printing at the same studios.
SUB (Rambert Dance Company), the Sugar Lift etching that was selected is catalogue no 347.