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Yorke Dance Project. New Web Site

Sunday, September 9th, 2012

Yorke Dance Project has a stylish new web site giving all the details of their upcoming tour of Words Worth. Under the heading Productions, then Connections you come to Sally McKay.

Anton Du Beke’s Easy to Love

Close up of long painted sketch of Yorke Dance Project rehearsing Anton Du Beke’s Easy to Love which will be shown at the exhibition along with 11 paintings on canvas, framed drawings and etchings and 4 life size wire sculptures.

Tomorrow I will start to hang the work for my solo exhibition at no format gallery with the academic and freelance writer Stephen Baycroft who has written about my practice (see his press release of the show) and Director of SFSA and no format Matthew Wood. The Exhibition opens Thursday 13th at 5.00 – 9.00 with performance from Yorke Dance Project at 7.30pm. Exhibition continues until 23rd September.

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Sally McKay Exhibition in Dancing Times

Wednesday, August 29th, 2012

The story of my exhibition is currently featured on the front page of of the Dancing Times website

http://www.dancing-times.co.uk/news/item/1005-sally_mckay_exhibition

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My Exhibition at no format gallery

Saturday, August 25th, 2012

Sally McKay: Multisensory experience and artistic images of the moving human figure

sculpture: Irina 

Irina. Life size wire sculpture, dancer Irina Vainio

no format gallery Thursday 13th September – Sunday 23rd September

Opening times: Fri 14th, Sat 15th and Sun 16th September. Sat 22nd and Sun 23rd September and from 17th – 21st September by appointment (07803 609977)

 Opening night Thursday 13th September 5pm – 9pm dance performance by Yorke Dance Project at 7.30pm

The exhibition is in conjunction with freelance writer Stephen Baycroft

Hip Hop Dancers. The Rodin Project, rehearsal

Russell Maliphant Dance Company rehearse The Rodin Project. Oil and acrylic on canvas. 127 x 91cm

I will show life size wire sculpture, paintings, framed and unframed drawings and etchings

no format gallery, 2nd Floor Studios, Harrington Way, Woolwich, London SE18 5NR

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Yorke Dance Project to dance at my exhibition

Friday, July 20th, 2012

Artistic Director and choreographer of Yorke Dance Project, Yolande Yorke-Edgell, will be dancing a solo on the opening night of my exhibition, inspired by a letter from Marilyn Monroe to her psychiatrist. I am working on a full size wire sculpture of Yolande dancing Marilyn. The sculpture will be on show on the opening night of my exhibition and then on stage with Yolande during the tour of Words Worth with Yorke Dance Project.

Solo exhibition Sally McKay: Multisensory experience and artistic images of the moving human figure

no format gallery  Thursday 13th September – Sunday 23rd September. The exhibition is in conjunction with the academic and freelance writer Dr Stephen Baycroft.

Opening night preview Thursday 13th September 5pm – 9pm with dance performance by Yorke Dance Project

Opening times: Fri 14th, Sat 15th and Sun 16th September. Sat 22nd and Sun 23rd Sept

17th – 21st Sept by appointment (07803 609977)

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Open Studios

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012

17 May – 20 May

This weekend at Second Floor Studios, we opened our doors to a steady stream of visitors, to chat, buy our work or just take a look around. I sold etchings and was commissioned to make a painting containing dynamic movement for a communal office space. Several visitors left with measurements and titles of paintings to mull over before possibly purchasing, as well as a commission for a life size sculpture of a dancer created in wire for a local garden.

Here are some shots of my work in my studio

Jenny, The Rodin Project

Jenny. (The Rodin Project). 2012. Oil and ink on fabriano paper

The Rodin Project, rehearsal

Hip Hop diptych. (The Rodin Project). 2012. Oil on canvas

Come, been and gone Come, been & gone. 2011. Oil on Canvas

Autumn

Autumn. 2012. Oil on canvas

 Morgan Morgan Szymanski. 2012. Oil on canvas

etchings

Sugar lift etchings. 2012

If you missed the Open Studio but would like to visit my studio to see the work please contact me.

My next exhibition is a solo show at No Format Gallery, Mellish Industrial Estate, Warspite Road, London SE18 5N

13th September – 23rd September 2012

Part of ‘On Sublimity and Synaesthesia‘ I shall be exhibiting in conjunction with freelance writer Dr Stephen Baycroft.

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Open Studio. May 2012

Saturday, April 21st, 2012

Open Studio. May 2012

Studio 17, Unit 0, Second Floor Studios

Thursday 17th May 5.00 – 9.00pm

Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th May 11.00 – 6.00pm

Painting, Drawing, Etching, Sculpture 

All work for sale, new commissions taken 

 Solitary Women

Oil on canvas. 2012. 96 x 76cm. Cath James of Yorke Dance Project rehearsing City Limitless 

My studio: number 17,  Unit 0. The building next to the river. New terrace cafe will be open for tea and coffee, homemade food and a BBQ

Location: Second Floor Studios & Arts, Mellish Industrial Estate, Harrington Way (off Warspite Road), Woolwich, London SE18 5NR

Transport. Train: Charlton and Woolwich Dockyard Stations. DLR Woolwich Arsenal. Bus: 180, 177, 161, and 472

Contact: sallymckay@btinternet.com http://www.sallymckay.co.uk   07803609977

 Furthermore a date for your diary, Solo Exhibition 

13th September – 23rd September 2012

Part of ‘On Sublimity and Synaesthesia‘ I shall be exhibiting in conjunction with freelance writer Dr Stephen Baycroft.

At: No Format Gallery, Second Floor Studios, Mellish Industrial Estate, Warspite Road, London SE18 5NR

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Siobhan Davies Dance at Turner Contemporary

Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

If an uplifting exhibition of Turner’s paintings, the most famous erotic life size sculpture, or beautiful typographic and photographic imagery by Hamish Fulton isn’t enough to lure you to the Turner Contemporary in Margate maybe this will.

Siobhan Davies Dance will perform Rotor at Turner Contemporary 30 March – 1st April. ‘Rotor is an ensemble of performances, sound, installations and artworks created by 9 artists from different backgrounds in response to Davies’ filmed choreography “The Score”.‘

             Rotor. Siobhan Davies Dance  Rotor was first presented at Siobhan Davies Studios in November 2010 where I drew the performance. In 2006 I drew during rehearsals of In Plain Clothes, in 2007 for Two Quartets and The Collection at Victoria Miro Gallery in 2009.

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Turner Contemporary. Margate

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012

Recently I went to the South East’s stunning new art gallery Turner Contemporary, in Margate, Kent. The building, designed by Stirling Prize Winner David Chipperfield Architects, opened in April 2011. Turner Contemporary has been the vision of Director Victoria Pomery over the last 10 years. In 2002 I was invited to an exhibition and discussion about the ideas and plans for the gallery, held in Droit House on the waterfront, I was completely bowled over by Victoria’s belief and vision for a gallery in Margate, still at that time in the very early planning stage.

Turner and the Elements is an immensely uplifting exhibition of 88 of Turner’s watercolours and paintings. The following room, the work of Hamish Fulton who has made walking the basis of his practice, shows photographs, sketches and massive very stylish typographic based work directly on the walls.

Margate

Misty view over the sea from the gallery cafe, serving delicious food

The Kiss The Kiss (alternate view)

Rodin’s The Kiss

Rodin’s lifesize marble sculpture of an embracing couple, The Kiss, dominates (in a good way) the entrance hall, with the backdrop of the sea behind.

There is an impressive education programme of events, workshops and projects.

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A Weekend in Paris

Monday, January 23rd, 2012

7 – 9th January

Three days in Paris and three brilliant exhibitions, what better way to start 2012? Saturday, we visited Centre Pompidou to see Danser sa vie (on until 2nd April) and Yayoi Kusama (ended now but opens at Tate Modern 9th February). Sketches of Danser sa vie will follow soon, not yet photographed.

Sunday, a stroll to Musee d’Orsay, we saw Beauty, Morals and Voluptuousness in the England of Oscar Wilde (also ended). Would have liked to see Matisse, Cezanne, Picasso… The Stein family’s adventure in art at the Grand Palais, but arrived too late, a 4 hour queue would have allowed us in as the Museum closed (also finished).

Paris  mmm…  macaroons 

Paris  For the best views of Paris take a ride on La Grande Roue (Ferris Wheel), La Place de la Concorde, in place until 19th February and of course the escalators on the outside of Centre Pompidou.

Visit Merci, 111 Blvd. Beaumarchais, 75003, for breakfast and stylish shopping where a percentage of everything sold goes to to charity.

Merci

Thanks to Camilla for my wonderful birthday trip to Paris and thanks Ben and Roger for the Danser sa Vie catalogues, giving us the idea.

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Goodbye to LOL (lots of love)

Monday, November 28th, 2011

Drawings I made of Protein Dance‘s LOL (lots of love), were the source for a painting which I gave the same name as the dance that inspired it. LOL (lots of love), sold at my Open Studio show, has now been delivered to the new owners.

 LOL (lots of love). Painting. copyright Sally McKay

LOL (lots of love). Oil and acrylic on canvas. 2011. 129 x 81 cm

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