My Review of Lygia Clark on State of the Arts

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Lygia Clark – Organic Planes @ Henry Moore Institute

22 December 2014

On exhibit until January 4th, Madeleine Walton visits Brazilian artist Lygia Clark’s ‘Organic Planes’ at the Henry Moore Institute…

Review of Nostalgia & Progress: Illustration after the Second World War

See my review of Nostalgia & Progress: Illustration after the Second World War currently showing at the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery in the Parkinson Building at Leeds University.

http://www.thestateofthearts.co.uk/2014/11/18/nostalgia-progress-illustration-after-the-second-world-war/

Author Archives : Madeleine Walton

Nostalgia & Progress: Illustration after the Second World War

18 November 2014

Image: Edward Ardizonne, Windy Day, Pen, Ink and Watercolour on Paper, 1947   Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds University In Leeds University’s iconic Parkinson Building is the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery which is currently showing Nostalgia & Progress: Illustration After the Second World War. This is their third exhibition in a series exploring […]

Open Studios

I will be taking part in Open Studios at Persistence Works, Yorkshire Artspace, this Friday evening (5.30pm-9pm) and Saturday during the day (11am -5pm). Come up and see me in Studio 29 on the second floor.

My review of 25 Years at The Terrace Gallery at Harewood House

See

http://www.thestateofthearts.co.uk/2014/10/28/25years/

for my review of 25 Years at The Terrace Gallery at Harewood House

Walead Beshty

A Partial Disassembling of an Invention Without a Future: Helter-Skelter and Random Notes in Which the Pulleys and Cogwheels Are Lying Around at Random All Over the Workbench

This amazing exhibition in the Curve Gallery at the Barbican until 8th February is well worth seeing.



















It is made up of over 12,000 cyanotype (a photographic print with a cyan-blue tint) prints.

Everyday for nearly a year Walead Beshty placed objects from his studio on porous surfaces (including cardboard, paper and wood) that was coated with ultra violet sensitive material.

Once exposed to sunlight the object's silhouette appears against a cyan-blue background with stunning results.

20X20 Access Space

I have two works in the 20X20 Exhibition at Access Space - on until 31st October.

MW on WM: Madeleine Walton on William Morris 

(Acrylic on textile)

1/9/14 

(Collage made using images from that day's Guardian newspaper)

The State of the Arts

My review of the film PRIDE can be seen at http://www.thestateofthearts.co.uk/category/news-features/

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Review: Pride [15] (Matthew Warchus)

23 September 2014

‘Through a combination of nostalgia and hope, PRIDE is the ultimate feel good movie: a thoroughly British film that is the antithesis of the Hollywood blockbuster…’ Showing in selected cinemas, Madeleine Walton shares a review on this wonderful film…

Open Mic at Bank Street

This evening as a Guerrilla Writer I read Plato's Republic in the Open Mic as part of Art as Political Expression at Bank Street.

A Monument to the Unread

My last day reading at Bank Street as part of A Monument to the Unread.

A Monument to the Unread

Today I have been down at Bank Street reading Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez in support of Robert Good's residency.

I also read Sue Townsend's The Secret Diary of Adrain Mole Aged 133/4.

A Monument to the Unread

Another day and another reading down at Bank Street. Today it was George Eliot's Middlemarch.

A Monument to the Unread

Another reading session down at Bank Street for A Monument to the Unread.

A Monument to the Unread

Today I have been down at Bank Street reading Judith Butler's Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" as part of Robert Good's residency.

A Monument to the Unread

A Monument to the Unread : Robert Good at Bank Street Arts Sheffield

As a member of the Guerrilla Writers I am supporting Robert Good's residency at Bank Street Arts. 

People have nominated books that they failed to read.

On Saturday 5th September I read Tolstoy's War & Peace at Bank Street Arts,

 You can confess your own unread book at: http://robertgood.co.uk/confess/

As part of the act of absolution Guerrilla Writers will be reading from those confessed unread texts throughout the residency.

Yorkshire Sculpture Park

I have just visited the YSP where I saw great work by Ai Weiwei in the Chapel.

I also saw an exhibition by Ursula von Rydingsvard.

This work was huge and entitled Mama Build Me a Fence. From a distance it appears to be marks drawn on wood when you get closer you discover the marks are carved in the wood. Quite exquisite!

Untitled (Stacked Blankets) look intriguing and even more so when you discover they are made of Cows' intestines.

Cut

Here are the two works I have in the CUT Members exhibition that I curated at Bank Street.

Cut with the Kitchen Scissors

This collage is a homage to the great collage artist Hannah Hoch.

Just like Francis Bacon

This is my own homage to Francis Bacon's work. When Francis Bacon was dissatisfied with his paintings he would cut out the canvas and destroy it. He would leave the stretcher frame (with the remains of the painting) to be reused. Some of these 'remainder' paintings have been salvaged from his studio and come up for auction and fetch about £22,000. So you can own a Francis Bacon for thousands rather than millions!!!

CUT

Hanging CUT exhibition went well today thanks to Tom Mann at Bank St, along with help from Helen Frank and Rachel Smith (who curated last year's Members Show).

Still a bit more work left to do tomorrow. I have made collage name plates for each work which need hanging tomorrow.

CUT

I am off to Bank St Arts tomorrow to hang CUT- this year's Members Show Exhibition that I am curating.

27 Artists
32 Works
2 days to hang