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/

FEATURES

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.