SEASONAL GREETINGS FROM ALL OF US AT MARSDEN WOO GALLERY

And warm wishes for the new year! Our 2011 greetings card was once again designed by Alida Sayer. The real paper remnants can be seen in our gallery window throughout the festive period...

Designed by Alida Sayer - www.alidarosie.co.uk

A YEAR IN PICTURES PART 2: MAIN GALLERY

Another series of images, also courtesy of Philip Sayer, of all of the exciting shows we have had in our main gallery throughout 2011. Next year's programme will launch with our annual Mixed Display, a vibrant and packed show comprised entirely of new work. For the first time this will feature specially invited guests, including some previous collaborators and Project Space artists, alongside all of our gallery artists. Following this will be a solo show of dynamic new ceramic pieces by Alison Britton. Other artists due to show this year include Emma Woffenden, Chun Liao, Ken Eastman and Nicholas Rena. Please keep checking our website for information about other upcoming shows and events. 

All photos © Philip Sayer (Marsden Woo Gallery)

2011 Mixed Display, various artists

Contradictions, Robert Marsden
Manhattan in Moscow, Philip Sayer

Introducing, Kerry Jameson, Nao Matsunaga, Dawn Youll

Pots - Plates - Chairs, Martin Smith

Dark Water and Boulders Shouting, Gordon Baldwin

Taking the Chair, Caroline Broadhead & Maisie Broadhead

Ideal Home, Carol McNicoll, Jacqueline Poncelet, Sam Scott

A YEAR IN PICTURES PART 1: MARSDEN WOO PROJECT SPACE

A little visual reminder, courtesy of Philip Sayer, of all of the fantastic shows we have had in the downstairs Project Space throughout 2011. The Project Space curator, Tessa Peters, has another series of exciting shows in the pipeline for 2012. The programme kicks off in February with an ambitious immersive installation work titled On Different Levels by the talented young Patrick Mifsud. Other upcoming shows will include atmospheric large-format prints by photographer James Brown and intriguing abstract sculptures by ceramic artist James Evans. Please keep checking our website for information about other upcoming shows and events. 


All photos © Philip Sayer (Marsden Woo Gallery)

2011 Mixed Display, various artists

Tom Foulsham

The Everyday,  Raquel Figueira, Jon Harrison, Nick Mobbs

The Wire and Other Works, Stephenie Bergman

The Lost World, James Rigler

As Migalhas da Infancia/The Crumbs of Childhood, Renato Bezerra de Mello

Fragments of Memory, Maria Militsi

UPCOMING SHOW: 2012 MIXED DISPLAY, 10 JANUARY - 11 FEBRUARY 2012, FEATURING THE WORK OF 27 ARTISTS!

To see in the New Year with a flourish Marsden Woo Gallery will hold it’s biggest and most ambitious group exhibition yet, with brand new work from gallery artists and special guests shown side by side in the 2012 Mixed Display, 10th January - 11th February 2012. This promises to be the most refreshingly eclectic, jam-packed exhibition Marsden Woo has seen, and offers a rare opportunity to see the work of all these artists at the same time – definitely one not to be missed.

Featured artists; Gordon Baldwin, Alison Britton, Caroline Broadhead, Owen Bullett, Ken Eastman, Philip Eglin, James Evans, Tom Foulsham, Tony Hayward, Kerry Jameson, Chun Liao, Robert Marsden, Nao Matsunaga, Carol McNicoll, Maria Militsi, Lawson Oyekan, Jacqueline Poncelet, Sara Radstone, Nicholas Rena, James Rigler, Alida Sayer, Philip Sayer, Sam Scott, Martin Smith, Carole Windham, Emma Woffenden and Christoph Zellweger

For biographical information on individual gallery artists and a selection of Project Space and associated artists, please visit our website at www.marsdenwoo.com/artists.htm

Image by Alida Sayer

NEW SHOWS NOW OPEN: 'IDEAL HOME' AND 'FRAGMENTS OF MEMORY'

The private view for our two new shows last week was completely packed... a great success!

Carol McNicoll, Jacqueline Poncelet and Sam Scott are showing dynamic and vibrantly coloured ceramics, paintings and furniture in their group show 'Ideal Home'. In our downstairs project space, Maria Militsi's delicate and beautiful metalwork emerges from found objects as she meditates on the subject of memory and absence.

Both shows continue to 22 December. As you can see from these fantastic photographs by Philip Sayer, they are not to be missed!

Ideal Home, installation shot (November 2011) image © Philip Sayer

Jacqueline Poncelet, No 5 Wales 06 04 10, from the 'Ogwyr-Peckham' series of
15 paintings (2010), gouache on paper, image © Jacqueline Poncelet

Ideal Home, installation shot (November 2011) image © Philip Sayer

Maria Militsi, Fragments of Memory, installation shot (November 2011)
image © Philip Sayer

Maria Militsi, Imprints of Crucifixes, detail (2011), image © Philip Sayer

Maria Militsi, Sweet Seventeen, detail (2011), image © Philip Sayer

MARIA MILITSI IN 'CRAFTS' MAGAINE

The latest issue of Crafts magazine features a small piece about Maria Militsi's current exhibition, 'Fragments of Memory', in our Project Space until 22 December.

p8 Crafts Magazine, Issue No. 233, November/December 2011

OUR UPCOMING SHOWS: 'IDEAL HOME' AND 'FRAGMENTS OF MEMORY'

We have two exciting new shows opening next week...

In the main gallery will be 'Ideal Home', a group show of new work by Carol McNicoll, Jacqueline Poncelet and Sam Scott. With a vibrant mix of playful ceramics, paintings and furniture, the artists will create a warm and inviting environment that explores their shared fascination with the domestic. A bright contrast to the increasingly chilly weather outdoors! You can read more in the press release here.

Maria Milisti's solo show, 'Fragments of Memory', will be taking place in our downstairs Project Space. Through the medium of highly sophisticated metalwork in combination with carefully selected found items and sensitively observed connections, Militsi will explore the ability of objects to act as echoes of experience, fragments of memory or markers of loss. You can read more in the press release here.

Both shows will run from 3 November - 22 December 2011.

Carol McNicoll, untitled, ceramic and found object (2011)
photo © Carol McNicoll/Marsden Woo Gallery

Jacqueline Poncelet, from the 'Bryn Ogwyr' series, gouache on paper (2011)
image © Jacqueline Poncelet

Sam Scott, chest of drawers (2011)
photo © Sam Scott

Maria Militsi, 'Self-portraits' (2011)
image © Maria Militsi

LAST CHANCE TO SEE: CAROLINE & MAISIE BROADHEAD AND RENATO BEZERRA DE MELLO

Both of our fantastic current shows will end this Saturday 29th October, so you have just over two days left to come along and have a look!

For more information please visit our website

'Taking the Chair' installation shot
Works L-R: Caroline Broadhead, 'Light Interrupted', 'Collapsing Chair' and
'Throne Down' (all 2011)
photo © Philip Sayer courtesy of Marsden Woo Gallery

Maisie Broadhead, 'Wine Tasting' (2011)
image © Maisie Broadhead

Renato Bezerra de Mello, 'Concertina Cashinas' (2011)
photo © Philip Sayer courtesy of Marsden Woo Gallery

FROM OUR ARCHIVES: ALISON BRITTON 'UNFORESEEN EVENTS'

Alison Britton's last show here at Marsden Woo Gallery was Unforeseen Events in 2009, a joint exhibition with Norwegian ceramic artist Marit Tingleff.

Both Britton's sculptural vessel forms and Tingleff's large-scale, wall-mounted ceramic plates featured the painterly application of colourful glazes and explored the process of working towards unexpected or surprising results.

Alison's next show, 16 February - 17 March 2012, will consist of two series of pots that explore her ongoing fascination with the dualities of disjunction and flow. Please follow this link to view a press release.

'Unforeseen events' installation view September 2009
photo © Philip Sayer

'Unforeseen events' installation view September 2009
photo © Philip Sayer

Detail shot of a ceramic piece by Alison Britton
photo © Philip Sayer

Alison Britton, 'Tall Scrawl' (2009) ceramic
photo © Philip Sayer

Marit Tingleff, 'Square Series - Turquoise' (2009) ceramic
photo © Philip Sayer

SPOTLIGHT: CAROL McNICOLL 'OXEN IN THE GARDEN'

Some lovely images from our archives of Carol McNicoll's 'Oxen in the Garden' (2005).

Carol will be showing a brand new series of works alongside paintings by Jacqueline Poncelet and furniture by Sam Scott in the upcoming exhibition Ideal Home, taking place in our main gallery from 3 November - 22 December 2011.

An interview with Carol at her London studio was also featured in the first episode of the three-part BBC documentary Ceramics: A Fragile History (Episode 1: The Story of Clay), available to view on BBC iPlayer until 31st October 2011.

For more information about 'Ideal Home' please follow this link.

Carol McNicoll, 'Oxen in the Garden' (2005) ceramic
photo © Marsden Woo Gallery

Carol McNicoll, 'Oxen in the Garden' detail (2005) ceramic
photo © Marsden Woo Gallery

Carol McNicoll, 'Oxen in the Garden' detail (2005) ceramic
photo © Marsden Woo Gallery

Carol McNicoll, 'Oxen in the Garden' detail (2005) ceramic
photo © Marsden Woo Gallery

'TAKING THE CHAIR' FEATURE ON YATZER.COM

Yatzer.com has just published an in depth feature about Caroline and Maisie Broadhead's current show in our main gallery, Taking the Chair, with accompanying interview by Stefania Vourazeri. 

To view the full article please follow this link.

BRITISH CERAMICS BIENNAL, STOKE-ON-TRENT

The British Ceramics Biennal 2011 opens today in Stoke-on-Trent, and will continue until 13 November. The festival features work by Marsden Woo Gallery artists Ken Eastman, Philip Eglin, Dawn Youll, Nao Matsunaga alongside an array of other talented ceramic artists and makers based in the UK, including James Evans who is due to exhibit in our Project Space as part of our exciting 2012 programme.


For more information please visit the BCB website www.britishceramicsbiennal.com

Dawn Youll, 'Restricted Access' (2011), photo © Dawn Youll

Ken Eastman, 'Long Fridays' (2009), photo © Philip Sayer

Nao Matsunaga, 'Content' (2011), photo © Philip Sayer

Philip Eglin, 'Cardinal' (2010), photo © Philip Sayer

British Ceramic Biennal flag-bearers

CAROL McNICOLL FEATURES IN GUARDIAN COVERAGE OF V&A'S NEW 'POSTMODERNISM' EXHIBITION

The new 'Postmodernism' exhibition at the V&A museum, London, not only features the work of Marsden Woo Gallery artist Carol McNicoll, but is also co-curated by Glenn Adamson (Head of Postgraduate Studies and Deputy Head of Research at the V&A) who continues to lead our highly successful ongoing series of artists discussion events.


There is currently a short video feature about the exhibition available to view on the Guardian newspaper website, which features comments from both Carol and Glenn.


Please follow this link to view the video

Carol McNicoll, 'Bowl' (1985)
still © Guardian newspaper 2011

Carol McNicoll speaking about Postmodernism at the V&A
still © Guardian newspaper 2011

NEW SHOWS NOW OPEN: CAROLINE & MAISIE BROADHEAD AND RENATO BEZERRA DE MELLO

Wednesday evening saw the successful opening of our fantastic new shows; Caroline & Maisie Broadhead's mother and daughter collaboration of sculptural chairs and photographic prints inspired by old Master paintings, 'Taking the Chair', and Brazilian artist Renato Bezerra de Mello's 'As migalhas da infância / The crumbs of childhood', a Project Space exhibition curated by Tessa Peters and Maria Donato that explores abstract memories of childhood.


Both shows continue to 29 October 2011.

Caroline and Maisie Broadhead, photo © Philip Sayer

Renato Bezerra de Mello, photo © Philip Sayer