Marsden Woo Gallery: April 2011

30 April 2011

SPOTLIGHT: KEN EASTMAN 'HOLD YOUR OWN'

A beautiful ceramic work by Ken Eastman titled 'Hold Your Own' (55 x 38 x 31 cm, 2010). These photographs, taken by Philip Sayer, show the rich colouring and dramatic form of the piece. If you would like to view ' Hold Your Own', other works by Eastman, or pieces by any of our other gallery artists, please contact us directly to make an appointment.

Ken Eastman, 'Hold Your Own' (ceramic, 2010) photo © Philip Sayer

26 April 2011

FINAL WEEK OF OUR CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

Please note we will be closed on Friday 29 April, but open as usual on Saturday 30 April, when both of our current shows end.

16 April 2011

FROM OUR ARCHIVES: GAEA TODD, 'REVERBERATIONS'

The first exhibition in the Marsden Woo Project Space (February - March 2010) was a solo show by glass and mixed media artist Gaea Todd, curated by Tessa Peters and Janice West.

Gaea Todd’s sculpture and installations are concerned with time and transgression. She explores the properties of glass to the limits to create taut, sinuous and fragile forms that can traverse a surface and invade space, generating ideas of control and danger, balance and gravity, entry and escape.

A main feature of the show was the spectacular ‘Reverberations’, an architectural intervention where the fabric of the building becomes a source of sensation and feeling, something which, like ourselves has the capacity to weep and to bleed. The installation is also one of cause and effect: As the viewer moves and breathes the glass veins reverberate in response, causing us to become acutely aware of our own body and its actions.

Since the show Gaea went on to win the British Glass Biennial Best in Show Award and The Royal Society of British Sculptors Bursary Award in 2010. Our exciting programme of Project Space exhibitions continues with ‘The Everyday’ until 30 April and then a solo show by Stephenie Bergman, 5 May – 18 June 2011.

Gaea Todd, 'Reverberations' (2010)
photo © Philip Sayer/Marsden Woo Gallery

15 April 2011

'INTRODUCING' ARTIST DISCUSSION WITH GLENN ADAMSON

The latest in our series of 'In Conversation' talks between exhibiting artists and Glenn Adamson, Head of Postgraduate Studies and Deputy Head of Research at the V&A, centred around the debut show for our three newest gallery artists. The discussion encompassed the thought and material processes behind, and relationship between, the innovative sculptural ceramic works of Kerry Jameson, Nao Matsunaga and Dawn Youll that are in show in our main gallery until 30 April 2011.

Audio recordings or transcripts of the talks will now be made available in the new Podcasts section of our website. To visit the page please click here.