Marsden Woo Gallery: July 2011

29 July 2011

SUMMER CLOSURE

From 1 to 31 August 2011 the gallery will be closed. We will re-open as usual on 1 September and our next shows will start on 15 September.

In the meantime, here is a little visual reminder of the fantastic exhibitions we have had over the past year. In order of appearance, this includes the work of; Philip Eglin, Tony Hayward, Karen Ryan, Sara Radstone, Becky Miller, Robert Marsden, Philip Sayer, Tom Foulsham, Kerry Jameson, Nao Matsunaga, Dawn Youll, Nick Mobbs, Martin Smith, Stephenie Bergman, Gordon Baldwin and James Rigler.

27 July 2011

'SITTING AND LOOKING' AT SOMERSET HOUSE

The exhibition 'Sitting and Looking', curated by Jim Partridge and Liz Walmsley, is currently on display at Somerset House. The show brings together ten well-know artists displaying an unusual juxtaposition of 21st century objects including furniture, fine art photography, ceramics, jewellery, painting and textiles, some of which will be for sale, and explores the links between each art form. One of these artists is Gordon Baldwin, who is also currently showing here at Marsden Woo. Partridge and Walmsley seating is interspersed throughout the show to offer visitors places in which to sit and to look. The show continues to 4 September 2011. For more information please click here.

Ceramic piece by Gordon Baldwin
image © www.somersethouse.org.uk

Seating by Jim Partridge and Liz Walmsley
image © www.somersethouse.org.uk

LAST CHANCE TO SEE: GORDON BALDWIN AND JAMES RIGLER

Both of our current shows; Gordon Baldwin Dark Water and Boulders Shouting and James Rigler The Lost World, are in their final week. They will end on 30 July, when the gallery also closes for the month of August. We will re-open again as usual on 1 September.

Our next shows, running from 15 September to 30 November 2011, are Caroline and Maisie Broadhead Taking the Chair and Renato Bezerra de Mello As migalhas da infância / The crumbs of childhood. For more information on upcoming shows please visit our website.

26 July 2011

JAMES RIGLER FEATURES IN 'FRAME' MAGAZINE NEWS ONLINE

Yesterday Frame magazine posted a feature in their online 'news' section about James Rigler's current show, 'The Lost World', in our Project Space. To view the full article please click here.

"...Mixing elements of architecture, domesticity, colour and shape, artist James Rigler has created an exhibit of dream-like scenarios that will give you a major sense of déjà vu."

Frame magazine online 2011

22 July 2011

NEW GROUP BY NAO MATSUNAGA: 'FORLORN TREES' (2011)

This new group of three pieces by Nao Matsunaga, titled Forlorn Trees, was delivered to the gallery today. Other new works by Matsunaga are currently featured in an exhibition called Modern Languages in Galway City Museum (Ireland). The exhibition runs until 23 July 2011.

For more information about Nao Matsunaga please visit the artists page on our website.

Nao Matsunaga, Forlorn Trees (2011)
photo © Alida Sayer/Marsden Woo Gallery

Nao Matsunaga, Forlorn Trees detail (2011)
photo © Alida Sayer/Marsden Woo Gallery

19 July 2011

NEW PHOTOGRAPHS OF OUR CURRENT SHOW: GORDON BALDWIN

Philip Sayer has just taken some fantastic new photographs of Gordon Baldwin's latest series of ceramic vessels, which feature in Baldwin's current show Dark Water and Boulders Shouting here at Marsden Woo. The show continues in our main gallery to 30 July 2011.

Gordon Baldwin
'Water Vessel V' (left) and 'Water Vessel V' (right), both 2011
photo © Philip Sayer

Gordon Baldwin
Detail view of 'Water Vessel V' (left) and 'Water Vessel V' (right), both 2011
photo © Philip Sayer

Gordon Baldwin
'Water Vessel III' (left) and 'Black Vessel. Boulder Shouting III' (right), both 2011
photo © Philip Sayer

14 July 2011

RETROSPECTIVE VIEW: CAROLINE BROADHEAD

The next show in our main gallery this September, Taking the Chair, will be an exciting and unique collaboration between the ground-breaking multi-disciplinary gallery artist Caroline Broadhead and her talented daughter Maisie Broadhead.

With this in mind, we invite you to cast a retrospective eye over a small selection of elegant and innovative works that Caroline has produced in the past, gleaned from our own image archive. These delicate installation pieces in particular, several of which featured in the publication 'Chiaroscuro' (2001), are gently suggestive of the kind of aesthetic language we can expect from Caroline's contribution to this new collaborative project.

To view a press release for Taking the Chair please click here.