EMMA WOFFENDEN'S 'SISTER' SELECTED FOR BELGIAN INTERNATIONAL ART PRIZE

We are pleased to announce that Emma Woffenden's otherworldly wall-based sculpture, 'Sister', has been selected for the Belgian International Glass Prize and will be presented in the glass museum Glazen Huis Lommel Belgium 9 June - 8 October 2012. The International Glass Prize is a triennale international glass competition for arts, design and craft. 

Woffenden's Elephant Revenge will be the next exhibition to take place in our main gallery, 22 March - 28 April 2012. To view a press release for the show please follow this link.

Emma Woffenden, 'Sister'
Photo © Emma Woffenden

Emma Woffenden, 'Sister'
Photo © Emma Woffenden

ALISON BRITTON FEATURE IN 'CRAFTS' MAGAZINE

The latest issue of Crafts magazine (March/April 2012) features a beautiful double page spread about Alison Britton's current show 'Standing and Running', with writing by Teleri Lloyd-Jones.

'Britton may hint at a softening, a return to the echoes of traditional tableware, but don't be fooled that her work has lost the iconoclastic dynamism for which it became famous... After all, as Britton points out, creativity should always engage with a bit of risk.'

Words © Teleri Lloyd-Jones, Crafts magazine, March/April 2012 issue

Alison Britton, 'Cave' (2012), ceramic
Photo © Philip Sayer

Crafts magazine p.15 (March/April 2012 issue)
© Crafts / Teleri Lloyd-Jones

Cover © Crafts magazine (2012)

JAMES BROWN'S UPCOMING SHOW FEATURED IN 'IMAGE' MAGAZINE

Image magazine has just published a small feature about James Robert Brown's upcoming exhibition of large-format photography, 'Reverie I - V', showing in our Project Space 22 March - 28 April 2012.


'...These large-scale photographs were taken during a recent trip to Belgrade where Brown ran workshops for the charity RPOINT. Although bleak and unsettling, Brown's strategic use of symmetry evokes ideas of  other-worldliness, giving his photographs a timeless sense of poetic beauty.'


To view the full press release please follow this link.

Image © James Robert Brown

Image magazine cover - Issue 418, Feb/Mar 12 edition

© Image magazine 2012

INSTALLATION VIDEO: PATRICK MIFSUD, 'ON DIFFERENT LEVELS'

Patrick Mifsud, the artist whose spectacular installation work Connect/Dissect is currently occupying our Project Space in his solo show 'On Different Levels', has just posted a charming video online documenting the construction of the piece (see below).

Along with the artist himself, a rotating team of four helpers spent almost 5 days installing the show - which included the tying of over 900 tiny knots to 900 corresponding hooks...! The resulting work is not only a highly sophisticated exploration into the manipulation of spatial awareness, but also a subtle and absorbing colour study. As the viewer moves around the space, the many lines of richly pigmented thread appear to condense and separate, moving in and out of focus to form dynamic washes of translucent colour.

 The show, curated by Tessa Peters, will continue until 17 March.


On Different Levels from Patrick Mifsud on Vimeo.

SPOTLIGHT: ROBERT MARSDEN 'INTERRUPTIONS' (2011)

In Robert Marsden's most recent piece, 'Interruptions' (2011), there lies a delicate balance between highly controlled complex geometric forms and the rawness of their patinated surfaces. It is the latest in a series of small scale works in which he explores an ongoing fascination with creating elegant and richly textured compositions comprised of stark, angular forms with a variety of different finishes. As these new images show, the piece is a superb example of Marsden's characteristic fine attention to detail and beautiful craftsmanship.

More work can be viewed on our artist pages: www.marsdenwoo.com/marsden/rm1.htm

Photos © Philip Sayer, courtesy of Marsden Woo Gallery.

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: PHILIP SAYER LAUNCHES NEW WEBSITE

Long-term collaborator and close friend of the gallery, photographer Philip Sayer, has just launched a brand new website featuring an extensive archive of images dating from his professional beginnings in 1969 right through to his most recent work, including the book to accompany Gordon Baldwin's imminent solo show, 'Objects for a Landscape', opening at York Art Gallery this week.

With a wide-range of subject matter - from iconic portraits of literary, art and design masters such as Philip Larkin, David Hockney and Ettore Sottsass, to editorial spreads from Blueprint magazine (of which Sayer was a founding member) and his own personal compendium of beautifully atmospheric landscape images - this comprehensive site is a fitting testament to both the astounding technical skill and extraordinary creative talent of this most prolific of photographers.

The collection even features a selection of pictures taken in collaboration with us here at the gallery. To all extents and purposes, Sayer is solely responsible for the impressive and unique catalogue of images we hold here, built up over many years since we first opened our doors in 1998. 

The site was designed and built by Marsden Woo's own Alida Sayer.

www.philipsayerpartnership.com

Photo © Philip Sayer

www.philipsayerpartnership.com
Site built by Alida Sayer, all images © Philip Sayer

Marsden Woo Gallery (c. 1999)
Photo © Philip Sayer

Spread from new book, edited by David Whiting, to accompany Gordon Baldwin's
solo exhibition 'Objects for a Landscape' (2012) at York Art Gallery
Images © Philip Sayer

LAST CHANCE TO SEE: 2012 MIXED DISPLAY

Our current show ends this Saturday 11th February, so this week is your last chance to see all of the brilliant new work in our Mixed Display...

Installation shot © Philip Sayer

Nao Matsunaga, 'Folklore - Landscape' (2012) photo © Philip Sayer

Left: Alida Sayer, 'I woke up feeling strange' (2011-12)
Right: Emma Woffenden, 'Windpipe' (2011)
Photo © Philip Sayer

Lawson Oyekan, Detail of 'Ero' series (2011) photo © Philip Sayer

UPCOMING SHOWS: ALISON BRITTON AND PATRICK MIFSUD

We're looking forward to our first set of solo exhibitions this year, both showing from 16th February - 17th March. In the main gallery, with 'Standing and Running', Alison Britton will debut a brand new series of dynamic ceramic vessels that explore an ongoing fascination with disjunction and flow. Our downstairs Project Space will  be occupied by an ambitious immersive installation, 'On Different Levels', by exciting emerging talent Patrick Mifsud.

Alison Britton press release
Patrick Mifsud press release

Photo © Philip Sayer

Photo 'White on White' (2011) © Patrick Mifsud

WEBSITE UPDATES: BRAND NEW ARTIST PROFILES

We have just given the 'artist' pages on our website a bit of a sprucing up! Many images of recent work have been added to existing profiles and we have also created four brand new ones in our 'associated artists' section for:

Maisie Broadhead
Maria Militsi
Jacqueline Poncelet
Sam Scott

Please go to www.marsdenwoo.com/artists.htm to have a closer look.

Image © Marsden Woo Gallery (2012)
All photos © Philip Sayer