BRITISH CERAMICS BIENNIAL 2013

The British Ceramics Biennial opens today in Stoke-on-Trent and will continue until 10 November. Marsden Woo Gallery artists Nao Matsunaga and James Rigler and associated artist Nicholas Lees have been selected for award at the festival and will exhibit alongside an array of talented contemporary ceramic artists and makers based in the UK.

To view more work by these artists please see the artist pages on our website-
Nao Matsunaga: http://www.marsdenwoo.com/matsunaga/nm5.htm
James Rigler: http://www.marsdenwoo.com/rigler/jr14.htm
Nicholas Lees: http://www.marsdenwoo.com/lees/nl1.htm


For more information about the Biennial click this link: http://www.britishceramicsbiennial.com/

James Rigler, 'To the West, and on to the West' (2013)
photo © Philip Sayer, courtesy of Marsden Woo Gallery 

Nao Matsunaga, Monster I (2012), photo © Philip Sayer, courtesy of Marsden Woo Gallery

                         Nicholas Lees, Object 13.13 (2013), photo © Nicholas Lees

SHOWS NOW ON: DAWN YOULL AND JAMES THOMPSON UNTIL 2 NOVEMBER

Our new shows- Dawn Youll's 'Locale' in the main gallery and James Thompson's 'Expanding Spaces' in the Project Space- are now open. 

The exhibitions are also featured in the Icon Design Trail 2013- Icon's guide to the best of the London Design Festival. Be sure to pop in and visit if you're on the trail! 

http://www.media-ten.com/3dissue/icon/designtrail/2013/

Some superb installation images below taken by Philip Sayer...

Dawn Youll, installation view of 'Locale' with 'Regular Arrangement' to foreground, (2013)
photo © Philip Sayer, courtesy of Marsden Woo Gallery.

Dawn Youll, installation view of 'Locale', focus on 'Creature of Habit' (2013)
photo © Philip Sayer, courtesy of Marsden Woo Gallery.

Dawn Youll, installation view of 'Locale', focus on 'Local Diversion'' (2013)
photo © Philip Sayer, courtesy of Marsden Woo Gallery.

Dawn Youll, installation view of 'Locale' with 'Recreation'' to foreground, (2013)
photo © Philip Sayer, courtesy of Marsden Woo Gallery.

Dawn Youll, 'Serviced', (2013) photo © Colin Tennant.

James Thompson, installation view of 'Expanding Spaces', (2013)
photo © Philip Sayer, courtesy of Marsden Woo Gallery.

James Thompson, installation view of 'Expanding Spaces', (2013)
photo © Philip Sayer, courtesy of Marsden Woo Gallery.

James Thompson, installation view of 'Expanding Spaces' with focus on 'Reconstructed Space II'
(2013) photo © Philip Sayer, courtesy of Marsden Woo Gallery.

James Thompson, installation view of 'Expanding Spaces', with focus on 'Inflated Space' (2013)
photo © Philip Sayer, courtesy of Marsden Woo Gallery.

James Thompson, installation view of 'Expanding Spaces', with focus on
1 hour 53 minutes I' (2013) photo © Philip Sayer, courtesy of Marsden Woo Gallery.

UPCOMING SHOWS AT MARSDEN WOO GALLERY: DAWN YOULL 'LOCALE' AND JAMES THOMPSON 'EXPANDING SPACES'

We have now returned from our summer break and are busy preparing our exciting upcoming exhibitions. In our main gallery Dawn Youll will show a new body of abstract ceramic works that explore the object as metaphor, evoking incisive insights into contemporary experience through a poetry of everyday life. Meanwhile, in our Project Space, James Thompson's mixed media interventions will explore the perception and interpretation of space, developed from his time spent recording the features of a small confinement cell in High Royds, a former psychiatric hospital in West Yorkshire.

To view individual press releases (PDF) visit the following links on our website -
Dawn Youll:
http://www.marsdenwoo.com/docs/press_youll_13.pdf
James Thompson: 
http://www.marsdenwoo.com/docs/press_thompson_13.pdf

To read more about James Thompson's fascinating project at High Royds former psychiatric asylum, please see our previous blog post: http://marsdenwoo.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/james-thompson-expanding-spaces-project_23.html

Both shows will open 14 September and will continue until 2 November.

Image: Dawn Youll, ‘Civil Unrest’ (2013) photo © Colin Tennant

James Thompson’s work on this project has been sponsored by Jesmonite® and supported using 

public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. 

His access to the former confinement cell at High Royds Hospital has been facilitated 

by members of the High Royds Sports and Social Club.

Photo: work in progress at High Royds former psychiatric hospital, West Yorkshire