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