Marsden Woo Gallery: November 2013

22 November 2013

MARSDEN WOO GALLERY ASSOCIATED ARTIST NICHOLAS LEES FEATURED IN THE LATEST ISSUE OF CERAMIC REVIEW

The current issue of Ceramic Review (Issue 264) features a fantastic six-page spread on Marsden Woo Gallery associated artist Nicholas Lees, with him in conversation with Jo Dahn about his optical objects.

Lees has just returned from showing a new group of works as part of the AWARD exhibition at the British Ceramics Biennial in Stoke-on-Trent. The objects in his current series of work demonstrate optical uncertainty. They stem from an interest in the penumba, the boundary between light and shade and are, amongst other things, an attempt to realise potential ambiguity in its material equivalent, the boundary between matter and space.

To see more images of Lees' work please click the link to his artist page on our website:

http://www.marsdenwoo.com/lees/nl1.htm and his personal website: http://www.nicholaslees.com/

Image © Ceramic Review (2013)

Object 13.14 (2013) © Nicholas Lees

Object (2012) © Nicholas Lees

Object 13.22 (2013) © Nicholas Lees

14 November 2013

MARSDEN WOO GALLERY ARTIST CAROL MCNICOLL FEATURED IN 'KLEI'

The current issue of KLEI, the Dutch ceramics magazine, celebrates artists and makers from Great Britain and features a fantastic article on Marsden Woo Gallery artist Carol McNicoll by writer Christina Lai. In the interview McNicoll speaks candidly about her influences and practice throughout her remarkable career, as well as the renewed interest in craft and creation over the last number of years.

http://www.klei.nl/

Images © KLEI November/December 2013

9 November 2013

SHOWS NOW ON: KERRY JAMESON AND BETSY DADD UNTIL 21 DECEMBER

Our new exhibitions - Kerry Jameson's 'Unbounded' in our main gallery and 'Terra Infirma' by Betsy Dadd in our Project Space- are now open.

Both shows continue until 21 December. As you can see from these wonderfully evocative installation images by Philip Sayer, they are absolutely not to be missed!

Kerry Jameson, installation view of 'Unbounded' (2013), focus on 'Pickett's Ridge'
photo © Philip Sayer, courtesy of Marsden Woo Gallery

Kerry Jameson, installation view of 'Unbounded' (2013), focus on 'Wicker Man'
photo © Philip Sayer, courtesy of Marsden Woo Gallery

Kerry Jameson, installation view of 'Unbounded' (2013), focus on 'Effigy 1' and 'Effigy 2'
photo © Philip Sayer, courtesy of Marsden Woo Gallery

Kerry Jameson, installation view of 'Unbounded' (2013), focus on 'Remade - Figures Combined'
photo © Philip Sayer, courtesy of Marsden Woo Gallery

Betsy Dadd, installation view of 'Terra Infirma' (2013) at Marsden Woo Gallery Project Space
photo © Philip Sayer, courtesy of Marsden Woo Gallery

Betsy Dadd, still from 'Quake', 'Terra Infirma' (2013) at Marsden Woo Gallery Project Space
photo © Philip Sayer, courtesy of Marsden Woo Gallery

2 November 2013

UPCOMING SHOWS AT MARSDEN WOO GALLERY: KERRY JAMESON 'UNBOUNDED' AND BETSY DADD 'TERRA INFIRMA'

We have two very exciting shows coming up next week. In the main gallery Kerry Jameson will be showing lively figurative sculpture in ceramic and mixed media with a compelling narrative charge that make reference to historical events and folkloric characters. The predominant aesthetic is that of the uncanny- where objects or ideas are recognised as familiar and at the same time experienced as deeply strange. Meanwhile, in the Project Space, Betsy Dadd's atmospheric installation and 'moving drawings' that explore the ethereal fragility of objects through an imaginative synthesis of animation and mixed media paper works.

Both shows run from 7 November - 21 December 2013.

To view individual press releases (PDF) please see the following links on our website-

Kerry Jameson: http://www.marsdenwoo.com/docs/press_jameson_13.pdf

Betsy Dadd: http://www.marsdenwoo.com/docs/press_dadd_13.pdf