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Thursday, November 29th 2007 – 11:00am
You are invited to a curator’s talk and tourPaisley: Exploding the Teardrop
PM Gallery & Pitzhanger Manor
Walpole Park, Mattock Lane
Ealing, London W5 5EQ
Closest Tube: Ealing Broadway
A collaboration between the PM Gallery (an extension to Pitzhanger Manor, Sir John Soane’s ‘dream house’) and The Pattern Lab, Paisley: Exploding the Teardrop features new multi-media work by international artists based on the origins, development and various uses of the Paisley pattern. The teardrop shaped buta motif first appeared in Babylon, spread through India, was in use in Europe by the 18th century, was mass produced in Paisley, Scotland – the town that gave the pattern its name – in the 19th century, and became synonymous with all things psychedelic in the 1960’s. The exhibition featured works by painter Rekha Rodwittiya, sound and performance from Lisa Busby, wall panels by Kathleen Mullaniff, paintings by Jane Langley, video work by Gurdeep Sehmar, rugs by Jennifer Wright, tapestries by Laurie Addis, and an installation by Delaine Le Bas. The morning visit included a curators’ talk, a performance and a tour of the exhibition and the house. Brunch was offered.www.ealing.gov.uk
www.janelangley.com
www.thepatternlab.com
Two paintings by Jane Langley.
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Left: Wanda, 2007, oil and silverpoint on canvas, 123 x 92 cm.
Right: Judy, 2007, oil and silverpoint on canvas, 163 x 183 cm.Thursday November 15th 2007 – 6:00-10:00pm
Friends of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, UK
Invites you to attend aA Symposium: British Women Collectors
Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts
8 John Adam Street
London WC2N 6EZ
Wilhelmina Cole Holladay, founder of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. and a noted collector in her own right, will be our honoured guest and keynote speaker at the Symposium. In 2006 Mrs. Holladay was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Bush for her extraordinary contributions to the arts of the United States, and was presented with the Ordre national de la Légion d’Honneur, the French government’s highest award, for her distinguished services to the arts of France.
Symposium speakers: Melanie Aspey, Director, The Rothschild Archive, ‘Whatever you have chosen, I am sure is best’. The Rothschild women as artists, collectors and patrons; Dr. Ann Sumner, Director of the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, The Davies sisters of Gregynog – artistic education, travel and collecting; and Dr. Susan Owens, Curator, Paintings, The Victoria and Albert Museum, ‘In spite of bombs and broken windows’: Queen Elizabeth and the arts in wartime The Symposium will be followed by a reception in the atmospheric Vaults of the RSA.
Anne Frances Byrne (English, 1775-1837)
Honeysuckle, Poppies, etc., n.d.
Watercolor on paper 13 x 17 1/2 in.
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
Gift of Wallace and Wilhelmina Holladay
A Private Evening with Women Photographers
October 4th 2007 – 6:00 – 8:00pm
The Print Sales Gallery
The Photographers’ Gallery
5 Great Newport Street
London WC2H 7HY
We viewed the portfolios of several women photographers whose work is available in the Print Sales Gallery. We were delighted that noted photographer Dorothy Bohm agreed to speak to us about her work. Bohm was born in East Prussia in 1924. She was sent to England in 1939 to escape Nazism and finished her schooling in the UK. She has traveled widely throughout her life, and has lived and worked in Paris, New York and San Francisco. In 1956 she settled in Hampstead where she still lives. Bohm co-founded The Photographers’ Gallery in 1971 and was its Associate Director for the next 15 years. www.dorothybohm.com
France in Russia: Empress Josephine’s Malmaison Collection
Hermitage Rooms
September 24th 2007 – 6:00pm
Courtauld Institute of Art
Somerset House
Strand
London WC2R 0RNDr. Alexandra Gerstein, Curator of Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Courtauld, and curator of this exhibition, gave us a private tour of the collections of Empress Josephine (Josephine Beauharnais Bonaparte), purchased by Tsar Alexander I in 1815, and now held by the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. The exhibition featured 16th and 17th century paintings and sculpture, as well as stunning decorative arts and sumptuous luxury goods from Malmaison, Empress Josephine’s French country retreat.
www.hermitagerooms.com
NMWA, UK and The Alumni of Christie’s Education
Invite you to a Private View
German Painting
Paintings and Works on Paper by
Karin Kneffel, Cornelia Schleime and SEO
July 19th 2007 – 5:00-7:00pm
Marlborough Fine Art
6, Albemarle Street
London W1S 4BY
Karin Kneffel’s work was celebrated in a large retrospective exhibition at the Sinclair Haus in Bad Hamburg, the Mönchehaus Museum für Moderne Kunst in Goslar and the Ulmer Museum. Cornelia Schleime was recently awarded the Gabriele-Münter-Award and the Fred-Thieler-Award for Panting. The Korean painter SEO left Seoul in 2001 to join the class of Georg Baselitz at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. She represents the quickly growing community of international artists living and working in Germany. www.marlboroughfineart.com
Host Manuel Ludorff gave an introduction to these three contemporary German artists and their work.
Artist’s Talk Klari Reis
May 15th 2007 – 11:00am
Gallery 27
27 Cork Street
London W1S 3NGKlari Reis talked to us in front of her work, paintings which ‘reflect her focus on the complex internal workings of our bodies…her personal response to biological technology and the mysteries of life beneath the skin.” Klari Reis paints with epoxy polymer, often on aluminum panels. The medium is consistent with the artist’s intent to integrate science and art. Epoxy polymer is a synthetic plastic, derived from crude oil, and is extremely challenging to work with, as the paint is potentially toxic when applied. The artist must use protective clothing and eyewear to create her brilliantly coloured paintings. Once dried the epoxy polymer is non-toxic and almost impenetrable. Each painting is moulded and set in layers, with a distinctive sheen. www.thecynthiacorbettgallery.com
Klari Reis | Sonata | Courtesy The Cynthia Corbett Gallery.
In conjunction with The Alumni of Christie’s Education
Private ViewThe Art of Italy in the Royal Collection – Renaissance and Baroque
May 22nd 2007 – 6:00-8:00pm
The Queen’s Gallery
Buckingham Palace
London
This is the first exhibition of Italian art in The Queen’s collection for over 40 years and showcases the artistic legacy of the Stuart Kings, Charles I and his son Charles II, whose taste profoundly influenced the British Royal Collection. On display is a noted self-portrait by Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1652), one of the first women artists to achieve recognition in the male dominated world of post-Renaissance art. At a time when women artists were limited to painting portraits, she was the first woman to paint major history and religious compositions. Other works by Artemisia Gentileschi are featured in the 20th Anniversary exhibition Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to Baroque, currently on view at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. (www.nmwa.org) Lucy Whitaker, Assistant Surveyor of The Queen’s Pictures and curator of this exhibition, gave a power point presentation and answered questions about works in the exhibition. www.royalcollection.org.uk
A Private Curator’s Talk
The Celeste Art Prize Exhibition
May 23rd 2007 – 11:00am
The Old Truman Brewery
91 Brick Lane
London E1 6QL
The Celeste Art Prize was founded in 2005 to promote painting in its widest sense. Open to all UK citizens and all artists living and working in the UK, “Excellence in content, aesthetic, technique and material are sought from works submitted to the prize.” The Celeste Art Prize has a unique selection process whereby the finalists award the £17,000 prize money in two categories, Artist and Student Artist. This year’s prize included a third category, a public on-line vote prize, to be determined in the weeks leading up to the Finalists’ Exhibition, viewable at www.celesteartprize.co.uk In collaboration with Goldsmiths College Curatorial Programme.
Artist’s Talk. Fragmented Images:
New Artworks by Charlotte Hodes, Associate Artist at The Wallace Collection
May 9th 2007 – 12:00 noon
The Wallace Collection
Hertford House
Manchester Square
London W1V 3BN
Charlotte Hodes, winner of the 2006 Jerwood Drawing Prize, has offered to talk with us at her solo exhibition at the Wallace Collection. Although trained as a painter, Charlotte has been working on large scale intricate papercuts and ceramics for this special exhibition, in response to the paintings and ceramics of The Wallace Collection, focusing in particular on the 18th century Sevres rococo porcelain and paintings by Watteau and Lancret. Charlotte has brought a contemporary interpretation to the depictions of the female figure, pattern and ornamentation so abundant in the collection. www.wallacecollection.org
Charlotte Hodes at the Wallace Collection
The Photographers’ Gallery &
Friends of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, UK
Invite you for cocktails & canapés to celebrate the new bookVitamin Ph – New Perspectives in Photography
Published by Phaidon Press
Tuesday 13 March 2007 from 7 to 9pmThe Photographers’ Gallery
8 Great Newport Street, London WC2
Panel discussion at 8pm
The Masquerade: Women in Photography
moderated by Lucy Soutter, critic and art historian
Including Rut Blees Luxemburg, Catherine Grant, Alison Green, Trish Morrissey, Bettina von Zwehl www.photonet.org.uk
Artists’ Talk by Patricia Swannell and Jude Tucker
Flowers from an unknown tree
March 7 2007 - 11:00am
jaggedart
Elliott House
28A Devonshire Street
London W1G 6PS
Patricia Swannell and Jude Tucker spoke to us in the gallery, in front of their work. Taking a haiku by Bash? (1644-94) as the idea that groups the works, the exhibition centres on plants and trees from a South London residential square. Patricia Swannell’s Landmark Series of delicate graphite drawings is a meditation on time as reflected in the trees that we encounter every day. Jude Tucker transforms the ephemeral delicacy of flowers, trees and seeds into the immutable form of sculptures and carvings in stone. www.jaggedart.com
Hannah Starkey at The Maureen Paley Gallery
February 6th 2007
Maureen Paley Gallery
21 Herald Street
London E2 6JT
A talk by the artist at the exhibition of her photography. “Hannah Starkey has said that she ‘likes to explore everyday experience and observation of inner city life from a female perspective.’ She does this by using generally female actors to create large-scale tableaux in which the protagonists act out carefully staged scenarios. Her images often portray moments of quiet drama, touching upon areas of experience which are familiar but which remain unspoken or below the surface. Starkey’s narratives suggest that we have caught her characters unawares for a moment, leaving us to image the build up to the incident portrayed.”
Hannah Starkey as born in Belfast in 1971, and lives and works in London. She was educated at Napier University, Edinburgh B.A. (Hons) Photography and Film, and the Royal College of Art, London, M.A. Photography. . www.maureenpaley.com
To be followed by:Margaret Salmon
Whitechapel
80-82 Whitechapel High Street
London E2 7QX
In April of 2006 Margaret Salmon was awarded the first MaxMara Art Prize for Women, in association with the Whitechapel. The prize was created to help nurture and promote emerging female artists in the UK, and to enable their development by providing the opportunity to produce new works of art through a six-month residency in Italy. The Whitechapel presents the first solo exhibition of the American filmmaker and premieres three short films, collectively entitled Ninna Nanna, made during Salmon’s time in Italy. Set to melodic, arresting, and sometimes disturbing soundtracks, Salmon gives her subjects a quiet grandeur as she explores themes of age, motherhood and the nature of human relationships. www.whitechapel.org
Rebecca Fortnum
Contemporary British Women Artists – In Their Own Words
Lecture, Luncheon & Book Signing
January 31st 2007 . 12:00 Noon, Lecture and Lunch at 12:30pmThe Arts Club
40 Dover Street
Mayfair
London W1S 4NP
Rebecca Fortnum’s new book: “Enlightening, absorbing and frequently very funny, collected here are interviews with twenty of the most important women artists practicing internationally and based in Britain today. The interviews, with artists spanning different generations and working in media and modes as diverse as performance art, painting, sculpture, video and installation, give first-hand insights into both the artists’ lives and the creative process.” The book was available for signing by the author.
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