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Friday, December 5th 2008 at 9:30 am
Carolyn Sergeant - Recent Paintings
Colnaghi
15 Old Bond Street
London W1S"To say that Carolyn draws and paints flowers, fruit and foliage superbly is to state the obvious; the difficulty is in trying to define what makes her work so unique and so individual. She has the ability to combine opposites, to be both painterly and sculptural, delicate and strong, simple and complex, innocent and sophisticated: qualities which do not arise out of naivety, but rather from years of training, observation and hard work." (Peyton Skipwith)
Carolyn Sergeant studied at Wimbledon School of Art from 1955 to 59 and at the Royal Academy Schools from 1959-62 where she was a silver medallist and later married her fellow student, the artist, John Sergeant. She has had one-man shows in London at the Waterhouse Gallery in 1969 and 1971 and the Waterman Gallery in 1994 before her 3 exhibitions at Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox in 1997,1999 and 2001. In 1992 she had a one-woman show at the Brian Sinfield Gallery in Burford and her pictures have been included in mixed exhibitions at the Leicester Galleries, Roland, Browse and Delbanco among others. Her most recent exhibition was at the Fine Art Society in 2003.
www.colnaghi.co.uk
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Friday, November 21st 2008 – 10:30am
Private Tour of the Turner Prize Nominees
And
Women Artists on Display at Tate Britain
Tate Britain
Millbank
London SW1P 4RG
Private Tour of the 2008 Turner Prize nominees with Tate guide, Catherine Petitgas. The prize is awarded each year to: 'a British artist under fifty for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work in the twelve months preceding'. This year three of the short-listed artists are women: Runa Islam, Goshka Macuga, and Cathy Wilkes.
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Wednesday, November 19th 2008 - 10:30 – 11:30am
Un-still life: Gallery Talk with artists Beth Colocci and Constance Slaughter
The Apartment
9 Palace Court
London W2Un-still Life redefines the still life genre and probes our concept of home. Domestic space hides its secrets under a thin layer of formica: home is a place of sweetness but also drudgery and conflict, dream and memory. These notions are explored through painting, photography, drawing, installation, collage and sculpture from Holly Antrum, Maxfield Bozeat, Beth Colocci, Polly Gould, Valerie Jolly, Alli Sharma, Constance Slaughter, and Stephanie Quayle.
www.un-still-life.com
If you like to catch young talent, this was a perfect occasion to hear these artists (including Friends of the NMWA, UK members) talk about the show. Among the accolades these artists are amassing, Valerie Jolly has just won the 2008 Royal Society of British Sculptors Award; Holly Antrum and Constance Slaughter are part of the Bloomberg New Contemporaries show at the Liverpool Bienniale; and Holly Antrum was short-listed for The Jerwood Drawing Prize.
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Tuesday, November 11th 2008 – 10:30am
Artist’s Talk
‘Letting Go’
New Sculptures by Helaine Blumenfeld
Robert Bowman Modern
34 Duke Street
St. James’s
London SW1Y 6DF
For ‘Letting Go’ Helaine Blumenfeld cut loose from her obsession with marble, creating clay models without thinking of the implicit limits of translating them into stone. “It is not about using new materials; it is about pushing the materials and forms to their limits.”
Helaine Blumenfeld trained under Ossip Zadkine and exhibited with Henry Moore. She has been Vice President of the Royal British Society of Sculptors since 2004. She is a rare sculptor who both models and carves, and as a female carver and modeler she is even more rare. She is the first female artist to receive the prestigious Il Premio Pietrasanta e la Versilia Nel Mondo. www.robertbowman.com
Two works by Helaine Blumenfeld
Left: Angels: Harmony, marble, height 173cm - Right: Volare, 2008 patinated bronze, 66 x 42 x 28 cm._____________________
Tuesday October 28th 2008 – 6:30-7:30pm
Private View and Artist's Talk
Patrice Lombardi
Medici Gallery
5 Cork Street
London W1S 3LQPatrice Lombardi's most recent paintings are the fresh result of her latest investigation into the essence of objects. Objects, mundane or precious, are chosen for their personal significance and their mystery.
Boxes, squares and objects shimmer in light. Shadows are almost as solid as the forms of the objects and play an integral part of the design. To create a feeling of balance and harmony she places her objects - a basket, a vase of tulips, an apple and boxes - in a particular environment where all elements are reduced to an ideal minimum. Colour and light are specifically chosen to intensify the rapport between object and space and heighten our awareness of their timelessness.
Patrice uses many layers of paint to build her rich, strong images. Delicate tonal modulations are brilliantly observed, but not necessarily in a literal way. These images emerge as much from an inner vision as from external observation giving them an air of heightened reality.
Patrice Lombardi was born in Massachusetts, USA. She studied painting in Boston and Paris and obtained her graduate degree in painting at Villa Schifanoia in Florence. Since 1985 she has held fifteen solo exhibitions and participated in many group exhibitions in London, Italy and the USA. Her paintings are in private and corporate collections around the world. ."
www.rwbpl.com
www.medicigallery.com
White Rose and Shadows, Patrice Lombardi
Oil on Wood
35 cm.x 25 cm.
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Wednesday October 22nd 2008 – 5:30-9:30pm
Thursday October 23rd 2008 – 5:30-9:30pm
Subscribers' Event
Tickets available for the Wednesday Charity Preview
Or Thursday Evening Drinks Reception
The Affordable Art Fair
Battersea Park
London
A limited supply of double entry tickets to the Wednesday opening night Charity Preview, or the Thursday evening Drinks Reception were available on a first-come-first-served basis to current NMWA, UK Subscribers.
With thanks to Vernissage. Visit Vernissage to view works by Izabella Kay, Ewa Podles, Elisa Pritzker, Agnieszka Sandomierz, Kaja Solecka, and Martta Weg among others.
"The Affordable Art Fair, Autumn Collection returns to Battersea Park bringing together 110 galleries from across the UK and overseas. The fair's easy going atmosphere invited you to browse amongst the thousands of paintings, sculpture, photography and original prints – all priced between £50 and £3,000." www.affordableartfair.com
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September 24th - October 24th 2008
Annabel Fairfax
ING
60 London Wall
London EC2M 5TQ
Annabel Fairfax specialized in watercolour at The Heatherley School of Fine Art. She has had two solo exhibitions and many more group shows. Annabel exhibits annually at The Mall Galleries' Art for Youth Exhibition, annually at The Affordable Art Fair and annually in Bembridge on the Isle of Wight.
Email: art@uking.com .
www.annabelfairfax.co.uk
Two oil paintings by Annabel Fairfax
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Tuesday, October 14th 2008 – 6-9:00pm
Subscribers' Event
Private View and Drinks Reception
In the presence of HRH Princess Wijdan Al-Hashemi Lalla Essaydi
Crossroads
Waterhouse & Dodd
26 Cork Street
London W1S 3NDThe first UK exhibition of photographs by celebrated Moroccan photographer Lalla Essaydi, and Routes, a major exhibition of work by 15 Middle Eastern and Arab artists.
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September 30th 2008 – 10:30-12:30am
Slide Lecture and Private TourWomen Artists at the Tate
Tate Modern
Bankside
London SE1 9TG
We watched a slide lecture by Tate guide, Catherine Petitgas, on women artists of the Tate. After the lecture, there was a private tour of work by women on display in the Tate Modern galleries._____________________
Wednesday June 25th 2008 – 11:00am
Private View and Artist’s TalkAnne Françoise Couloumy
The Cynthia Corbett Gallery
At Gallery 27
27 Cork Street
London W1S
Cynthia Corbett introduced the artist and her work. Anne Françoise Couloumy is a highly-acclaimed French painter who has been called La Hopper Française by the French Press. Couloumy was born in 1961 in Paris, and completed her studies at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs. Her work has captured the imagination of the cultural and intellectual community in France and hangs in collections world-wide. In January 2007 Couloumy was appointed to the rank of Chevalier by l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, République Française.
Two works by Anne Françoise Couloumy.
Left: La Chaise d'Enfance II, Oil on Canvas, 70x70 cm, Courtesy The Cynthia Corbett Gallery
Right: Le Dernier Mot, Oil on Canvas, 81x100 cm, Courtesy The Cynthia Corbett GalleryBACK TO TOP
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Elisa Sighicelli
Women To WatchNational Museum of Women in the Arts
1250 New York Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20005
USA
Women To Watch is a biennial exhibition program developed by the National Museum of Women in the Arts specifically for national and international outreach committees. The 2008 inaugural exhibition, which featured photographic works, was designed to increase the visibility of, and the critical response to, promising women artists who are deserving of national and international attention.
We are delighted that London based photographer Elisa Sighicelli, proposed by Friends of the NMWA, UK in late 2006, was selected by NMWA Head Curator Susan Fisher Sterling for exhibition in the Women To Watch show at the museum. Sighicelli’s work is featured on the NMWA website for the exhibition: www.nmwa.org
Elisa Sighicelli, born in Turin in 1968, received her MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art in London, where she lives and works today. Sighicelli explores ordinary scenes and objects through video and photography, drawing special attention to light in both its literal and depicted forms. The two photographs selected for Women To Watch, Untitled (White) and Untitled (Blue), are from a series she produced in Shanghai of advertising billboards. The products ordinarily promoted on these enormous screens have been edited out, leaving an abstract pattern of neon light in a gridded rectangular frame.
Friends of the NMWA, UK were excited to participe in this groundbreaking exhibition program, and provided funding for the two Sighicelli works to travel to Washington, D.C. for exhibition. Friends of the NMWA, UK would like to thank the Gagosian Gallery, London and Sighicelli collectors for their generous support of the this exhibition project. www.gagosian.com
Two photographs by Elisa Sighicelli.
Left: Untitled (Blue), 2006 Partially backlit C-print on lightbox,
35.4 x 48.4 x 2 in. (90 x 123 x 5 cm) SIGHI 2006.0002.
Right: Untitled (White), 2006 Partially backlit C-print on lightbox,
48 x 48 x 2.4 in. (122 x 122 x 6 cm) SIGHI 2006.0001___________________
Subscriber’s Event
Thursday May 15th 2008 – 6:30-8:30pm
A private reception to view
Twenty One Twenty First Century Women
Alice Instone
Ernst & Young
1 More London Place
London SE1 2AF
“Alice Instone was galvanized to create this series of portraits of 21 women after a visit to the National Portrait Gallery, where she realized that the early galleries only had male portraits. Twenty One Twenty First Century Women depicted women who now occupy positions of power in fields once exclusively dominated by males, and who are shaping British Society.” Sitters including Cherie Booth, QC, Jilly Cooper, Nicole Farhi, Val Gooding CBE, Professor Baroness Susan Greenfield, Baroness Helena Kennedy, QC, and Annie Lennox were painted sitting in an iconic red chair. www.aliceinstone.com Sponsored by Ernst & Young. Closest Tube: London Bridge or Tower Hill.
Alice Instone, Annie Lennox, 2007, oil on canvas, 100 x 75cm
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Wednesday May 14th 2008 – 6:00-8:00pm
In conjunction with The Alumni Club
A Private Evening Tour and LectureAmazing Rare Things – The Art of Natural History in the age of Discovery
And
Treasures from the Royal Collection
The Queen’s Gallery
Buckingham Palace
London
A unique opportunity - a Private View of this exciting and well reviewed new exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery. Amazing Rare Things was selected from the collections in the Royal Library by the distinguished naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough. This extraordinary exhibition brought together the works of four artists and a collector who have shaped our knowledge of the world around us. Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Cassiano Dal Pozzo (1588-1657), Alexander Marshal, Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) and Mark Catesby are diverse figures who shared a passion for enquiry, and a fascination with the beautiful and bizarre in nature. All lived at a time when new species were being discovered around the world in ever increasing numbers. Many of the plants and animals represented in the exhibition were then barely known in Europe. Today some are commonplace, while others are extinct.
Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) earned her living as a flower painter, teacher and a dealer in paints and pigments in Frankfurt and Amsterdam. Her lifelong fascination with flies, spiders and caterpillars began when she was thirteen. In 1699, at the age of 52, she traveled with her daughter to the Dutch colony of Surinam in South America to study and chronicle the life cycles of moths and butterflies. The resulting publication Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium (1705) is one of the most important works of natural history of its era and the first scientific work to be devoted to the area. From notes, sketches and specimens, Merian produced vibrant watercolours of butterflies and moths in her characteristic style of exuberant curves and spirals.
Treasures from the Royal Collection brought together works from the royal residences across the UK, and included paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi, and Angelica Kauffman, as well as furniture, sculpture, ceramics, jewelry, silver and gold. www.royalcollection.org.uk
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Tuesday Mayth 2008 – 11:00am
An Artist’s Talk and Private ViewJennifer Lee
Galerie Besson
15 Royal Arcade
28 Old Bond Street
London W1S 4SP
Leading British ceramicist Jennifer Lee spoke about her work, ‘refined and elegant handbuilt vessels’, at her solo show. Lee’s work is included in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and is highly sought after by private collectors. “Lee’s pots feel both modern and timeless. They have a strong sculptural presence.” Karen Livingstone, Victoria & Albert Museum. www.galeriebesson.co.uk
Jennifer Lee, Pale, haloed granite traces, bronze specks, 2007
handbuilt coloured stoneware
27.5 x 19.3 cm
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Subscribers’ Event
Friday May 9th 2008 – 10:00-12:00am
A talk on the work ofElisa Sighicelli
At the home of a Collector
London
We are delighted that Women To Watch photographer Elisa Sighicelli will join us for this talk, in addition to Hannah Freedberg of the Gagosian Gallery, London.
Elisa Sighicelli was born in Turin in 1968 and received her MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art in London, where she lives and works today. Sighicelli explores ordinary scenes and objects through video and photography, drawing special attention to light in both its literal and depicted forms. Sighicelli’s work has been selected for exhibition in the NMWA’s inaugural Women To Watch exhibition on show in Washington, D.C. www.gagosian.com
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Tuesday April 29th 2008
Curator led tour and lunch with the Director
Laura Ford: New Work
Georgie Hopton: The Three Cornered Hat
NewArtCentre
Roche Court
East Winsterslow
Salisbury
Wiltshire SP5 1BG
Special day trip to the New Art Centre at Roche Court. Founded by Madeleine Bessborough in Sloane Street in 1958, the New Art Centre relocated to Roche Court, a nineteenth century manor house in parkland, in 1994. The Centre displays sculpture, including works from the estate of Barbara Hepworth, in the spectacular Wiltshire countryside.
Laura Ford’s first solo show in the award winning gallery at the New Art Centre features three fairy tale like espaliered trees cast in bronze, with surreal elements typical of Ford’s work, ‘a mixture of humour, melancholy and darkness…built up in layers of material, found objects and cultural reference applied around a core object, usually a figure.’ Laura Ford was included in the British Art Show 5, 2000, and represented Wales in the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005. Her work was featured most recently in Turner Contemporary, touring to the Economist Plaza in 2007 She has pieces in the Government Art Collection and the Tate Gallery.
Georgie Hopton’s exhibition was on show in the gorgeous Artists’ House at Roche Court. Georgie Hopton is known for her paintings and sculpture influenced by Morandi and Picasso. Her new work is inspired by flowers she has grown herself. She photographs, paints and sculpts each image. “I’ve always oscillated between 3D and 2D: I graduated from college with sculptures when I’d taken a painting degree – the paintings literally moved from the wall to the floor…’, Georgie Hopton in conversation with Louisa Buck, Laughed – I Could Have Cried, Milton Keynes Gallery, 2003. Georgie Hopton graduated from St Martins School of Art in 1989. Georgie Hopton was nominated for the MaxMara Art Prize for Women in 2007.www.sculpture.uk.com
Left: Georgie Hopton, Installation view in the Artists' House, 2008
Right: Laura Ford, Espaliered Woman I, 2007___________________
Thursday April 10th 2008
Opening & Private View
Dark Star
Sadie Murdoch
The Agency Gallery
15A Cremer Street
London E2 8HD
Opening night of Murdoch’s exhibition of recent photographs, which revisit Modernist themes, and feature early stars of the Modernist movement: architect Lily Reich, a close collaborator with Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe, and furniture designer Charlotte Perriand, who made significant contributions to chairs designed in partnership with Le Corbusier. www.theagencygallery.co.uk
Left: Sadie Murdoch, Electric Fairy, 2008, watercolour on paper, 42x60 cm £ 1550 (framesize 62x80 cm).
Right. Top: Sadie Murdoch, Red, Black, Orange, Yellow and Violet, 2008, C- print , 40 x 30.5 cm, Ed 3, £1300 ( framesize 55 x 45.5 cm); Bottom: Sadie Murdoch, Red, Yellow, Orange, Silver and Gol, 2007, C- print, 40 x 30.5 cm, Ed 3, £1300 ( framesize 55 x 45.5 cm)
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Tuesday March 18th 2008 – 8:30 – 10:00am
Breakfast and Curator’s Private Tour of
Brilliant Women: 18th Century Bluestockings
National Portrait Gallery
St. Martin’s Place
London WC2H 0HE
“The ‘bluestockings’ forged new links between learning and virtue in the public imagination of Enlightenment Britain. This exhibition told the story of the women of the original bluestocking circle, their followers and the men who supported their endeavors. Including Elizabeth Montagu, Elizabeth Carter, Catharine Macaulay, Hannah More and Angelica Kauffman, these creative women formed an important network of artists, writers and intellectuals who were involved in a diverse range of cultural activities, from writing novels and poetry to Shakespearean criticism and portrait painting. With the exception of their wealthy patron and hostess Elizabeth Montagu, ‘Queen of the Bluestockings’, each made a living from her work.
“Despite the fact that the ‘bluestockings’ made a substantial contribution to the creation and definition of national culture their intellectual participation and artistic interventions have been largely forgotten.” www.npg.org.uk
Private Tour during the opening days of the show, under the expert guidance of Dr. Lucy Peltz, 18th Century Curator at the National Portrait Gallery, and co-curator of this exhibition.
Portraits in the Characters of the Muses in the Temple of Apollo
(The Nine Living Muses of Great Britain)
by Richard Samuel, 1778
© National Portrait Gallery, London___________________
Thursday, March 13th 2008 – 6:00 pm
The Directors of Marlborough Fine Art and Friends of the NMWA, UK
Paula Rego and Marco Livingstone in Conversation
Marlborough Fine Art
6 Albemarle Street
London W1S 4BY
Artist Paula Rego and curator Marco Livingstone joined us for a unique evening in the gallery. Recent Paula Rego works, which feature in an upcoming exhibition at Marlborough Fine Art in New York City, were on display in Albemarle Street, and a selection of Rego’s prints were available for purchase. Copies of the Paula Rego retrospective exhibition catalogue were also on sale in the gallery.
This evening was timed to coincide with a major retrospective of the artist’s work now on display at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. The NMWA showcased the exhibition Paula Rego from February 1st – May 25th 2008, representing the first retrospective of this important artist’s work to be exhibited in the United States. The exhibition included major pieces spanning Rego’s 50-year career. www.nmwa.org The London-based art historian and independent curator Marco Livingstone is curator of the exhibition. www.marlboroughfineart.com
Paula Rego, Looking Out 1997,
Pastel on papper on aluminium, 71x51 in.,
Private Collection___________________
Thursday March 6th 2008 – 11:00am
A Private Visit toARTfutures
Contemporary Art Society
Bloomberg SPACE
50 Finsbury Square
London EC2A 1HDARTfutures is the Contemporary Art Society’s annual selling exhibition with 1,000 art works individually selected by Contemporary Art Society curators. The exhibition includes 100 artists, ranging from recent graduates to more established artists, and covers all media, from drawings, paintings, prints to three dimensional work, video work and sound works. The exhibition is positioned to encourage new buyers of contemporary art, with prices ranging from £500-£5000, but it also appeals to seasoned collectors who are looking for new artists. The exhibition this year was co-curated by British artist, Nicky Hirst, alongside independent curator Jeni Walwin. Nicky is an established artist with her work in many private, public and corporate collections including the Saatchi collection, Clifford Chance Collection, BUPA Collection, and Arthur Anderson Collection. www.artfutures.org.uk
Welcome coffee and an introduction from the curator, then a Private Tour of the exhibition, and smaller NMWA, UK groups were allowed ‘behind the scenes’ of the exhibition, to view additional art works secured in the storeroom of Bloomberg SPACE. Guests received a double invitation to attend the CAS Chairman’s champagne reception, hosted by Alison Myners.
Left: Dogeaters Discourse (2). 2007. 18x25x2.5 cm. Ink on paper mounted on MDF, lacquer and self adesive vinyl. © Pio Abad 2007
Right: Glitter Desert 1. Photograph 135 cmx100 cm edition of 3. © Beagles and Ramsay 2007
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January 30th 2008 - 2:00 to 4:00 pm
NMWA, UK Subscribers' Event
a Private Tour of
The Rothschild Archive
London
Melanie Aspey, Director of The Rothschild Archive, gave a talk and a tour of this unique facility. The Rothschild Archive was established in 1978 to preserve and arrange the record of a family widely recognized for the major contribution it has made to the economic, political and social history of many countries around the world.
The Rothschild Archive also holds collections of papers recording the family's longstanding involvement with the the arts, including the creation of significant art collections. As discussed in the recent NMWA, UK event A Symposium: British Women Collectors, the Rothschild women have made notable contributions as artists, collectors and patrons of the arts through several generations of the family.
www.rothschildarchive.org
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