COMING SOON: ‘Now & Then’ – A Show of Contemporary Art

October 6, 2011 by Kay

11th October 2011 − 28th October 2011

Artists exhibiting include: Carolyn Barker-Mill, Jay Batlle, Bertozzi and Casoni , Henry Bourne, Jake and Dinos Chapman,  Joan Dannatt, Cyprien Gaillard, Jonathan Gent,  Duncan Hannah, Paul  Heber-Percy, Charlotte Hodes, Joanna Kirk, Alastair Mackie, Kate Mcc Gwire, Simon Moretti, Orlando Mostyn-Owen , Grayson Perry, Humberto Poblete-Bustamante,  Jean-Baptiste Marot, Philip Taaffe, Jan Worst.

Title: Metamorphoses (Goshawk)
Artist: Alastair Mackie
Year(s): 2011
Medium: 1930′s taxidermy display bell jar, mirror, wooden base, goshawk
Dimensions: 182 x 54 x 54 cm
Retail price: £15,000
Edition: Edition 1 of 3

Title: Dwell III
Artist: Kate MccGwire
Year(s): 2011
Medium: Mixed media with pigeon tail feathers
Dimensions: 27 x 37 x 37 cm
Retail price: £6,500

Title: United States/France
Artist: Joanna Kirk
Medium: Pastel on board
Dimensions: 122 x 214 x 4 cm (framed)

Find out more about this exhibition and read an essay by Adrian Dannatt by visiting the Harris Lindsay website.

UPCOMING: Joanna Kirk’s Miles To Go Before I Sleep

September 9, 2010 by Kay

Miles To Go Before I Sleep
Joanna Kirk

MOSTYN
18 September – 6 November 2010

Using her fingers to blend colours and build surface, Joanna Kirk’s pastel paintings relate her experience of motherhood in which beauty is marked out against everyday reality to provide a new perspective on her work and life. A number of the landscapes are drawn from locations in north Wales including Nant-y-Coed, Llanberis and Llanfairfechan.

Rocks
Joanna Kirk
Pastel on paper on board
Courtesy Murderme
Photography: Prudence Cuming Associates

Much of Kirk’s inspiration is drawn from the Impressionist painters Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt for whom domesticity was their given sphere, as well as later artists such as Louise Bourgeois for her ongoing revision of childhood experience. Many of Kirk’s works isolate her children in natural landscapes, exposing their vulnerability and something of the dread and magic of fairytales in which children carry the weight of apprehension and that of their parents.

Joanna will be doing an Artist Talk on Saturday 16th of October at 2pm at the Mostyn.

Miles to Go Before I Sleep is a Mostyn Exhibition.

Slate
Joanna Kirk
Pastel on paper on board
Courtesy Murderme
Photography: Prudence Cuming Associates