GALLERY NEWSLETTER
Gallery updates and news of forthcoming exhibitions.
Tom Hammick, whose work is in our current Summer Printmakers Exhibition, is pictured here with his 10 foot wide monoprint, "Night Ferry", which was commissioned by Nexus for the Byker Metro Station in Newcastle.
The work was commissioned after the Metro bosses studied the entries which flooded in for the very first Northern Print Biennale. This is the biggest exhibition of printmaking in Britain for 20 years, it opened at three Newcastle venues – the Laing Art Gallery, the Hatton Gallery and Northern Print.
Tom Hammick explained: “It’s a monotype print where you paint onto a piece of Perspex, put a piece of white paper on the top and then pass it through a giant press so the image transfers from the Perspex to the paper.
“Newcastle is so wrapped up with the sea and connections to Europe that I decided to do a ferry out at sea, either coming or going. It’s a metaphor for life really.”
We are very pleased to announce the addition of John Kirby to our list of artists represented. He is an artist we have admired for some time, and now in partnership with Flowers Gallery in London, we can offer these arresting images to our clients.
Please ask to see some examples when you are next at the gallery.
The Zimmer Stewart Gallery will be taking part in this years Brighton Art Fair.
This will be our first Fair, and we are looking forward to it immensely.
we are hoping to show work by some of the gallery's regular artists to a new audience.
The Fair takes place at the Brighton Dome over a weekend in October, Thursday 1st to Sunday 4th.
Watch this space for more news.
Born in Liverpool in 1920, the son of an Austrian immigrant, Yankel Feather had his first one-man exhibition at Gibbs Gallery, Manchester in 1940. He studied Art at Woolwich Polytechnic (1937-39) with Heber Matthews. Yankel moved to St Ives in 1977 having visited briefly in the 50' s, when he first met and sat for Terry Frost.
Important elements in Yankel's work are composition and colour (even if there is only one colour in the painting). The subject in later works, shown at the Zimmer Stewart Gallery, were boats, figures and seascapes.
Boats were presented as if washed up on the beach, next to one another, as if staying close for comfort after a storm. The absence of people is a stark contrast to his city/town scenes, which are bursting with activity.
Yankel was a difficult artist to classify: In his long career he painted still life (vases of flowers), nudes, landscapes, figures and abstracts. In many instances he drew his inpiration from the Cornish Coastline, or the Brighton Seafront (his last home) and adds to what he sees a unique personal style and use of colour.
Yankel Feather consistently exhibited in London, Manchester and Liverpool, and his work is in many private collections including that of Ringo Starr, David Bowie and the late Terry Frost, who in 2002 described him as "a Genuine artist who is sailing with the wind behind him"
We had two great shows with Yankel Feather, in 2004 and 2005, and it was a privllege to have met and worked with an artist of his calibre and experience.
A further addition to our print selection in June is the complete series of four "Wall Plate" screen prints by Patrick Caulfield from 1987. Tate Britain has a full set of these in their permanent collection.
Not for the faint hearted, these prints are very large; the paper size is 102 x 130 cm and the framed size is 120 x 150 cm! They would suit a large contemporary living space or to line the walls of some executive offices.
These will be part of our painter/printmakers show alongside his "Red Jug and Lamp" screen print from 1992.
Pallant House Gallery in Chichester are showing a small retrospective of Patrick Caulfield's paintings and prints, with working drawings. The show is called "Between the Lines" and runs until 14 June 2009.