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Shelagh Wakely: Aguadorado, 1993
Exhibition
Shelagh Wakely. Spaces Between Things
1 Apr 2016 – 13 May 2016
Regular hours
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Address
- 41 Dover Street
- London
England - W1S 4NS
- United Kingdom
Richard Saltoun Gallery presents the work of experimental and influential British artist Shelagh Wakely, an artist whose international artistic connections defined her practice, yet who remains undeservedly neglected in her home country.
About
Curated by artist and close friend Antoni Malinowski, the exhibition follows on from her retrospective at Camden Arts Centre, London, in 2014 and highlights Wakely's global relationships and collaboration with other artists, notably the Brazilian artists Lucia Nogueira and Tunga.
The exhibition will present, for the first time since its creation in 1986, Spring Snow, a floor installation made of pink tissue paper, which will occupy the entirety of one room of the gallery.
Shelagh Wakely was awarded several museum shows in the UK during her lifetime, including her solo exhibition, some encounters with reality, at the Serpentine Gallery in 1977. An exhibition three years later at Piwna 20/26, an avant-garde artist-run space in Warsaw, Poland, brought her work into an international context for the first time.
The interdisciplinary aspect of her oeuvre has made her difficult to place. Her early minimal sculptures and drawings of the 70s through to the gestural paintings and installations of powdered spices from the 80s, and video works of the 90s; it was only in the last ten years of her life that she found considerable success in public commissions, notably the 60,000-piece glass mosaic on the south facade of Royal Albert Hall in London.
