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You are cordially invited to a performance and art exhibition at the Assembly House, Norwich, Theatre Street on the 5th October. Performance at 7pm in the Hobart Room.
Exhibition runs 23rdSeptember-11thOctober
The Remarkable Disappearing and Reappearing Maudeline Spacks and other tales
The exhibition focuses on a collection of artworks, by Will Teather, inspired by The Remarkable Disappearing and Reappearing Maudeline Spacks. Maudeline is vanishing artist who vanished forever, one night, mid-performance.
In a peculiar twist of fate Maud will make a re-appearance in person, at the Assembly House, 7pm on Wednesday October 5th. (Devised and performed by live-artist Holly Bodmer, produced and commissioned by Will Teather)
Maudeline Spacks, named after the "Maud" of Tennyson's poem of the same name, was a vanishing artist and femme fetale active in the early noughties. Maudeline's tour de force was a duel show at Sydney Opera House and the Royal Opera House London, where she performed in both venues at the same time. A video link up broadcast the concurrent shows in real-time to each venue. During the course of her Magnus Opus, Maud became lost in transit somewhere between the London and Sydney, never to be seen again. Incidentally, Charlie Chaplin was once spotted in 800 simultaneous sightings across America.
There is speculation that there was one further siting of Maud, a few hours after the performance, outside a house in Pimlico talking to a man in a dark fedora hat. The man fits the description of Andrew Plummer, lead vocalist of World Sanguine Report, (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhiPUmB769s). Plummer was infatuated by Maud, like most people who met her, and reportedly heartbroken when his advances were refused during rehearsals. Will Teather met Plummer when he was commissioned to paint the stage set and publicity images for Maud's performance, for which Plummer was one of the support acts. In hindsight, the paintings seem to have foreseen Maud being kidnapped by Plummer and falling into an interstice, a sort of lacuna, where she becomes "Schroedinger's cat," so to speak. A vanishing artist who has vanished forever, she is both dead and alive at the same time, something that is meditated upon in many of Teather's new large-scale paintings, populated by moths and other symbols of transformation.
British artist Will Teather studied at Central St Martins and Chelsea College of Art & Design. His studio is currently based in Norfolk, where he holds the post of Artist-in-Residence at the Anteros Arts Foundation. He was shortlisted for the international "Celeste Prize" 2009. Teather's work is held in a number of notable collections in the UK and overseas, including Matthew Bourne (choreographer/ director) and the City of Aberdeen (under curatorial care of Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums).
NEW
WORKS ON DISPLAY AT ANTEROS ARTS FOUNDATION
FYE BRIDGE STREET, NORWICH, THROUGHOUT 2011
NEW WORKS ON DISPLAY AT THE MODERN ARTISTS GALLERY, WHITCHURCH-ON-THAMES FROM FEB 2011
SOLO EXHIBITION
22nd September - 13th October 2011
The Assembly House, Theatre Street, Norwich
CHRISTMAS EXHIBITION (group show)
Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Books due for publication in 2011, with written & visual contributions by the artist:
International Drawing Annual 5: http://www.manifestgallery.org/nda/inda5/
"ART! East Anglia" - a guide to art in the East of England
"How Artists See People." More info on these publications available from www.greenpebble.co.uk
There is usually artwork available for viewing at the following venues:
Doric Arts, Holt, Norfolk
Modern Artists Gallery which is based In Whitchurch on Thames, near Reading www.modernartistsgallery.com
The artist has a studio at Anteros Arts Centre which can be visited by prior arrangement. www.anteros.co.uk.
Colomb Art, 52a George Street, Marylebone, London www.colombart.co.uk