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Comment on David Shrigley Talk – A special treat! by Cheryl Jones

Cheryl Jones — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:12:55 +0000

If you didn’t make it to the David Shrigley talk, you can now listen to it online

http://www.thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk/whats-on/exhibition/party

Comment on Theo & “One Man’s Battle with The Art Establishment” by Marcus Newhall

Marcus Newhall — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:23:35 +0000

Robert and Roberta , clever people doing clever things and yet……
Through Epstein’s papers with hands like wax, you have moved and dug, and left your tracks, interpret Jacob as mean and weak, use him to garner what you seek.
Theo, colours of madness on the wall, bright peacock of life, artistic blindness can’t hurt him at all, as these clerics of art, with paint-box scrawl, offer the public wood, tin and string, spiritless object, a meaningless thing.
This is a expo of mundane and crass, brushes on rope and other such trash, guess it don’t matter if you’re taking the cash, from Arts Council funds, but you left this observer, out in the park, coz this is not art, you’re larking about, and in the sunlight, what I see, is an empty canvas, which in its virgin state, has the things this residency lacks, an understanding of grief, madness and joy…………

Comment on The results are in… by Cheryl Jones

Cheryl Jones — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:57:16 +0000

Power to the people! Destroy the canons with cannons!

Awesome.

Comment on The All-New Archive Gallery by Ken Ardley Playboys, Window Box, Party! : The New Art Gallery Walsall : Comment

Ken Ardley Playboys, Window Box, Party! : The New Art Gallery Walsall : Comment — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:25:13 +0000

[...] instant become Kathleen. Neil has made a wonderful job of representing our efforts so far in the Archive Gallery in the Garman Ryan Collection. He has edited the films we have made so far with ‘Pathe’ [...]

Comment on Party exhibition installation shots by anna francis

anna francis — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:23:12 +0000

wow – it looks really exciting! can’t wait!

Comment on latest outside in by Cheryl Jones

Cheryl Jones — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:27:54 +0000

Sean has kindly donated some of his books and visual poetry dvds to the Art Library, please do come and have a look if you would like to know more about his work.

Comment on One mans fight against the British Art Establishment by Hayley Morris

Hayley Morris — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:09:27 +0000

Hello all – to anyone who doesn’t know who I am, I used to work in the magnificent Art Library with Cheryl until very recently – Cheryl will fill you in on the rest!

I felt compelled to drop you a line having read the various bits and pieces above… what an exciting time at the NAG I am missing out on! I always loved rummaging around in the archive… in a sense, the lack of a catalogue made it all the more intriguing – we never really knew what we were going to find. Having it catalogued will be such a fantastic resource though. And the process of doing so seems to be inspiring some really interesting stuff, which is always a good thing.

I must, must, must swing by and see all of this for myself… perhaps I can arrange a proper visit and you can show me all the goings on behind the scenes? It would be a pleasure to meet everyone involved and to get down in that archive again… Looking forward to it already.

Comment on Van Gogh who? I prefer the one on the right! by Geraldine Marshall

Geraldine Marshall — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:16:33 +0000

Ania

Great opportunity. thank you so much. Something to remember.

Keep up the good work.
Gezx

Comment on A minute long exhibition next to van Gogh by Nigel Fox

Nigel Fox — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:39:00 +0000

I stopped off on the train to visit a year ago or so it was a bit of a shock after visiting Brum art museum,
Birmingham is a well established museum with lots of history & dosh – but I was really disappointed how at Walsall
there seemed to be so much pretence & self importance about so little content .
But at least you’ve got a Gallery and I will visit the Gallery again – in anticipation !
Best of luck though with getting more works ,though from what I remember it looks like most of your budget goes on Staff and security !

Comment on One mans fight against the British Art Establishment by Cheryl Jones

Cheryl Jones — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:00:37 +0000

Hi both,
I think the cabinet is a really nice idea, people loved going through ARCHIVE, the cabinet of artists’ books we had in the library a couple of weeks ago. There’s something about being able to sift through a collection that’s exciting – I suppose its because it feels like you are discovering something rather than having it presented to you.

My favourite exhibit was in the Dean Gallery was the re-creation of Paolozzi’s studio, in fact it reminded me a little of those photos of Epstein’s studio, with all of those heads on the shelves.