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Galleries - Whats On

Welcome to DEAN CLOUGH... home to one of the UK's most active private galleries, devoted largely to the work of leading artists in the North of England. The galleries are open between 10.00am and 5.00pm, seven days a week. This page gives details of our current exhibition programme which we hope you will enjoy. Please note, though, that there are occasions when some of the galleries will not be accessible to the public. We generally advise people to call reception (01422 250250) to check availability.

Colverson/Lloyd		HIBRIDA III: Crossley Gallery Hibrida III: Ian Colverson – Collections – Connections – Collaborations February 2nd to June 1st 2008 Featured artists include: baldessari • beuys • dos santos • donaque • dubuffet • dujardin • englemann • fransella • gross • ho • hogarth • hollar • indiana • janacheff • johns • kienholtz • parsons • phillips • picasso • lichtenstein • manuel • motherwell • nanteuil • oldenberg • ryman • seaborn • serra • schulze • simon • stella • tice • virduzzo • warhol • winters • zhang • colverson • anderson • lloyd • hick • fox • masi • and others… An exhibition that features Beuys, Hogarth, Picasso and Warhol almost HAS to be a show of fine art prints. Not only because of the expense; but also because it’s the only form that could unify such a diverse cabinet of talents. ‘Hibrida III’ is curated by Colin Lloyd, Head of Art & Design at Bradford College, from the collection of artist and fellow academic Ian Colverson. The Dean Clough show will be accompanied later this year by linked exhibitions at Cartwright Hall (UK artists) and the Yorkshire Craft Centre (continental artists) – which recalls the 'glory days' of the 70’s when Bradford's Print Biennale was a significant international event. The show in the Crossley Gallery includes various historic items, but the main focus is on US artists from 1960 to 1990. The 'names' read like a bumper episode of The South Bank Show, starting with Andy Warhol and leading on to luminaries such as Joseph Beauys, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenberg, Richard Serra, and Frank Stella. Over 40 items make for a stunning exhibition, which includes contemporary work that illustrates how such a fine collection continues to inspire regional artists.

Ebony Andrews: Cafe Couple (2006)		EBONY ANDREWS: DOMINION Upstairs Galleries February 2nd to May 25th 2008 "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth” – Genesis 1.26 Ebony Andrews gained her artistic training in Bradford and Newcastle, but currently works as a taxidermist for the Museum of Scotland. Her show, 'Dominion', involves salvaged animal parts (ie no animal has been deliberately killed to provide material for the work). The exhibits obviously comment on ‘man’s stewardship’ over the ‘animal kingdom’ and can hardly escape a sentimental reading. However, Ebony’s precise interest lies more with with the way that these animals (most of them associated with either hunting or husbandry) are 'owned' by humankind. Even her own skill of taxidermy is no more ‘real’ than David Attenborough’s BBC epics or Walt Disney’s cartoons. Ebony accentuates this ‘ownership’ by suggesting that the way we subsume animal lives is akin to the way that ‘aesthetics’ also tend to supersede the actual function of designer goods (hence the ‘inappropriate’ neon and metallic finishes). These works echo the renaissance ‘cabinet of curiosities’ whose (often false) animal exhibits were the forerunners of natural history museums. Ebony’s work is therefore a critique of knowledge, of the way we shiftily re-categorise animals in our culture according to our convenience. It is not, though, a diatribe. She herself describes the tone as switching between ‘sombre and comic’.

Harry Malkin: Moving a Bar		HARRY MALKIN: BACK TO COAL Community & Education Gallery 2nd February to 25th May 2008 “I started at Fryston colliery two weeks after leaving school aged 15 and went on until I was 35,” writes Harry Malkin. “The big miners strike of 1984–85, the closure of the pits, and the subsequent redundancy money gave me the time and impetus to carve out another way of life. “I have always drawn and made things for as long as I can remember, it is the way I communicated from a very early age. The work is regarded by fellow workers as a good rendition of the trials, tribulations and conditions that went unseen by the general populace. “Long gone are the queues of hunched up men waiting under smog-filled skies for buses-to-work at four and five in the morning. The tools of our trade are exhibited in museum cases and, like mining itself, the art which truly reflects it is also becoming a finite body of work as memories fade and those who experienced it grow fewer.”

IOU:Process		PROCESS IOU Studio February 2nd to May 30th 2008 Everyone is encouraged to see ‘Process’, but as a hard-working theatre company IOU is not able to permanently man the space. It is best to pre-arrange viewings via reception or by calling 01422 369217 For 30 years, most of them based at Dean Clough, IOU has been one of the pre-eminent UK exponents of Visual Theatre. ‘Process’ is a primarily photographic exhibition that draws not only on IOU’s work, but also on that of two other leading companies: Hoodwink and The Whalley Range All Stars. The intention is to show the meticulous ‘process’ that goes into staging work whose often dreamlike imagery is easily characterised as indulgent – when the truth is entirely otherwise...

Rich Wiles: Identity		RICH WILES Photography Gallery Rich Wiles: Portraits of Palestine February 2nd to March 30th 2008 A photographer who comes from Hull, Rich Wiles made his first visit to Palestine in 2003. The warmth of his welcome (rather than any political impulse) led to further visits, and he now finds himself committed to a book project - for which this exhibition might be a ‘taster’. It is almost impossible for any show on the Middle East to avoid being ‘timely’, but these images are a more general celebration of the human capacity to endure both gubernatorial disinterest and economic deprivation. As Rich says, “they seek neither to preach nor beg”.

Jerry Scott: Rose Forge Series no.14		JERRY SCOTT The Link Gallery Jerry Scott: The Rose Forge Series 2nd February to 30th May 2008 www.jerryscottpaintings.co.uk York-based artist Jerry Scott (b.1950) studied at Norwich and at St Martin’s School of Art in London where he was greatly influenced by Alan Gouk (b. 1939). Jerry’s lifelong enthusiasm is readily appreciated in these works, but it should not be mistaken for an absence of intellectual commitment. His own summary is as challenging as it is elucidatory: “The intention is to produce paintings whose reason to exist is coloured paint, paintings whose form and structure are the products of the imperatives of colour: intense, harmonious colours, ungarish colours, avoiding facile or gratuitously flashy combinations... paintings that are good for the eyes”.

Douglas Binder: Reclining Figure		PERMANENT AND SUPPLEMENTARY EXHIBITS Upstairs Gallery Collection Corridor & Painter in Residence Corridor Ongoing ‘Full Circle’ - a book covering the life and work of Douglas Binder - is nearing completion and should be available in late Spring. If you wish to be informed of publication please email your details to leastauklet@btconnect.com or leave your address at reception. The Dean Clough collection represents a unique insight into the practice of painting in the North of England over the last 23 years. The Collection Corridor features some of our more notable pieces, including many items by the late, Leeds-based surrealist Tony Earnshaw, the shamanistic landscapes of Derek Hyatt, and sculpture by the Art Junkies (now beloved of the Saatchi Gallery, but once unknown studio artists here at Dean Clough). The corridor outside the Community and Education Gallery features recent and ongoing work by the former curator and artist in residence Doug Binder. Doug organises a life-drawing class every Monday here at Dean Clough (to which anyone is welcome: enquire at reception) and most of his works are nude studies. We are also privileged to show a recent painting (at the top of the silver stairs) by the noted Manchester painter, David Hancock.

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