Gill Hedleyback
Writer and Curator
Writing
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- Arthur Jeffress biography and other writing
Arthur Jeffress is the subject of a major biography by Gill Hedley
→ note on publication of the biography A Life in Art published by Bloomsbury April 2020. ISBN 978-1-8386-0281-9 → outline of biography of Arthur Jeffress→ paper Arthur Jeffress for Painting on Arthur Jeffress and the Hanover Gallery
→ Arthur Jeffress and his gallery's Manifesto for Painting
- Erica Brausen memoir and photos
Erica set up the Hanover Gallery in London and was Francis Bacon's first dealer.
→ memoir of Erica Brausen written by Jean-Yves Mock, translated by Gill Hedley→ French original of memoir (PDF)
→ English translation of memoir (PDF)
→ photographs of Erica Brausen provided by Jean-Yves Mock
- AXISweb articles
AXIS is the online resource for UK contemporary art. (www)
→ article on the new galleries in Fitzrovia, April 2012
→ review of the new Jerwood Gallery as A Postcard from Hastings, April 2012 Each year the AXIS MAstars programme invites curators to select and write about an MA student from that summer’s student shows (www).
→ Sonke Faltien, 2011
→ Sascha Mikloweit, 2010
→ Maya Ramsay, 2009
→ Kate Owen, 2008
→ article on the new galleries in Fitzrovia, April 2012
→ review of the new Jerwood Gallery as A Postcard from Hastings, April 2012 Each year the AXIS MAstars programme invites curators to select and write about an MA student from that summer’s student shows (www).
→ Sonke Faltien, 2011
→ Sascha Mikloweit, 2010
→ Maya Ramsay, 2009
→ Kate Owen, 2008
- Books and major catalogues
→ in preparation, biography of Noel Evelyn Norton. Possibly due 2024
→ note on publication of biography Arthur Jeffress, A Life in Art,
published by Bloomsbury, April 2020. ISBN 978-1-8386-0281-9
→ Julia Manheim The Shifting Emphasis.
Published by Bellew Publishing in collaboration with Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, 1995.
Foreword by the editor Barbara Taylor. ISBN 1 85725 107 5
→ New Voices British Council, 1992, with an essay
about the
YBAs by Gill Hedley and comprehensive biographical and bibliographical notes. ISBN 0 86355 142 4
→ Pleasure Grounds: The Gardens and Landscapes
of Hampshire, edited by Gill Hedley and Adrian Rance and published by Milestone Publications,
with a foreword by Sir Hugh Casson. In connection with the exhibition of the same name at
Southampton Art Gallery, 1987. ISBN 1 85265 104 0
→ exhibition catalogue for Capability Brown and the Northern
Landscape a Tyne and Wear County Council Museums exhibition, 1983.
ISBN 13: 9780905974125
→ exhibition catalogue for The Picturesque Tour in Northumberland
and Durham c.1720-1830 at the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
April-May, 1982. Published by Tyne and Wear County Council Museums. ISBN 0 905974 06 9
→ magazine article on The Picturesque Tour
(PDF)→ co-writer of An Anthology of Victorian and
Edwardian Paintings from the collection of the City Art Gallery, Bristol.
Catalogue for exhibition at the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Oct 1975.
- Catalogue essays for a variety of exhibitions
→ The Muriel Wilson Bequest for Pallant House Gallery exhibition, Feb 2020
→ Pioneers of Pop, Hatton Gallery, Oct 2017
→ Ann Sutton On The Grid, Gallery Oldham, Dec 2016 (PDF)
→ Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva Wall Veil, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham, Sept 2016 (PDF)
→ These Paper Bullets of the Brain, British Art Collection, Osten, Macedonia, 2016 (PDF)
→ A.R. Hopwood False Memory Archive, introduction to online edition, 2015 (PDF) → Jacob Epstein Babies and Bloomsbury, Foundling Museum, Jan 2015 (PDF)
→ Dillwyn Smith Dirty Linen, Patricke Heide Contemporary Art, Oct 2014
→ Ann Sutton Counterpoint, Patricke Heide Contemporary Art, summer 2014 (PDF)
→ Permindar Kaur We Are All Wild Things, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham, Feb 2014
→ Sigune Hamann In The Name Of, DLI Museum, July 2013
→ Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva Silentio Pathologia, Macedonian Pavilion, Venice Biennale, June 2013
→ Fernanda Fragateiro Not Connecting, Gulbenkian Foundation (UK), May 2013 (PDF)
→ Ann Sutton's new work in 2013, with commentary by Gill Hedley (PDF)
→ Colin Booth Institute of Play, Laing Art Gallery, May 2011
→ Mat Collishaw, Tracey Emin & Paula Rego at the Foundling, Foundling Museum, 2010
→ John Kindness An English Interior, Foundling Museum, 2008
→ Passed as Present, the Lodeveans Collection, York City Art Gallery, 2008
→ Summer exhibition Florence Trust, 2008
→ RSVP: Contemporary artists at the Foundling, Foundling Museum, 2007
→ Freeze 20: 1988 Before and After, The Hospital Club, July 2007
→ Treasure Island, essay for catalogue for Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, 1997
→ The Mag Collection, Ferens Art Gallery, 1997
→ Ray Smith Flower Paintings, Barbican Concourse Gallery, 1997
→ Sizing Up, new work by Julia Manheim, Southampton City Art Gallery, 1987
→ Ann Sutton On The Grid, Gallery Oldham, Dec 2016 (PDF)
→ Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva Wall Veil, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham, Sept 2016 (PDF)
→ These Paper Bullets of the Brain, British Art Collection, Osten, Macedonia, 2016 (PDF)
→ A.R. Hopwood False Memory Archive, introduction to online edition, 2015 (PDF) → Jacob Epstein Babies and Bloomsbury, Foundling Museum, Jan 2015 (PDF)
→ Dillwyn Smith Dirty Linen, Patricke Heide Contemporary Art, Oct 2014
→ Ann Sutton Counterpoint, Patricke Heide Contemporary Art, summer 2014 (PDF)
→ Permindar Kaur We Are All Wild Things, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham, Feb 2014
→ Sigune Hamann In The Name Of, DLI Museum, July 2013
→ Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva Silentio Pathologia, Macedonian Pavilion, Venice Biennale, June 2013
→ Fernanda Fragateiro Not Connecting, Gulbenkian Foundation (UK), May 2013 (PDF)
→ Ann Sutton's new work in 2013, with commentary by Gill Hedley (PDF)
→ Colin Booth Institute of Play, Laing Art Gallery, May 2011
→ Mat Collishaw, Tracey Emin & Paula Rego at the Foundling, Foundling Museum, 2010
→ John Kindness An English Interior, Foundling Museum, 2008
→ Passed as Present, the Lodeveans Collection, York City Art Gallery, 2008
→ Summer exhibition Florence Trust, 2008
→ RSVP: Contemporary artists at the Foundling, Foundling Museum, 2007
→ Freeze 20: 1988 Before and After, The Hospital Club, July 2007
→ Treasure Island, essay for catalogue for Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, 1997
→ The Mag Collection, Ferens Art Gallery, 1997
→ Ray Smith Flower Paintings, Barbican Concourse Gallery, 1997
→ Sizing Up, new work by Julia Manheim, Southampton City Art Gallery, 1987
- Conference papers
→ Arthur Jeffress for Painting
Arthur Jeffress and the Hanover Gallery, Art Historian's Conference, April 2013
→ A Developing Process Richard Hamilton as Teacher 1953-1966, Newcastle upon Tyne, May 2013
→ A Developing Process Richard Hamilton as Teacher 1953-1966, Newcastle upon Tyne, May 2013
- Dictionary of National Biography DNB
- Sculpture Journal essays
→ Use of Text in the work of recent British artists, 2009
→ Critical Approaches to the work of Anish Kapoor, 2008
→ Critical Approaches to the work of Anish Kapoor, 2008
- Art Monthly exhibition reviews
Art Monthly, the UK's leading contemporary art magazine
(www)
→ Simple Matters George Meyrick at the Exchange Gallery in Penzance, March 2012
→ Naming Spaces Jyll Bradley at the Exchange Gallery in Penzance, April 2010
→ Simple Matters George Meyrick at the Exchange Gallery in Penzance, March 2012
→ Naming Spaces Jyll Bradley at the Exchange Gallery in Penzance, April 2010
- Other writing
→ article and powerpoint on Henry Flitcroft
for the Georgian Group (www)
→ article 'A subversive little collection': the story of the Arthur Jeffress Bequest to Southampton City Art Gallery and Tate for the ArtUK website, April 2020 (www)
→ essay Movers and Shakers for the Royal Academy Magazine on three post-war female gallerists, 2016
→ obituary of Nancy Balfour for the Guardian, Sept 1997
→ review of exhibition by Richard Wentworth for the Burlington Magazine, March 1994
→ Inflationary Spiral, article for Crafts magazine on exhibition by Julia Manheim in Southampton City Art Gallery, 1987 → review of the Eighth British International Print Biennale Cartwright Hall, Bradford, 1984
→ information sheet The New Sculpture: Romantic Bronzes for Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1977 (PDF)
→ booklet Artists in Newcastle upon Tyne 1820-1900 (PDF) → Paintings of the Edwardian Era, Laing Art Gallery, 1976
→ George Horton, Laing Art Gallery, 1976
→ article 'A subversive little collection': the story of the Arthur Jeffress Bequest to Southampton City Art Gallery and Tate for the ArtUK website, April 2020 (www)
→ essay Movers and Shakers for the Royal Academy Magazine on three post-war female gallerists, 2016
→ In My Fashion:
Jacob Epstein and his wives and children, radio drama script, 2016
→ essay A Purgatory Before Paradise
about the CAS's collection policy, 2000 (PDF)→ obituary of Nancy Balfour for the Guardian, Sept 1997
→ review of exhibition by Richard Wentworth for the Burlington Magazine, March 1994
→ Inflationary Spiral, article for Crafts magazine on exhibition by Julia Manheim in Southampton City Art Gallery, 1987 → review of the Eighth British International Print Biennale Cartwright Hall, Bradford, 1984
→ information sheet The New Sculpture: Romantic Bronzes for Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1977 (PDF)
→ booklet Artists in Newcastle upon Tyne 1820-1900 (PDF) → Paintings of the Edwardian Era, Laing Art Gallery, 1976
→ George Horton, Laing Art Gallery, 1976
Gill Hedley is a writer, an independent curator and a consultant on contemporary visual arts. You will need Adobe Acrobat to view PDF documents.
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