Plaything Press release

Stephen Chambers’ solo exhibition The Court of Redonda, curated by the Eagle Gallery’s Director Emma Hill, has been selected as a Collateral Event of the International Art Exhibition – La Biennale de Venezia. The exhibition takes place at Ca’ Dandolo, Grand Canal, San Polo 2879, 30100 Venice from 13 May – 26 November 2017 (Tuesday – Sunday 10 – 6pm).

The Court of Redonda – Stephen Chambers

Works by Denise de Cordova, Julia Farrer, James Fisher, Peter Rasmussen and Carolyn Thompson are currently on show in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2016 (until 21 August).

Press and Release: Technology and the Evolution of the Artist’s Book at the Phoenix Brighton, which features the work of Julia Farrer and Carolyn Thompson, is the winner of the 2016 Brighton Fringe Award for Visual Art.

Despite the difficult climate of continuing cuts to public funding for public institutions, the Eagle Gallery is delighted that over the past year we have made significant sales of our represented artists’ work to major international institutions including the Museum Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserslautern; the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Yale Center for British Art, USA.

Corporate collections Fidelity and Penguin Books, have acquired works by Mandy Bonnell and Carolyn Thompson, respectively.

Julia Farrer’s new etchings Snare I & II 2016 have been purchased by Fidelity, and Carolyn Thompson’s triptych Night Terrors 2016, by the Laurence Sterne Trust, Shandy Hall.

Both publications have been shortlisted for inclusion in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2016, alongside works by other Eagle Gallery artists Denise de Cordova and James Fisher.

Wordworks

Basil Beattie, Graham Bignell, Tracey Bush, Julia Farrer, Bruce McLean, Pete Nevin, Tracey Rowledge, Carolyn Thompson

An Eagle Gallery-curated display of texts and bookworks at 201 Bishopsgate continues to the end of May 2016.

http://www.broadgate.co.uk/wordworks

Technology and the Evolution of the Artist’s Book

30 April – 12 June 2016

The work of Julia Farrer and Carolyn Thompson features in a group exhibition curated by the US artist and gallerist Maddy Rosenberg. In an installation designed by Curious Space, the exhibition features innovative book works from across the world.

www.phoenixbrighton.org

Our new print publications by Mandy Bonnell and Carolyn Thompson have been well received and acquired by Fidelity Investments and Penguin Books, respectively.

Jane Joseph’s drawings are the subject of an exhibition A View of London
15 October – 1 April 2016 Charing Cross Hospital, Ground Floor