John Welding, as mentioned in this previous post, has an exhibition of his work documenting the city of Wakefield at Wakefield Art Gallery currently. He’s been working for months, out on the streets of Wakefield in all weathers to sketch the city around him. Once back in the studio the work is transferred to huge rolls of paper, 10 metres long and 1.5 metres tall. All in all there’s 50 metres of gorgeous artwork on the walls of Wakefield Art Gallery in what proved to be a beautiful exhibition.
I visited it today and it’s a wonderful success. There’s no way to get across on the webpage how grand and epic in scale this artwork is, but here is just the merest taster
(all images © copyright John Welding):
(First image of the exhibition, the artist sketching outside Wakefield Art Gallery)
(Superstructure, looking at some of the huge machinery overhead in the regeneration of the city)
(Detail from Superstructure, showing the absolute beauty of Welding’s work)
(Final image, with the artist finishing his long journey at the site of the new art gallery: The Hepworth)
The exhibition runs until June 22nd. Please do your best to get along to see it. Even better, go and see it and then contact:
Wakefield Art Gallery – to tell them how good it was and petition them to put the completed work on permanent display in the new Hepworth Gallery.
John Welding himself and try to convince him to get his work into print again. I’d love to see a collection of his extensive works.
(Just some of John Welding’s published work – unavailable for too long)
John Welding’s website, his blog.
I’ve also put a lot more of the images from the day over on my own weblog.
Click here to start with part 1.
Mon, Apr 28, 2008
Art and animation, Comics and cartoons, Conventions and events, General