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James Welling: The Mind on Fire
14 September – 25 November
This is the first solo exhibition in a UK public gallery by the American artist James Welling. Comprising around a hundred and thirty works, the exhibition will recreate some of the artistʼs seminal photographic shows from New York in the early to mid 1980s, charting the development of his abstract language and experimentation with photographic effects.
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The titles used for some of the photo- graphs, including, for example, The Waterfall (1981), shown here, evoke associations with landscape, a sub- ject that Welling has been fascinated by since his adolescence.
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Sheila was nominated as an Olympic Torchbearer for all the dedication, commitment and hard work she has given to Willen Hospice as a Trustee and fundraiser. She has personally raised over £250,000 for Willen Hospice - an outstanding sum of money. Amongst her many fundraising activities, she has taken part in a parachute jump, the Extramile Challenge (2x) and marathons including London (3x), New York and the extreme Everest Challenge. She has also organised golf days, dinner dances and fashion shows. Sheila
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Willen Hospice Trustee, Sheila Kemble, had a "Moment to shine" when she lit up the streets of Aylesbury whilst carrying the Olympic Torch.
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As the Olympic torch relay entered the Buckinghamshire area, many Willen Hospice supporters lined the streets to support yet another epic run.
From the outset of his career Welling tested the parameters of photography by experimenting with the technical properties of cameras and photographic equipment.
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The Mind on Fire displays the sense of experimentation of this early period in the artistʼs career. It includes collages, paintings, notes and ephemera related to this early period, all of which culminated in an iconic series of Aluminium Foils. These small-scale silver gelatin prints of minutely crumpled aluminium foil from the restaurant he worked in at the time, offer abstract, minimal images, which have been likened to starry skies or lunar landscapes.
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In these and subsequent bodies of work, such as the photographs of fabric drapery lightly sprinkled with pastry dough, Welling investigates photographyʼs ability to produce images that are at once legible and incomprehensible.
Over 1500 ladies entered into the mooʼvellous atmosphere in Midsummer Place Shopping Centre at this yearʼs MK Midnight Moo. The herd have pledged to raise a mooʼmentus £120,000 with the final donations still to be counted.
The exhibition is presented in partnership with Centro Galego de Arte Contemporànea in Santiago de Compostela, Spain and Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver.
The ExtraMile Challenge is back and this year the team is taking on a special 500 mile trip through Luxembourg down to Paris. They are hoping to break the magic million pound mark with their fundraising!
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