Telling Tales: new works by Clive Hicks-Jenkins May 10th – 28th
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Tegfryn Gallery/Oriel Tegfryn
Cadnant Road, Menai Bridge, Anglesey, LL59 5EW
Phone: Tel +44 (0)1248 715128
E-mail: tegfryn@artwales.com
OPENING HOURS
Monday-Saturday, 10:00-17:00
Sunday, 11:00-16:30
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(Top: detail from Winter Knight)
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The Works: still-life
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Ghost Hellebore with Cowrie Shell
Acrylic on gessoed panel – 38 x 38 cm – 2014
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The Chequered Curtain
Acrylic on gessoed panel – 38 x 38 cm – 2014
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The Works: Gawain and the Green Knight
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Green Knight: Gawain transfigured
Acrylic on gessoed panel. 80 x 80 cm. 2014
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Winter Knight
Acrylic on gessoed panel – 80 x 80 cm – 2014
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The Works: the landscapes of The Mare’s Tale
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Borderlands I
Acrylic on gessoed panel – 38 x 38 cm – 2014
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Borderlands II
Acrylic on gessoed panel – 38 x 38 cm – 2014
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Borderlands III
Acrylic on gessoed panel – 38 x 38 cm – 2014
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IMAGE COMING SHORTLY
Borderlands IV
Acrylic on gessoed panel – 38 x 38 cm – 2014
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The Works: saints
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The Valorous Knight
Acrylic on gessoed panel – 80 x 80 cm -2014
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Saint Kevin and the Blackbird’s Nest
Acrylic on gessoed panel – 60 x 81 cm – 2014
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Blue Hervé (Hervé and the Wolf)
Mixed Media on panel – 79 x 79 cms – 2014
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Blue Boy and Wolf (Hervé and the Wolf)
Mixed media on board – 30 x 36 cm – 2014
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Blind Blue Boy (Hervé and the Wolf)
Mixed media on board – 30 x 36 cm – 2014
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The Works: images for Glimmerglass by Marly Youmans, forthcoming from Mercer University Press, 2014
The Foliate Stag
Inked and collaged paper – 19 x 19 cm – 2014
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Owl
2014) Inked and collaged paper – 21 x 16 cm – 2014
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English Lion
Inked and collaged paper – 18 x 18 cm – 2014
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Dragon of Many Colours
Coloured pencil on paper – 25 x 27 cm – 2013
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Minotaur with a Foliate Tail
Coloured pencil on paper – 25 x 27 cm – 2013
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The Works: Shakespeare
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Oberon
Mixed media on board – 36 x 30 cm – 2014
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Titania
Mixed media on board – 36 x 30 cm – 2014
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The Works: inspired by Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale
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Flight (Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale)
Mixed media on paper – 55 x 74 cm -2013
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The Tulip Garden (Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale)
Mixed media on board – 55 x 57 cm -2013
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Joseph Dreams of Home (Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale)
Mixed media on board – 55 x 57 cm – 2013
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Soldier Joseph (Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale)
Oil pastel on paper – 41 x 33 cm – 2013
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Blue Fall (Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale)
Oil pastel and acrylic paint on gessoed panel- 80 x 80 cm – 2014
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Joseph and the Flying Bouquet (Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale)
Acrylic on gessoed panel – 80 x 80 cm – 2014
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King (Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale)
Oil pastel on paper – 43 x 35 cm – 2013
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Going Home (Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale)
Mixed media on paper – 27 x 25 cm – 2014
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Flock (Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale)
Mixed Media on Paper – 20 x 18 cm – 2014
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The Covetous Devil (Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale)
Mixed media on paper – 34 x 27 cm – 2014
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Clive Hicks-Jenkins explores a narrative tradition of painting, particularly in relation to the Welsh mumming custom of the Mari Lwyd, and in his examinations of stories with miraculous events at their hearts. His Mari Lwyd drawing, Stumbles and Cannot Rise, is in the National Museum of Wales, his re-imagining of the annunciation, The Virgin of the Goldfinches, hangs permanently in the Saint Dyfrig Chapel of Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff, and his painting Christ Writes in the Dust, was commissioned for the Methodist Collection of Twentieth Century Art held at Oxford Brookes University. For a decade he’s regularly produced works on the legendary themes of the blind Breton monk Hervé, who had a wolf for a companion, and the Irish hermit Kevin. Kevin held a nest in his outstretched hand while a blackbird laid and incubated her eggs in it, hatched them and reared her young until fledged, a legend recounted by Seamus Heaney in a poem the artist has long referenced in his paintings on the subject.
For Telling Tales: new works by Clive Hicks-Jenkins, the artist has made new works of Hervé and Kevin, and has been revisiting his Mari Lwyd theme. In 2012-13 composer Mark Bowden and Aberystwyth-born poet Damian Walford Davies made a chamber-work with a spoken libretto, taking their inspiration from the artist’s 2001 series of large black and white Mari Lwyd drawings known collectively as The Mare’s Tale. Last year Clive Hicks-Jenkins designed and directed the first performance of The Mare’s Tale, and at Oriel Tegfryn will be showing paintings he’s subsequently produced, inspired by its music and libretto.
The artist’s most recent series is based on Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale, in which Joseph the soldier unwittingly makes a pact he’ll come to regret. Last year Clive Hicks-Jenkins was commissioned to make an animated-film to accompany a performance of The Soldier’s Tale at the Hay Festival, and his new paintings further exploring the story are at the heart of the Oriel Tegfryn exhibition.
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Clive Hicks-Jenkins' Artlog: 
oh i LOVE that green winter knight, so much, and the owl and the dragon for marly’s book, and and and!! what a show!!
Hearty and heartfelt congratulations Clive! it’s a very fine body of work, you must be very pleased (and relieved) now its finished?
If i could afford it ‘Going Home’ would be coming to live with me!
What an interesting show, with lots of little sub-group clusters. Well, I am glad to be there in some sense! My glimmering sense… And now I feel a sudden urge to go play with my toy village… 🙂
Seeing all the images together is great, really brings home how imaginative and exciting this group of work is, bravo Clive! I don’t know how you’ve done it apart from buckets of hard work and talent, but it’s brilliant 🙂
Wonderful Clive. Fascinating and inspirational. I wish I was’t so far away. Val