brenda j mayo
Sculpture and artefacts for sale & garden view.
Meet the artists: Friday Evening (Wine served 5-7.30)
It was my great privilege to photograph the exhibition and sale of such wonderful work in a location situated in the same village as my family home. I hope the following images will stand as suitable testimony to this highly successful event. Simeon Hunter
The Cambridge Critique offered the following words about Brenda Mayo’s latest designs:
Brenda Mayo - A Life of Art in Fashion (click link to open in new window)
For sale, unique work by Artists:
Alan Foxley, Andrew Jones, Brenda Mayo, Carol Sinclair,
Chris Wood, Daphne Carnegy, Dragan Corovic, Edward Willis,
Emi Gordon, Eric Marland, Irena Sibrijns, Joe Smith, Lida Kindersley,
Lucy Lutyens, Mark Evans, Matthew Szekely, Paul Richardson,
Richard Bray, Richard Staughton, Sarah Walton, Sophie MacCarthy, Toby Winterbourn
Wrapping Jacket worn over Winter Kimono
Hand Dyed Silks, Work in Progress, Worn for the Private View
kings place
90 York Way, London, N1 9AG
Box Office on 020 7520 1490
Spoken Word Saturday / Hall Two as part of the Poet in the City event Poetry & Lyrics
£14.50 / £12.50 / Savers £9.50 Click HERE for tickets
Brenda Mayo
Van Huynh Company
Matt Wright
Elaine Mitchener
‘To consider the Song Books as a work of art is nearly impossible. Who would dare? It resembles a brothel, doesn’t it?’ John Cage
In collaboration with Elaine Mitchener Projects, we are delighted to present an event celebrating the lyricism of John Cage’s iconic Song Books.
Published in 1970 the Song Books were written on commission for Cathy Berberian and Simone Rist. Cage consulted the I ching (the Chinese oracle book) to determine how many songs would go into each book: 56 and 34 were the responses. This left him with the ridiculous task of writing ninety new pieces for a solo singer in only three months. For each song Cage had to ask three questions and receive the answers by tossing coins and consulting the I ching. The answers would give him instructions on how to discover this solo. Both volumes are a diverse, cornucopia of innovative musical ideas, code and fragments that reconsider the lyric in an unlikely, asyntactical guise. Shards of text disrupt and distract, demonstrating his famous claim that ‘there is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing’.
These songs have delighted and beguiled audiences and vocalists alike in equal measure since their first staging with their notes such as ‘perform a disciplined action’. His relationship with his Black Mountain College contemporaries such as Charles Olsen and Alan Ginsberg shines through the works.
Elaine Mitchener Projects present a Cagean happening where we will wander and explore the Song Books, take our own path, ask our own questions and join the adventure.
‘Mitchener drove a thrilling performance’ The Times
‘Constantly surprising and superbly executed’ The Guardian
‘Mitchener is a genre-crossing virtuoso’ Financial Times
Brenda Mayo
Van Huynh Company
Matt Wright
Elaine Mitchener
kings place
90 York Way, London, N1 9AG
map / transport
Box Office: 020 7520 1490
Spoken Word Saturday / Hall Two as part of the Poet in the City event Poetry & Lyrics
As part of a collaboration with Tansy Davies, Composer in Residence
and other works by invited artists
Curated by Hugh Pilkington
