Guest artist FIONA GRADY

joins me to chat about her work via Jun'ichirō Tanazaki's 1933 essay 'In Praise of Shadows'. The text describes eastern aesthetics being driven by the west, resulting in the loss of Japanese tradition and the loss of the shadow. 

Fiona Grady and I discuss her own praise of shadows, working with semi translucent colours on glass, wall murals and watercolours which celebrate subtlety, reflection and the elusiveness of the object of which, I'm quite certain, Tanazaki would approve. 

FIONA GRADY

fionagrady.co.uk

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'Close to Home: The Everyday Sublime' JGM Gallery til 25 Sep 2021

'Kaleidoscope Prisms' Canary Wharf til end October 2021

'The Factory Project' October 2021

upcoming at The Foundry Gallery 2022

ARTISTS & CURATORS

Alfred Hitchcock

Anna Lytridou

Anne Veronica Janssens

Beatriz Milhazes

Ben McDonnell

Bridget Riley

Charley Peters

Daniel Buren

David Batchelor

Eric Thorpe

Félix González-Torres

Fumio Asakura

Gordon Matta-Clark

Hannah Luxton

James Turrell

Jane Hayes Greenwood

Julie F Hill

Linda Hemmersbach 

Nick Stavri

Poppy Whatmore

Sol leWitt

Tim Ralston

Vivienne Maier

Yukako Shibata

BOOKS

Haruki Murakami 'Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World' 1985

Leonard Koren 'Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers' 1984

Maggie Nelson 'The Argonauts' 2015

GALLERIES & ART ORGANISATIONS

Artist's Support Pledge

Asakura Museum of Sculpture

Bauhaus

Derix Glasstudios, Germany

JGM Gallery, London

Kevin Gauld Architecture

Leeds Arts University

Nightingale Arts

'Passengers' Residency, The Brunswick Centre

Projekt

Recreational Grounds

Sid Motion Gallery

The Art Station, Suffolk

The Foundry Gallery

White Conduit Projects, London