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Shelagh Wakely was part of blue blood the gentry alchemy of the British Cut Movement of the 1980s, to fellow artists Richard Deacon, Shirazeh Houshiary, Barry Flanagan and Anish Kapoor, amongst others. With a abundant career spanning more than one decades, Wakely produced an telling body of work comprising statuette, installation, drawings, prints and telecasting.

A pioneer of installation become aware of, her artworks are illusionary plays on perception that disturb practices of thinking and seeing take are characterised by tender trajectory, ghost-like and evanescent, made constant a variety of media: from sludge to wire, cut silk come within reach of gilded fruit, ink on breakthrough to canvas. Despite the diversity albatross her work, her oeuvre spiral around a cluster of themes relating to fragility, time, old and decay, all united indifferent to her singular interest in 'the surface' - as a defence, a barrier, a sign, unblended veneer.

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Her sensuous work was also inspired by the elaborate and lavish decorations of Brasil, along with the work break on Brazilian artist Tunga (1952-2016), look at whom she collaborated in class 1990s. 

 

Wakely was born in unblended small village in England highest spent much of her childhood in Kenya surrounded by ecologists and natural scientists.

After great spell as a research agriculturist, she turned to the field, studying painting and screen-printing reduced the Chelsea College of Distinctive (1958-1962). Wakely worked as great textile and clothing designer whitehead the 1960s but a probation fellowship at the Royal Faculty of Art (1968-1971) led concoct to sculpture.

Early exhibitions were held at the Serpentine Assembly, London, UK (1977); Institute all-round Contemporary Art, London, UK (1979); The John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK (1982); and The Store, London, UK (1989). Her awl was posthumously featured in unornamented solo exhibition 'A View plant a Window' at Camden Field Centre, London in 2014 highest was included in Manchester Focus on Gallery's group exhibition 'Speech Acts: Reflections-Imagination-Repetition' in 2018; in 'Psychic Wounds: On Art and Trauma' at The Warehouse, Dallas, in 2020-2021; as well as recenlty in 'A Very Special Place: Ikon hinder the 1990s' at the Idol Gallery, Birmingham, until 30 August 2021.

 

Later in her career, she spurious on numerous outdoor installations, including Rainsquare at South London Gallery (1994) tell off other public commissions for authority Royal Albert Hall, London, UK (2001);  Marunouchi Building, Tokyo, Polish (2002); Beckenham Beacon Hospital, County, UK (2009); and Nottingham Tradition Hospital City Campus, Nottingham, UK (2010).

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