Goldmark 28, 2023

I am told this is our 50th year in Uppingham. Where the time has gone, I’m not quite sure, but that number seems big enough to me to warrant a celebration. So for the next four issues of our gallery magazine, we will be taking the opportunity to look back at some of the extraordinary things, people, places and events that have brought us where we are today. In this, our Spring issue, we look back ten years on from our unforgettable visit to Jingdezhen, the Chinese ‘Porcelain Capital of the World’ and home of the studio of Japanese potter Takeshi Yasuda. Elsewhere, you’ll see the spirit of the late Stanley Jones alive again in the prints of Barbara Hepworth and Paula Rego, which he so expertly ushered into the world. An issue of remembrances; I hope you enjoy it. Mike

CONTRIBUTORS

Lucy Davies is author of several books on photography and the visual arts, having served as The Telegraph’s Senior Arts Editor from 2017-2022 and as creator, in 2009, of ‘telephoto’, the paper’s first online project dedicated to art and documentary photography. She has been a jury member for several photography awards and contributed to publications including the V&A Magazine, World of Interiors, the British Journal of Photography, and for The Royal Photographic Society, the Barbican and the National Portrait Gallery. She is currently writing a forthcoming Guide to British Art. 

Robert Meyrick is an art historian, curator, educator, and Head of Aberystwyth University’s School of Art. He originally trained in fine art and art history and now writes on aspects of 20th-century British printmaking, art in Wales, and on collecting and collections. His monographs include The Etchings and Engravings of Edgar Holloway (Scolar, 1996), John Elwyn (Scolar, 2000), Sydney Lee: Prints, A Catalogue Raisonné (RA, 2012) and, with his husband Dr Harry Heuser, Claudia Williams (Sansom, 2013), Gwilym Prichard: A Lifetime’s Gazing (Sansom, 2013), Stanley Anderson: Prints, A Catalogue Raisonné (RA, 2015), and Charles Tunnicliffe: Prints, A Catalogue Raisonné (RA, 2017). 

Gavin Bryars is a celebrated composer, bassist, pataphysician and a frequent collaborator with other composers, choreo-graphers and visual artists, including John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Bruce McLean, James Hugonin, and Juan Muñoz. His groundbreaking early compositions The Sinking of the Titanic (1969) and Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet (1971) explored indeterminately scored music and were both recorded for Brian Eno’s Obscure Editions label. In this issue he discusses his musical accompaniment to John Berger and John Christie’s beloved I Send You This Cadmium Red.