2023 News Archive
- Mon, 25 Sep 2023 15:35:30 | My sculpture ‘Divinity’ at Farleys House and GalleryThere’s still time to visit Farleys, home of Lee Miller, and the sculpture garden where my ‘Divinity’ is placed, before it closes for the winter months at the end of October. Below is an translated excerpt from Claire Guillot’s article in Le Monde July 2022: Reporter de guerre, photographe de mode, mannequin… Lee Miller, bien plus … Continue reading "Recent, Current & Future Projects"
- Sun, 24 Sep 2023 16:02:06 | If Not Now, When? goes to Saatchi GalleryLink for Saatchi Gallery: https://www.saatchigallery.com/
- Sun, 24 Sep 2023 14:47:43 | If Not Now, When? Hepworth Wakefield Guardian ReviewTo see the complete review, follow the link: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/apr/03/if-not-now-when-review-wakefield-post-hepworth-survey-female-narrative-sculpture
- Fri, 17 Mar 2023 14:17:35 | Review of my exhibition at The WilliamsonA review of my exhibition They Think They are Fallen Angels at The Williamson Art Gallery and Museum, Wirral, has been published by Nina Newbold in Corridor8. Link: Christine Kowal Post: They Think They Are Fallen Angels — Corridor8
- Tue, 07 Mar 2023 19:23:39 | THE HEPWORTH WAKEFIELD – IF NOT NOW, WHEN?Generations of Women in Sculpture in Britain, 1960 – 2022 Delighted to include some of my Amazons, including Menstruating Amazon. The exhibition opens to the public on 31 March until 24 September 2023.
- Wed, 07 Dec 2022 13:34:27 | They Think They are Fallen AngelsNow at the Williamson Art Gallery and Museum, Birkenhead until 25 February 2023 I am delighted to be exhibiting at the Williamson again, my exhibition includes my installations ‘They Think they are Fallen Angels’, ‘Wolfpack’, ‘Alien Invaders’ and my ‘Amazons’, as well as new relief carvings and paintings.
- Mon, 10 May 2021 19:28:59 | Christine Kowal Post in Conversation
- Mon, 10 May 2021 19:16:41 | Christine Kowal Post: Sculptors’ techniquesRecently took part in an Art UK film produced by Culture Street. Art UK is an online resource for every public collection in the UK. Culture Street introduce contemporary artists to young people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKs-pot9U3E
- Wed, 28 Apr 2021 20:10:13 | ‘Divinity’ at Farleys Sculpture Garden
- Fri, 28 Aug 2020 17:08:43 | Some PaintingDuring lockdown I have returned to some painting . This allows me to explore some themes which could not easily be realised through sculpture. Going to the River to Drown. Oil on canvas, circa 80 x 100 cm.
- Fri, 28 Aug 2020 16:50:03 | Exhibition – Williamson Art Gallery and MuseumMy planned exhibition at the Williamson Art Gallery and Museum has been postponed due to Covid-19, and is now rescheduled for July-September 2021. Title: Homo sapiens Oil and metal leaf on limewood, H. 75 cms Self portrait from my installation Alien Invaders. You will find more information about the Alien Invaders on my website under Beast. … Continue reading "Recent, Current & Future Projects"
- Fri, 28 Aug 2020 16:16:10 | New Book – 50 Women SculptorsDelighted to be included in 50 Women Sculptors published by Aurora Metro Books
- Fri, 28 Aug 2020 16:01:22 | Regarding Covid-19When I was a child in Africa, infection, disease and injury seemed ever present and that experience has always stayed with me even though rates of mortality there have plummeted since then. My exhibition Corporeal Insults in 1999 at the Williamson Art Gallery in Birkenhead and the Künstlerhaus Ulm in Germany, explored this issue, but … Continue reading "Recent, Current & Future Projects"
- Sun, 22 Jul 2018 17:45:38 | FORM AND FORMALITYBreeze Art and Makers Fair 14 – 16 September 2018, FORM AND FORMALITY at Trereife House, Penzance, Cornwall
- Mon, 09 Oct 2017 16:00:03 | Dreams and FearsExhibition coming up in Stuttgart. Opening Friday 10 November until 8 January 2018. Galerie im Gustav Siegle Haus, Leonhardsplatz 28, Stuttgart 70182. Tuesdays to Saturdays open 15 -19
- Fri, 19 May 2017 17:41:25 | Tate Modern workshop 8-14s-studioSecond workshop at Tate Modern as collaborating sculptor with choreographer Freddie Opoku Addaie. Friedel Buecking and I made dozens of hands for dance projects which are now being used in a ‘movement with objects’ workshop. http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/workshop/8-14s-studio
- Tue, 25 Apr 2017 12:49:17 | Joint exhibition ‘Strong’ at Naked Eye Gallery, Brighton until the end of May 2017
- Tue, 14 Feb 2017 22:04:48 | My solo exhibition at the Royal Cambrian Academy in Conwy, North Wales has started
- Wed, 23 Nov 2016 23:05:50 | Fabelhaft (Fabulous) at Landshut, BavariaExhibition continues until 9 December
- Thu, 06 Oct 2016 17:39:02 | FABELHAFT (=FABULOUS) Exhibition in Landshut, Bavaria begins 15 October – 11 December 2016
- Fri, 12 Aug 2016 16:50:57 | Amazon and FoxSculptures all gone off to Landshut except for Amazon and Fox which is now finished but will go with me in October for the opening.
- Sun, 01 May 2016 07:35:40 | Blackheath Gallery May 2016I am exhibiting five woodcarvings in the Corpus exhibition at Blackheath Gallery, which opens 7th May to 18th June 2016. Woman and Cockerel will be there.
- Tue, 15 Mar 2016 07:43:59 | Landshut October 14 – December 9 2016I am invited by Kontur.Kunstverein Stuttgart to show my eight Amazons in Landshut near Munich in Germany later this year. Only problem is until recently I only had six Amazons.
- Tue, 23 Feb 2016 14:15:29 | ‘Dreams and Fears’ – Kontur. Kunstverein Stüttgart 2017Got a small group of dogs together so far. Here are two of them. Hoping to carve at least 10, hopefully more, to make a respectable and sinister pack for the Stuttgart exhibition in Germany next year.
- Wed, 03 Feb 2016 11:17:19 | Project: Alien InvadersThe term ‘alien invaders’ is used by ecologists and conservation biologists as a scientific term, but it has a clear value-judgement and obvious resonance with modern political issues concerning human migration.
- Tue, 01 Sep 2015 08:40:21 | FelixI was full of sorrow when I painted this in the week that our old boy Felix passed away.
- Wed, 05 Aug 2015 08:46:14 | Stone HeadI don’t carve stone very much, though the approach is more or less the same, i.e. removing from the block to reveal what’s within, but the details of the technique are surprisingly different. I intend to do some more in future,
