tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71862821074448835792011-07-31T03:21:53.160+01:00Vaughan Grylls' BlogVaughan Gryllsnoreply@blogger.comBlogger51100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186282107444883579.post-40601431401483791832010-08-02T19:45:00.001+01:002010-08-02T19:47:36.959+01:001970, The Slade and Pun-SculpturesThis exhibition of Pun-Sculptures is a reprise of my postgraduate diploma show last shown at the Slade in 1970.In 1967 after reading Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, I decided to find out more about the connection between words and objects. This led me to linguistic philosophy, in particular Ludwig Wittgenstein’s view that the definition of a word lay in its use. Up until then IRene Bachnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186282107444883579.post-39794907458992276532010-08-02T19:38:00.002+01:002010-08-02T19:45:01.625+01:00An Indo-Chinese Pun Sculpture 1973 - At the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham 2010Made as the Vietnam War reached its height, ‘An Indo-Chinese Pun-Sculpture’ consisted of an enormous enlargement of part of a photograph selected from the front page of the New York Times showing the signing of a ‘Peace Agreement’ in Paris in 1973.My installation re-presents the round table as an oblong room with the Vietcong and North Vietnamese sitting on the north wall and the South Rene Bachnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186282107444883579.post-45669696301266294322009-12-19T12:55:00.015Z2010-01-31T15:24:57.315ZAt Windsor House 55 St James’s Street, London SW1“I’m an emerging artist all over again. But I’m no YBA, I’m an EVOBA – an Emerging Very Old British Artist!”So said Vaughan Grylls in Time Out earlier this year, just before a show of his latest work opened at Sadler’s Wells. That well-received exhibition was the first major opportunity to see a new Vaughan Grylls since the 1980s when one national broadsheet had described a Vaughan Grylls as Rene Bachnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186282107444883579.post-43930052217610403712009-03-18T19:09:00.027Z2010-01-31T15:22:03.746ZMother Exhibition at Sadler's Well 10 February - 25 April 2009More InfoView 'Mother' website with background information on each woman portrayed in the artwork. View websiteVideo from Exhibitions at Sadler's WellsInterview with 'Islington Now' at Sadler's WellsRadio interviewsBBC InterviewClassic FM InterviewAbout the workThe women I portrayed in this work were role models for my mother, Muriel. Together they make up her personality and like her they had Vaughan Gryllsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186282107444883579.post-12664635162516618212007-09-10T20:02:00.001+01:002010-01-31T15:22:03.747ZPlaces That Shaped Today's Middle EastThe Dray Walk Gallery, April-May 2007Visitors written comments on the exhibition at The Dray Walk Gallery, Old Truman Brewery, London E1, April-May 2007:A moving experienceVaughan Gryllsnoreply@blogger.com