SHELAGH WAKELY 23 Falkand
Road, London NW5 2PU, UK
COMMISSIONED LONG
LIFE WORKS
tokyo
hospital 2008
the tracing of a cherry tree and
dream flowers for eight cities for Showa hospital, Tokyo
arch bristol 2008
corten steel tracery arch of pleached
hornbeams at Temple Quay, Bristol, UK
wateryglass bristol
2008
glass patterned with a watery design at an office
entrance Temple Quay, Bristol UK
a reminder that the walkway by the office leads to a canal
rainglass
bristol
2008
glass patterned
with rain running down the glass at Ibis hotel entrance, Temple
Quay, Bristol, UK
grosvenor
gate sept 2006
bronze entry gate
for 77 Grosvenor Street, London 2006
199
knightsbridge-2
'water drawing' - portland stone
walls with glass inlay 199 Knightsbridge porte-cochere
2005
chelsea
flower show
paving
paving for 'the knightsbridge'
garden at Chelsea Flower show 2004
royal
albert hall
mosaic for South Porch Tympanum, Royal Albert
Hall, London 2003
marunouchi
tokyo
THE SHADOW OF A TREE, THE PATTERN OF THE RAIN 2002 permanent
work at Marunouchi building, Tokyo
dorset
county hospital dorchester
SILVER SCREEN 1999
aluminium trellis for a wall outside the intensive care unit
carpet
for CBSO
wool carpet for City
of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra new auditorium 1996
st georges
FIVE TABLES IN A COURTYARD
GARDEN
a work set out in 1982 for St Georges Hospital,
Tooting, London
dismantled in 2006 for hospital building
programm
SHORT LIFE WORKS
cloud
forest leaf
34. CLOUD FOREST LEAF 2005
a hand-sized leaf in thin copper - a tiny replica of a huge cloud
forest leaf eaten into by insects. Edition of 40 for ROOM, Bristol
chimera
30. golden floor
work 2002
the
practice of enchantment
29. cut and gilded silk floor
piece 1997 and a commissioned cut and gilded wall piece 1999
fruit
ghosts
2000
fruits were encased in a filigree of wire
when fresh, allowed to dry out to dust leaving their ghost
cherry
necklace 1998 to
2000
ripe cherries were laced with fine silver
wire forming a necklace; by 2000 the fruit had
become dust the silver lacing
remaining
the necklace is presented in an
acrylic box
a
cucumber in a tailored silk jacket
the silk jacket was tailored exactly to fit a ripe
cucumber - tailoring procedures of measurements, making a toile
etc. were used -
as time went on the cucumber shrunk : like an elderly person
wearing clothes of yesteryear
the jacket hung on the now shrivelled fruit.
xteresascene
FUENTE IMAGINARIA (an imaginary fountain) 2000 Ex
Templo de Santa Teresa la Antigua, Mexico city
ALFOMBRA PARA FANTASMAS (a carpet for ghosts) 2000
Ex Templo de Santa Teresa la Antigua, Mexico city
A SPACE FOR DREAMING
2000 Ex Templo de Santaa Teresa
la Antigua, Mexico city
barking
A GOLDEN
CARPET FOR BARKING
TOWN HALL SQUARE, LONDON 2000
scenesc
11.PAISAGEM INUTIL 1997 Galeria do IBEU (Instituto do
Brasil-Estado Unidos) Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro
12.SILK JACKETS first shown at Galerie Le Monde de l'Art, Paris
1997
13.ENLACED FRUITS first shown at Galerie Le Monde de l'Art,
Paris 1997
14.CHERRY NECKLACE
june 1998 and june
2000
15.OF NO ORDINARY USE
1997at Workhaus, Liverpool Bienalle
scenesb
7. AGUADORADO 1993 Museu do Acude, Rio
de Janeiro
8. PAPILLON DE NUIT 1993 Galerie du Chai,
St-Brieuc, France
9. RAINSQUARE 1994 South London Gallery, London
10. BEYOND CONSUMPTION 1997 Musee de l'Art
Moderne de la Ville de Paris
6scenes
1. THE REPRESENTATION OF A BAROQUE GARDEN 1985
Tout Quarry, Isle of Portland, UK
2. CURCUMA
SUL TRAVERTINO 1991 British School at Rome
3. DUST CULTURE NOBODYFLOOR PRECIOUS FALSE ONE 1993
4. SCARLET
SILK 1991 Palazzo Ruini, Reggio Emilia, Italy
5. SILVER SKIN 1993 Princes Quay Shopping Centre, Hull, UK
6. ACAFRAU SOBRE CONCRETO 1992 Espaco Sergio Porto, Rio de
Janeiro
PRINTS
five
seconds Lamu 2000
digital print froma 5second sequence of
video frames of the surface of the sea in Lamu, Kenya in 1999
86 x122 cm
glistening
2002
digital print
from sequence of video frames of the setting sun
reflected in the sea, St Tropez, France
99 x 135 cm
black earth
2005
digital print from a
series of video frames
42 x 58.5 cm
blue
sea 2005
digital print from a ser ies of video frames
81 x 123 cm
night
gust
2006
digital print from an 8
second
sequence of video frames of a gust of wind through the branches of a
tree in London
40 x 55.6cm
suffering earth
2008
digital print from video
frames
59 x 81 cm
flayed earth
2008
digital print from video
frames
95 x 156 cm
a
coloured jug 1980
a three colour photo etching using a single plate 1980
76 x 57 cm
a preconceived idea - a willow pattern colours the view of the
present
is this a sentence
1989
etching and
aquatint
76 x 57cm
hand drawn falling petals intermingle with the paving pattern, the
design of which is a repeated plan of a German Baroque garden
VIDEOS
egypsia
& the phenix
32.
Tunga & Shelagh Wakely 2003 a work and
performance to make a film
slit
scarlet
stills from the movie SLIT SCARLET
[12.24mins] a collaboration between Shelagh Wakely & Sarah
Sarhandi
2005
3 min excerp from slit scarlet movie
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