SHELAGH WAKELY  23 Falkand Road, London NW5 2PU,  UK 



a coloured jug     1980
a  three colour photo etching using a single plate   1980
a preconceived idea - of China perhaps -  colours the view of the present

is this a sentence    1989
etching and aquatint    
hand drawn falling petals intermingle with the paving pattern, the design of which is a repeated plan of a German Baroque garden


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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  
 
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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
   
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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 
 

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19.FUENTE IMAGINARIA (an imaginary fountain)  2000   Ex Templo de Santa Teresa la Antigua, Mexico city
20.ALFOMBRA PARA FANTASMAS (a carpet for ghosts)   2000   
Ex Templo de Santa Teresa la Antigua, Mexico city
21.A SPACE FOR DREAMING   2000   Ex Templo de Santaa Teresa la Antigua, Mexico city

barking  

22.A GOLDEN CARPET FOR BARKING TOWN HALL SQUARE, LONDON   2000
   
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 


st georges
25.FIVE TABLES IN A COURTYARD GARDEN  a work set out in 1982  for  St Georges Hospital, Tooting, London dismantled in 2006 for  hospital  building programme

dorset county hospital dorchester
28. SILVER SCREEN   1999  aluminium trellis for  a wall outside the intensive care unit

 

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  1998 forming  a necklace,  by 2000 the fruit had become dust the silver necklace and the cherry stones remaining
the necklace is presented in a  jewel box

a cucumber in a tailored silk jacket  

the silk acket was tailored  exactly to fit a ripe cucumber  - tailoring procedures of measurements, making a toile etcbeing used -  as time went on the cucumber  shrunk within its coat until, like an elderly person wearing clothes of yesteryear, the jacket hung on the now shrivelled fruit

marunouchi tokyo
26.THE SHADOW OF A TREE, THE PATTERN OF THE RAIN  2002 permanent work  at Marunouchi building, Tokyo

royal albert hall
27. mosaic for South Porch Tympanum, Royal Albert Hall, London 2003

the practice of enchantment
29. cut and gilded silk floor piece 1997 and a commissioned  cut and gilded wall piece 1999

chimera
30. golden floor work  2002
 

carpet for CBSO
31.  wool carpet for City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra  new auditorium   1996

egypsia & the phenix
32.  Tunga & Shelagh Wakely   2003   a work and performance to make a film

199 knightsbridge-2
33.WATER DRAWING  portland stone walls with glass inlay in the porte cochere at 199 Knightsbridge  2005

chelsea  flower show paving 
28. paving for 'the knightsbridge' garden at Chelsea Flower show  2004

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


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
slit scarlet movie


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 series 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

grosvenor gate  sept 2006
bronze entry gate for 77 Grosvenor Street, London    2006

tokyo hospital   2008
the tracing of a cherry tree and  dream flowers for eight cities for  Showa hospital, Tokyo 

arch bristol  2008
cor-ten steel tracery arch of pleached hornbeams at Temple Meades, Bristol, UK

wateryglass bristol  2008
glass patterned with  a watery design  at  an office entrance, a reminder that the walkway by the office leads to a canal

rainglass bristol  2008
glass patterned with  rain running down the glass at  an hotel entrance



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