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Michael Brennand-Wood
Visual artist, curator, lecturer, arts consultant, since 1979 he has occupied a central position in the research, origination and advocacy of contemporary international art textiles. He has exhibited in major galleries and museums worldwide, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa.
His work can be seen in private, public and corporate collections worldwide. He won The Creative Concept Award in 1987 and The Fine Art Award in 1989 at the International Textile Competition in Kyoto, followed by the first RSA Art for Architecture Award 1990. In 1990 he was awarded a Distinguished Visiting Fellowship, British Council, City University, Kyoto, Japan. In 1992 he was 1st Prize Winner at the 3rd International Betonac Prize in Belgium.
From 2001-08 he was awarded an Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts in conjunction with the University of Ulster to research geometrical complexity in Central Asian textiles at Ulster University, Belfast. In 2007 he won the Fine Art Award, Phaff Art Embroidery Still Life in France. In 2013 he was awarded a residency in Australia through C
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To mark its fifth birthday, Taste Contemporary is proud to announce Five Cubed; an ambitious exhibition presenting an exciting group of artists working across the fields of contemporary ceramics and textiles. Presented as part of the 16th edition of Parcours Céramique Carougeois, Five Cubed takes place at La Fonderie Kugler.
Participating artists
Laura Angell, Martin Bodilsen Kaldahl, Michael Brennand Wood, Kari Dyrdal, Philip Eglin, Matthew Harris, Virginia Leonard, Ptolemy Mann, Mary O’Malley, Aneta Regel
Gallery artists Philip Eglin, Aneta Regel and Virginia Leonard – now familiar to Geneva audiences – are joined by new artists to the gallery, Mary O’Malley and Martin Bodilsen Kaldahl. Eglin’s large scale vessel and bucket forms challenge the viewer while Leonard’s painterly approach is evident in her intensely emotional and emotive sculptural works. Utilising colour in a very different way, the industrial forms of Bodilsen Kaldahl’s work respond directly to the architecture of the building while Regel’s textured life size pieces bring strong natural elements into the space. O’Mally takes a much more socio-political stance as she looks at the history of Chinese export ware through a very humerous 21st Century lens.
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