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This is the website of artist John Yeadon, comprising a comprehensive selection from his extensive archive, his weblog and some information about current activities.
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24/02/26 Selected from 1965 to 2022, John Yeadon’s “Facsimile Sketchbooks” are now available to view… find them in them in the PUBLICATIONS section, right.
10/06/25 Talk delivered by John Yeadon as member of panel with Exodus Crooks and Charan Singh as part of Queer Work in Museums and Galleries: Launch of Midland Art Papers issue 8. Organised by University of Birmingham, at Birmingham Library. 10th June 2025. Full text here.
06/06/25 CISSIES LOOKING AT PHOSPHENES: John Yeadon’s Modern Art, Disco Drawing, perception, and ‘gay art’ in the early 1980s.
In this piece published in Midlands Art Papers 8, art historian Gregory Salter examines John Yeadon’s Modern Art, Disco Drawing, 1982, which depicts a group of figures in a gay disco, on the cusp of the HIV/AIDS crisis. He explores the artwork’s playful approach to perception and its unsteady relationship to left wing politics and the category of ‘gay art’.
Here is the article >
The transcribed text of the article can be found here
05/08/2024 ARTS EXCHANGE: THE CLOSE LINK WITH DRESDEN
Introduction to an article which was published on the Coventry Association for International Friendship website:
“The Coventry/Dresden Arts Exchange is an artist-led initiative founded in 2012 by John Yeadon from Coventry and his Dresden counterpart Jean Kirsten with the aim of developing dialogue and communication between artists from our two cities.
Since then there have collaborative partnerships, exhibitions, educational projects and forums. The partnership was very much strengthened by the Artists In Residents (AIR) programme, set up in 2017 to enable individual artists to visit a partner city and work there for a month or more. AIR has been supported by Arts Council England and so far, there have been ten residences in Coventry and Dresden.
Here John Yeadon describes his three visits to Dresden this year (2024) including the day he received the Fama Award for Lifetime Achievement, this awarded for artistic achievement and commitment to the partnership over an extended period of time…”
Here is the link to the full text of the article
Here is the link to the article as published on the CAIF website
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NEW FOR 2024: UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
ArtxMail. Holy Altar-Dada Altar. Sacral Museum, St Annen, Zamey, Germany.
3 x 65 Art From Wroclaw, Coventry and Dresden. Coventry Dresden Arts Exchange. Gallery Stoke 2. 15th March – 15 May, Rathaus, Dresden. Germany.
27/10/2023: EXHIBITION AT THE LTB.
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A gallery of the actual exhibition will be uploaded soon. The artwork can be viewed
here
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25/01/2023: IKON Presents: ‘There is No Masterpiece’. (26th January – 16th March 2023). The first exhibition at the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Studio at HMP Grendon, Buckinghamshire. IKON Press Release
here. Note: Not open to public.
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Englandia Series with artist Aidan Moseby at HMP Grendon.
Photo by James Latunji-Cockbill
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11/11/2022: John delivered a talk at the
IKON Gallery in Birmingham,
Queering Edward Lear, and then moved to the
SHOUT! Festival Showcase where he explored the relationship between his own paintings and a queer art history. See
here for documentation.
12/10/2022: John has today added one more of his
Art Lessons, being number 60 of a projected 101. See
here
