11th November  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.   Here is a link to a gallery of photographs documenting both of the above events > IKON INSTALLATION Full and very interesting details here > https://www.ikon-gallery.org/event/artist-talk-queering-edward-lear/ _

During 2021 Coventry’s year as City of Culture John exhibited in A Very Special Place at the Ikon in Birmingham (also teaching on the Ikon Youth Programme) and exhibited in the 3rd Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art 2021 His Modern Art – Disco Drawing in Coventry Biennial at the Herbert Art Gallery and his Miners Wives banner in the History Gallery at the Herbert were highlighted by Array Collective (winners of the Turner Prize 2021) as these works resonated with […]

Yes, held between 29 April – 11 June, back by popular demand came: John Yeadon’s END OF THE PIER SHOW, featuring Tommy and Friends. An exhibition of drawings and paintings by John Yeadon of his grandmother’s and mother’s ventriloquist dummies, with Laughing Sailors and Sidney the Fortune Teller. _   LTB Showrooms First floor, Mezzanine  The Litten Tree 1 Warwick Row Coventry CV1 1EX

You might be interested in this: a feature produced by John’s friend Kevin Hopper in celebration of his seventieth year with a look around the retrospective exhibition held at the CET Building in Coventry in 2018, alongside an exclusive interview. Enjoy. – –     JY @ CET – WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS?

April 30th 2021: New addition – The State Of It: The White Pube Jonathan Trayner interviews John Yeadon, Jeremy Deller and Ed Hall. Digital download. 2021 Take a look!

  PERFORMANCE, VIDEOS & OTHER STUFF “Here is a collection of links, collaborations, extramural activity and miscellaneous work that does not follow the trajectory of Yeadon’s production as implied in the ART category on the website menu. This category demonstrates the true eclecticism of Yeadon’s nature and his interdisciplinary activity, and it also includes some interviews“

CONDITION HUMAINE  With fellow Coventry artist Lisa Gunn and alongside Kerstin Franke-Gneuss and Monika Marten from Dresden, John is participating in the “Condition Humaine” exhibition, which is showing at Kreuzkirche in Dresden. This is another episode in the Coventry/Dresden Arts Exchange. The show finishes on 6th March. Full reports and photos to follow. [click on thumbnail to view full-size image]        

*  FEARFUL SYMMETRY   JOHN YEADON AT 70   This is the third selective retrospective exhibition of work in celebration of Yeadon’s 70th birthday.      JY says of this show: “Following the theme of these two previous exhibitions I compare 1980s work with my recent return to painting. Previous to this I had over a decade of digital work and even with these three venues it was felt that there was not enough space to do justice to a comprehensive […]

What’s the Meaning of This? John Yeadon at 70 This exhibition was a selective retrospective view of paintings produced in the 1980s alongside Yeadon’s more recent work, held at the Newsroom Gallery at the old Coventry Evening Telegraph building in Coventry 18th May – June 15th 2018.       “John Yeadon looks back to his 1984 Dirty Tricks exhibition at the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum in Coventry and compares this work with his recent paintings. Thirty-four years ago this controversial […]

For the record … text from JY’s homepage relating to the recent Three Witches exhibition: Exhibition – Three Witches.. Yeadon at 70 The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park brings together John Yeadon’s 1982 ‘Portrait of a Dead WITCH’ and his recent second version of this, the worlds oldest working computer, ‘It’s Alive. Harwell/Dekatron WITCH, 2017’. March 7th 2019: Please note that the exhibition period has been extended until the end of April. The latest NMOC Press Release can […]