Cissies Looking at Phosphenes: John Yeadon’s Modern Art, Disco Drawing, perception, and ‘gay art’ in the early 1980s 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’. Gregory Salter Collection: Herbert Museum And Art Gallery, Coventry [https://www.theherbert.org/] Keywords: […]

SIMILARITIES. By Anke Fröhlich-Schauseil Article published in 27 July 2024 Culture, article Dresdener Neueste Nochrickten Two influential artists: John Yeadon and Max Uhlig received the FAMA Lifetime Achievement Award at the Palais Summer in Dresden. Two award winners: John Yeadon in front of his painting ‘Dignity and Impudence ’from 2023Photo: Hendrik Meyer Max Uhlig (*1937) and John Yeadon (*1948), two painters and printmakers who can each look back on a great life’s work, were honoured at the Dresden Palais Summer. […]

….. as member of panel with Exodus Crooks and Charan Singh.Queer Work in Museums and Galleries.Launch of Midland Art Papers issue 8.Organised by University of Birmingham, at Birmingham Library. Nice to know that I’m now old enough to be history.Thanks to Gregory Salter for his article. I had thought that the writing of art history had ceased ever since Francis Fukuyama got his 15 minutes of fame in 1992 by triumphantly declaring the ‘End of history’, supposedly we were entering […]

My Little Kafkaesque Story. My ‘Portrait of a Dead Witch’, a 9ft x 7ft painting from 1983, is of the Witch computer. The Harwell Dekatron/Witch computer was built in 1949 and first ran in 1951, it was titled Witch (Wolverhampton Instrument for Teaching Computing from Harwell) when it moved from Harwell to Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Technical College in 1957. From 1973 to 1997 the defunct machine formed part of the exhibition in Birmingham Museum of Science and Industry, where in […]

John Yeadon appears alongside Barack Obama, George Clooney, Bill Clinton and Jeremy Paxman. The article looks at the appeal of the ‘Silver Fox’, men who are stylish and over 45, who ‘exude a dignified glamour’. Fame or shame?

In The Morning Star, 26/7 May 2012. By Christine Lindey.

  ARTERY 1971 – 1984 17 MAY – 23 JUNE 2012  Rob Tufnell @ 83 Page St London SW1P 4HA An exhibition of Artery magazine’s archive and associated works by artists, musicians and directors including: Cinema Action, Rasheed Araeen, Conrad Atkinson, Alfreda Benge, David Binnington Michal Boncza, Bertolt Brecht and Ernst Ottwalt, Alan Bush, Peter de Francia, Peter Dunn and Loraine Leeson, The Hackney Flashers, Alexis Hunter, Peter Kennard, Alice Neel, Desmond Rochfort, Jeff Sawtell, Jo Spence, John Yeadon, Bob […]

  John Yeadon talks about his latest exhibition in the The Morning Star on Saturday February 18th. Read the online article in full here > MStar-yeadon+godotwyp  

“And everybody praised the Duke Who this great fight did win.” “But what good came of it at last?” Quoth little Peterkin. “Why, that I cannot tell,” said he, “But ’twas a famous victory.” From THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM by: Robert Southey (1774-1843)   With another British Prince controversially in the Falklands, I though it would be topical to post Will Barton’s paper on my 1982 painting commemorating the Malvinas/Falklands war.     The Raising of the Exocet: The use […]

.. review by John Yeadon for the Morning Star, Friday 16th December 2011.   As Coventry Council refurbish the roads and paving, tarting up the city centre prior to the Olympics, the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum in Coventry celebrates images of the city of  gloom and decay. Turner Prize nominee George Shaw’s exhibition, I Woz Ere, opened in his home town with a sense of local pride and popular celebration. The irony of the occasion might have escaped some […]