John Yeadon

John Yeadon
Born John David Yeadon
1948 (age 67–68)
Occupation
  • Painter
  • Art educator
Website johnyeadon.com/blog/

John David Yeadon (born 1948) is a British artist, and art educator.

Yeadon's grandmother was the ventriloquist Annie Howarth, who worked under the stage name Josephine Langley. Recurring themes in his paintings include his mother and grandmother’s ventriloquist dummies[1] as well as issues related to gay men and their sexuality.[2][3] As well as painting, his work includes poetry and audio-visual creations.[4]

He set up the Coventry-Dresden Arts Exchange in 2012.[5]

Fat

Yeadon complained of censorship after a photograph of a woman vomiting was removed from his exhibition, Fat: The mortality of the eater and the eaten at the Bath Place Community Venture in Leamington Spa in 2010.[6]

Harwell computer

Yeadon's 9x7ft painting of the Harwell computer, Portrait of a Dead Witch made in 1983, was exhibited at the 1984 at Leicestershire Schools and Colleges show, and subsequently purchased by Leicestershire Local Education Authority and loaned to a local authority school, Newbridge High School, Coalville. Within two years of that school becoming a private academy school, the painting was sold at auction to an undisclosed private buyer.[5] It was discovered on the wall of the Jam Street Cafe Bar in Manchester. Kaldip Bhamber, who has a fine arts degree was unaware of the painting provenance when she purchased it, she wanted something large and colourful to fill a wall in her new enterprise, John Yeadon has visited the painting at its new location. [7]

Teaching

Yeadon has taught at Goldsmiths College, Chelsea College of Art, Wimbledon School of Art, Glasgow School of Art and, from 1973–2002, at Coventry University, where he eventually led the MA Fine Art course.[5] He has also been a visiting lecturer at Slade School of Fine Art and at the Royal College of Art.

Works

References

  1. ↑ Chamberlain, Julie (8 January 2015). "Miniature art work on show at Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery". Coventry Telegraph. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  2. ↑ Cooper, Emmanuel. The Sexual Perspective: Homosexuality and Art in the Last 100 Years in the West. ISBN 9780415111003.
  3. ↑ "Modern Art, Disco Drawing". BBC Online. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  4. ↑ "1001 Boys Games". LUX Collection. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  5. 1 2 3 Yeadon, John (15 August 2015). "Privatising public art". Morning Star. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  6. ↑ "Photo of vomiting woman removed from Leamington show". BBC Online. 20 May 2010. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  7. ↑ Kennedy, Maev (28 March 2016). "Portrait of world's oldest computer rediscovered in Manchester cafe". Guardian (Guardian Newspapers). Retrieved 28 March 2016.

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