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Bergman, Stephenie (4 of 14) National Life Stories Collection: Crafts' Lives

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    Bergman, Stephenie (4 of 14) National Life Stories Collection: Crafts' Lives
  • Subjects: Textiles
  • Description: Provider: - Institution: - Data provided by Europeana Collections- Part 4: Comments on changes in art education; sexism in art school in the 1960s; only practising artist left from SB's year at StM as John Hilliard; SB's year in sculpture at StM becoming famous, mentions Barry Flanagan, Bruce Maclean, Gilbert and George, Richard Long and teachers David Annesley (DA), Mike Bolus (MBol), Philip King, Francis Moreland (FM), Tim Scott, Jeremy Moon; famous exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery called New Generation Sculpture; remarks on sculptures. Comments on SB's friendships, mentions Bill Tucker and Tim Scott; SB sharing a studio with DA and MBol. Remarks on how prison changed SB. [08:40] Comments on SB's conviction that she would make art; SB as not liking teaching; SB as wanting to make art intuitively. [13:15] Remarks on being in prison; SB's experience of pottery in prison; difficulty of being creative in prison; prison routine; SB making African masks and making clothes; SB writing a thesis on Dogon masks; dangers of being in prison; feelings on being in prison. [22:21] Comments on dressing as a hippy; mind-altering qualities of drugs; SB liking sewing and making bedspreads. Activities in prison; crocheting and making clothes; prison as putting SB permanently on guard; SB going up for parole after 20 months; parole board interview; SB deported by plane and collected by FM's wife and then by JB. [28:04] SB in prison 1969-71; SB never having been back to US; reactions of other prisoners when someone leaves prison; prison making SB more sympathetic to criminals. Feelings on being released. SB becoming friends with MBol's wife Solly. SB washing canvases to clean them and then starting to sew them together; effect of SB working at home. SB working part-time in component factory at night and making canvases in day; John Hoyland and John Edwards coming round from StM; SB offered exhibition of her new work at Garage, Covent Garden 1972; exhibition very successful; Edwin Mullins making TV show about SB called Second House; SB asked to teach. Remarks on perceived craft element in SB's sewn canvases; SB disliking word craft; anecdote about being asked to lecture at a girls' college. [41:31] People's reactions to SB when she came out of prison; SB's relationships, mentions MF. SB asked to organise gallery in StM by Anthony Caro (AC). Tony Stokes (TS) and Martin Attwood (MA) of Garage backed by AC, Kasmin and Terence Conran; AC disliking SB's work because of craft element. [45:50] Description of early works; SB becoming successful ; SB getting to know Michael Craig-Martin (MCM)and Stephen Buckley. Remarks on making early pieces. MA and Telfer Stokes (TelS) becoming friends; friends saying SB shouldn't put work on stretchers; SB's third show being hangings. SB's work selling well and making money. SB working as a milkman for three months in 1974 when not making money from painting. [51:39] Comments on period between return to UK and first exhibition. SB going to Ronnie Scott's with Joel [Greenberg] and meeting Roxy Beaujolais (RB); remarks on friendship with RB. Comments on motivation to work; inspiration to make sewn pieces; interest in making ambiguous spaces; pieces difficult to do and requiring suffering. Remarks on work in government collection; pieces expressing language that SB had created for herself. Description of piece in British Council collection; comments on piece called Bayswater in the Kettle's Yard collection which has been lost. [01:00] Work starting to go wrong when SB 30-32; remarks on influence of friendship with MCM; SB going out with groups of gay men, mentions Nikos Stangos and writer David Plante. Late 70s, early 80s as being an unhappy period. Description of Garage gallery. Anecdote about buying lye water by mistake in Soho and drinking it then going to France with Judy Marle to see Alexander Calder and Sonia Delaunay. Comments on parents' reaction to SB's success; remarks on SB's parents' life; anecdote about parents meeting MCM. Comments on division of money between SB and mother. Remarks on effects of having a first exhibition. [01:09:20] Comments on working routine; SB as going to Yugoslavia by self and liking to go away in winter, mentions Egypt, Morocco and India. SB friendly with Nick Pope; SB getting Gulbenkian Award to go to Iran. Remarks on being an artist. SB going to private views but not part of establishment. Remarks on SB's Gulbenkian award (1976); details of trip to Iran; experience of being in Iran; coming back via Tuscany and staying with MA's sister; comments on English society in Tuscany, mentions David Plante, Nikos Stangos and Joe Tilson; SB as either absorbed in work or having to get away completely. Details of Gulbenkian Award and being nominated by Gillian Ayres and Barry Flanagan. [01:21:29] SB originally planning to go to Iran to look at cloth dyes; SB as starting to work without stretchers after trip to Iran. SB loving travel. SB's experience of art as having been Clement Greenberg, Frank Stella, Kenneth Noland, Donald Judd, Carl Andre, minimal art and there being nothing figurative in SB's art; SB as not able to assimilate interest in figurative or conceptual art. SB not having good friend to talk things through with from 35-40. Comments on first exhibition and recognition that followed; SB's finding it difficult to develop work; SB's reaction to criticism. SB feeling uncomfortable in middle-class milieu; [01:30:48] SB hanging out in Soho with RB. SB having two years of success before felt tailed off; SB feeling overcomplicating work and losing joyous element; SB going to India and feeling lost when got back; becoming an assistant to Jennifer Bartlett for a week on a piece for Charles Saatchi. comments on SB not wanting to put herself forward as an artist; remarks on being unhappy in work and relationships; SB as going to therapist and checking into the Priory. SB as blaming state of mind on living in Chiswick, renting flat out and moving into hotels and then into flat in Soho owned by Suzi Gablik .- All metadata published by Europeana are available free of restriction under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. However, Europeana requests that you actively acknowledge and give attribution to all metadata sources including Europeana
  • Creation Date: 2011
  • Language: English
  • Source: Europeana Collections
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