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Stuart Brisley

Stuart Brisley - performance artist, painter, writer and teacher - achieved notoriety in the 1960s and '70s for his disturbing physical performances, but his work has extended over four decades and has also embraced painting, print, sculpture, installation, films and fictions and large-scale participatory projects. He has exhibited and performed internationally, primarily in Britain and Europe.

Stuart Brisley: Works 1958-2006 was held at England & Co in 2006. An early assemblage wall relief was acquired from the exhibition by The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds Museums & Galleries (with assistance from The Art Fund). In 2008, Brisley exhibited drawings and sculpture in the gallery exhibition Persistent Obsessions. The artist's second solo exhibition at England & Co, Stuart Brisley, was held in October 2009, when he concurrently exhibited films and performance photographs with the gallery at the Zoo art fair. A drawing from this exhibition was subsequently included in Modern Times: Responding to Chaos at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge and the De la Warr Pavillion, Bex Hill, UK (2010).

The British Museum acquired five works by Brisley addressing political issues from England & Co in 2008; and in 2010, Tate added to their existing holding of his work with the purchase from England & Co of an early painting and the film Arbeit Macht Frei.

Stuart Brisley: Works 1958-2006 Exhibition catalogue/monograph published by England & Co: 56 pages, 56 works and performances illustrated in colour and b/w, 2 further b/w illustrations. Introduction by Jane England; Essay: 'Fragments - Stuart Brisley's films and videos' by Sandrine Meats; Extensive chronology, exhibitions, selected bibliography including selected sound tapes and videos. (ISBN 1 902046 36 6). Copies available - contact the gallery.

An archive selection of works exhibited with England & Co are reproduced on these pages.

Drawings & works on paper Film & video Paintings Performance Photography Prints Sculpture

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Sweating the Hole 2006

Stills from video on DVD. Camera Roger Karshan.

Exhibited Stuart Brisley: Works 1958-2006, England & Co 2006.

The Leg 2006

Video on DVD (still photo by Dean Brannagan)

Exhibited Stuart Brisley: Works 1958-2006, England & Co 2006.

Untitled (from The Georgiana Collection) 1986
16.75 x 47 inches
Photographs mounted on board in aluminium frame

Exhibited Stuart Brisley: Works 1958-2006, England & Co 2006.

Ref: STB13

Arbeit Macht Frei 1973
18'47"
Film on DVD (still)

Exhibited at Zoo art fair with England & Co 2009.

Bloody House 1991-2009
37 x 96 x 96 inches
Mixed media installation

Installation at England & Co in Stuart Brisley, 2009.

Skull 1978
Image size 12 x 9.5 inches; paper size 25.75 x 19.75 inches
Lithograph (Slade Centenary Portfolio)

Exhibited at Zoo art fair with England & Co 2009.

Pig Wars 2008
25.5 x 41 inches
Graphite on paper

Included in Modern Times at Kettle's Yard and touring to the De La Warr Pavilion.

Louise Bourgeois' Leg 2000

Installation with mixed media

Installation at England & Co in Persistent Obsessions, 2008.

12 Days – i Kunst Forum, Rottweil, Germany 1975
Each 11.75 x 8.25 inches
Four photographs mounted together
Exhibited Stuart Brisley, solo exhibition at England & Co 2009

Royal Ordure 1996
48 x 60 inches
Mixed media on canvas

Exhibited Stuart Brisley: Works 1958-2006, England & Co 2006.

Ref: STB29

Untitled c 1962-63
51 x 31.5 inches
Wall relief, mixed media construction

Acquired from England & Co by the Henry Moore Institute collection, Leeds Museums & Galleries.

Beware of Agents 1993-96
2.5 x 7 inches
Acrylic on paper

Acquired from England & Co by The British Museum.

Ref: STB24

12 Days – 1 Kunst Forum, Rottweil, Germany 1975
Each 11.75 x 8.25 inches
Four photographs mounted together

Exhibited Stuart Brisley, solo exhibition at England & Co 2009.

Dirty Protest, Armagh 1993
15 x 6.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

Acquired from England & Co by The British Museum.

Ref: STB20

After Pandemonium (Canary Wharf) c 1995-96
22 x 30 inches
Diptych in two frames: bottom
Acrylic on paper

Private collection

Ref: STB26

12 Days – iii Kunst Forum, Rottweil, Germany 1975
Each 11.75 x 8.25 inches
Four photographs mounted together

Exhibited Stuart Brisley, solo exhibition at England & Co 2009.

Subject to the Crown: Sean Hick, Paul Hughes, Donna Maguire - Details

Subject to the Crown: Sean Hick, Paul Hughes, Donna Maguire 1994-96
6 x 13 inches
Acrylic on paper

Acquired from England & Co by The British Museum.

Ref: STB25

12 Days – iv Kunst Forum, Rottweil, Germany 1975
Each 11.75 x 8.25 inches
Four photographs mounted together

Exhibited Stuart Brisley, solo exhibition at England & Co 2009.

Untitled 2005
24.25 x 21.5 inches
Oil on paper

Exhibited Stuart Brisley: Works 1958-2006, England & Co 2006.

Study for Semenal Sequences 1995-96
17 x 19.25 inches
Acrylic on paper

Acquired from England & Co by The British Museum.

Ref: STB27

12 Days – v Kunst Forum, Rottweil, Germany 1975
Each 11.75 x 8.25 inches
Four photographs mounted together

Exhibited Stuart Brisley, solo exhibition at England & Co 2009.

Residuary iii 2005-06
36 x 60 inches
Oil on canvas

Exhibited Stuart Brisley: Works 1958-2006, England & Co 2006.

At the Wall 1974
5 x 4 inches
Drawing
Acquired from England & Co by The British Museum.

Artist as Whore 1972
14.75 x 9.75 inches
Photograph (exhibition print)

Exhibited at Zoo art fair with England & Co 2009. Private collection

Dead-Line 2006
48 x 48 inches
Oil on canvas

Exhibited Stuart Brisley: Works 1958-2006, England & Co 2006.

Urbanscape: Drawing in the Vicinity of the Burning Man - Details

Urbanscape: Drawing in the Vicinity of the Burning Man 2008-09
25.5 x 37.75 inches
Graphite on paper
Exhibited Stuart Brisley, solo exhibition at England & Co 2009.