Reinventing Gawain
A talk by the artist about the genesis of his 14 print series in collaboration with the Penfold Press, soon to be seen in Simon Armitage's revised translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight published by Faber & Faber.
MoMA Machynlleth, 12.00 - 13.00 on Wednesday May 2nd.
Free admission.
The Premiere is at the Cheltenham Festival on July 7th.
Box Office open from April 4th.
Words: Simon Armitage
Music: Matthew Kaner
Visual Direction: Clive Hicks-Jenkins
Dramaturgy: Caroline Clegg
Producer: Kate Romano for Goldfield Productions
Puppets: Jan Zalud
Model Sets: Philip Cooper
Shadow Puppets: Peter Lloyd
Puppet Wardrobe Supervisor: Oonagh Creighton-Griffiths
The Three Hunts. 2017. Screenprint. Edition of 75.
Please join us for the official opening by
Simon Armitage
of
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: 14 prints on the theme of a poem
at MoMA Machynlleth
Saturday 24th March at 12.00
The exhibition charts the collaboration between Clive Hicks-Jenkins and The Penfold Press to make a series of 14 prints inspired by the Faber & Faber 2007 edition of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight translated by Simon Armitage, who will be reading from the poem. Included in the exhibition will be sketches, maquettes, proofs and studies for the series, alongside the fourteen prints. A fully illustrated catalogue has been published to celebrate the completion of the project.
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