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 Lol Coxhill
in a skip - Concept and photo © Simon Thackray
Simon Thackray The Roslyn Lyons Art Gallery Gallery open: 10am - 5pm Monday to Friday (and University concert nights). In 1992, Simon Thackray photographed his shed door and founded The Shed. This improbable performance venue in a small village in North Yorkshire has since become renowned for presenting world-class music and poetry and for staging the unique art events that Simon dreams up from time to time. The Yorkshire Pudding Boat Race, Mrs Boyes' Bingo featuring Mark Sanders, the Fish and Chip van tour and Lol Coxhill in a skip are just a few. Simon conjured the words, music and participatory knitting spectacular, HAT, (written and performed by Ian McMillan and Billy Jenkins) and invented the knitted Elvis wig. Along the way, he recorded events in a series of 'incidental' photographs exhibited here for the first time. The famous and the not-so-famous, on show, off-guard. 'Certain men are notorious for what they get up to in their sheds. Simon Thackray runs an arts centre in his. For the past 16 years, The Shed, near the market town of Malton, has been responsible for some of the smallest and most inspired art events in the country.' Alfred Hickling, Guardian "He's a strange'un alright,
but the art world could do with more of his kind of far-reaching
woolly thinking."
Daily Telegraph Full details and biography here:
Time Out: 1000 things to do
in Britain Catch a performance in The Shed: (extract) "...The Shed is one of few venues in the country with a location as inspiring as its programme of live music and performance art. The latter's affinity with the surreal end of the creative spectrum is largely thanks to the boundless imagination of its creator, Simon Thackray, whose ideas are often too large to be limited to his makeshift stage..." Editor: Elizabeth Winding (Published May 2008)
Simon Thackray introducing Mrs Boyes' Bingo Photo © www.davidxgreen.com
Click here to sample the music and the stories of our unique venue in a special programme celebrating The Shed (first broadcast in June 2005). Hear Simon, Snake Davis, Billy Jenkins, Ian McMillan and Hank Wangford talking about The Shed and listen to a selection of great music. The Shed's Radio Party playlist: Brendan Power
Review: Clogs and The Books at The Shed
"CLOGS, please meet The Books; The Books, please meet Clogs. This American musical handshake was arranged by the British champions of the avant-garde, the Contemporary Music Network, and last week the two improvisational bands met up in Massachusetts for the first time, leading to new acoustic-electronic music to open and close a truly uplifting and adventurous night, played out to a Shed full house."
Lol Coxhill in a skip @ FUSELEEDS '06 - Concept and photo © Simon Thackray Lol Coxhill in a skip Saturday 6 May
Mrs Boyes' Bingo featuring Mark Sanders - Concept © Simon Thackray Photo: www.davidxgreen.com The Shed's Greatest Hits
"UNDER a slice of moon and stars as bright as American teeth, Hovingham's queue for the Ryedale fish and chip van's weekly village run was longer than usual. What's more, the hiss of batter had a musical counterpoint..." The Fish and Chip van tour - featuring Alan Tomlinson.
Fish and Chip van tour - Concept and photo © Simon Thackray Free improvisation gets audience
of 1.9 million! "Steve is at the wheel of his van on a damp, not-too-chilly Tuesday night. Behind him is his replacement trailer, funded partly by a Countryside Agency grant. Beside him is a journalist and a trombone player, not his usual companionship on his journey. (Son Steve, mini-Steve in his identical frying gear, is in a following car, driven by The Shed pioneer of improvised arts events, Simon Thackray." Sponsored by Sirdar The Fish and Chip van tour is a live art event. Copyright Simon Thackray. All rights reserved. TOP
Yorkshire Pudding Boat Race -
Concept © Simon Thackray Photo © Tony Bartholomew "soon it'll be like Woodstock: people will pretend they were there - people will want to say, 'I was there when it all started'" Independent on Sunday.
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Trade Marks
and Copyright Address: The Shed, Brawby, Malton, North Yorkshire
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