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Modern Baroque
Cork Street Gallery
30 November to 5 December 2009
Jacquie Gulliver Thompsons’s interests centred from 1996 to 2007 on the invigorating energies created in taut compositions by vibrant hues and forceful movements. Increasingly, this led her to engage with the rich legacy of the Baroque, sometimes in terms of style, sometimes in terms of theme.
This engagement might involve reworking the gestures of passion and despair in the grand Baroque narratives of archetypal dramas. Or it might seek to recapture the celebration of life and harmony sought in pastorals, dance and the rapture of the Three Graces – a dream that would re-emerge in her images of modern bathers.
In 2001, a visit to Mexico allowed her to explore the startling encounter there (and sometimes fusion) between native formal traditions with a cultural focus on suffering and kindred features of Spanish Baroque.
Profile
Jacquie Gulliver Thompson studied Fine Art in the sixties at St Alban’s School of Fine Art under Euan Uglow and George Fullard. Not wanting to teach, she then trained as a graphic designer for book publishing, later art-directing a wide variety of illustrated books (one of them prize-winning) for publishers such as Mitchell Beazley and Dorling Kindersley. Throughout, she continued life drawing and gradually returned to her original interest, painting, which she was finally able to pursue professionally in her studio at the
Limehouse Art Foundation.
She has works in collections in France, Italy, the Antilles, Canada, Massachusetts, California and the UK.
Solo Exhibitions:
1998 Millinery Works, Islington, London
2001 Artbank Gallery, Clerkenwell, London
2007 Galerie Étienne de Causans,
rue de Seine, Paris
Group Exhibitions:
1998 Whitechapel East London Open Studios
1999 Group show Millinery Works
2000 Group show Millinery Works
2001 Group show Millinery Works
2002 Group show Millinery Works
2003 Group show Millinery Works
2004 Group show Millinery Works
2004 “On the Wall”, Olympia, London
2005 Railings Gallery, West End, London
2006 Stock Gallery, Stock, Essex
Number of Titles: 15
Modern Baroque I
Mexico I
Figures/Pastorals
Places I
Places II
Myths
Music/Dance
Landscapes/Pastorals
Mexico II
Yemen-Greece-USA
Figures/On Vermeer
Home and away
Modern Baroque II
Works on paper
Africa
Number of Captions: 102
Pavane. 1993.Oil on canvas. 80x80 cm. Private collection.
Baroque Drama III 2006, oil on canvas, 114x93cm, Private collection
Baroque Drama II 2007, oil on canvas, 92x122cm, Private collection
Pastoral I, 2005, oil on canvas, 78x122cm
Swimming pool, 1997, oil on canvas, 122x122cm
Baroque Drama V 2007, oil on canvas, 64x76cm, Private collection
Interruption 2001, oil on canvas, 92x122cm, Private collection
Making music, Yemen. 1999. Oil on canvas. 91x60cm, Private collection
Mexican Baroque 2004, oil on canvas, 76x76cm, Private collection
Salt flats, Sahara. 2000. Oil on canvas. 122x122cm
Bandiagara cliffs, Mali 1996, Oil on Canvas, 92x92cm
Figures in a landscape, 2004, oil, paper on canvas, 92x112cm
Circe with pigs 1998, oil on canvas, 92x92cm, Private collection
Dancers II, 1997. Oil on canvas. 92x122cm, Private collection
Dance class. 1997. Oil on canvas. 92x122cm, Private collection
Action Men 2000, oil on canvas, 92x92cm, Private collection
Baroque Drama V 2007, oil on canvas, 64x76cm, Private collection
Assassin 2001, oil on canvas, 92x122cm, Private collection
Dancers I, 1997. Oil on canvas. 91x91cm, Private collection
The Angel speaks to Hagar 1998 oil on canvas 92x122cm, Private collection
Attic Frieze 1998, oil on canvas, 122x153cm, Private collection
Baroque Drama I 2006, oil on canvas, 64x76cm, Private collection
Exterminating angel II, 2007. Oil on canvas. 76x64cm, Private collection
Capriccio. 2005. Oil on canvas. 112x92cm, Private collection
The Round-up. 2000. Oil on canvas. 92x92cm, Private collection
Bonampak, Chiapas 2006, oil on canvas, 92x107cm, Private collection
Images of Mexico IV 2006, oil on canvas, 122x122cm, Private collection
Serenade 2006, oil on canvas, 76x64cm, Private collection
Images of Mexico III, 2003. Oil on canvas. 76x76cm, Private collection
Images of Mexico V, 2006. Oil on canvas. 93x77cm, Private collection
Images of Mexico II, 2003. Oil on canvas. 76x86cm, Private collection
Three Graces VI, 2004. Oil on canvas. 63x77cm, Private collection
The Unquiet dead I, 2004. Oil on canvas. 112x91cm, Private collection
The Unquiet Dead III, oil, sand on canvas, 76x86cm, Private collection
Three Graces IV, oil on canvas, 76x96cm, Private collection
Arachne 2005, oil on canvas, 76x64cm, Private collection
Three Graces V. 2004. Oil on canvas. 76x76cm, Private collection
Three Graces I 2003, oil on canvas, 92x122cm, Private collection
Three Graces II 2004, oil on canvas, 76x76cm, Private collection
Three Graces III 2005, oil on canvas, 77x77cm, Private collection
Mistra II, Greece. 1997. Oil on canvas. 92x122cm
Rock Face, Death Valley 2005, oil on canvas, 74x94cm
Candlelight 1999, oil on canvas, 122x92cm
Mistra I, Greece. 1997. Oil on canvas. 92x92cm
The Unquiet Dead Il, 2003, oil on canvas, 76x92cm
The Unquiet Dead IV, 2006, oil on canvas, 76x92cm
Bodyworks III 2002 , oil on canvas, 40x40cm, Private collection
Bodyworks I, 2002. Oil on canvas. 40x40cm, Private collection
Bodyworks II. 2002. Oil on canvas. 40x40cm, Private collection
Saturday night. 2001. Oil on canvas. 161x76cm, Private collection
The Bride. 2002. Oil on canvas. 40x40cm, Private collection
Vermeer study III. 2001. Oil on canvas. 86x77cm, Private collection
Vermeer study IV 2001, oil on canvas, 86x77cm, Private collection
Vermeer study V, 2001. Oil on canvas. 86x77cm, Private collection
Vermeer study VI. 2001. Oil on canvas. 86x77cm, Private collection
Papillons. 2006. Oil on canvas. 106x91cm, Private collection
Serrania de Ronda. 2001. oil on canvas. 92x122cm
Cretan pastoral 2005, oil on canvas, 112x122cm, Private collection
Pastoral II. 2007. oil on canvas. 91x123cm, Private collection
Pastoral III. 2006. Oil on canvas. 40x40cm, Private collection
Summer party. 2000. Oil on canvas. 124x94cm, Private collection
The Cretan gorge. 2005. Oil on canvas. 92x109cm, Private collection
The Shore. 2004. Oil on canvas. 76x86cm, Private collection
Chacmool I. 2003. Oil, sand on canvas. 40x40cm, Private collection
Chacmool II. 2003. Oil, sand on canvas. 40x40cm, Private collection
Chacmool III 2004, oil and sand on canvas, 40x40cm, Private collection
Lacandon Forest, Mexico. 2003. Oil on canvas. 92x92cm, Private collection
River Usumacinta, Chiapas II. 2003. Oil on canvas. 40x40cm
River Usumacinta, Chiapas II. 2003. Oil on canvas. 40x40cm, Private collection
Skull 2004, oil on canvas, 40x40cm, Private collection
Yaxchilan, Chiapas, 2006. Oil on canvas. 92x92cm, Private collection
Meteora, Greece. 1999. Oil on canvas. 91x107cm
Changing patterns, Yemen. 1998. Oil on canvas. 122x153cm, Private collection
Furnace Creek, Death Valley. 2005. Oil on canvas. 92x102cm, Private collection
Mistra III, Greece. 1997. Oil on canvas. 122x122cm
River Acheron, Greece. 1998. Oil on canvas. 76x60cm, Private collection
The pool, Yemen. 1998. Oil on canvas. 92x90cm, Private collection
Sanaa street, Yemen. 1998. Oil on canvas. 122x153cm
Carole's wedding party. 1999. Oil on canvas. 102x154cm, Private collection
Leila. 2002. Oil on canvas. 40x40cm, Private collection
Poppy. 2002. 40x40cm, Private collection
Rocco. 1999. Oil on canvas. 92x92cm, Private collection
The quinces. 2007. Oil on canvas. 77x77cm, Private collection
The Tulips. 2007. Oil on canvas. 77x77cm, Private collection
Dancers III 1997, oil on canvas, 76x153cm
Christopher. 2005. Oil on canvas. 90x90cm
Greek memories. 1999. Oil on canvas. 92x107cm
Exterminating Angel I 2007 oil on canvas 122x78cm, Private collection
After La Tour. 1999. Oil on canvas. 92x92cm, Private collection
Beach Games, Greece 1999, oil on canvas, 121x152cm, Private collection
Piana Beach, Corsica 1996, oil on canvas, 76x120cm, Private collection
Dancers IV 1997, oil and paper on canvas, 122x153cm, Public collection Dancers IV 1997, oil and paper on canvas, 122x153cm, Public collection
Vermeer study I, 2000. oil on canvas 153x122cm
Study (with a wink).1995.Charcoal and mixed techniques.72x56cm
Dogon dancers, I, Mali.1996.Oil on canvas.118x86 cm
Dogon dancers, II, Mali. 1996. Oil on canvas.113x86 cm Dogon dancers, II, Mali. 1996. Oil on canvas.113x86 cm
Bandiagara Cliffs, Mali, 1996. Oil on canvas. 92x92cm, Private collection
Bandiagara valley, Mali. 1996. Oil on canvas. 92x122cm, Private collection
Into the sun. 2001. Oil on canvas. 92x112cm, Private collection
Desert women, Sahara. 2000. Oil, sand on canvas. 92x112cm, Private collection
Tracks, Sahara. 2001. oil, paper on canvas.122x92cm
Oasis, Sahara. 2001. Oil on canvas. 92x92cm