Fish and Noodles

Fish and Noodles White Conduit Projects 11.3.16 A performative painting to commemorate 5 years since the Japanese Tsunami. Devised by Polly Bagnall and performed by Polly and Mizuki Tsuge.   The sound of thunder  chopsticks stop stirring noodles  dinner interrupted by Johanna Gilmour   Two scrolls with haikus written with chopsticks and noodles and squid.   […]

polymath/pollymath

Polly Bagnall- painter, therapist, writer, mother. The break in this Blog is because I have taken time out to co-author ‘Ferguson’s Gang, the Remarkable Story of the National Trust Gangsters’, published by Pavilion November 2015. This was the culmination of 4 years of research and came out of an exhibition I curated at the National Trust property, […]

Colourswatch

Lemon Squash 2014 Mixed media (lemon squash, orange juice, blackcurrant juice, raspberry juice and acrylic) on linen 50 x50cm COLOURSWATCH at Espacio Gallery, East London was an exhibition curated by South London Women Artist’s. Selected participants were each given a colour swatch to respond to. My colour was a pale yellow named ‘Lemon Squash’. I often use […]

The Coming Year

In retrospect 2013 was a busy year, with exhibitions and building a portfolio of work, using techniques learned from my MA. Those experimental and extremely large-scale gestural paintings had opened up a new way of working and last year I was able to transfer this practice onto a more domestic scale. My Blog posts document […]