Inge Clayton FRSA (1942-2010) - Signed 1983 Mixed Media Collage Hölderlin

Description

A modern collage composition from Austrian/British artist Inge Clayton. In this collage Clayton has arranged various printed materials to form evocative shapes and complex patterns. The piece is named after German poet and philosopher Friedrich Hölderlin, associated with the artistic movement known as Romanticism. Clayton has visually interpreted his lyric poetry, experimenting with text in her work. This is a visual motif recently developed by contemporary artist's such as Fiona Banner. This piece displays Clayton's forward thinking attitude as an artist. Signed and dated and inscribed. On wove.

Condition

There is some discolouration most notably to the outer edges of the pages. With a surface scratch to the upper edge and a foxing spot visible to the lower right corner.

Size

37.4 x 30.3cm (14.7" x 11.9")
Sheet: 51 x 38.4cm (20.1" x 15.1")

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Artist Biography

Inge Clayton 1942-2010. Painter, designer, sculptor and collagist, born in Salzburg, Austria then settled in London in 1961. She has held several solo shows in her native Austria and Germany and has also exhibited at the Royal Academy as well as in many London galleries.

Clayton worked as an interior architect and a jewellery designer on first arriving in the UK and from 1976-84 she studied collage with Jack Yates and life drawing with John Nicholl at the Camden Arts Centre, as well as printmaking at St. Albans under Peter Jaques.

Her solo exhibition venues include Margaret Fisher Gallery, 1979, Artellier Gallery, 1984, Chalk Farm Gallery, 1985, Boundary Gallery, 1988, Andrew Usiskin Gallery, 1989 and 1992, St. Jude's Gallery, 1990, Anna-Mei Chadwick, 1990 and 1992, Arts Intaglio Gallery, Manchester, 1993 and in the same years was an invited artist at the Brighton Festival. He notable group exhibition venues include the RA, Camden Arts Centre, Alpine Gallery, Kunsthaus Schaller, Stuttgart, Gallerie Engelberts, Geneva, Galerie Hessler, Munich, Galerie Groessel, Salzburg, Galerie Mozart, Salzburg and at the ICA, London.

Examples of her work are in the collection of Keele University, and the Marie Currie Foundation. More recently she has shown solo at the Catto Gallery, Hampstead, London. Much of her work shows her European background and one can easily recognize the influence of Otto Dix, Egon Schiele, Kokoschka, and George Grosz.