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Stuart Brisley - performance artist, painter, writer and teacher - achieved notoriety in the 1960s and '70s for his disturbing physical performances, but his work has extended over four decades and has also embraced painting, print, sculpture, installation, films and fictions and large-scale participatory projects. He has exhibited and performed internationally, primarily in Britain and Europe.

Stuart Brisley: Works 1958-2006 was held at England & Co in 2006. An early assemblage wall relief was acquired from the exhibition by The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds Museums & Galleries (with assistance from The Art Fund). In 2008, Brisley exhibited drawings and sculpture in the gallery exhibition Persistent Obsessions. The artist's second solo exhibition at England & Co, Stuart Brisley, was held in October 2009, when he concurrently exhibited films and performance photographs with the gallery at the Zoo art fair. A drawing from this exhibition was subsequently included in Modern Times: Responding to Chaos at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge and the De la Warr Pavillion, Bex Hill, UK (2010).

The British Museum acquired five works by Brisley addressing political issues from England & Co in 2008; and in 2010, Tate added to their existing holding of his work with the purchase  from England & Co of an early painting and the film Arbeit Macht Frei. 

Stuart Brisley: Works 1958-2006 Exhibition catalogue/monograph published by England & Co: 56 pages, 56 works and performances illustrated in colour and b/w, 2 further b/w illustrations. Introduction by Jane England; Essay: 'Fragments - Stuart Brisley's films and videos' by Sandrine Meats; Extensive chronology, exhibitions, selected bibliography including selected sound tapes and videos. (ISBN  1 902046 36 6). Copies available - contact the gallery.

An archive selection of works exhibited with England & Co are reproduced on these pages.


Film & video   Paintings   Performance   Photography   Prints   Sculpture   

Pig Wars 2008
25.5 x 41 inches
Graphite on paper

Included in Modern Times at Kettle's Yard and touring to the De La Warr Pavilion.

Beware of Agents 1993-96
2.5 x 7 inches
Acrylic on paper

Acquired from England & Co by The British Museum.

Ref: STB24

Dirty Protest, Armagh 1993
15 x 6.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

Acquired from England & Co by The British Museum.

Ref: STB20

Subject to the Crown: Sean Hick, Paul Hughes, Donna Maguire 1994-96
6 x 13 inches
Acrylic on paper

Acquired from England & Co by The British Museum.

Ref: STB25

Study for Semenal Sequences 1995-96
17 x 19.25 inches
Acrylic on paper

Acquired from England & Co by The British Museum.

Ref: STB27

At the Wall 1974
5 x 4 inches
Drawing
Acquired from England & Co by The British Museum.

Urbanscape: Drawing in the Vicinity of the Burning Man 2008-09
25.5 x 37.75 inches
Graphite on paper
Exhibited Stuart Brisley, solo exhibition at England & Co 2009.

Untitled 1998
3.75 x 5 inches
Ink on paper

Exhibited Stuart Brisley: Works 1958-2006, England & Co 2006.

Ref: STB18

Seasonal Drawing (March) 2009
45 x 31.5 inches
Mixed media on paper

Exhibited Stuart Brisley, solo exhibition at England & Co 2009. Private collection.

Seasonal Drawing (February) 2009
31.5 x 47 inches
Mixed media on paper
Exhibited Stuart Brisley, solo exhibition at England & Co 2009.

Seasonal Drawing (Untitled) 2009
27.5 x 39.25 inches
Mixed media on paper

Exhibited Stuart Brisley, solo exhibition at England & Co 2009.

Untitled 1998
4.25 x 5 inches
Ink on paper

Exhibited Stuart Brisley: Works 1958-2006, England & Co 2006.

Ref: STB19

Untitled 1998
2.5 x 5.75 inches
Ink on paper
Exhibited Stuart Brisley: Works 1958-2006, England & Co 2006
Ref: STB21

Untitled (detail) c 1954
22 x 14.75 inches
Mixed media on card

Study after Grünewald c 1954
13 x 15 inches
Pencil on paper