Posts by Gail

Omni William Barnes proposed that we call buses “folkswains”, which sounds folk kitsch, or even völkisch. ‘Bus’ has stuck: from ‘omnibus’: ‘for all’,for us ― kin to ‘omnium-gatherum’,a ragbag, like Leeds and this ragtag binof labyrinthine thoughts from my home since its‘MotorwayCity’days ―amazethen,but the place to get your threads made. No more,its tailors’ chalk and pins are history;our rag trade’s…

Rock, Pebble, Quarry: the Sculptural Lives of Stone at Leeds City Art Gallery 2018 Exhibition In response to Anthony Earnshaw’s mixed media assemblage, the poet Ian Duhig presented this poem: Raider’s Bread 1979 ‘Raider’s Bread’ A lump of moorland flint commanded to become bread by Tony Earnshaw and furnished with knife and board, mounted like…

Here’s a heart warming story in the Yorkshire Post 2 August 2021 of an art work returning and hanging to where it was invented in 1971.

The Anthony Earnshaw Bursary 2020 has been awarded to Miranda Melbourne, Access to HE Diploma student, who received the prize on the strength of their Drawing a Day project. Miranda documented one piece of work each day for 272 days, covering the period before and after the Covid-19 lockdown. The result is a fascinating and varied…

In September 2019 Gail Earnshaw donated two works to Leeds Arts University Collection – in memory of her late husband.

Zsazsa Cooper-Williams wins the first Anthony Earnshaw prize on the strength of her Drawing a Day project. Runners up were fellow students Susan Ragan and Ruthie Reynolds. The Anthony Earnshaw Bursary was set up by artist Patrick Hughes in memory of his friend, the Surrealist artist Anthony Earnshaw, in 2016.  The Bursary provides assistance towards costs…

Cover photo by Michael Woods. Edited by Les Coleman, published by RGAP 2011. Available from Gail Earnshaw: enquire at gaga.22@virginmedia.com.