Neon Workshops

(Photos - Nicholas Singleton)

Check out the largest neon installation in Leeds... proudly made and installed by Neon Workshops! Could do with a pint after that install...‪

Wheater’s playful take on the word ‘Guts’ is the first in a new series of text works recounting snippets of casual conversation between family and friends.  

BBQ, real ale, craft beer and ART! This Wednesday 29th from 6pm: show opening: Guts - Holz / Wheater. Not to be missed!

Rich installing a myriad of neons in time for the show opening - Guts! Join us this Wednesday for a free BBQ, craft beer on tap and new artworks by Jochen Holz and Richard William Wheater!

Come see our new exhibition ‘MACHINE’ - Stewart Gough and Richard William Wheater. Drawings and mixed media installation utilise commonplace materials to explore notions relating to the machine. Find out more http://www.neonworkshops.com/gallery.html

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Wheater & Bickerstaff collaborated to produce a significant wall mounted poem relating to the medium in which the work is rendered. Peter Saville has had a life long fascination with neon and welcomed the opportunity to support Neon Workshops with their latest workshop Cent ans de Néon. PEOPLE LIKE NEON is spelt out in simple Arial font capitals, each letter represented in a colour of the spectrum blue to red, and the work was also used to create a commemorative limited edition poster of the workshop. Saville is famous for his involvement with Factory Records and the legendary music venue The Haçienda, and known widely for his extraordinary record sleeve design used for Joy Division's 1979 debut album Unknown Pleasures.

In this exhibition Stringer developed two angles associated with the title Cattle Brands. In the gallery we see actual brand motifs from ten American cattle ranches, chosen at random and reproduced by the artist in Neon gas filled glass. Outside on the roof, Stringer has chosen one of the world's most recognisable companies to construct what appears to be a traditional sign, but using salvaged materials. Whilst both ventures celebrate human skill in making and control over material, the concept is arguably less positive where the methods of control over cattle and that of fellow humans become blurred.

New silkscreen prints based on a continuing theme by Richard William Wheater. 

Pictures taken during the making of the neon pieces. March 2012.

Over a ten week period, a group from Wakefield’s homeless community worked with artist Richard William Wheater on a project that aimed to develop their visual language through light and communicate their predicament to the wider public. The results were a series of extraordinary neon signs which the group and Wheater envision to be temporarily installed on buildings/walls in Wakefield’s high street hopefully later this year.