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"Certain men are notorious for what they get up to in
their sheds. Simon Thackray runs an arts centre in his. For the
past 18 years, The Shed, near the market town of Malton, has
been responsible for some of the smallest and most inspired art
events in the country."
Alfred Hickling, Guardian More about
Simon Thackray
"Pioneer of improvised art
events and intrepid arts explorer", Simon Thackray paints,
makes sculpture and creates and stages live-art events. He
founded The Shed in 1992, invented the Yorkshire Pudding Boat
Race and put Lol Coxhill in a skip. More..
"He's a strange'un alright,
but the art world could do with more of his kind of far-reaching
woolly thinking. And no matter how strange they sound, there
always seem to be people prepared to come from miles away to
his North Yorkshire village to get in on the act - artists, musicians
and poets, as well as spectators." Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph.
THE PRESS, YORK 22.3.10
Alan Tomlinson and the River Seven,
Dale Head Farm, Rosedale, North Yorks Moors
Review by
Charles Hutchinson
"HOW did you spend
your Sunday? How about driving for an hour into ever hardier
Yorkshire country; following intermittent improvised signs to
the River Seven, down the narrowest of moorland lanes; then watching
cars being pushed up a muddy incline to park in a field, before
a cross-country trek to a babbling brook." Read the
review:
The
Shed, Shed Bitter and the Yorkshire Pudding Boat Race are Registered
Trade Marks
of Simon Thackray. Copyright © Simon Thackray 1992 - 2010.
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