Belinda Cadbury
Born 1939
Lives and works in London, UK
Belinda Cadbury is working consistently in pencil on paper either on small-scale works or huge sheets mounted on to canvas or boards so that they become wall-drawings, she asserts the linear strokes of her infinitely practised hand as the central fixed rhythmic core of a graphic universe. Breaks and variations that are generated by the careful iterations of simple verticals, crossed lines or diagonal interventions in the compositional structure only take on a life when the drawing is completed and the hand has been withdrawn. Then subtle shifts of linear tonality allow diamond or lozenge shapes to move ever so slightly closer together or further apart, to project from the paper or disappear into it: to suggest moiré patterns or disrupt long verticals so that they become folds in fabric rather than inert textile patterns. This is a stately dance between disembodied geometries and embodied drawing: remoteness turns out not to be remote; nothing is rote and nothing is exactly duplicated within the decorum of the geometric fields where she has made her home. Deanna Petherbridge 2012
Biography
Belinda Cadbury was born in Birmingham, UK, in 1939 and lives and works in London. Between 1958 and 1969 she studied and worked in Theatre, Opera and Film Design in the UK and Europe, before going on to study sculpture at the City and Guilds of London Art School, London, from 1969 to 1972, followed by a postgraduate course at Whitelands Teachers Training College, London. From 1973 to 1990 she taught Art in London schools and lectured on twentieth-century film and theatre design at Cheltenham College of Art.
Cadbury has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally. Solo exhibitions include presentations at Bartha Contemporary, London (2008 and 2024), MUWA, Graz (2022), Noborimachi Art Space, Hiroshima (2009), Galerie Lattemann, Darmstadt (1999), and the Eagle Gallery, London (1996). Group exhibitions have taken place at venues including the Royal Academy of Arts, London (2010), Galerie St Johann, Saarbrücken, and Galerie Mondriaanhuis, Amersfoort, among others.
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Belinda Cadbury
Untitled (A), 2023
Graphite pencil on paper
100 × 63 cm
39 ⅜ × 24 ¾ in
Price on request
Belinda Cadbury
Untitled (B), 2023
Graphite pencil on paper
95.5 × 73 cm
37 ⅝ × 28 ¾ in
Price on request
Belinda Cadbury
Untitled (C), 2023
Graphite pencil on paper
100 × 65.5 cm
39 ⅜ × 25 ¾ in
Price on request
Belinda Cadbury
Untitled (D), 2023
Graphite pencil on paper
45 × 76 cm
17 ¾ × 29 ⅞ in
Price on request
Belinda Cadbury
Untitled (Instalation), 2007
Graphite pencil on paper
300 × 600 cm
118 ⅛ × 236 ¼ in
Price on request
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