March 10th 2020 - The Exhibition's Over... The John Furnival Touring Exhibition, sponsored by the Arts Council of England, officially ended on Sunday 23rd February. The show at the Arts School at Bath Span University was deemed a success by the organisers, by the students who attend the Arts School, and, judging by the comments in the Visitors' Book and the sales of catalogues, by visitors to the exhibition. On the Friday prior to the closure, a symposium was held in John's honour.
The Symposium Programme:
An afternoon of ideas and discussion in the context of an exhibition of work by
John and Astrid Furnival - Curated by Professor Bernard Moxham
13.00 – Arrivals, informal visit to exhibition (lunch available in Locksbrook building café)
14.00 What is concrete poetry? Is John Furnival a concrete poet? Stephen Bann and Bernard Moxham
14.45 – collaboration and dialogue : recent performative work in word and image : Andres Anwandter and Matthew Robertson; (text and score : reflections by James Saunders)
15.15 discussion
15.45 short comfort / refreshment break
16.00 – New work – sequence of short presentations of current and recent work in word and image, chaired by Dr Angie Butler
16.40 –17.00 Closing discussion
17.10 performance by (Maria Garcia and Tom Worley) of Erik Satie piano works (formerly performed by Furnival’s ‘Satie’s Faction’) - Les Gnoissiennes
[furniture music continues playing after reminder of idea of ‘ambient music’]
17.25 – 18.00 – refreshments and further chance to see exhibition.
Listing of Work shown during the Touring Exhibition:
At Ruskin Mill, Nailsworth (A Cotswald Celebration):
Rowden Cottage and Hazelwood, Nailsworth (1963)
Rowden Cottage – Hockney Slept Here (1986)
Photograph by Ron Fuller of David Hockney drawing in the kitchen of Rowden Cottage home (Nailsworth) (1960).
Painswick Church Cemetery (2001)
Painswick cemetery – I have no bones to pick with graveyards (2010)
Painswick cemetery – Just A Moment O Mors! (2008)
Painswick Church Cemetery within a Maze (I & II) (1983)
Spring Hill House, Nailsworth (1995)
Spring Hill, Nailsworth (1999 - 2018)
George Street, Nailsworth (1984)
Woeful Dane Bottom (1988)
Indices of poems by W H Davies (1999 - 2001)
The Home of W H Davies at Glendower House, Watledge (1999)
Family drawings (1960s)
At the Museum in the Park (Stroud) (Lost for Words):
Homo Cyberneticus, Home Statisticus (1963)
The Manhattan Screen (1971)
If I Am What I Eat Screen (work then in progress)
The Protestations Screen (2015)
Devil Trap (1966)
Babacus - Painters and sculptors (2010)
Map Prayer Wheels (2012)
Aliquotality (1973)
Following in Nature’s Footsteps (1980)
Un Coup de Dés (1989)
Un Coup de Dés by Astrid Furnival (1989)
Erik Satie – Arc-En-Oeil En Arceuil (1985)
Trois Morceaux En Forme de Poire Quilt by Astrid Furnival (1975)
Sweater Trois Morceaux En Forme de Poire (Satie and his pears) by Astrid Furnival (1975)
Ate In Arcueil Egg-Ho (with Liz Dawson) (1975)
Ça Tea Leaves (with Jonathan Williams and John Vince) (1982)
A Scale for Erik Satie, phonometrographer (2014/15)
Sweater The Age of Shrivellry is Not Yet O’er by Astrid Furnival (1988)
Sweater Samuel Beckett – Breath by Astrid Furnival (1991)
From The Wood-Ash Tiles Series by John and Astrid Furnival (1995)
Common or Garden Sweater by Astrid Furnival (c.1990)
Scroll - Poor.Old.Tired.Horse 19 (io and the ox-eye daisy) By John Furnival and Ronald Johnson (1964)
Six Drawings from the Wittgenstein series (2012 - 2015)
The Fall of the Tower of Babel (Peace for the World) (1965)
The Fall of the Tower of Babel Revisited (2017)
The Tower of Pisa (1965)
The Eiffel (Eyeful) Tower (1965)
Mazes Amaze (c.1980)
Xmas Star by John Furnival and Ian Hamilton Finlay (1970)
Mevagissey harbour (1959)
Portrait in a teapot (with John Vince) (1966)
Just for the Record (with John Vince) (1978)
Christmas Bells (with John Vince) (1979)
Voir au verso (with John Vince) (1964)
Ant On Bruckner - Letters to the Great Dead series (with Jonathan Williams) (1984)
Delius and Grainger - Letters to the Great Dead series (with Jonathan Williams) (1986)
Monsieur Point - Letters to the Great Dead series (with Jonathan Williams) (1984/86)
Stevie Smith - Letters to the Great Dead series (with Jonathan Williams) (1984)
Firbank - Letters to the Great Dead series (with Jonathan Williams) (1985)
dsh (Frog Pond Plop) - Letters to the Great Dead series (with Jonathan Williams) (1993)
Vintage Oxford Mallarmé - Letters to the Great Dead series (with Jonathan Williams) (1989)
Wallpaper for A Classical Passion-Pit Atop Mount Parnassus - Letters to the Great Dead series (with Jonathan Williams) (1988)
Atkinson Grimshaw and James Whistler - Letters to the Great Dead series (with Jonathan Williams) (1985)
Gustav Mahler - Letters to the Great Dead series (with Jonathan Williams) (1989)
Kilpeck Church Corbels (1978)
Statue of Liberty Print (1976)
Claude comes into the garden (1975)
AZ (1987)
3 dimensional noughts and crosses (1963)
Dentdale - Bright Patches - St. Swithin’s Swivet folder (with Jonathan Williams) (1997/8)
Dentdale - The Odd Shower - St. Swithin’s Swivet folder (with Jonathan Williams) (1997/8)
Muin (The Vine) (with Bernard Moxham) (2014)
At the Emily Harvey Foundation (Venice) (Lost for Words in Venice):
The Manhattan Screen (1971)
If I Am What I Eat Screen (detail of Italian foods)
The Fall of the Tower of Babel (Peace for the World) (1965)
The Tower of Pisa (1965)
The Eiffel (Eyeful) Tower (1965)
Erik Satie – Arc-En-Oeil En Arceuil (1985)
Trois Morceaux En Forme de Poire Quilt by Astrid Furnival (1975)
Four drawings from the Wittgenstein series (2012 - 2015)
Weighing One's Words (2018)
The Cigarette Packets of Venice (print and book)
Collages from the Conz Collection featuring Da Vinci
A scattering of letters, words and phrases (2019)
At the Michael Pennie Gallery (Lost for Words in Bath):
Europa and Her Bull Screen (1966)
Kensington Rooftops (1957)
Devil Trap (1966)
John Furnival’s students at Bath Academy of Art, Corsham: Selection of poem-prints (1960s)
Homo Cyberneticus, Home Statisticus (1963)
Erik Satie – Arc-En-Oeil En Arceuil (1985)
Trois Morceaux En Forme de Poire Quilt by Astrid Furnival (1975)
Six drawings from the Wittgenstein series (2012 - 2015)
Weighing One's Words (2018)
Map Prayer Wheels (2012)
Erik Satie – Arc-En-Oeil En Arceuil (1985)
Ate In Arcueil Egg-Ho (with Liz Dawson) (1975)
Ça Tea Leaves (with Jonathan Williams and John Vince) (1982)
Trois Morceaux En Forme de Poire Quilt by Astrid Furnival (1975)
Sweater Trois Morceaux En Forme de Poire (Satie and his pears) by Astrid Furnival (1975)
A Scale for Erik Satie, phonometrographer (2014/15)
A Satie’s Factionalist emerges from an Honfleur bar! (2020)