S.I.G. Waller

news, projects, exhibitions & some other stuff I like...

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Valley of the Dragons . 1961 

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I’m reactivating my blog after a 2+ year hiatus. 

This Monster marks the place ;)

There will be a LOT of catching up to do - I will just post things in chronological order from where I left off...

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My series Les Portes du Paradis is on show at Radical Social Practice, as part of this year’s Fringe Arts Bath festival. Curated by Tom Barker, a friend from my time at Goldsmiths many years ago... :))))

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One of my Parlour Games drawings, which was available via my online shop for a while... (which is why it’s worth checking regularly, as stock changes every 4 months or so...)

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Sig Waller - ART - editions, signed prints, paintings, embroidery, mixed-media, collage, drawing

I've launched my new online shop!

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Better late than never! Here are some photos of Running with the Wolves, the show I curated earlier this year. The exhibition took place at 35Blumen, a small project space in Krefeld, Germany. Participating artists were: Annie Aube (US), Chris Shaw Hughes (UK), Eva Lis (UK), Julia Maddison (UK), Max Reeves (UK), Martin Sexton (UK), Stephen Spera (US), Rhys Trussler (UK), Stoll & Wachall (DE), Mark Scott Wood (UK), and of course my good old self.

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‘Say Goodbye to Love’: Sig Waller’s seriously dark & twisted art

When it comes to describing the work of artist Sig Waller, I think the writer Seb Doubinsky sums it up best: If you don’t know Sig Waller’s art, you don’t know shit. It’s amazing. Writers are good like that. Good with words. Over the past twenty years, Sig Waller has produced a staggering array of exceedingly beautiful, powerful, subversive, often disturbing yet darkly comic paintings, drawings and prints. Her work explores the darker borders of our culture of excess—with particular attention to our potential for destruction. Her most recent work Goodbye to Love was a hit exhibition at 35blumen, Krefeld, Germany in 2016. Taking its title from that well-known bittersweet song by the Carpenters, Goodbye to Love focused on the reality between being a woman and a mother when compared to the idealized fantasy as promoted in the pages of women’s magazines, TV and billboard advertising and old 1950s housewives’ guides. Sig’s “housewives” are drooling Pavlovian figures, expected to perform absurd tasks and domestic rituals. The work is a stylistic follow-on from her 2013 show Happy Homes. But the black humor very apparent in Happy Homes has now been replaced in Goodbye to Love...

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Anti-Valentine

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Another couple of Goodbye to Love’s from 2016

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Happy New Year Everyone!

This painting is from 2000, the first year of the new millenium - how much has changed & happened since then, how much of it was unplanned and unforeseen!

In tough times, it helps to keep an eye on the bigger picture. I wish everyone a serendipitous, healthy & prosperous 2017, full of love & adventure! :))))) xxx

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Goodbye to Love

here are some more of the new series I made over the summer months, I am re-working some so there will be more to come. You can view the entire series on my website here

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Eyes of a Jumping Spider

I’m in love with this photo, by Yousef Al Habshi/Nikon Small World

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Goodbye to Love - new work!

here are some of the new GTLs I made over the summer months - more to come soon! :))) you can view the entire series, plus pricing and purchase details on my website here 

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Goodbye to Love

Here’s the flyer for my solo show opening in Krefeld this evening. Do come along if you are in the area. I will be scanning the new work and adding it to my website & blog when the show is over, so keep a look out for that in October! :)))))

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New SMILEYS!

Made for the SCHWARZ show @ 35blumen in Krefeld, Germany - catch it if you can! :))))))

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So here is the first of my black-on-black demons which I made for the SCHWARZ show at 35blumen in Krefeld. I’ve included several shots as it’s hard to photograph.

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8 x Schwarz

I have some work in this show, opening on June 10th at the 35Blumen artspace in Krefeld, Germany.

Here’s the exhibition text (in German):

Wir laden sehr herzlich zu der Gruppenausstellung „8 x Schwarz“ ein, in der wir Ihnen sehr unterschiedliche Künstler, verschiedene Deutungen und Umgehensweisen mit dem Thema „Schwarz“ zeigen möchten.

Schwarz ist in der westlichen Symbolik oft gleichbedeutend mit Angst, Bedrohung, Tod, ist furchterregend, ist Drama.

Schwarz ist in der Tradition der Romantik ein Mythos der Nacht, der heilenden und regenerierenden Kräfte.

Schwarz ist eine Urkraft, ist Ende und Anfang, ist Chaos als Ausgangspunkt der Welt.

Schwarz ist schön! Wunderschön !

Ausstellung: 10.Juni - 10.Juli 2016

Eröffnung: 10.Juni, 19 Uhr

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Broken Rainbow

Digital painting, 2015