Malcolm Teasdale - The Last Shift

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‘The Last Shift’ was chosen as a title not only as reference to the working man labouring until retirement or redundancy but also to reflect the decision of the artist to use this particular platform to bring to a close the more demanding elements of what has been a busy and fruitful career.

Painting has been part of Malcolm’s life for over fifty years. He attended a Quaker foundation school in Cumbria where the ethos was to educate the ‘whole’ person. Here success on the rugby field and running track preceded the development of his more creative traits. It wasn’t until he had completed ‘A’ level and found that there was a demand for his paintings, from family and friends, that he began to take his artistic talents more seriously. The ideas for some of his early paintings were taken from poetry he had written about his childhood in Newcastle.

In the early sixties he spent a year as an unqualified teacher teaching art in Seghill, a small Northumbrian mining village. The community had recently suffered the closure of their colliery. Most of the children he taught were from mining families. Working with them afforded him an insightful experience into the lives of mining ‘folk’ at that time.

Although many aspects of Malcolm’s work were drawn directly from his northern roots his paintings take a broader look at mid twentieth century industry and the hardships of those times. Unlike Cornish, McGuinness and the Pitmen Painters, his subjects do not depict men at work. Instead he is in the streets where they live, in a queue outside the fish and chip shop, viewing pithead, kiln, chimney, furnace, dock - from afar. Always, though, the relentless movement of men following on in the same direction. Long lines or groups, bent as if bearing the weight of their labours or struggling against the harsh winds. They have been described as ‘penguin men’. Perhaps this may in time become a distinguishing ‘trademark’ should history choose to remember the work of Malcolm Teasdale.

Ros Teasdale 2016

7 July - 22 July 2016

Panter & Hall
11-12 Pall Mall
London
SW1Y 5LU

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Monday to Friday

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

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Malcolm Teasdale

Crossing Point

gouache on paper

18 x 24 ins (46 x 61 cms)

£2,200

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Malcolm Teasdale

Heading for the Yard

gouache on paper

16 x 20 ins (41 x 51 cms)

£1,850

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Malcolm Teasdale

Quayside Revellers

gouache on paper

16 x 20 ins (41 x 51 cms)

£1,850

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Malcolm Teasdale

Coal Town - Newcastle-upon-Tyne

gouache on paper

26 x 37 ins (66 x 94 cms)

£5,500

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Malcolm Teasdale

Wear Yards (W. Pickersgill & Sons)

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18 x 24 ins (46 x 61 cms)

£2,200

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Malcolm Teasdale

Down to the Tyne

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16 x 20 ins (41 x 51 cms)

£1,850

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Malcolm Teasdale

The Shows Have Arrived

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18 x 24 ins (46 x 61 cms)

£2,200

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Malcolm Teasdale

Last Shift before Christmas

gouache on paper

16 x 17.5 ins (41 x 44 cms)

£1,450

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Malcolm Teasdale

Saturday Night Cinema

gouache on paper

18 x 24 ins (46 x 61 cms)

£2,200

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Malcolm Teasdale

Good Blowing Day

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16 x 17.5 ins (41 x 44 cms)

£1,450

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Malcolm Teasdale

End of the Working Day

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18 x 24 ins (46 x 61 cms)

£2,200

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Malcolm Teasdale

Dusk

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16 x 20 ins (41 x 51 cms)

£1,850

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Malcolm Teasdale

Fred Smith’s Chip Shop

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16 x 20 ins (41 x 51 cms)

£1,850

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Malcolm Teasdale

Evening Shadows

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18 x 24 ins (46 x 61 cms)

£2,200

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Malcolm Teasdale

Coal Road

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20 x 27.5 ins (51 x 70 cms)

£3,200

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Malcolm Teasdale

The Big Meeting - Durham Miners’ Gala

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20 x 27.5 ins (51 x 70 cms)

£3,200

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Malcolm Teasdale

Off to Work - Huddersfield

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20 x 27.5 ins (51 x 70 cms)

£3,200

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Malcolm Teasdale

Shift Over - Glasgow Shipyards

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20 x 27.5 ins (51 x 70 cms)

£3,200

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Malcolm Teasdale

Back from the Mill

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20 x 27.5 ins (51 x 70 cms)

£3,200

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Malcolm Teasdale

Docklands

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18 x 24 ins (46 x 61 cms)

£2,200

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Malcolm Teasdale

Following the Line

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18 x 24 ins (46 x 61 cms)

£2,200

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Malcolm Teasdale

River Path

gouache on paper

16 x 20 ins (41 x 51 cms)

£1,850

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Malcolm Teasdale

Coal Train

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16 x 20 ins (41 x 51 cms)

£1,850

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Malcolm Teasdale

Potter's Lane

16 x 17.5 ins (41 x 44 cms)

£1,450

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Malcolm Teasdale

Pigeon Crees

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16 x 17.5 ins (41 x 44 cms)

£1,450

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Malcolm Teasdale

Family Dip

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16 x 17.5 ins (41 x 44 cms)

£1,450

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