Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (after British School)- Oil on canvas- 30 x 40cm- Will Teather

Maudeline Spacks was a vanishing artist and femme fetale active in the early noughties. Maudeline’s tour de force was a duel show at Sydney Opera House and the Royal Opera House London, where she performed in both venues at the same time. A video link up broadcast the concurrent shows in real-time to each venue. During the course of her Magnus Opus, Maud became lost in transit somewhere between the London and Sydney, never to be seen again. There is speculation that there was one further siting of Maud, a few hours after the performance, outside a house in Pimlico talking to a man in a dark fedora hat. The man fits the description of Andrew Plummer, a singer and lead vocalist of World Sanguine Report,(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhiPUmB769s).

Plummer was infatuated by Maud, like most people who met her, and reportedly heartbroken when his advances were refused during rehearsals. Will Teather met Plummer when he was commissioned to paint the stage set and publicity images for Maud’s performance, for which Plummer was one of the support acts. In hindsight, the paintings seem to have foreseen Maud being kidnapped by Plummer and becoming trapped in an interstice, a sort of lacuna, where she becomes”Schroedinger’s cat,” so to speak. A vanishing artist who has vanished forever, she is both dead and alive at the same time, something that is meditated upon in many of Teather’s new large-scale paintings, populated by moths and other symbols of transformation.

Will Teather (b.1980)

"Teather's works frequently wrenches us back and forth through time and style; As we are shifted between romanticism and classicism we are left entranced, entertained and certainly captivated by the uncertainties." 
Neil Powell, Academic & writer for Wall Street International

“Very clever… and beautiful.” BBC News

Will Teather's paintings have been exhibited internationally to acclaim, with recent exhibitions including a solo exhibition at the Underdog Gallery, London Bridge, Artwars at Red Dot Miami, RJD New York and as a finalist in the London Contemporary Art Prize.  His artworks are widely collected and have broken sales records for events including the Other Art Fair.