Occupation Painter
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Full Name John David Yeadon | ||
John David Yeadon (born 1948) is a British artist, and art educator.
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Yeadon's grandmother was the ventriloquist Annie Howarth, who worked under the stage name Josephine Langley. Recurring themes in his paintings include his mother and grandmother’s ventriloquist dummies as well as issues related to gay men and their sexuality. As well as painting, his work includes poetry and audio-visual creations.
He set up the Coventry-Dresden Arts Exchange in 2012.
Fat
Yeadon complained of censorship after a photograph of a woman vomiting was removed from his exhibition, Fat: The mortality of the eater and the eaten at the Bath Place Community Venture in Leamington Spa in 2010.
Harwell computer
Yeadon's 9x7ft painting of the Harwell computer, Portrait of a Dead Witch made in 1983, was exhibited at the 1984 at Leicestershire Schools and Colleges show, and subsequently purchased by Leicestershire Local Education Authority and loaned to a local authority school, Newbridge High School, Coalville. Within two years of that school becoming a private academy school, the painting was sold at auction to an undisclosed private buyer. It was discovered on the wall of the Jam Street Cafe Bar in Manchester. Kaldip Bhamber, who has a fine arts degree was unaware of the painting provenance when she purchased it, she wanted something large and colourful to fill a wall in her new enterprise, John Yeadon has visited the painting at its new location.
Teaching
Yeadon has taught at Goldsmiths College, Chelsea College of Art, Wimbledon School of Art, Glasgow School of Art and, from 1973–2002, at Coventry University, where he eventually led the MA Fine Art course. He has also been a visiting lecturer at Slade School of Fine Art and at the Royal College of Art.