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Recurring themes in his paintings include his mother and grandmother’s ventriloquist dummies as well as issues related to gay men and their sexuality.
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John Yeadon
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Yeadon"s grandmother was the ventriloquist Annie Howarth, who worked under the stage name Josephine Langley. As well as painting, his work includes poetry and audio-visual creations. He set up the Coventry-Dresden Arts Exchange in 2012.
Yeadon complained of censorship after a photograph of a woman vomiting was removed from his exhibition,: The mortality of the eater and the eaten at the Bath Place Community Venture in Leamington Spa in 2010.
Yeadon"s 9x7ft painting of the, 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.
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 Master of Arts Fine Art course. He has also been a visiting lecturer at Slade School of Fine Art and at the Royal College of Artist
