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Congratulations All Round and time to start packing….
….. for a holiday? No. I wish!
But possibly a whole lot more exciting! I’ve been fairly quiet about this, but time is fast approaching, and I want to start sharing my news… I was very pleased to be offered studio space at Shed 2 Studios in Ilkeston.
This is great news for me. Shed 2 was founded by former students on the same course as I did at Derby, everybody who is there is not only lovely, but produce great work and are all doing very well, and I know it will be a wonderful supportive environment. I would be terrible if I worked from home – about the only time that I ever really want to do housework (as in an insatiable burning desire to do it!) is when I have a project to do… so all that remains is to pack up the three truckloads of stuff I still have at Uni and move it all in…So, why congratulations all round? Well, course colleagues Deborah Miles and Nicola Lidstone have both been accepted into the Design Factory, as well as along with Katie Heeks and Robyn Holgate were selected for Lustre 2010 in November at the Lakeside Art Centre, Nottingham. Well done to you all! -
A Few Photos from Rufford
At the end of June, myself, and three other students from the Crafts course at Derby had a stand at Rufford Earth & Fire. It’s a fabulous location for a ceramics fair and the weather was glorious all weekend – disappointed initially that we were in almost permanent shade, by Sunday I was really glad, as I think we would have melted in that hot sun all day!Now, I need to have a photography session for the new ceramics wall works, but here’s what I took of our stand:
This is the whole stand – my work is the square pictures at the left and right hand side, the boxed and free standing sculptural forms are by Sarah Jennings (who you can see just at the right), the wonderful animals in the middle are by Nicola Drury, who’s there at the back of the stand, and the rock bowls are by Sarah Huson. We all plan to go on and be makers, so look out for us all (if you click on the names, it will take you to my friends’ websites)Here’s my work in a bit more close up (you can click on the photos for a closer look):
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I think it’s all over….
Blimey, it seems forever since I last posted. It has been bit busy, mind. I was getting ready for Rufford… a fantastic place for a ceramics fair (well, a great venue for any kind of craft fair really), the weather was fabulous all weekend and we were busy. Our little Derby Crafts stall did quite well. And the curry night on Saturday was great!
After packing away from Rufford on Sunday, it was back to Uni yet again on Monday, to finish off the the piece that was going down to New Designers in London, and to load the van.
London was HOT. The place we stayed in was like a sauna… the underground was unbearable at times. Was a busy weekend for London, with Wimbledon final and Gay Pride, so probably busier everywhere than the average weekend. Along with rail closures and tube works… oh the joys!
However, I did get to spend a bit of quiet time with a quick visit to see “Remarkable Glass”, a CGS exhibition at Contemporary Applied Arts. On Sunday, in a desperate bid to find nicely air conditioned places, I went to the British Musuem and the British Library. Both wonderful buildings, and great air conditioning! At the latter there is currently an exhibition about Maps, which I found really interesting – there’s something about old fashioned, hand drawn maps that intrigues me.
Talking of maps, a bit of eye candy? Managed to get a couple of snaps of the Degree Show art work before it all got taken down.
So, what next? Well, watch this space for studio/workshop news sometime very soon… still seem quite busy at the moment, clearing out uni space and just generally catching up all all that “stuff” that gets neglected. I bet the sun stops shining soon, just as I actually get a bit of time to enjoy it!
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Blog Tired….
I am such a bad blogger…. you’d think after the degree show, I might have a bit of time?
Nope. Aside from invigilating the show, and hanging around all day on assessment days (two of them) as our work was in the main thoroughfare so we could not leave our visual and supporting studies out on display, so we were played the waiting game for two days too.
Then, straight in to making for Rufford and for me, New Designers – seeing as the work I made is WAY to big to take to either event, and not suitable for the first one anyway.
I’ve been making tiles like they might go out of fashion, and assembled some of them in to wall art. No photos yet, but hopefully I will remember to snap them before I sell them all at Rufford Earth and Fire!
Wish me luck (and lots of interest!)
