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7 - 11 September 2015 Birmingham Cathedral Square
In:Site presents new craft in unexpected contexts, challenges perceptions about craft and promotes emerging trends
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In:Site 2015
A Festival of graduate Creativity In:Site, a graduate festival of creativity, returns to Birmingham’s Cathedral Square in September 2015 for its fifth year. Initiated by Craftspace, an independent contemporary craft development charity, In:Site provides an opportunity for the selected new applied arts graduates to create bespoke, site-specific artworks. Beginning as a one day event featuring only three graduates, In:Site has grown into a five day festival, in partnership with Colmore Business District, Birmingham Cathedral and Six Eight Kafe, attracting new artists from colleges all over the country. The Cathedral Square is a major city thoroughfare and meeting point with as many as twenty thousand people passing through and/or spending time in the public space each day. It offers the potential for In:Site to attract a new audience to contemporary craft and create an environment through which people can have unique cultural encounters and experiences. The festival provides graduates with a valuable early career commission and profile for their portfolio. Benefits include being able to: test the viability of ideas, go through the process of a live commission, respond to a brief and a specific site, engage with the public at first hand. As this year marks the Cathedral’s tercentenary, many of the graduates have incorporated the rich themes and history surrounding the Cathedral’s 300 years in the city within their installations. This year’s artists have been selected by a panel including Simon Taylor, Head of Learning at Ikon Gallery, Jane McArdle, Heritage Manager for Birmingham Cathedral and Craftspace, following research visits to degree shows in the West Midlands and New Designers UK graduates show.
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anna cuinu annacuinu.com Grays School of Art Fashion and Textiles Responding to a memorial to explorer Frederick Burnaby, Anna re-creates his monocular inviting people to weave, knit and crochet into the sculpture using various mixed media.
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joanne goodman @jogoodmandesign Birmingham City University BA Hons Textile Design - EmBroidery Joanne’s intricate textile floristry using traditional origami techniques with machine and hand embroidery creates wreaths to commemorate 60,000 burials in the churchyard.
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cathy english Buckstextilecollective.co.uk Buckinghamshire New University Textiles and Surface design Cathy’s constructed textile and mixed media ‘fantasy’ yarns are inspired by 2014/15 Poet Laureate Adrian Blackledge’s poem ‘Birmingham’.
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Ina Norrman inanorrman.com Middlesex University BA Jewellery and Accessories Inspired by the Cathedral’s Burne-Jones stained glass window, Ina creates a mosaic of handmade brooches from screen printed plywood and found materials.
Mary Hall maryhalltextiles.co.uk De Montfort University BA Design Crafts - Textiles Mary illustrates her observations of the surroundings and associated stories using stitch onto a series of embroidery hoops.
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Amanda Woollard shelts68.Blogspot.co.uk Contemporary Surface Design and Textiles BA Textile Design Amanda incorporates natural botanical stains alongside embroidery in her textile pieces. She is inspired by memories, local heritage and habitat.
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Jessica Hargreaves jessicahargreaves.info University of Brighton 3D Design and Craft Inspired by pilgrimage and religious relics, Jessica creates a series of pewter pilgrim badges cast insitu from surfaces around Cathedral Square.
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Emma Surtees emmalouisesurtees.com Chelsea College of Arts Textile Design Emma creates large scale embroidery works featuring both abstract and pictorial elements. Her work is both temporary and performative.
Kitzz Steele kitzz-steele.com Birmingham School of Jewellery BA Jewellery and Silversmithing Kitzz uses a micro-lathe to turn wooden shapes inspired by architecture and forms in the urban environment.
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Rachel Lemon lovealemon.wordpress.com University of Brighton 3d design and craft Rachel’s series of hand built and unfired clay urns are embellished with information about local historical figures.
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LuBna Din atinfullofmemories.tumBlr.com Nottingham Trent University MA Contemporary Crafts - Textiles Through the processes of weaving and by collecting a variety of materials, Lubna explores the diversity of our communities and captures their unique stories.
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something good Birmingham cathedral As part of the cathedral’s 300th anniversary celebrations you are invited to create your own Soul Boat for Jake Lever’s flotilla installation which will hang in the newly restored Cathedral from the end of November to March next year.
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moseley arts market Our Friday session coincides with Moseley Arts Market where you can meet talented local and visiting designers and makers and buy their work.
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HERITAGE OPEN DAY SATURDAY 12 SEPTEMBER, 11am - 3pm Join Deirdre Figueiredo, Director of Craftspace, for a walk around the Cathedral grounds to gain insight about the artwork on show.
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BIRMINGHAM WEEKENDER SATURDAY 26 - SUNDAY 27 SEPTEMBER outside ikon gallery, oozells sq., B’ham In:Site continues at Birmingham Weekender. Our partnership with Ikon Gallery and VSM UK Ltd sees graphic illustrators Jobe Anderson and Anna Holowko collaborating with textile artist Adele Fitzgerald. They will create an embroidered artwork using software and a digital sewing machine. Visitors are invited to watch and contribute through drawing and stitch.
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The project is supported by
The John Feeney Charitable Trust, Colmore Business District, Birmingham Cathedral and 6/8 Kafe.
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