EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS
CRAFTS STUDY CENTRE News
MASTERS ON MAKERS : RE-IMAGINING THE OBJECT The Crafts Study Centre works closely with MA students in the School of Craft & Design at UCA Farnham and one key output is an exhibition on the top floor of the museum. MA students were invited to select an object from the Crafts Study Centre’s collections, research it in depth, and make an object in response to it. The exhibition will remain until the end of September and shows work by Dorothy Arhin, Rosie Baxter, Lois Bellew, Christine Johnson, Julie Massey, Teresa Munn, Eileen Prior, Zoe Tu, Hilary Williams and Shuai Yuan.
HOTHOUSE 6 The Crafts Study Centre is delighted to have been invited, along with the New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham to be a partner in the South Cohort for the Crafts Council’s Hothouse 6. Hothouse provides emerging makers with focused, intensive business skills and creative development. It is a national scheme which profiles and supports the most promising new makers across the craft field each year. This is the fourth time that the Crafts Study Centre has been a partner in Hothouse.
RECENT ACQUISITIONS The Crafts Study Centre has recently acquired two works with a very close association to Robin Tanner, one of our Founder Trustees. A ‘very modern and plain’ chestnut coffer from the Gordon Russell workshop in 1931 and made as a wedding present for Robin and his wife Heather, was purchased at auction. The evocative 1984 etching Aldhemsburgh (Malmesbury, Wiltshire) adds to our comprehensive collection of Tanner’s graphic work and has been acquired from a private collection in Malmesbury. COVER: WORK BY THOMAS INGMIRE, EDWARD JOHNSTON FOUNDATION COLLECTION INSIDE FRONT COVER: ALDHEMSBURGH, ETCHING BY ROBIN TANNER
ACADEMIC CHOICE EXHIBITION : 30 JUNE - 12 DECEMBER 2015
The collections of the Crafts Study Centre cover a diverse range of materials from ceramics, furniture, textiles to lettering and calligraphy. They are supported by very significant archives, from craft studios as well as craft organisations. The Director of the Museum of Arts & Design, New York Dr Glenn Adamson has called the Centre ‘Britain’s memory bank for craft’ with the word bank suggesting ‘a vault containing untold riches’. The vault has been opened for this exhibition by an individualistic group of Academic staff from the University for the Creative Arts. Some have specialist knowledge of modern and contemporary craft, and some are experts in other fields of practice such as contemporary photography and fine art. They have selected a compelling and idiosyncratic body of work for the exhibition, drawing across the whole range of the collections, but observing them and writing about them with critical insight and sometimes personal accounts. It is a means of looking at the collections in an entirely new way. Academic Choice presents work selected by Debra Allman, Adrian Bland, Jamie Dobson, Colin Holden, Richard Hylton, Professor Trevor Keeble, Mark Little, Professor Lesley Millar, Professor Simon Olding, Dr Terry Perk, Julian Rowe and Jean Vacher.
DAVID PYE USING THE ‘FLUTING ENGINE’ HE INVENTED TO CREATE A BOWL. PHOTO BY DAVID CRIPPS, 1986 ©CRAFTS COUNCIL
PEN TO PRINTER The Influence of Edward Johnston EXHIBITION : 28 JULY - 26 SEPTEMBER 2015
This exhibition brings together the Crafts Study Centre and the Edward Johnston Foundation in exploring how Johnston’s researches into the tools, materials and methods of the ancient scribes has led to a new understanding of letterforms. The influence of his work and teaching has spread through all branches of calligraphy, letter cutting and the printed word. This will be examined in the context of these two major public collections and their respective approaches to collecting the material that right up to the present day owes a debt to this extraordinary pioneer.
CURATOR’S TALK : Gerald Fleuss, Director of the Edward Johnston Foundation discusses the exhibition Wednesday 16 September 2015 Talk: 6.00pm-7.00pm Reception: 5.30pm-6.00pm Tickets priced £5.00 are available from the Crafts Study Centre and must be booked in advance as numbers are limited.
L: EDWARD JOHNSTON, EDWARD JOHNSTON FOUNDATION COLLECTION, PHOTO BY GERALD FLEUSS R: TOM PERKINS, EDWARD JOHNSTON FOUNDATION COLLECTION, PHOTO BY GERALD FLEUSS
UCA FARNHAM : ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE 2014/15 Unexpected Outcomes EXHIBITION - 25 AUGUST - 5 SEPTEMBER 2015
The 2014/15 cohort of Artists in Residence at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham were chosen from all the disciplines offered by the School of Craft and Design including; metalwork, jewellery, glass, ceramics and textiles. This wide range of disciplines was matched by the diversity of experience and age of the individual artists. Some, recent graduates (undergraduate or postgraduate) at the beginning of their careers, others already established artists in their field, all with a common desire to diversify, expand or refresh their practice. All artists came with a personal manifesto of what they planned to do with this unique opportunity; how they expected to interact with other members of the University, their personal objectives and expectations of the year’s work. This exhibition records the outcomes for a group of the AiRs, documenting the explorations that proceeded for many in unexpected directions and the work that was produced in the form of both experimental samples and finished pieces. Unexpected Outcomes is represented in the Crafts Study Centre Shop. The 2014/15 exhibiting AiRs are:
Alexandra McEwan Leo Duff Maya Antoun Naomi Symmonds
Elizabeth Ashdown Lynne Bartlett Monette Larsen
L-R: WORK BY LYNNE BARTLETT, NAOMI SYMONDS, MONETTE LARSEN AND LEO DUFF
SOME ENGLISH SLIPWARES EXHIBITION : 6 OCTOBER - 12 DECEMBER 2015
The exhibition reflects on the development of slipware in English studio ceramics. It takes as a starting point works by Bernard Leach and Michael Cardew drawn from the Crafts Study Centre’s collections and counterpoints these pieces with work of the present day. This juxtaposition enables us to consider slipware both as a means of decorating domestic tablewares and as a means of individual artistic expression. Ceramic artists today have re-interpreted the use of slip, and whilst they have referred back to historic examples (particularly late 17th century examples by Thomas Toft) their approach is often highly individual. The exhibition shows work that operates within the normal convention of slipware decoration, showing how the genre has developed incrementally, and it presents work that is more sculptural, painterly or political in its intensions. The exhibition also includes some experimental work indicating how some ceramic artists dallied with slipware before moving on to other methods. The exhibition includes work by Bernard Leach, Michael Cardew, Henry Hammond, Joanna Wason, Emilie Taylor, Phillip Leach, Frannie Leach, Clive Bowen, Dylan Bowen, Mary Wondrausch, Alison Britton and Simon Carroll. The exhibition has been curated by Professor Simon Olding, Director of the Crafts Study Centre.
PRIVATE VIEW Wednesday 7 October 2015 5.00pm-7.00pm All welcome - no booking required WORK BY SAM HAILE, PHOTO BY DAVID WESTWOOD
HERITAGE OPEN DAYS Behind the Scenes 10, 11 & 12 SEPTEMBER 2015 FROM 11AM - 12NOON
The Crafts Study Centre is proud to participate once again in the national scheme of Heritage Open Days. Celebrating the fantastic architecture and culture that England has to offer, Heritage Open Days encourages free access to places that are either normally closed to the public or would make a charge for admission. Heritage Open Days celebrate, what makes local communities and neighbourhoods special by stimulating curiosity and discovery and, by connecting people with their local places, fosters a sense of belonging and pride. For four days every September, buildings of all age, style and function welcome the public for this chance to discover and explore architectural treasures, take part in tours, events and activities that bring local history and culture to life. This year, Professor Simon Olding the Director of the Crafts Study Centre and Jean Vacher, Crafts Study Centre Curator will lead a tour of the Centre’s exhibitions and comment on the Centre’s development plans. In addition, visitors will be able to see the Centre’s reserve collections and a specially curated group of objects will be brought together for more detailed analysis. Tickets are free but must be booked in advance as numbers are limited to 6 people. For more information and to book, please contact the Crafts Study Centre.
PHOTO FROM THE CRAFTS STUDY CENTRE COLLECTIONS
DYLAN BOWEN Part of the Farnham Craft Town series LECTURE - THURSDAY 8 OCTOBER 2015
We are delighted to bring Dylan Bowen to Farnham as part of the town’s celebration of making during October Craft Month. Dylan is a second generation slipware potter from North Devon. His father, Clive Bowen was at the forefront of slipware’s revival and remains one of its leading practitioners. Dylan grew up at Shebbear Pottery, and after working as an apprentice to his father he went on to study at Camberwell School of Art. He currently lives and works in Oxfordshire. Dylan’s work is a fusion of traditional slipware and contemporary influences such as abstract expressionism and outsider art. His work is also informed by modern ceramists such as Peter Voulkos and Simon Carroll. In his lecture Bowen will be looking at slipware’s history, techniques and materials in the context of his own work and that of other contemporary potters. Dylan will trace slipware’s development from the 17th Century through the Studio Pottery Movement to its revival in the 1970s.
LECTURE: given by Dylan Bowen Thursday 8 October 2015 Talk: 6.00pm-7.00pm Reception: 5.30pm-6.00pm Tickets priced £5.00 are available from the Crafts Study Centre and must be booked in advance. This event has been generously supported with funds from the Farnham South Street Trust DYLAN BOWEN AT WORK IN HIS STUDIO
CRAFTS STUDY CENTRE Development Project TALK - 14 OCTOBER 2015
The Crafts Study Centre’s application to the Heritage Lottery Fund is based around an extension to the current museum premises at the front of the campus of the University for the Creative Arts. You are invited to join us for a glass of wine and hear a short presentation on the project by Professor Simon Olding, Director of the Crafts Study Centre. The session will record your views and opinions on the development scheme and feed these into the final outcome of the scheme. We want to create a new museum that reflects the views and aspirations of our local community and public and help to identify improvements that will make access to the collections easier and more enjoyable for all.
TALK: given by Professor Simon Olding, Director of the Crafts Study Centre Wednesday 14 October 2015 Talk: 5.00pm-6.00pm All welcome. Please book your complimentary ticket in advance directly with the Crafts Study Centre.
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TRUE AND NAKED WORK : The Pottery of Richard Batterham LECTURE - WEDNESDAY 18 NOVEMBER 2015
Richard Batterham is a towering figure in British studio ceramics. He has been making work in Durweston, Dorset, since 1959, ‘rooted in one dear familiar place’. Batterham was introduced to pottery by Don Potter who taught sculpture, pottery and metalwork at Bryanston School. After a period working in The Leach Pottery, St Ives, Batterham established his own workshop, building a new pottery in 1966 and a new kiln in 1967. He fires his kiln ‘of Korean ancestry’ five or six times a year. His pots make reference, as Leach’s did before him, to earlier exemplars from Korea or English medieval pottery. His work, however, has an unmistakeable personal signature: they have been called ‘warm in spirit, fresh and eminently tactile’. This lecture discusses his work in the context of modern studio pottery, particularly in relation to work by Bernard Leach and Katharine Pleydell-Bouverie and is illustrated with works from private collections as well as the collections of the Crafts Study Centre. Batterham was a Trustee of the Crafts Study Centre from 1972 to 1976.
LECTURE: given by Professor Simon Olding, Director of the Crafts Study Centre Wednesday 18 November 2015 Talk: 6.00pm-7.00pm Reception: 5.30pm-6.00pm Tickets priced £5.00 are available from the Crafts Study Centre and must be booked in advance. T: RICHARD BATTERHAM WORKSHOP SIGN, PHOTO BY SIMON OLDING B L-R: LIDDED POT AND JUG BY RICHARD BATTERHAM, PHOTOS BY DAVID WESTWOOD
WHAT DO I NEED TO DO TO MAKE IT OK? A symposium on damage and repair CALL FOR PAPERS
The Crafts Study Centre in collaboration with the International Textile Research Centre for Textiles is presenting a new exhibition curated by Liz Cooper from 5 January to 5 March 2016. The exhibition includes specially commissioned work using stitch and other media to explore damage and repair, disease and medicine, healing and restoration, to landscapes, bodies, minds and objects. A one day symposium will be held at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham on 2 March 2016. The keynote speakers for the symposium are the ceramic artist Bouke de Vries and the textile artist Freddie Robins. The exhibition will show work by Dorothy Caldwell, Celia Pym, Freddie Robins, Karina Thompson and SaidhbhĂn Gibson. We welcome abstracts for papers from different practices and disciplines and in different formats that may address, but are not confined to, material, physical, political or psychological reflections and responses to the theme. Please send a 250 word abstract of your paper to Professor Lesley Millar, Director, International Textile Research Centre, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, GU9 7DS, or by email to lmillar@ucreative. ac.uk by no later than 20 November 2015. An expert panel will review abstracts and you will hear their decision by 4 December 2015. Full details of the symposium and exhibition will be published in the Crafts Study Centre’s January to July 2016 programme along with booking information. 600 DIAGNOSES A DAY (DETAIL) BY KARINA THOMPSON
CRAFTS STUDY CENTRE Shop Open Tuesday - Friday 10.00am to 5.00pm & Saturday 10.00am to 4.00pm
The Crafts Study Centre offers a wide variety of contemporary craft items for sale from craftspeople based both regionally and nationally. We also stock work from our academic and practitioner staff based at the University for the Creative Arts, and host exhibitions of work by students and Artists in Residence in the School of Craft & Design from time to time. We are currently selling jewellery by Syann van Niftrick, Ruth Facey and Liz Willis; ceramics by Lucy Burley, Ashley Howard, Ros Perton and Jonathan Garratt; glass by Hannah Facey and Susan Kinley and textiles by Nao Fukomoto, Sarah Lewis, Thornback and Peel and others. The CSC shop also stocks a wide range of postcards and magazines such as Crafts, Ceramic Review, Forum, Selected Journal, Crafts & Design and Selvedge. Purchases can be made in person or by telephone.
WORK BY ASHLEY HOWARD
Crafts Study Centre School of Craft & Design University for the Creative Arts Falkner Road, Farnham Surrey GU9 7DS 01252 891450 www.csc.ucreative.ac.uk @crafts_csc Open Tuesday to Friday 10.00am to 5.00pm and Saturday 10.00am to 4.00pm Admission is Free Research visits welcome by appointment Please telephone 01252 891450 Please note that the Crafts Study Centre will be unavoidably closed to the public on Saturday 22 August 2015. We apologise to all visitors for any inconvenience this will cause. The Crafts Study Centre will be closed to the public at Christmas from 4.00pm on Saturday 12 December 2015, reopening on Tuesday 5 January 2016
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