New Ashgate spring brochure 2014

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Spring

2014

Tessa Pearson

New Work by the Surrey Artist of the Year 2012 18 Janua r y – 1 Ma rch Private view: New works on paper by the 2012

Fri 17 Jan, 6-8pm

Surrey Artist of the Year Tessa Pearson who has been creating stunning mixed media paintings and monotypes for this major solo show.

Well known for her glorious use of colour, Pearson sees the world as a myriad of pattern and captivating images. She marvels at patches of brilliant yellow in a dramatic green landscape, and the glimpse of a violet pot against a cobalt blue wall will haunt her.

The Surrey Artist of the Year celebrates the partnership between the New Ashgate and the Surrey Artists Open Studios. The exhibition showcases a variety of artwork created in the region and is supported from the Patricia Baines Trust.

Sarah Shaw, Roads

Sarah Shaw 1 February – 1 March

Sarah Shaw’s work is located between figuration and nonfiguration. It comes from a quiet place of meditation where metaphorical or symbolic images/barriers/passages are explored in the painterly dialogue about the condition of being human and the concept of living through time.

The paintings are not whole images, but snatches of images, sounds and thoughts, briefly forming into coherence like a painterly slideshow of memory.

Shaw’s work has been purchased by private collectors in the UK and abroad, most notably by Ronnie Wood. She has featured in many competitions, including the National Open and the Aesthetica Art Prize and was shortlisted for the Threadneedle Art Prize.

Dan Baldwin, Love

Love, Life and Death Prints by Dan Baldwin 18 Janua r y – 1 Ma rch Private view: Dan Baldwin creates a unique and

Fri 17 Jan, 6-8pm

immediately recognisable vision in his silkscreen prints. His work reflects both reality and the world of imagination.

Baldwin’s subject matter is the interior of his own mind, from rumination on love, memory or philosophical issues, to an airing of opinion on politics and/ or current affairs. The work is multi-layered, both physically (Baldwin can use glazes, diamond dust collage and 3D media on top of his silkscreen surface) and in terms of meaning.

Symbolism is a key to Baldwin’s oeuvre – his interpretation and the personal response of each viewer. The symbols of death, life and love reflect Baldwin’s preoccupation with the ‘big questions’ of human existence. Baldwin lives and works in West Sussex and his work is collected and exhibited nationally and internationally.

Peter Archer

Spring Craft Collection 18 Janua r y – 3 May Known for selecting the best of craft talent, the gallery team has handpicked many of their makers at events such as Collect, Art in Clay, Art in Action, Rising Stars, New Designers and the Festival of Crafts.

The exhibition presents both established and emerging makers, focusing on affordable, high quality crafts by: • Peter Archer

• Nina Gale

• Chito Kuroda

• Suzanne Breakwell

• Eleanor Lakelin

• Rowena Brown

• Robert Goldsmith (Selborne Pottery)

• Ali Cooper

• Mei Kwin Wong

• Claire Lowe • Namiko Murakoshi

• Joy Trpkovic • Timea Sido • Katalin Szallas and many more.

Ikuko Iwamoto Maker in Focus 18 January – 1 March The ceramic sculpture and tableware by Ikuko, the quirky and critically acclaimed Japanese ceramic artist, suggest the everyday, the ordinary, but is in fact extraordinary. It takes you to a world of intricacy and detail, mathematical pattern and organic chaos, beauty and repulsion. There is also a Japanese theme in ceramics in the Spring Collection that will show Chito Kuroda and Namiko Murakoshi, curated

by Yuka Kikumoto.

Ikuko Iwamoto, Large Sake Jugs

HOLD IT! The Art of the Modern Medal 8 M a r c h – 19 A p r i l Private view: Fri 7 Mar, 6-8pm

British Art Medal Society Student Medal Project The 21st Student Medal Project is a success story for bringing the art of the modern medal into the art college curriculum, whether in sculpture, metal work or jewellery.

It is an introduction to the age-old art of bronze casting, where students themselves each create a small but powerful work of two-sided relief sculpture, which can be held in the hand. The British Art Medal Society commissions medals every year for sale to its members, arranges lectures and conferences.

Each year colleges around the UK are invited to participate, plus an academy from abroad, this year, the University of Sofia, Bulgaria.

This exhibition takes us from the political to the personal, the abstract to the mainstream, as the students – and some professional makers – express their creativity and craftsmanship in the surprising medium of the modern art medal.

Bo Behan (2012 winner) Are you who you say you are?

UCA, Farnham

Rising Stars 2014 Rising Stars is a platform to view and collect some of the most exciting new crafts Heather Woof

by emerging makers from applied arts programmes across the UK. It presents work by: 8 M a r c h – 19 A p r i l Private view: Fri 7 Mar, 6-8pm • Elodie Alexandre

• Ruth Harrison

• Izzy Parker

• Elizabeth Ashdown

• Anna Collette Hunt

• Anastasija Pjatinicka

• Juliette Bigley

• Mirka Janeckova

• Hajnalka Rezes

• Rachel Britch

• Anum Khan

• Charlotte Stockley

• Jessica Coleman

• Lisa Larcombe

• Julia Webster

• Polly Collins

• Beatrice Larkins

• Simon Wilks

• Brittany Delany

• Anne Laycock

• Penny Wheeler

• Eva Farkasova

• Beth Lewis-Williams

• Hannah Whittle

• Joanna Fronczak

• Agnieszka Maksymiuk

• Cristiana Zani

• Jessica Frost

• Elise Menghini

• Sevak Zargarian.

• Kerstin Haigh

• Kelly Munro

We also present new jewellery by Heather Woof, the 2013 winner of Rising Stars award.

This curated, selling exhibition will tour from the New Ashgate to the Milton Keynes Arts Centre and the Smiths Row, Bury St Edmunds. Rising Stars includes a publication and a programme of workshops and a symposium. Rising Stars 2014 is supported by Arts Council England and Billmeir Charitable Trust. We work in partnership with a-n, the Artists Information Company and the University for the Creative Arts.

Ruth Harrison, Green Disk with Red Slip Inlay

Opening hours Tuesday–Saturday 10am–5pm.

Free admission and groups are welcome All exhibition rooms are accessible to wheelchair users. Guide dogs are welcome.

Directions We are situated on the edge of Waggon Yard, just off Downing Street.

By road: Farnham is 11 miles southwest of Guildford, Surrey, and is clearly signposted from the A3, A31, M3 and A287. There is a pay and display car park in front of the Gallery.

The adjacent car park has four dedicated disabled parking spaces.

By rail: The Farnham Station is served

by London Waterloo. The Gallery is a five-minute walk from the station.

By bus & coach: Buses run from Farnham to surrounding towns and villages, generally every hour. For enquiries contact Traveline on 0871 2002233 or visit traveline.info The New Ashgate Gallery is an educational charity that promotes contemporary visual arts and crafts to as wide a public as possible, through a programme of changing exhibitions, projects with artists, makers, and projects of support and development delivered by the trust with local, regional, national and international partnerships and educational events.

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