Christmas Bizarre 2013

Friday 6 December 6–9pm Saturday 7 December 10am–6pm

An art & craft fair with a twist!

New Road, Rye TN31 7LS Free entry • free parking • cafe

www.theschoolcreativecentre.co.uk

Welcome to Christmas Bizarre 2013 – the seasonal art and craft fair with a twist!

Each year we work with a range of talented designermakers, artists and creatives to bring you a festive adventure with gifts for all.

This year is no different We have a fabulous range of ceramics, jewellery, prints, textiles and sculpted paper animals, delicious home-made savoury scones from Baked By The Sea in the café to go with steaming bowls of soup, a wonderful fairy tale environment created by FDA Illustration students at Sussex Coast College and an especially commissioned animation to view in the theatre.

Most importantly this year we are inviting everyone to give something back at Christmas via our Super Secret Santa fundraising show in aid of local charity Surviving Christmas which supports those in need at Christmas.

Over the last five years we have worked with a host of amazing artists and we have been delighted by their generosity in donating artworks to help us all support this excellent cause.

Our Super Secret Santa show features works by established painters, illustrators, print makers, photographers, graphic novelists and more! A minimum donation of just £25 will enable visitors to enter a sweepstake and win one of these original artworks.

So… buy a gift for someone you love and offer a helping hand to a stranger in need this Christmas!

Caroline Fraser Photography

Sue Prince Textiles Textile artist Sue Prince uses feltmaking and a range of innovative techniques to make both useful and decorative pieces including pictures, handbags, scarves and brooches. susanprincetextileartist. wordpress.com

An outdoor photographer inspired by nature’s chaos and man’s desire to impose order. Caroline Fraser manipulates her digital images to express the feelings and mood evoked by a given location.

www.carolinefraser.org

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Stuart Jenkins Silversmith & Jewellery Bekky May Stoneware Contemporary Ceramics Original, handmade contemporary ceramics from Bekky May are both functional and sculptural, inspired by the beautiful Sussex coastline and countryside with its intrinsic roughness and variation of line and tone.

With a background in both a fine art and decorative art, silversmith and jeweller Stuart Jenkins believes that objects should be both beautiful and thought provoking.

Inspiration and ideas come from many places, nature, man-made objects, wind worn surfaces, but mostly they come from the sheer joy that is the creative act.

www.bekkymay.co.uk

www.stuartjenkins.com

Angelika Howard, Kirsten Jensen and Freyja Cox Jensen Textiles, Pottery, Prints, Crobots Tom Pockley Wood Sussex Guildsman Tom Pockley makes exquisite decorative and functional work that lets the wood speak for itself, allowing natural edges and encouraging the wood to show exciting contrasts.

Prints, pots and paraphernalia: a selection of affordable art, ceramics, and small gifts.

Choose from hand-thrown stoneware pots, intaglio and relief prints, abstract oil and mixed-media canvases, and a variety of handcrafted toys and decorations, perfect for that unexpected Christmas visitor!

woodturneruk.com www.schmart.co.uk

Emily Thatcher Jewellery Designermaker of contemporary jewellery, Emily creates collections and one-off pieces, handmade to a meticulous high quality, which are combinations of the organic and the manmade. Using different surface finishes and incorporating the natural beauty of precious, and semi-precious stones gives depth and age to the pieces. www.emilythatcher.co.uk

Steph Rubin Papier-mâché Animal Heads Sculptor Steph Rubin has been inspired by these exquisite hand made papers from India to create a range of delightful papier-mâché animal heads to make this year’s Christmas decorations really special. www.stephrubin.com

Jenni Rogers Jewellery

Claire Langley Printed Textiles & Cards

Kent based jeweller Jenni Rogers hand crafts necklaces, bracelets, and earrings using silver, pearls, and gemstones from around the world.

Beautiful patterns using a range of mediums and techniques inspired by psychedelic flower power and liberty lace, to create a stunning range of greeting cards, stationery and prints. clairelangley.com and clairelangleytextiles. blogspot.co.uk

jennirogersjewellery.com

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Paul Francis Photography and lomographic prints Photographer Paul Francis specialises in lomographic prints and framed photos taken on vintage and lomographic cameras and inspired by urban and coastal landscapes. He also produces hand-printed T-Shirts featuring images of vintage cameras. redbubble.com/people/ frankandal

DONATING ARTISTS LIST Huge thanks to all the artists below who have already pledged to donate an artwork to our Super Secret Santa fundraiser at the time of going to print‌ Lucy Apps, Nick Archer, Jane Beecham, Jane Bruce, Rita Cox, Charlie Dance, Judy Dewsbery, Jenny Edbrooke, Stephanie Fawbert, Caroline Fraser, Luke Hannam, Julian Hanshaw, Jonathan Hills, Mary Hooper/Elise Liversedge, Chistine Hopwood, Angelika Howard, Scarlet James, Alista Keith, Bryony Kimmings, Andrew Kotting, Claire Langley, Lion Street Store, Paula MacArthur, Rob McCaig, Lucy Makin, Sarah Maple, Danny Pockets, Jenny Pockley, Ann Pointer, Sue Prince, Pete Quinnell, Erica Smith, Meg Stone, Beverley Thornley Thanks also to the White Rock Theatre for Pantomime tickets

We are a small local charity based in Hastings providing support and assistance to vulnerable residents in the Hastings and Rother area.

Now in our 29th year, we provide food hampers for the elderly and housebound, hampers or vouchers for families who are struggling to provide for Christmas and we host a three-day event providing washing facilities, hairdressing, cooked meals and social contact to those homeless and or lonely.

In 2012 we helped around 4500 people: 1400 families, 450 individuals during the 3 day event and over 550 hampers were distributed. Surviving Christmas needs to raise approximately ÂŁ50,000 a year to keep going.

We enable the community to help those less fortunate through volunteering, highlight and communicate the needs of the wider community and provide a social, safe place for vulnerable people to come together over the Christmas period.

We would like to thank everyone who has contributed to this event and wish everyone a happy and peaceful Christmas.

SPONSORED BY SUSSEX COMMUNITY RAIL PARTNERSHIP Sussex Community Rail Partnership are delighted to support this year’s Christmas Bizarre in aid of Surviving Christmas.

We wish you a happy and prosperous Christmas. www.sussexcrp.org

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