the CHRISTMAS COLLECTION

the CHRISTMAS COLLECTION

Saturday 8th Nov 2008 until Jan 20th 2009

The Christmas show includes work by over 100 selected makers - we cannot show them all here, but as the show builds, we shall add more images as the work comes in and goes out on display.

BEN ARNUP
	Distressed ceramic form	Distressed ceramic form
			Mini Box and Multi Boxes ceramic
	Distressed ceramic form
PHILIP HEARSEY	'Apostrophe' bronze	'Skirrid Wave' bronze

CLAIRE MALET	'Flowingvessel' 33cm steel with 24ct gold plate

PAUL SMITH	'Strange Little Girl, medium' handbuilt ceramic	Strange Little Girl Large £795 ceramic. Beauty and Beast £495, bronze resin. Learning to Fly £450 bronze resin

SUE PARRY	'Breaking Wave' cast glass	'Tropical Paradise' cast glass
GUILIANA LAZZERINI	White Flight Oil on Canvas £2450	Florentine Table Acrylic on canvas £1450
	Island II mixed media on canvas £150	Island I £150
	Wobbly-wood fish by JEFF SOAN . Large Cedar £400, Blue fish £240, small fish from £30. (Filleted extra, but we'll save you the head for the cat!)

Views of the Exhibition taken on 12 Nov 08

PAUL SMITH

Girl and Wolf, Ceramic

All Paul Smith’s ceramic sculptures are unique, hand-built one-offs.

Using a system of rods developed by Ian Gregory he freely builds the figures, removing the supports once the clay can withstand it’s own weight.

He has adapted Ian’s technique by incorporating a solid “back-iron” support. These working methods allow for free and spontaneous variations on a particular theme, each piece being unique and subtly different from it’s predecessor.

He sponge-decorates his work with oxides, stains and glazes. Firing is to 1140 degrees or above, depending on the nature of the work. All sculptures are individually signed and dated.

Curriculum Vitae (2006)

Born: Northampton 1961

Art Education: Leicester Polytechnic 1983
2:1 BA(Hons) Fine Art Sculpture

Hertfordshire College of Art and Design 1985
Postgraduate Diploma in Art Therapy

Employment : Employed as a full-time sculptor 1987 -1997
(Stoke on Trent figurine industry)

(I have worked full time from my own studio since 1998 )

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2004 June          Cambridge Contemporary Art - “If you go down to the woods
                         today”
2001 July           Buxton Museum and Art Gallery, Derbyshire - “Animalism”

SMALL-GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND FEATURED ARTIST
2006 July           Grizzly Tales, Buxton Museum & Art Gallery, Derbyshire
                         Showcase of new work as part of the Buxton Festival Fringe
2006 May/June   Gallerytop- Fauna-small group show. Rowsley, Derbyshire
2003 May           Cambridge Contemporary Art - Featured Ceramicist
2000 Nov            Sanderson, George and Peach, Holmfirth,West Yorkshire
                          Featured Ceramicist in Christmas Show
1999 May           Ashbourne Gallery, Derbyshire - 2 Man Show with painter
                         Angelo Murphy

ART FAIRS
1999-2006          Glasgow Art Fair (represented by The Lost Gallery,
April                  Aberdeenshire)
2000-2003          Affordable Art Fair, Battersea Park, London (The Lost Gallery)
October
2005 March        Affordable Art Fair, Battersea Park, London (represented by
                         Cambridge Contemporary Art)

CERAMICS FESTIVALS
2004 June          Earth and Fire, Rufford, Notts
2004 May           Brasschaat Conference and Biennale, Belgium
2003-2004          Gouda, Netherlands (May)
2003 May           Clayart, Denbigh, Wales
2002 May           Swalmen, Netherlands
2002 Sep           Milsbeek, Netherlands
2000-04/06         Potfest in the Park, Cumbria (July)
2000-2006          Art in Clay, Hatfield House, Herts (August)

AWARDS
Aug 2000           The Derbyshire Prize at the Derbyshire Open
Nov 2004            Highly Commended in the Zelli Porcelain Award

This information gratefully lifted from Pauls own site at www.paulsmithsculptures.co.uk where more photo's may be viewed

BEN ARNUP

Ben Arnup has been a self employed ceramicist for more than 22 years, initially in Berkshire, moving home to the York area in 1986.

Several gallery exhibitions are made each year, mostly in England, supplemented in the past by lecturing for York University, Hull University and at Cyprus College of Art.

Up until now, Ben has concentrated on geometric forms. However, having recently won an Arts Council Grant for research, he has devoted 2008 to the development of new forms that arise from techniques of distressing clay to the point of disintegration. The images here are pieces that were made over the summer of 2008. The show will also include work that is still being made at the time of writing (Nov 2nd).

SUE PARRY

Education
September 2004 – June 2005		Professional Development Techniques and Technology, International Glass Centre, Dudley College
September 2003 – June 2004		OCNWM Glass Techniques and Technology, International Glass Centre, Dudley College
1986 – 1990		BSc (Hons) Environmental Science Level 2.1 Polytechnic South West, Plymouth, Devon

Experience
August 2006		Assistant to American Glass Artist David Ruth
Since January 2006		Part-time Tutor at Ruskin Glasshouse College, Wollaston Rd, Stourbridge, West Midlands. DY8 4HE
September 2005		Established Studio at Ruskin Glasshouse Centre, Wollaston Rd, Stourbridge, West Midlands. DY8 4HE
2005 - 2006		Co-Director Bi-Glass Exhibition, Buttermarket, No 9 Gallery, Birmingham
2005 - 2007		Contemporary Glass Society Representative for the Midlands
		Feature Writer for Contemporary Glass Society Newsletter
August 2004		Volunteer International Glass Festival 04, Stourbridge, West Midlands
June – July 2003		Cold Working at Danny Lane’s Studio, London

Workshops Attended
June 2007		Angela Thwaites, Hollow Form Casting, Richmond Adult Education Centre
February 2005		Lachezar Dorchev, Bulgarian Glass Artist, Kiln Sand Casting and High Fusing, Richmond Adult Education Centre
August 2004		Cappy Thompson, Painted Glass Master class, International Festival of Glass
January 2003		Jera May, Kiln Formed Glass, Richmond Adult Education Centre
Sept - Oct 2002		Jera May, Studio Glass Casting, Fusing, Slumping, Richmond Adult Education Centre
August 2002		Jera May, Sand Casting, Richmond Adult Education Centre

Symposia Attended
July 2005		‘Days of White Glass in Haapsalu’ Hot Glass Symposium Haapsalu. Estonia
January 2005		Hungarian and British Glass Artists, Fragile Cargo Symposium, London

Membership
CGS Contemporary Glass Society
Cohesion
Just Glass Society

CLAIRE MALET

Claire’s innovative gilded vessels are inspired by the rich textures, colours and sculpted shapes of eroded natural forms: fragments of sea-worn shells, the rock formations of a battered coastline, a curl of split bark. She also draws inspiration directly from the characteristics of the medium, and relishes the natural qualities of metal.

The fusion of reclaimed and precious metals in Claire’s vessels is highly unusual and gives a mysterious and exotic character to the work. Discarded metal containers are plucked from obscurity and transformed. Claire works each piece entirely with hand tools, using heat, chasing and gilding techniques and often pushes the metal to the limit of workability to achieve the organic qualities she seeks. Each vessel is unique.

Claire had a lively career as a community artist before studying at Hereford College of Art, from which she graduated in June 2005 with a BAHons in Contemporary Applied Art. Claire received The New Exhibitors Award at Hereford Contemporary Craft Fair 2005 and a Honorary Mention at Chelsea Crafts Fair 2005. The receipt of a grant to help equip her new garden studio has given Claire a good start in her new career. Claire's work can be seen in galleries throughout the UK.

Retail prices £180 - £1500

PHILIP HEARSEY Back to Top

After leaving Camberwell School of Art in the late 60's I somehow got involved in the building and joinery industry, which as chance would have it, laid the foundations for a lifetime career in architectural, interior and furniture design.

The Creation Of Bronze Vessel Forms and the Alchemy of Patination

Vessels are solid and heavy: formed using the sand-casting process. The procedure requires a solid original pattern [of which the final casting is a replica] to form a hollow impression in sand into which molten bronze is poured.

The work does not exist as any meaningful entity before it appears in bronze. Until then it is simply a casting pattern, a tool to be used in imagining the idea into a 3-dimensional reality.

The sand casting process is relentless and unforgiving – the patterns must withstand considerable abuse – the sand foundry is no place for a delicate original. It is also restrictive and, denying complexity of form, imposes a simplicity that is both disciplinary and at the same time, enriching.

Each casting roughly replicates the original pattern but requires considerable work to refine and finish the surface and form. Sometimes the casting is cut, pierced or individually shaped to create a unique version and although born from a common original, a truly one-off piece.

The rim is critical; it is the interface between the container and that which is contained - it is most usually bright polished and not only reveals the beauty, colour and solidity of the material but crucially exemplifies any asymmetry or dichotomy between the outer surface of the piece as a whole, the “container”, and the space or void that is contained.

Patination presents challenging, unpredictable and seemingly endless possibilities. Although based on sound chemical principles it nevertheless involves a degree of uncontrollable mystery, chance, accident and risk: no two pieces are, or ever will be, quite the same.

The colouring is not a coating, it is the surface itself: it is a transformation of the material, by the material, and is an outward manifestation and celebration of the bronze.

Elegant objects result that do not rely solely upon their intrinsic beauty: they possess an essential presence and resonance.

Lunar Rollerbowl, bronze, patinated, polished rim

Apostrophe, bronze

'Upright Comma' bronze