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SPRING EXHIBITION
Saturday 15th MARCH 08
til MAY 5TH 08
This show
includes work by THE HALF MOON PRINTMAKERS, DAVID ASHBY, ANN BAXTER,
EOGHAN BRIDGE, ERIC MOSS Don't forget to send your name by email for
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Etching, How the Dalmation got bis Spots
Sonia Rollo
David Ashby ceramic picture
'Try More'
Detail
David Ashby ceramic picture,
'Turn Left'
Detail
SONIA ROLLO printmaker
Sonia was educated at Glasgow University,
graduating with a B.Sc. in agricultural botany. She worked in scientific
publishing as editor of Chemoreception Abstracts.
In 1988 she started studying printmaking at Morley College. She is a
founder member of Half Moon Printmakers, a member of the cooperatives
Southbank Printmakers and Greenwich Printmakers, and a past vice-chair
of the Printmakers' Council.
Her interest in animals started in childhood with a pig called Hilary,
geese called Charlie and Cassandra, and a mongrel, Pearl.
Training as a biologist meant, observing plants and animals, drawing
them to aid understanding. But now she can have fun with her drawings
and making them into etchings.
Foundation in Art and Design
at York College of Arts & Technology 1978/79.
BA (Hons)
in 3D design (silversmithing, jewellery & ceramics): (grade 2.1) at
Manchester Poly 1982.
Design Achievements
Whilst at Manchester Polytechnic:
Highly
Commended in the Johnson Matthey National Design in Silver competition 1980
(Silversmithing: 'hourglass' drinking vessels design).
Jewellery design chosen to represent Manchester Polytechnic's entry into
National Design in Platinum Competition 1981 (earring/necklace composite
piece in hand made chain mail).
Winner
in Royal Navy commission competition to design silverware for the Captain's
Table on the recommissioned HMS Manchester (Rosebowls in silver and etched
glass design based upon Jodrell Bank radio telescope structure) 1981.
My
work has exhibited at:
Potfest
in the Pens, Cumbria Aug 2006. (direct selling event).
'Northern Hot Pot' selected NPA show, Bolton Art Gallery Dec 2006-Feb 2007
'Open
Studios North Yorkshire' selected exhibitor (Art Connections) May 2007
Kirkby
Overblow Summer Arts Festival (KOSAF), N. Yorkshire, June 2007
Lund
Gallery, Alne Rd, nr Easingwold, N. Yorkshire. selected NPA show Jul/Aug
2007
'Natural
Selection' (15 artists/makers) at Brazilia, 32 Commercial Street, Harrogate,
N. Yorkshire. (Harrogate International Festival 2007)
Summer
Artists Exhibition, RHS Harlow Car Gardens, Harrogate, N. Yorkshire. Jul/Aug
2007
Potfest
in the Pens, Cumbria. Aug 2007 (direct selling event)
Saltaire
Arts Trail, W. Yorkshire (open houses) 8-16 September 2007
Presence
'V', The Manor House, Ilkley, W.Yorkshire Nov 2007 - Jan 2008
'Christmas Sparks' at King St Workshops, Pateley Bridge, Dec 2008
Arteria
with Gallery 123, Lancaster Jan-Feb 2008
Work
is available to purchase from:
Art in
the Mill, Green Dragon Yard, Knaresborough, N. Yorkshire.
The
Gallery (Daniel Hornsey) Kirkgate, Ripon, N. Yorkshire.
Zillah
Bell Gallery, 15 Kirkgate, Thirsk, N. Yorkshire.
Phoenix
Fine Arts, 11 Finkle Street, Richmond, N. Yorkshire.
The
Yorko Gallery, Westmoreland St, Harrogate, N. Yorkshire.
TheYorkshire Sculpture Park, Bretton Hall, Wakefield, W. Yorkshire.
The
Cooper Gallery, Church Street, Barnsley, W. Yorkshire.
The
Heart Gallery, 4a Market St, Hebden Bridge, W. Yorkshire.
Dean
Clough Gallery Shop, Halifax, W. Yorkshire.
LucyArt,
29 Station Rd, Ossett W. Yorkshire.
Art
Parade, 1 Victoria Rd, Saltaire, W. Yorkshire.
The
Gallery (Grants), Barnard Castle, C. Durham.
The
Biscuit Factory, Newscastle, Northumberland.
The
Ropewalk Gallery, Maltkiln Road, Barton on Humber, N. Lincolnshire.
The Old
Courthouse Gallery, Amblside, Cumbria.
Current
website for 2007: www.loveyourart.com/ericmoss
Ann Baxter trained at Leeds college
of art. Works mainly in wood and stone and occasionally in bronze. Now
favours timber from renewable sources, but also uses her existing stocks of
exotic hardwoods.
Her main subject is the horse in many and varied forms, but other domestic
animals and birds are also featured.
Ann is a member of the highly regarded Society of Equestrian Artists and her
work is regularly featured in their annual London Exhibition. She has
received several awards for her sculpture, including the coveted President's
Medal and the British Sporting Art Trust Sculpture Prize.
Ann's hobby is breeding, showing and racing Arabian Horses.
Nowadays I work almost entirely in aquatint (images made up entirely
of tones, with no drawn lines) or make monoprints painted directly on
the printing plate.
I love aquatints for the range of contrast possible, and for the
velvety effect it gives, especially with darker colours. Much of the
work is made using multiple plates, which are laborious to create, but
give wonderful luminous colours in the prints. Almost all of the prints
on show are aquatints.
About me
I went to the London College of Printing in 1963-1967, and then
worked as a graphic designer in the 60s and 70s. In 1984, I started full
time as an artist, specialising as a printmaker in etchings, line and
aquatint. I also taught print at the LCP and for the Outreach programme
of Dulwich Picture Gallery's Education Department.
I have also been commissioned for complete editions destined for P&O
liners: Oriana, The Pride of Rotterdam and The Pride of Hull.
Past shows
I have had prints shown at five Royal Academy summer exhibitions and
regularly show work at galleries here and abroad. The last year
included:
New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham
Works on Paper, Royal College of Art, London
Originals '07, Mall Galleries, London
GPA Dulwich Art Fair, London
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
South Bank Printmakers Show, London SE1
GPA Exhibition, Oxo Gallery
Affordable Art Fair, Bristol
Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London
Affordable Art Fair, New York
Affordable Art Fair, Australia Alive at Will’s Art Warehouse
Nowadays I work almost entirely in
aquatint (images made up entirely of tones, with no drawn lines) or make
monoprints painted directly on the printing plate.
I love aquatints for the range of
contrast possible, and for the velvety effect it gives, especially with
darker colours. Much of the work is made using multiple plates, which are
laborious to create, but give wonderful luminous colours in the prints.
Almost all of the prints on show are aquatints.
About me
I went to the London College of
Printing in 1963-1967, and then worked as a graphic designer in the 60s
and 70s. In 1984, I started full time as an artist, specialising as a
printmaker in etchings, line and aquatint. I also taught print at the LCP
and for the Outreach programme of Dulwich Picture Gallery's Education
Department.
I have also been commissioned for
complete editions destined for P&O liners: Oriana, The Pride of Rotterdam
and The Pride of Hull.
Past shows
I have had prints shown at five
Royal Academy summer exhibitions and regularly show work at galleries here
and abroad. The last year included:
New Ashgate
Gallery, Farnham
Works on Paper, Royal College of Art, London
Originals '07, Mall Galleries, London
GPA Dulwich Art Fair, London
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
South Bank Printmakers Show, London SE1
GPA Exhibition, Oxo Gallery
Affordable Art Fair, Bristol
Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London
Affordable Art Fair, New York
Affordable Art Fair, Australia Alive at Will’s Art Warehouse
Ben Arnup has been a self
employed ceramicist for 20 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.
Recent making has
concentrated on geometric forms, especially from Venetian floor designs with
an interest in multiple forms – this feels like a definitive stage for this
type of design.
These objects are made from a variety of
clays, although a grogged porcelain body is preferred, slab constructed,
slip decorated and biscuited to 1000 deg C, then glazed and stoneware
reduction fired to 1200-1290 deg C.
He
has shown his slab built ceramics which feature a transformation of
perspective in many exhibitions in London and abroad as well as at at least
five previous exhibitions at Pyramid Gallery.
(The images
below are recent works, but at time of publication (25 Oct) we are not sure
exactly what will be in the show. We will know a week before the start on
10th November (keep fingers crossed that the kiln performs well between now
and then - it's always a nail biter) and we will put images of the actual
pieces here as soon as we can. At moments like this I just have to tell
myself 'it's better than doing real work' and it is. Sort of. -
Webmaster) By the way, these are just examples of Ben's past work.
The new stuff isn't done yet - 29/10/07
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.
Reclining Woman on orange,
pastel and conte, 100 x 70 cms £1150
Thinking Away 56 x76 cm £750
Veil, green-umber 56x 76 cm
£750
Two Shades of Scarlet 30 x 38
cms £350
Brian Addison is
a fine artist who specialises in life form paintings and drawings.
D.O.B.10.07.58Kettering, Northants
Education BA Hons Fine Art,Newcastle Polytechnic, 1984 - awarded John Crisp
Memorial Prize for Drawing
C+G 7306 Newcastle College, 1997
Master of Fine Art Newcastle University, 1999
Experience1974-9 Welder/Fabricator - British Steel, Corby
1980-4 Full-time education
1984-present Self-employed artist, and stained glass designer/maker; adult
ed. tutor/visiting lecturer
Exhibitions1984Stowells Trophy Exh. Royal Academy
1996 The Journal Art Competition, University Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
1997 'Specimen' - Ten Painters, Newcastle Arts Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne
1999 'Art in Academia', Bonhams, London
Newcastle University Ma degree show
Dover Art Exh. Darlington Museum and Gallery
2001 'People Show', University Gallery, Newcastle Discovery Museum, Grange
Project, Newcastle upon Tyne
2002 'People Show', University Gallery,
Viking studios exh. Jarrow, Tyne and Wear
'A Garden of Bright Images', Alnwick Playhouse Gallery, Alnwick,
Northumberland
'Diversity', National Glass Centre, Sunderland
Durham Open, Durham Art Gallery
2003 'Working Together', Durham Art Gallery
'People Show', University Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
'Blast', The Gallery in Cork St., London
Viking Studios exh. Jarrow, Tyne and Wear
2004 Louise Bradley/Brian Addison, Cluny Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
Viking Studio exhibition, Jarrow
Biscuit Factory, Newcastle
Artist in residence, The Art Cafe, Corbridge
2005 Affordable Art Fair, London
Art Ireland, Dublin
Contemporary Art Fair Edinburgh
Tallantyre Gallery show
2006 Tallantyre Gallery, solo show
Chelsea Art Fair
Art Café, Corbridg
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