Thursday 11th June was the City Lit - benchpeg awards 2015...it was a great evening once again,focussing on celebrating learner acheivement and the great team of dedicated teachers we have in the Jewellery Department at City Lit.
Here are some images from the night...
You can read more about the evening and the City Lit - benchpeg awards on the benchpeg website
Mandy Nash the exhibition curator for "Intrinsic" kindly took some images so we could see our work set up in the gallery. Below are works from all 7 makers.
Intrinsic - an exhibition of textile jewellery.
Textile artist and member of the Makers Guild in Wales Mandy Nash, has invited six other makers working in the field of texiles and jewellery design, to exhibit within our Guest Maker area of the gallery at Craft in the Bay. We are delighted to be showing recent work by:
Hannah-May Chapman: 'With hidden depth and meaning found in most work these days, I choose to hide nothing in my jewellery and aim to entertain.'
Joanne Haywood: utilising both metal and textiles and the techniques of crochet, stitch, felting, fusing, oxidising and forming.
Yu-Ping Lin: 'I did not set out to be a fashion or jewellery artist but as my portfolio developed I became interested in both elements and aesthetics.'
Kathryn Partington: her pieces are made using a range of diverse techniques born from training within the discipline of surface pattern, printed textiles, ceramic tableware design and jewellery.
Liz Willis: 'working with precious and non-precious materials combined with hand stitched silk threads, inspired by aspects of the landscape.'
Julia Usel: 'I am a materials led practitioner. By working with materials with which there is no prior knowledge established, experimentation and chance are invited into the artistic process.'
Mandy Nash: 'my work has a strong textile influence; I am passionate about colour, pattern and technique. I love the making process and exploring the possibilities of non precious materials.'
Here is a sneak preview of some of the works I will be showing at "Craft in the Bay" "Intrinsic" show, starting on Friday 8th May. I am excited to be launching some new works "Patchwork monogram brooches", made with vintage fabrics.
And here are some of the other works I will be showing/selling in the exhibition.
Exhibiting makers: Hannah-May Chapman, Joanne Haywood, Yu-Ping Lin, Mandy Nash, Kathryn Partington, Julie Usel, Liz Willis
Tour venues:
Craft in the Bay, Cardiff: 8th May – 5th July, 2015
Nicola Hurst Gallery, Plymouth: 10th July – 30th August, 2015
Craft Centre and Design Gallery, Leeds: 5th September – 17th October, 2015
Cursley and Bond, Folkestone: 7th November, 2015 – 17th January, 2016
Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth: 16th March – 11th May, 2016
A new addition to my work are these juniper studs in 9ct yellow gold. A classic Joanne Haywood design from around 2003, with an oxidiesed silver surface, you can now get them in plain stirling silver or gold.
I have a few more new pieces to share with you next week...in the run up to my exhibition at Craft in The Bay, "Intrinsic".
Just for fun I am sharing some photos I took at the weekend from the local woodland. Last year, by chance I found an amazing carpet of wild garlic, so I returned this year again to forage for some more. The first few photos show the journey over to the secret stash.
And then here is a detail of the woodland floor covered in the wild garlic, the treasure being washed, a bowl of emerald green pesto and the final Tagliatelle dish.
Wild garlic is also known as 'bear's garlic', 'devil's garlic', 'gypsy's onions' and 'stinking Jenny'
Just looking at this textiles again. Images I took in the National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC. It was given to Amelia Earhart by the SWG (Society of Women Geographers) on her solo, nonstop flight from Honolulu to Oakland in 1935. It's made with linen and cotton.
"With that flight Earhart became the first person to fly solo and nonstop from Hawaii to the U.S. mainland. It was her first major flight that neither a man nor a woman had accomplished. It cemented her place as the most famous female aviator in the world."
