An exploration of professional development support needs for makers in the West Midlands has identified that as makers’ working patterns are characterised as “multi-tasking portfolio workers”.
International glass artists from as far afield as the USA, Australia, Prague, Venice and Denmark will converge on Stourbridge – Britain’s historical centre of the glass industry – in August for the second International Festival of Glass.
The Crafts Council have announced the appointment of a new director, Rosy Greenlees, and chair, Joanna Foster CBE.
The first ever study of the craft market to be undertaken in England has identified a thriving craft market worth an estimated £883 million, with further potential to grow by sixty-three per cent.
Grayson Perry on exhibiting in ‘The Raw and the Cooked’.
Nina Edge on her portfolio career.
Francis McKee describes a cross-pollination between art, craft, design and architecture.
Back in 1980 I left Wolverhampton Poly with a BA in ceramics.
Nests and cocoon-like forms intrigue me because they are often built directly into existing structures, such as trees or architectural features.
Including the latest on the Crafts Council, the transformation of Ruthin Craft Centre and Ceramic Art London.
London, Winchester, Poole, St Malo, Nantes, Dijon, Strasbourg, Karlsruhe, Frankfurt.
Eight major commissioning opportunities for designer-makers, each worth up to £12,000, are available through Museumaker, a high-profile programme that aims to develop new relationships and new audiences for contemporary craft and museums. The programme has received substantial funding from the […]
For Africa 05 taking place across Britain through spring and summer, many cultural institutions are putting on shows and events linked to the continent and the Diaspora. This is the biggest celebration of African culture ever organised in Britain and […]
A plethora of shortlists and prize-winners have recently been announced, making April a bonanza prize month.
Projects and collaborations rarely spring into existence fully formed. Hilary Williams examines a short project that developed into a major programme, led to the setting up of a new arts business, and to jeweller Mah Rana uncovering new tracts of material and experience.
Jeremy Theophilus considers the issues raised for practioners, organisers and funders by the Jetset conference, in the second of two articles inspired by it.
www.craftscotland.org – a major new national and international showcase promoting the best of Scottish craft was launched in September in Aberdeen at Challenging Craft, an international conference for leading craft professionals. Initiated and funded by the Scottish Arts Council, the […]
A commission by leading letter designer Tom Perkins has recently been installed in the Crafts Council foyer, courtesy of this organisation’s patrons. Launched in February 2004, the Crafts Council Patrons scheme is designed to encourage financial support from individual donors. […]
Lucy Wilson looks at the opportunities and aspirations for taking craft and design practice international, in the first of two articles inspired by the Jetset conference.
In 2005 the Crafts Council has been offered the opportunity to hold an exhibition of British craft in the Axis Gallery in Tokyo. Participants will have the opportunity to showcase examples of their work during their visit to Japan. As […]
Designers Shin and Tomoko Azumi – featured in our online Signpost: new graduates’ guide to being an artist on www.a-n.co.uk – are amongst the shortlisted artists for the tenth Jerwood Applied Arts Prize. Talking in 2002 about their approach, they […]
Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1997 with an MA in ceramics, I have been practising as a ceramic designer and producer.
‘Painting with light’ was a phrase I first heard whilst studying for my degree in architectural glass.
Where do I start to tell you my story as an artist?
Whilst sitting in my parent’s garden in the summer of 1996, I became mesmerised by the patterns created on the table by the light filtering through my father’s pint jug of beer.
