EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS

The distinguished potter and writer Alison Britton takes up her role as Chair of the Crafts Study Centre in January 2015. Alison is a Senior Tutor in ceramics and glass at the Royal College of Art, London. She has curated two significant exhibitions at the Crafts Study Centre: in 2009, Three by One (with the Crafts Council and the British Council) and most recently Life and Still Life, 2012.

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COVER: ROSE PETAL SHROUD (DETAIL) BY BEVERLY AYLING SMITH. PHOTO BY ARTIST.INSIDE FRONT COVER: ALISON BRITTON. PHOTO BY TOBY GLANVILLE.

APPOINTMENT OF CHAIR TO THE CRAFTS STUDY CENTRE

The Crafts Study Centre has commissioned Adam Richards Architects to draw up an options appraisal to enable the Trustees and the University for the Creative Arts to consider the potential for expansion of the building. This would enable better access to more collections for study, research and viewing, as well as increase audiences and improve the visitor experience. The report will then form the basis of an application for capital funds from a variety of trusts and foundations and especially the Heritage Lottery Fund in spring 2015.

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

WAISTCOAT (DETAIL) BY JAYNE FOLLOWS, STUDENT WORK, 1986.THE TEXTILES COLLECTION AT THE UNIVERSITY FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS.

The Department of Textiles was founded by Ella McLeod at the Farnham School of Art in 1949. She had an understanding of the importance of making and the effect on an individual’s development. Ella led the department for 24 years, helping to create the new Art School which, in 1971 became the West Surrey College of Art and Design. Retiring in 1973, she left an unusual legacy for the successor institutions: The Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College; University College for the Creative Arts and the present day University for the Creative Arts.

This exhibition, curated by Margaret Bide, past Head of Department, shows student work, historical andcontemporary textiles from the department’s study collection and key textiles from the Crafts Study Centre.

CURATORS TALK Wednesday 11 March

Lecture: 4.00pm-5.00pmPrivate view: 5.00pm-7.00pm

Tickets priced £5.00 are available from the Crafts Study Centre and must be booked in advance.

FARNHAM TEXTILES 1949-2015Celebrating sixty-six years

EXHIBITION : 6 JANUARY - 20 JUNE 2015

LADI KWALI AT BRYANSTON SCHOOL, 1962. (SECTION OF) PHOTO BY ANDREW LANYON.

Ladi Kwali has been called a pioneer of modern pottery in Nigeria. She came to international prominencein the 1960’s working with the English studio potter Michael Cardew who helped to launch the government-funded Abuja Pottery Training Centre. It was at Abuja that Ladi Kwali first began to make glazed stoneware and this work was exhibited to great acclaim in the Berkeley Galleries in London and in Paris. Ladi Kwali also joined Cardew on demonstration tours to Europe (1962) and America (1972).

This exhibitions draws on a number of private collections and includes several of the demonstration pots from the 1962 tour: two made at the Farnham School of Art and two from Bryanston School in Dorset. Included in the exhibition are a number of Ladi Kwali’s exceptional water vessels as well as bowls and tankards to indicate the range of domestic pieces. The glazed (and unglazed) stoneware vessels are decorated with incised lizards, birds and snakes and she used a blade-like palm rib to make these marks on bigger pots and a porcupine quill for smaller thrown ware.

The exhibition has been curated by Simon Olding and Magdalene Odundo.

LADI KWALI1925 - 1984

EXHIBITION : 6 JANUARY - 2 MAY 2015

I WILL FLY SOUTH. . . FOR MATTHEW BY ROZANNE HAWKSLEY. PHOTO BY DEWI TANNATT LLOYD.

Marking a death by the creation of art is a common practice in many cultures; from collective memorialsof those who die in wars such as the Cenotaph memorial; to the private memorialization of individuals through the creation of AIDS quilts and cloths embroidered with names. This exhibition develops the themes of bereavement, death and mortality through the work of artists who are addressing these ideas, often from a highly personal standpoint.

The exhibition will contain significant works of contemporary international textiles by makers including Rozanne Hawksley, Jane Wildgoose, Chiyoko Tanaka, Keiko Mukaide and Beverly Ayling-Smith.

Trauma, Grief, Loss: The Art of Bereavement has been curated by Beverly Ayling-Smith and Professor Lesley Millar for the International Textile Research Centre of the University for the Creative Arts.

The exhibition is a collaboration between the Crafts Study Centre and the International Textile Research Centre.

TRAUMA, GRIEF, LOSS: The Art of Bereavement

EXHIBITION : 8 - 30 MAY 2015

SANGE, LOTUS PETALS #97-1 (DETAIL) BY CHIYOKO TANAKA.

Trauma, Grief, Loss: the Art of Bereavement is a conference hosted by the International Textile Research Centre. It will be held at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, Surrey.

This conference brings together for the first time a group of writers, makers and researchers to discuss the importance and varied methods of materializing the trauma of mourning, grief and loss.

The keynote speakers are Dr Brian Dillon, writer, critic and tutor in Critical Writing in Art and Design at the Royal College of Art. His first book In the Dark Room won the Irish Book Award for non fiction andDr David H. Slater is an anthropologist and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Directorof the Institute of Comparative Culture at Sophia University, Tokyo.

The full conference fee is £45.00

Registration opens February 2015. E mail for further details to: artofbereavement@ucreative.ac.uk

The conference is supported by funding from:

TRAUMA, GRIEF, LOSS: The Art of Bereavement

CONFERENCE : 15 MAY 2015

FAR DISTANT. . . CLOSE TO (DETAIL) BY SUSAN KINLEY.

This exhibition brings together six contemporary makers who have developed exciting new work that reflects a common root in a fascination with the ancient past. They will focus on themes that forge links across the visual arts and archaeology, inspired by sources including Bronze Age artefacts and Neolithic sites.

Established artists Mary Butcher, Susan Kinley, Helen Marton, Syann van Niftrik and Wright & Teague will bring together sculptural work in natural fibres, metal, resin and ceramics with wall based installations in enamels, glass and textiles.

Co-curated by Susan Kinley, glass artist and Devon Guild of Craftsmen Member and Saffron Wynne, Exhibitions Manager, Devon Guild of Craftsmen.

A touring exhibition from Devon Guild of Craftsmen.

RE-MAKING THE PASTA response to inspiration from prehistory

EXHIBITION : 9 JUNE - 18 JULY 2015

PETER KORN.

Join us for a talk with Peter Korn, founder and executive director of the Center for Furniture Craftmanship in Rockport, Maine, and author of Why We Make Things and Why it Matters: The Education of a Craftsman, published by Square Peg in February 2015. Korn will discuss the nature and rewards of creative work, and how art, craft and design inform our shared search for a better way to live.

TALK & BOOK SIGNINGWednesday 25 March

Talk: 6.00pm-7.00pmReception: 5.30pm-6.00pm

Tickets priced £5.00 are available from the Crafts Study Centre and must be booked in advance.

WHY WE MAKE THINGS AND WHY IT MATTERS Peter Korn

BOOK SIGNING & TALK : 25 March 2015

LOVE JÖNSSON 2015. PHOTO BY CARL ANDER.

In Sweden, as in larger parts of Europe, the last few decades have seen a marked decline in craft-based industrial production. Many of the well-known ceramics and glass factories that formed a cornerstone in the establishment and marketing of ‘Scandinavian Design’ in mid-20th century are today no longer places for production, but survive merely as brand names. Studio crafts now find themselves in a new territory as their traditional counterpart, the design industry, has changed so thoroughly. The two typical roles played historically by the crafts in Scandinavia, namely that of being a fully integrated part of industrial production or its ideological rival, both need to be reconsidered. With examples drawn from contemporary Swedish and Scandinavian ceramics, glass, jewellery and textiles, the talk focuses on makers’ approaches and responses to this post-industrial situation.

Love Jönsson is a curator at the Röhsska Museum in Gothenburg, Sweden’s only specialised crafts and design museum. He has published widely on contemporary crafts in magazines, catalogues and books and lectured in Europe, North America and New Zealand.

LECTUREWednesday 13 May

Lecture: 6.00pm-7.00pmReception: 5.30pm-6.00pm

Tickets priced £5.00 are available from the Crafts Study Centre and must be booked in advance.

SEARCHING FOR A NEW IDENTITY Craft practice in Sweden in the wake of industrial decline

LECTURE : 13 May 2015

SQUARE VASE ROUNDED FEET, SIMON CARROLL, 2005. PHOTO BY KEN EASTMAN.

Bernard Leach first made slipware in Japan circa 1917 and later, when he established The Leach Pottery in St Ives, in a series of magnificent slipware dishes. These helped to cement his gathering International reputation throughout the 1920’s. His work reinvigorated both the vernacular tradition of country pottery slipware, as well as giving a dynamic force to interpretations of work by Thomas Toft from the late 17th century.

The English slipware tradition was also in the mind of the potter Simon Carroll (1964-2009) and the Crafts Study Centre has recently acquired an important piece by him with the very generous support of funds from The Art Fund, the Arts Council England/V & A Purchase Grant Fund and from the Trustees of the Crafts Study Centre. The lecture will comment on the development of English slipwares from Leach to the present day. An exhibition that will focus on the Centre’s collections of slipwares by Leach, Michael Cardew, Clive Bowen and Dylan Bowen and others is scheduled for late 2015.

The lecture is given by Professor Simon Olding, Director of the Crafts Study Centre.

LECTUREWednesday 10 June

Lecture: 6.00pm-7.00pmReception: 5.30pm-6.00pm

Tickets priced £5.00 are available from the Crafts Study Centre and must be booked in advance.

LEACH, CARROLL & BEYONDEnglish slipware and the world of reference

LECTURE : 10 June 2015

The University for the Creative Arts in partnership with the Crafts Study Centre is now taking applications and expressions of interest in a new degree, the M Res Crafts.

The degree offers makers, writers, curators, historians and anyone with a dedicated interest in modern and contemporary craft the chance to build on their knowledge and their practice by a sustained investigation. The principal outcomes of the research will be an extended essay in a subject of the student’s choosing as well as the unrivalled opportunity to curate an exhibition with the starting point of the Centre’s collections and archives. Students will be able to research these collections in depth with the support of the Crafts Study Centre Curator, Jean Vacher. They will also participate as members of the wider MA cohort in The School of Craft & Design.

The M Res Crafts is offered both full time (one year) and part time (two years).

The Course Leader for the new degree is Professor Simon Olding, Director of the Crafts Study Centre. Further application details can be found on the University for the Creative Arts website:www.uca.ac.uk/mres-crafts Prospective students are also invited to discuss their interests with the Course Leader solding@ucreative.ac.uk.

DETAIL OF ||SEASONS|| BY ALICE KETTLE, 2009. PHOTO BY JOE LOW.

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