COLLECT Highlights Announced
The Crafts Council has announced highlights for COLLECT 2010, the leading international art fair for contemporary objects, taking place at the Saatchi Gallery on London’s Kings Road from 14 to 17 May 2010.
The COLLECT Trail will see the windows of five high profile retailers in the area installed with site-specific work by emerging artists. There will be a programme of events including a series of talks hosted by Crafts Magazine and visitors will again be able to take advantage of the Own Art Scheme. Now in its seventh year COLLECT has established itself as the place to view and buy the best in contemporary craft.
COLLECT Trail, 1to18 May
The COLLECT Trail will present new work by the very best up-and-coming artists in the windows of Designers Guild, Cath Kidston, David Mellor, Osborne & Little and TASCHEN and in the outside space of the Duke of York Square. The eight artists are unified by their traditional approach to their craft and each installation has been created with the retail brand in mind.
Shauna Richardson will make three life-size crocheted baboons to form part of a tableau at TASCHEN, while ceramicist Glen Wild’s three minimal vessels, each around 80cm high, will stand tall at David Mellor. Further down the Kings Road at Designers Guild, recent RCA graduates Caren Hartley and Lisa Stockham will present new work including metalwork that incorporates found objects by Hartley and sculptural ceramics inspired by the store’s well known prints and designs by Stockham. Rah Rivers will create a metre-high mosaic tree, using pieces of Cath Kidston’s well known designs for the Kings Road store and the nearby Osborne & Little window will offer an exclusive preview of a private commission by Katharine Morling of her new black and white illustrative ceramics.
Finally Lucy Fergus and Clare Knox-Bentham will be presenting works within the Duke of York Square, just outside the Saatchi Gallery. Fergus will wrap street furniture and decorate an arcade with bright orange industrial rubber cut offs and Knox-Bentham will install a vibrant large-scale plastic illustration in the glass front of a nearby building.
COLLECT Fair Highlights
The 36 galleries exhibiting at COLLECT 2010 will be displaying new works by both established and emerging artists. Dutch ceramics gallery Terra Delft will present a solo show by rising star ceramicist Mariette van der Ven and Dovecot Studios will show a large-scale installation by Claire Barclay that incorporates tapestry work undertaken by the studios expert weavers. Clare Beck at Adrian Sassoon will create a Treasury of Objects which will contain small-scale works by makers such as Italian jeweller Giovanni Corvaja and Jerwood Prize winner Adam Paxon.
This year over 400 artists will exhibit work at COLLECT, represented by galleries from the UK and Ireland, Central Europe and Scandinavia as well as the United States, Japan and Australia. First-time exhibitors for 2010 include the Netherland’s Flatland Gallery and London’s Galerie Besson. COLLECT 2010 is also delighted to welcome back Swedish gallery blås&knåda, London-based Cockpit Arts, Ruthin Craft Centre from Wales and Liverpool’s Bluecoat Display Centre. COLLECT 2010 will cover all disciplines including ceramics, glass, jewellery, silver and fine metalwork, textiles, and wood and furniture.
COLLECT Events Programme
Crafts Magazine will present a programme of events at COLLECT 2010, free to all visitors to the fair. Speakers will include ceramicist Jacob van der Beugel, Apollo Editor Oscar Humphries and Crafts magazine Editor Grant Gibson. There will also be a series of informal ‘booth talks’ given by noted artists plus a series of tours to celebrate the Art Council scheme Own Art that enables buyers to purchase work through interest-free loans
Art Fund COLLECT
COLLECT 2010 also sees the return of Art Fund COLLECT, an initiative launched in 2008 by The Art Fund, the UK’s leading independent art charity, in partnership with the Crafts Council. The scheme provides funding for museums and galleries to bid to buy contemporary craft for UK public collections. The fund for 2010 is £75,000, allowing a shortlist of curators to select significant works by artists and makers of international status. Art Fund COLLECT will have contributed £200,000 to the acquisition of craft by public collections after this year’s fair and the successful museums for 2010 will be announced at the COLLECT Private View on 13 May.
Exhibiting Galleries 2010
Alternatives Gallery, Italy
blås&knåda, Sweden
Bluecoat Display Centre, UK
Bullseye Gallery, USA
Clare Beck at Adrian Sassoon, UK
Cockpit Arts, UK
Collection Ateliers d’Art De France, France
Contemporary Applied Arts, UK
craftscotland, UK
Cultural Connections CC, UK
Dovecot Studios, UK
Electrum Gallery, UK
Flatland Gallery, Netherlands
Flow, UK
Galerie Besson, UK
Galleri Format, Norway
Gallery Kunst1, Norway
Galerie Louise Smit, Netherlands
Galerie Marzee, Netherlands
Galleria Norsu, Finland
Galerie Ra, Netherlands
Galerie Rob Koudijs, Netherlands
Galerie Rosemarie Jäger, Germany
Galerie S O, Switzerland
Galerie Sofie Lachaert, Belgium
Glass Artists’ Gallery, Australia
Joanna Bird Pottery, UK
Katie Jones, UK
Lesley Craze Gallery, UK
Marsden Woo Gallery, UK
National Craft Gallery, Ireland
Ruthin Craft Centre, UK
Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, UK
Terra Delft Gallery, Netherlands
The Scottish Gallery, UK
Yufuku Gallery, Japan
Participating Territories 2010
Australia Japan
Belgium Netherlands
Finland Norway
France Sweden
Germany Switzerland
Ireland UK
Italy USA
Images
A selection of press images for COLLECT 2010 is available to download at
www.suttonpr.com/collect
Alternatively contact info@suttonpr.com / +44 (0)20 7183 3577
Press Contact
For further press information about COLLECT 2010 please contact Catherine Mason or Charley Andrews at Calum Sutton PR: +44 (0)20 7183 3577 / catherine@suttonpr.com; charley@suttonpr.com
For further press information about the Crafts Council please contact Jill Read: +44 (0)20 7806 2529 / j_read@craftscouncil.org.uk
Press View
The COLLECT 2010 Press View will take place on Friday 14 May from 9am to 11am. To register your interest in attending, please email charley@suttonpr.com
Tickets
For tickets for COLLECT 2010 visit www.craftscouncil.org.uk/collect; +44 (0) 844 209 0338
Prices: Advance tickets are £10 (+ £1.50 booking fee) if booked before 13 May 2010; single tickets £15 and £10 concessions (one day)
Opening dates and hours
13 May (Thursday) PRIVATE VIEW 7pm – 9pm
14 May (Friday) PRESS VIEW 9am – 11am
14 May (Friday) 11am – 8pm
15 May (Saturday) 11am – 8pm
16 May (Sunday) 11am – 6pm
17 May (Monday) 11am – 6pm
Notes to Editors
• The Crafts Council’s goal is to make the UK the best place to make, see, collect and learn about contemporary craft.
We believe that craft plays a dynamic and vigorous role in the UK’s social, economic and cultural life.
We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to make, see, collect and learn about craft.
We believe that the strength of craft lies in its use of traditional and contemporary techniques, ideas and materials to make extraordinary new work.
We believe that the future of craft lies in nurturing talent; children and young people must be able to learn about craft at school and have access to excellent teaching throughout their education.
• 11% of the UK population visited a craft exhibition in 2008/09, and 17% participated in craft activity in the same year (DCMS/ACE Taking Part data update August 2009).
• More than 2.8 million visits were made to the Crafts Council website in 2009. To find out everything you need to know about where to make, see, collect and learn about contemporary craft visit www.craftscouncil.org.uk
• The Crafts Council is supported by Arts Council England. Arts Council England works to get great art to everyone by championing, developing and investing in artistic experiences that enrich people’s lives. As the national development agency for the arts, it supports a range of artistic activities from theatre to music, literature to dance, photography to digital art, and carnival to crafts. Between 2008 and 2011, Arts Council England will invest £1.3 billion of public money from government and a further £0.3 billion from the National Lottery to create these experiences for as many people as possible across the country.
• The Art Fund is the UK’s leading independent art charity. It offers grants to help UK museums and galleries enrich their collections; campaigns on behalf of museums and their visitors; and promotes the enjoyment of art. It is entirely funded from public donations and has 80,000 members. Since 1903 the charity has helped museums and galleries all over the UK secure 860,000 works of art for their collections. Recent achievements include: helping secure Titian’s Diana and Actaeon for the National Galleries of Scotland and the National Gallery, London in February 2009 with a grant of £1 million; helping secure Anthony d’Offay’s collection, ARTIST ROOMS, for Tate and National Galleries of Scotland in February 2008 with a grant of £1million; and running the ‘Buy a Brushstroke’ public appeal which raised over £550,000 to keep Turner’s Blue Rigi watercolour in the UK. For more information contact the Art Fund Press Office on +44 (0)20 7225 4888 or visit www.artfund.org
• Own Art interest free* loans make it easy and affordable to buy contemporary art and craft. Loans are available from as little as £100 up to £2000. The amount borrowed is then paid back over 10 months in equal instalments. For further details visit the Own Art desk at COLLECT.
*Typical 0% APR
