The COLLECT Trail, 1-18 May 2010
The Crafts Council is delighted to announce details of The COLLECT Trail which will see the windows of five high profile retailers in the surrounding area of the Saatchi Gallery installed with site-specific work by emerging artists.
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 featured 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 takes inspiration from 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.
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
