New online exhibitions launched
Image from Out Of Print (left) - Alphabeta Concertina, Ron King, 1983. Photo Petra Exton & Image from One Liner (right) - Making process for One-Liner bowls, Tavs Jorgensen, 2009. Photo Tavs Jorgensen
The Crafts Council has launched two online exhibitions; One-Liner: Reflecting on Drawing in a Digital Age and Out of Print: Bookbinding & Letterpress selected by Malcolm Garrett
View the full exhibitions at www.onviewonline.org.uk
The online exhibition programme – OnViewOnline – showcases objects from the Crafts Council’s Collection of contemporary craft in new and innovative ways in order to encourage debate and make new developments in contemporary craft accessible worldwide.
One-Liner explores new concepts of drawing in the digital age. Ceramicist Tavs Jørgensen seeks to establish how new human computer interfaces can create a more personal and expressive aesthetic using new technologies. The exhibition will explore the digital drawing process with a film charting the making of his ‘One-liner’ bowls alongside a debate on the subject of drawing and its importance in contemporary craft practice within a digital age.
Out of Print features six bookbinding and letterpress works selected by renowned graphic designer Malcolm Garrett from the Crafts Council Collection. Work by W&S Carter, John Pearson, Robert Hadrill, Ron King and Faith Shannon will be displayed in a dynamic format that includes the use of stop-frame animation to give the viewer an idea of the material quality of the books. Garrett also asked a selected panel of prolific commentators, bloggers and current practitioners to participate in a discussion about the themes raised in his 1991 Graphics World article “The Book is Dead?”
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To visit the online exhibitions visit www.onviewonline.org.uk
For more information please contact Gemma Hutchinson, Communications Assistant, Crafts Council on T: 020 7806 2540 or email media@craftscouncil.org.uk
Notes to Editors
• OnViewOnline has been developed with the London-based multi-disciplinary graphic design agency Miura.
• With over three decades of design experience, Malcolm Garrett has worked with all manner of communications, arts and entertainment media and is currently a creative director at the graphic design consultancy Applied Information Group. Recently Malcolm has led the design of projects for Icons – a portrait of England, The Open Futures Trust, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and The Sharp Project. Malcolm was nominated for the Prince Philip Designers Prize in 1998. He is a Royal Designer, and a member of the Science Museum Advisory Committee.
• Tavs Jørgensen is a Research Fellow at Autonomatic, a 3D digital research unit at University College Falmouth, which explores and develops innovative approaches, integrating digital technologies with traditional making processes. Originally trained as a craft potter, Danish born Jørgensen has in recent years focused his practice on research exploring the creative use of digital design and production technologies.
• The Crafts Council commissioned filmmaker, interactive artist and musician Federico Urdaneta to direct and produce the Tavs Jorgensen film. Urdaneta has previously worked in the Interactive Department at Fabrica, Italy, as well as for clients such as Reporters Without Borders, Benetton, MTV and the Victoria & Albert Museum.
• 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.
• 12% of the UK population visited a craft exhibition in 2009/10, and 18% participated in craft activity in the same year (DCMS/ACE Taking Part data update August 2010).
• 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.
