UK makers going to Talente
Aloe Vera, Egle Petrauskaite, 2010. Photo Egle Petrauskaite
The Crafts Council is supporting 11 UK makers to show at Talente in Munich from the 16-22 March 2011.
Talente is an annual showcase and competition for new designers and makers and takes place during the International Trade Fair for the Skilled Trades in Munich. It was established in 1980 and is one of Europe’s most prestigious showcases for emerging talent in the areas of design, technology and craft.
Talente organisers collaborate with international institutions, academies, universities and arts and crafts organisations from across the world to select by jury exciting new designers and makers. Featuring in Talente exposes these makers to a wider European audience.
The Crafts Council UK has once again acted as mentor for the British makers selected – which it has done since 2000.
Eleanor Bolton’s playful over-sized textile jewellery, Abigail Brown’s unique metal wire birds, Egle Petrauskaite’s vibrant 3D wallpaper and Li-Chu Wu’s intricate paper jewellery are just some of the pieces that will be taken to Talente 211.
The full list of UK exhibitors is as follows;
Farrah Al-Dujaili (jewellery), Eleanor Bolton (jewellery), Abigail Brown (silverware), Madeleine Harris (jewellery), Kathryn Hinton (silverware), Rosanna Martin (ceramics), Egle Petrauskaite (printed textiles), Idun Sira (ceramics), Li-Chu Wu (jewellery), Emma Yeo (multimedia textiles) and Xiaorui Zhang (jewellery).
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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.
o We believe that craft plays a dynamic and vigorous role in the UK’s social, economic and cultural life.
o We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to make, see, collect and learn about craft.
o We believe that the strength of craft lies in its use of traditional and contemporary techniques, ideas and materials to make extraordinary new work.
o 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). (Taking Part is an ongoing survey being carried out by Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and Arts Council England (ACE).
• 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
• Crafts Council Craft Champions are all active supporters of contemporary craft who signed up to the Craft Matters campaign at www.craftmatters.org.uk to say that craft matters to them. Current Craft Champions are; Linda Barker, Priscilla Carluccio, Sir Terence Conran, Siobhan Davies CBE, Duke of Devonshire, Norman Foster, Professor Sir Christopher Frayling, Tricia Guild OBE, Sir Mark Jones, Jude Kelly OBE, Cath Kidston, Corin Mellor, Michelle Ogundehin, Grayson Perry, Jon Snow, Sheila Teague, Sandi Toksvig, Sir John Tusa and Jeanette Winterson OBE and Lola Young, Baroness Young of Hornsey OBE.
• 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.
