Project Space
This year sees the return of the Project Space featuring ten installations by artists with a focus on textiles and furniture.
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Knot (detail), 2007, cotton, polyester filling, machine and hand-stitched. Photo: Anna Ray
Anna Ray
Anna Ray has an open and multidisciplinary approach, embracing traditional methods of making and the latest technological developments.
‘Knot’ is a complex padded structure made up of over 1,000 machine-stitched cotton elements with polyester filling. Inspired by the colour coding of metal under-wires in brassieres, the minute pixels that are the building blocks of digital images and the wooden game Pick-up-sticks. ‘Knot’ aims to have no specific focal point but instead an intense surface to hold the eye of the viewer.
16 Heron Close
Rickmansworth
Hertfordshire
WD3 1NF
UK
Phone: +44 (0) 779 646 4728
Email: mail@annaray.co.uk
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Working sketch, Crook & Jones
Crook & Jones
Geoff Crook and Peter Jones established Crook & Jones in 2010. The partnership was informed by a desire to discover possibilities of function and form that can evolve from unpredictable organic opportunities rather than the conventional. Combining and contrasting their different skills, passions and interests enables them to challenge the conventional archetypes that continue to dominate contemporary practice.
Cuckoo Farm Studios
Boxted Road
Colchester
Essex
C04 5HH
UK
Phone: +44 (0) 782 556 4544
Email: info@crookandjones.co.uk
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Blueprints, 2008-11, 18 carat yellow gold or oxidised silver. Photo: Lucian Taylor
Elizabeth Callinicos
Blueprints
‘A long thin skinny space’: This installation of pieces represents the culmination of a creative journey and a new departure. Calling on the old and the new, these pieces explore notions of fragility, skins, the fake and the real.
Studio E174
1st Floor, Block B Commercial Square
Leigh Street
High Wycombe
Buckinghamshire
HP11 2RH
UK
Phone: +44 (0) 790 500 3586,
+44 (0) 149 425 9522
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Because I love You, 2009. Free Machine Embroidery, applique and painting on canvas.
Louise Gardiner
Louise Gardiner’s embroidery and appliqué explores movement. She intuitively creates explosive, organic designs which emulate such spontaneous actions as seeds popping, propellers whizzing and tumbleweed tumbling. These tactile embroideries are created by drawing freehand with a sewing machine, stitching areas of intricate detail, painting with a fine brush and layering different materials. These works have a subtle interaction with light, and push the boundaries between classic and kitsch.
The Dairy
Oak Farm
Cheshire
SK9 4JE
UK
Phone: +44 (0) 773 608 1423
Email: louise@lougardiner.co.uk
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Since I Fell For You… (detail), 2010. Second-hand and vintage garments. Photo: David Ramkalawon
Lucy Brown
Offerings
These works are inspired by bodily and emotive narratives around femaleness, (re)making and boundaries. Exploring ideas around re-invention through the act of weaving women’s old, second-hand and vintage clothing into ribbon warp, Offerings will be in a constant state of ‘becoming’.
Offerings is being supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. The Theo Moorman Trust for Weavers has funded the material costs of the work.
Robertson Yard Studios
42A Robertson Road
Brighton
East Sussex
BN1 5NJ
UK
Phone: +44 (0) 795 165 7764
Email: lucy.brownis@btinternet.com
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Untitled. English Oak, viscose rayon cotton. Photo: Philip Watson
Maryrose Watson
This new collection from Maryrose Watson continues to develop her innovative method of constructing textiles. Yarn is passed both around and though the frame, interrupting the negative space, creating pieces that demonstrate the innate three-dimensionality of her work.
North Farm Studios
Burgh Next Aylsham
Norwich
Norfolk
NR11 6TW
UK
Phone: +44 (0) 126 357 7626
Email: mail@maryrosewatson.co.uk
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Chandelier, 2010. Japanese papercut. Photo: S. Solo
Nahoko Kojima
Nahoko Kojima’s Papercuts intertwine narrative and emotion using one continual line: a single canvas that is itself the artwork, every negative space balanced with a positive. Every stroke is considered, and permutations of shadow and light consummate the whole.
Solo Kojima, Studio 33
Penny Bank Chambers
33-35 St John’s Square
London
EC1M 4DS
UK
Phone: +44 (0) 207 253 4467
Email: info@solokojima.com
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No Place Like Home, 2010, ceramic. Photo: Matias Amorós
Rosa Cortiella
No Place Like Home
Inspired by textile patterns and using ceramics as a means of expression, this project suggests taking a bit of our dining room in the middle of the street, garden or any public or private space.
Besalú 1 bis. Bxs.
Barcelona
08026
SPAIN
Phone: +0034 (0) 933 407 489
Email: mail@rosacortiella.com
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Susie, Stacy Brafield, 2010, videotape and pins. Photo: Stacy Brafield
Stacy Brafield
A recreation of a memory of the Aura Borealis.
The site specific installation captures the line, shape and movement of the Northern Lights in a still image. Creating a disco-y-syrup that spans across the wall.
112 Chaucer Drive
London
SE1 5RG
UK
Phone: +44 (0) 788 661 2961
Email: stacybrafield@gmail.com
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Rough and Ready Collection, 2010. Wool felt and polyurethane rubber. Photo: Matjaz Tancic
Vanja Bazdulj
Rough & Ready seating morphology
Rough & Ready is an experimental furniture morphology inspired by exploring the potentials of the imperfect, the human, the unpredictable, the unfinished ‘finish’, and look, and aesthetics and independence in work process: ‘I don’t need no fancy tools’. Object designs are focused on exploring ambiguous forms, materials out of context and a playful approach to making. The morphology is created from a material compound of industrial wool felt and rubber, where the rubber spill functions as structural reinforcement and is inevitably recording the work process and creating aesthetic patterns. Tailored cured sheets of different densities wool felt are assembled and tightened into place with rope, forming seating elements. All material is prepared by hand, making each piece a unique version.
The play of form and structure is obvious in the unusual appearance inviting surprise and questioning of function leading to a realisation that the chairs are in fact comfortable, soft and sturdy.
36 Latimer Road
London
E7 0LQ
UK
Phone: +44 (0)779 481 9631
Email: info@vanjabazdulj.com
Website: www.vanjabazdulj.com