| David Bradford |
| Born 1945. Studied Fine
Art at Goldsmiths College of Art, University of London, 1966 - 1970. He
lives and works in Sussex. He works in English hardwoods, especially Lime. |
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| He says of
his work: “The Sussex landscape and its wildlife have been a constant
source of inspiration to me, both as a natural history photographer and
as an artist. My sculpture is obviously an approximation of the complex
beauty of the natural world, but I endeavour to interpret a fraction of
it”. |
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| Recent exhibitions include
The Barbican Centre, London; Creative Eye, Chelsea, London; Brighton Pavilion;
Decoys’ Ship Gallery, Topsham, Devon; Model House Design Centre,
Wales; Drew Gallery, Canterbury, Kent and the Crypt Gallery, Seaford,
Sussex. |
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| His work is represented
on the South East Arts Selected Craft Index. |
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| Amanda Brisbane |
| Born 1964. Trained at
the Central School of Art and Design, West Surrey College of Art and Design
and the Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, USA. She set up her first workshop
in Shropshire in 1987 and produced individual sculptural glass pieces
there until 1993. |
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| After a period as Marketing
Manager / Director for a company specialising in the development of composite
materials, she set up a new glass studio in Shropshire in 2000. |
| Selected exhibitions include
Cobra & Bellamy, London; Invetro Galerie, Hanover, Germany; Claude
Andre Galerie, Brussels, Belgium; Jeanette Hayhurst Gallery, London; Christy
Taylor Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida, USA and Coleridge, London. Public
collections include Corning Museum of Glass, New York; Florida Museum,
USA; Elbeltoft Museum Denmark; Bellariva Museum, Switzerland and Broadfield
House Glass Museum, Dudley, West Midlands. |
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| Seth Draper |
| Trained in ceramics at
the University of Wales in Cardiff, graduating in 1999 and set up his
own studio in Cardiff with the help of a grant from the Princes Trust.
He currently makes individually constructed ceramic boats from stoneware
clay, decorated with washes of oxides and underglaze colours. |
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| He grew up near Lowestoft,
which was once among the most important harbours in the country, though
most of the boats and associated industries have disappeared in recent
years. Through his work he evokes a feeling of celebration, and a sense
of loss for the seafaring community. His work looks back with affection
at an era when "Britannia ruled the waves". |
| Exhibitions include Contemporary
Ceramics, London; The Roundhouse Gallery, Foston, Derbyshire and the Mall
Galleries, London. |
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| Jennie Hale |
| Trained at South Devon
School of Art and Loughborough College of Art. Assistant to Marianne de
Trey in her Devon workshop, and later produced her own work at that workshop.
In November 1982 she set up her own workshop with Andrew Osborne in Devon. |
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| She produces thrown and
modelled decorative and functional pieces based on humorous animals, birds
and people. She uses a mixture of decorative techniques for the surface
pattern—slip-trailing, scraffito, stamping and modelling. The body
that she uses is either stoneware, iron bearing porcelain or white porcelain,
mixed in the workshop. The pieces are raku fired using a fibre-lined ‘top-hat’
kiln. |
| Exhibitions include the
Cider Press Gallery, Devon; JK Hill, London; Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh;
the Plymouth Arts Centre and galleries in Koblenz and Berlin, West Germany. |
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| Lynn Muir |
| Born in East Anglia and
trained in Colchester School of Art, in illustration. Established her
workshop in North Cornwall in1986. Combining her interest and skills working
in the three dimensional, with her graphic training, she began making
wooden figures, mainly from driftwood collected on a local beach, usually
after a strong south westerly gale. |
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| Sometimes the wood itself
suggests figurative forms, while at other times an idea leads to a desperate
search for the right piece. She then works on it with machine saws, powered
sander wheel, hand tools, pen and paint. The figures are often incorporated
into boxes and wall cupboards. She particularly enjoys the subject matter
becoming something not usually associated with driftwood. |
| She exhibits in the UK,
USA, Germany and Japan. In 1995 her work was the subject of a TV programme
in the “Master Craft’’ series. |
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| Les Rucinski |
| Born 1951. Trained in
Ceramics at High Wycombe College of Art and at Coventry College of Art.
Set up his studio in the West Midlands in 1978. He has been a Professional
member of the Craft Potters Association since 1996. |
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| Between 1997 & 1999
he took timeout to do other things and consider his position as a designer/maker
and his current work is a result of this. Utilising Porcelain, ‘Crystacal
R’ (an extremely hard plaster), blast etched glass and non-ferrous
metals, he describes his work as ‘Glimpses of my thoughts and experiences,
places I have been and things I have seen, selected to ponder on, put
your own story to, and dream on’. |
| Recent exhibitions include
the Park View Gallery, Birmingham; Fenny Lodge Gallery, Bletchley, Milton
Keynes; Gallery Upstairs, Henley in Arden and a Solo Exhibition at Jane
Powell Studio Two, Kenilworth. |
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| Will Shakspeare |
| Born 1961.Trained in Three
Dimensional Design at West Surrey College of Art and Design. After working
as a technician and part-time tutor at Buckinghamshire College of Higher
Education, he set up his own workshop in Somerset in 1988. |
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| Each piece is blown from
recycled Dartington 24% lead crystal glass and the colour is added in
the making process in a variety of different ways. |
| He says of his work: “The
patterns used in the designs are deliberately random to emphasise the
individuality of every piece. It is an aspect of the work that is particularly
important, that every piece should be special in its own right and not
one of hundreds or even thousands churned off a production line.” |
| His pieces have been widely
exhibited in galleries throughout the UK. |
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| Malcolm Sutcliffe |
| Born 1954. Studied Ceramics
and Glass at Birmingham Polytechnic and first set up his own workshop
in Worcestershire in 1977. In 1984 he joined Midsummer Glassmakers and
in 1987 co-founded Hothouse Glass Design. In 1991 he again set up his
own studio in Derbyshire, to produce individual pieces of free-blown glass. |
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| Exhibitions have included
those at the Peter Dingley Gallery, Stratford-upon-Avon; Birmingham Museum
and Art Gallery; Stafford Museum; Galerie l, Hamburg; Galerie M, Kassel;
Galerie 17, Neumuaster; Lorenz Galerie, Freiburg, Germany; Something Special
Gallery, New Jersey, USA; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Glass Designs,
Bath; Opus 1, London; Centre for International Contemporary Arts, New
York; Galerie Glaswerk, Berlin; Transparence Gallery, Brussels and the
Isis Gallery, Knaresborough, Yorkshire. |
| His work is represented
in the permanent collections of the V&A Museum, Stafford Museum, Fitzwilliam
Museum, Cambridge and others. |
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| Beryl Turpin |
| Beryl Turpin trained in
Fine Art at St Martin’s School of Art, London. She has her studio
in Spain but lives part of the year in Brighton. She first used enamel
as a medium in 1968 and currently she is working on a series of wall pieces
in fired enamel on copper. |
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| Her work had been widely
exhibited in this country and abroad. Exhibitions include those at The
Camden Arts Centre, London; Romanotier Gallery, Switzerland; Heals Gallery,
Libertys and the Casson Gallery in London; Peter Dingley Gallery, Stratford-on-Avon;
Guildford House Gallery; New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham; New Metropole Arts
Centre, Folkstone; Workhop Wales; Arte Elemental, Spain and the English
Gallery, Germany. |
| Her work is in the collections
of the Elebor Foundation, Switzerland and the New Metropole Arts Centre,
Folkstone. |
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| Rob Whelpton |
| Born 1952. Trained at
North Staffordshire Polytechnic. After working at the National Museum
and Art Gallery, Botswana as a background artist and living and working
in Denmark, he trained in ceramics at the Dartington Pottery Workshops
in Devon. In 1985 he established his own workshop in Wiltshire with his
wife Vicky. |
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| He concentrates on individual
raku fired pieces with bird, animal and fish motifs. Decoration is drawn
onto pots using a scalpel and coloured using slips & metallic salts.
He is a member of the Devon Guild of Craftsmen. |
| Exhibitions include Beaux
Arts, Bath; Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh; Montpellier Gallery Stratford;
Porticus, Llandridnod Wells; Simon Drew Gallery, Dartmouth; Courcoux and
Courcoux, Salisbury; Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Tracey; Black Swan
Guild, Frome; Dorchester Gallery; Dartington Cider Press Centre and 3D
Gallery, Bristol. |
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