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11/06/2015
Ashraf Hanna has been awarded the 'Best in Show' Prize at this year's British Glass Biennale
Ashraf Hanna has been awarded the 'Best in Show' Prize at this year's British Glass Biennale, held at Strourbridge, an event that is part of the International Festival of Glass.
Ashraf's first experiments using glass began during an MA course in ceramics and glass at The Royal College of Art 2009-2011. So began a time of transition; something that must be addressed if creative practice is to benefit fully from an intensive period of study such as the RCA MA course. -
01/05/2015
Laura Ellen Bacon: The Invisible Store of Happiness, St John's Gate, Clerkenwell, London - 19 - 21 May 2015
A new collaboration between Sebastian Cox and Laura Ellen Bacon, alongside the American Hardwood Export Council, for Clerkenwell Design Week, London
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17/04/2015
Juliet and Jamie Gutch won the commission!! A Murmuration of Starlings, for the reception atrium of the new Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital
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17/04/2015
Rachael Clewlow, 133.52 Milles Walked, Map (Explorer306/OL26) in Marylebone Journal
"I wanted to do something that would reflect the local area" says Newcastle-based artist Rachael Clewlow, reflecting on the premise behind this painting-a beautiful info graphic which uses acrylic and silverpoint to map Middlesborough's old iron ore trade routes. During the 1800s, coal and iron production in the area expanded exponentially, turning what had been a hamlet into a major city at the forefront of the country's rapid industrialisation.
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27/03/2015
Printmaking Today-Charlotte Hodes
Charlotte Hodes’s work occupies the interface between feminist thought and the history of the decorative arts. Last year, she exhibited a large body of work using paper cut and ceramic techniques to interrogate the seminal 19th-century publication The Grammar of Ornament (1856) by architect and designer Owen Jones5 and investigate the relationship between the female form in painting and the decorative arts. Three paper cuts and three ceramic vases from that series are included in the Good...