Friday, 2 May 2014

I'm very excited to be in here, here and here....

Work has now been collected for the Behold exhibition at the beautiful Yewtree Gallery, near Morvah in Cornwall.  Miranda Leonard, the curator has organised the show as one of her travelling pop-up gallery show cases.
Miranda is  co curator at the biennial Quenington sculpture trust show: Fresh Air, and curated the 2013 Birds and Bees show in Quenington Park's Poole House - a perfect venue for a pop up gallery within the grounds to showcase contemporary makers work.  I was pleased to  brushing shoulders (metaphorically) with exhibitors like the Internationally acclaimed Cleo Mussi.  More about Miranda's pop-up gallery initiative The Restless Gallery. Many, many thanks to Miranda too, for diverting her journey to me with a girt big trailer to collect my work on her way down to Cornwall for the show setup.  The Restless gallery has just started a facebook page...click here to like :)
 More shows on next Blog...entitled, more shows!
Samples of work at Hidden Garden Art
Stonewater table bench 116 cm long x 45 cm high

Levy garden table in Delabole slate and 24 kt Gold Orsoni Smalti (Gold leaf trapped in glass) The Orsoni family have been hand making glass for decades Orsoni Glass

Samples of work showing at Behold

 Divided Seat above and below.  A bench table approximately 116 cm long in slate and 24 kt Smalti glass on a forged, galvanised base.  Bases forged by Blacksmith Nathan Bennett.
                                                                                         



A beautiful greenwood black chair by Gordon Monk Take a look at this guy's work...he has seriously got it going on!
From small platforms to thrones, the cultural and social significance of chair is vast. if you are i to chair design, 1000 Chairs is a great reference book...inspired me make my own for a student project.  Chairs can be a major health hazard too, as pointed out not too comfortably by Jacobin

 Glimpse: 90 cm diameter garden table and two chairs: detail of window section in reclaimed antique rolled glass  framed with lead.