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festival of clay gets underway |
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and galleries come together for the festival of clay |
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During
the summer months, galleries and ceramicists throughout the south
west will be collaborating for a festival of clay.
Ceramica allows the public to view the wealth of talent.
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Ceramica
is an international festival of clay in the south west.
During Ceramica, galleries – both public & independent, museums
and ceramicists across the region have collaborated with St Ives
International to present a festival of exhibitions and events featuring
all kinds of works with clay.
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| Bernard
Leach |
The festival
is in homage to the legacy of Bernard Leach for which without him
Cornwall would not have such a unique association with ceramics.
Leach set up a ceramics workshop in St Ives in 1920 had a major influence
on 20th century studio pottery.
Twenty years since his death, this festival is an opportunity to show
the wealth of artists working with clay across the south west and
to acknowledge the ways in which they work and the groundbreaking
art that is being created within the region.
The programme of work ranges from traditional pots to sculpture, work
in the landscape to work in the studio.
The festival offers the public a chance to meet with these artists
through events such as Open studios. The public will also be given
the opportunity to engage with ceramics through a series of practical
workshops, educational activities and critical debates.
The festival takes place predominantly during the months of May, June
and July.
Although there are many events taking place across the region, here
are examples of two events.
Newlyn Art Gallery
The work on show at The Newlyn Art Gallery has been made specially
for the gallery by two leading contemporary artists from Japan.
Toshikatsu Endo proposed placing a circle of tall white vessels containing
water in the Upper Gallery. The piece refers to ritual and the significance
of the sacred place. Endo points out that the 'vessel holding water'
has been a symbol for the containment of thought in the human mind
for many centuries.
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| Endo's
proposal for placing a circle of vessels in the Upper gallery |
The artist Yukio Fujimoto, works with sound and particularly materials
which generate sound through user interaction. In the lower gallery
of the Newlyn, Fujimoto has installed a double layer of tiles and
invites the public to walk across the surface to generate sound.
As they become damaged the tiles create different sounds. Fujimoto
intends the viewer to explore the simple act of concentration experiencing
sounds we may have imagined but have never heard.
Installation
in the lower gallery of the Newlyn Art Gallery |
Penlee Gallery & Museum
The Penlee Gallery will be showing the graphic work, pots, paintings,
furniture and jewellery by Bernard Leach.
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collection of over 180 works by Bernard leach are on show |
Curated by Emmanuel Cooper OBE, this diverse show includes over 180
items many of which are loans from regional, national and private
collections.
The exhibition also includes work by Janet Leach, Jason Wason and
Alan Brough.
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| Ceramics
by St Just based artist, Jason Wason |
This exhibition will be on show from 4 May - 29 June.
For more information of the variety of events taking place across
the region visit: www.stivesinternational.com
To find out what exhibitions and events other galleries & museums
will be holding:
www.royalcornwallmuseum.org.uk
Exhibition - Sleepers - work by Tony Lattimer,
Helen Beard, Jo Connell and Falmouth College of Art students from
4 May to 29 June
www.penleehouse.org.uk
Concept and form, pots, drawings, etchings and jewellery by Bernard
Leach. Also so work Janet Leach by contemporary ceramicists Jason
Wason & Alan Brough.
4 May – 29 June.
www.newlynartgallery.co.uk
Toshikatsu Endo and Yukio Fujimoto - sculptural ceramics.
4 May - 15 June.
www.falmouthartgallery.com
Animal Matters - Animals in clay from Picasso to contemporary pots
and sculpture.
4 May to 15 June
www.falmouth.ac.uk
An International Workshop – workshops for five selected ceramic artists
to develop work based on Cornwall and a theme of nostalgia.
8 July – 2 August which will then be exhibited at Falmouth Arts Centre
from 3 – 10 August
www.wheal-martyn.com
Jenny Beavan: Water and Clay in Transformation
New work from 16 August – 5 September
National Trust Trelissick Garden
Work by John Middlemiss : The Dance
20 April – 23 June.
Jubilee Pool, Penzance
Ceramicist Darrell Sherlock has worked with students from Mounts Bay
School to produce a set of ceramic panels on the theme of water.
1 June – 31 August
Tremenheere Sculpture Park
Yasuo Terada with Jason Wason : Straw Firing, Sebastian Blackie :
Paper Firing.
13 July (details to be confirmed)
Click here to find out more about ‘Playing
with Fire’. |
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