Past (pre- 2012) Craft Exhibitions at Devon Guild 

  Archive lists (download):  Jan.'09-Apr.'10    May'10-Feb.'11






   

  Saturday 12 November – Monday 2 January 2012

The Guild’s Christmas exhibition is the perfect place to buy presents. Showcasing over 50 of the best regional and national contemporary makers the UK has to offer, you won’t need to go anywhere else! All items are for sale and can be taken away on the day of purchase.

Image:  Michelle Arieu, porcelain surface.   FREE. Open daily. 10am-5.30pm. 01626 8322233    

Exhibitors: Michelle Arieu, Sylph Baier, Jennifer Barlow, Caroline Barnes, Sue Britton, Theo Brooks, Judith Brown, Charlotte  Brown, Rebecca Callis, Anna Calvert, Jane Cox, Nicola Crocker, Jo Davies, Phil de Burlet, Nicola De Cruz, Victoria Delany, Karen Erlebach, John Fishenden, Rachel Foxwell, Jenny Gill, Catherine Gray, Catherine Hammerton, Fionna Hesketh, Jessica Hewitt, Catherine Hicks, Jasper Highet, Angela Holmes, Susan Holton, Melissa Hunt, Nicki Jarvis, Hamble & Jemima, Charis Jones, Christine Kaltoft, Ekta Kaul, Katie Lake, Corinne Lapierre, Sandy Layton, Trevor Lillistone, Sarah Miller, Anna Milloy, Janine Partington, Carly Pettit-Taylor, Sarah Pulvertaft, Amanda Ross, Helen Russell, Tracey Satchwill, Gemma Scully, Rose Sharp Jones, Miranda Sharpe, Dot Sim, Ayse Simsek, Tatjana Tekkel-Peppé, Rowan van der Holt, Julia Vella, Emma Williams, Corrie Williamson, Fiona Wilson, Jane Withers, Catherine Woodall, Nicola Wyllie.

   
   Contemporary Letterforming and Calligraphy
      
Saturday 17 September – Sunday 30 October 2011

Discover how letters form 'signs for sounds': the visual shapes for words used around us everyday. This exhibition explores the diversity and impact of letter-forming from traditional calligraphy to hi-tech font design, virtual typography and street art.

Selected artists and designers have worked to shape letters in new contexts and materials. Gary Breeze's stone carvings reference both Roman abbreviations and today's shortened 'txt-spk'. Julien Breton performs beautiful calligraphy drawn in light (see event). Ina Saltz' work is devoted to word-based tattoos inked upon the skin.

Much work reflects on how meanings can change or are culturally inscribed. Also the tensions and interfaces between art, design and decipherability are addressed. Tim Donaldson's 'unreadable’ lettering with giant brushes questions the transparency of written words while Bunny Bread's work ponders the crossover of signatures and grafitti tags. Jeremy Tankard’s typefaces ask whether a font can talk in different accents and visitors can experiment with Jason Edward Lewis's virtual typography to re-shape poetry on touchscreen monitors. An APP for interaction with this exhibition is available in the gallery and to download HERE.

FREE. Open daily. 10am-5.30pm
 
PRESS.    EDUCATION.     TIM DONALDSON MOVIE.

Exhibitors: Phil Baines & Catherine Dixon, Bunny Bread, Gary Breeze, Julien Breton, Ewan Clayton, Tim Donaldson, Incisive Letterwork, Jason Edward Lewis, Brody Neuenschwander, Tom Perkins, Pentagram, Jeremy Tankard and Ina Saltz. 

Events: Julien Breton performance / Tim Donaldson live text / Workshops / Carol Ballenger: 'Image & Text' / 'Big Draw'

A Harley Gallery touring exhibition, curated by Jeremy Theophilis


TOURING: Devon Guild of Craftsmen  17 Sept - 30 Oct 2011,
Bilston Craft Centre  10 Dec 2011 - 4 February 2012,
The Harley Gallery  16 February - 11 April 2012,
The Beaney, Canterbury  Feb - March 2013,
Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens  20 July - 29 Sept 2013

Educational material (curriculum ideas and activities) is available.  More...     Critical context  (website)

Images: Timothy Donaldson 'Spinal Flat'; Brody Neuenschwander 'Mary Magdalene'; Incisive Letterwork 'Architexts'

A Silver Thread
Saturday 2 July – Sunday 4 September 2011

Celebrating 25 years of the Devon Guild

Our Summer Exhibition has extra cause for celebration this year as the Guild marks its silver jubilee at Riverside Mill. This exhibition is always selected by the Membership and this year Members of the Guild have been invited to produce special work responding to the title 'A Silver Thread'. All exhibits are for sale.

Events: Free craft demos every Saturday through July and August. Info... 
Plus a silver-themed craft-making area in the gallery during the exhibition to inspire young and old alike.
A grand display of colourful and recycled bunting hand-made by the local community will also be hung all around Riverside Mill!

Image: Tube Trail (stainless steel) by Helen Edwards


John Maltby & Breon O'Casey
Saturday 7 May - Sunday 19 June 2011

This exhibition brings together and celebrates the wonderful work of two renowned artists and honorary fellows of the Devon Guild of Craftsmen.

John Maltby is recognised as one of the country’s finest ceramic artists. His reputation has been established over many years and is marked by his singular drive, unrepentant integrity and the unsurpassed quality of his work. His figures and creatures hold a wit and profundity that reflect the human condition and are inextricably linked to the English landscape and experience

Breon O’Casey 1928 - 2011

Sadly Breon passed away on Sunday 22 May 2011. He was a very special person and artist, who will be greatly missed by his family, friends and followers of his work, created over a long and productive life. As a present to himself on his 70th birthday he gave up making his iconic jewellery to concentrate on his paintings, sculptures and prints. His work expressed his poetic and sensitive vision of his natural surroundings. Breon was a unique, warm and thoughtful man, who will be affectionately remembered by us all. (25.05.11)

The prints by Breon in this exhibition have an immediate impact, combining simplicity of form and line and often vibrant colour, with his highly personal vision of birds, trees, abstract forms and more recently, the figure. A full colour catalogue specially produced for this exhibition is available in the shop and on-line.

TALK: John Maltby - his life and work  Wednesday 25 May, 6.30pm in The Terrace
John will give an illustrated talk and demonstration of his working techniques.
£7 (£5 Members/Friends/students. Associates free) Book: 01626 832223

Images: John Maltby, 'Royal Barge I'; Breon O'Casey: 'Three Black Squares', 'Blue Figure with Stars'
John Maltby: 'Sentinel' (detail), 'Admiral'

PRIZE WINNERS (Gallery activity):
3-D model: Francesca from Buckinghamshire. 2-D framed collage: Annie from Stafford.

Up-close 
Saturday 12 March – Monday 25 April 2011

An exhibition of printmaking from across the UK

The first solely 2D exhibition in the main gallery since its opening (2004). Selected by Michael Honnor, painter and printmaker and Richard Anderton MA (Printmaking course leader at the University of the West of England) - each exhibitor has worked to the same parameters of frame. It is hoped that each maker will experiment within the prescribed size to produce exciting and widely varying works, allowing visitors to get up close to innovative, handmade printmaking.  PRESS RELEASE

Image: screen print, 'Wendy and the Wolf'' by Emma Molony

For more information and material on past exhibitions at the Devon Guild please contact the Exhibitions Officer: Saffron Wynne.

E-mail: saffron.wynne@crafts.org.uk  Call: 01626 832223