| Jerwood Applied Arts Prize 2007: Jewellery
Susan Cross and Adam Paxon are the joint winners of the Jerwood Applied Arts Prize 2007: Jewellery
The Jerwood Applied Arts Prize is the most prestigious prize in the applied arts world – worth £30,000, and is run by the Crafts Council and Jerwood Charitable Foundation to celebrate innovation, commitment and excellence within the applied arts. The prize was presented last night by... |
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| Neil Brownsword: Poet of Residue
Neil Brownsword has been intensely engaged with the history of ceramic manufacture in Stoke-on-Trent for the best part of twenty years, ever since he was first apprenticed on the factory floor at the age of sixteen. He came to this subject, one might say this obsession, via his formative experience at the Josiah Wedgwood factory, learning various technical skills, before taking the... |
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| Shozo Michikawa: Thirty Years, Thirty Pots
Seto has a history of over 1300 years as a pottery town. Clays, kilns, prototypes, glazes, brushes – anything and everything to do with ceramics can be obtained here.
Because the town is built on clay there is a distinct atmosphere here. The river that runs through the town is white and the air is often dusty. Should you visit a restaurant in Seto and start a conversation on... |
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| Otília Kopecká – Embroidery works
The exhibition presents the embroidery works of textile artist Otília Kopecká who worked in the Centre for Folk Art Production for more than thirty years.
Kopecká specialised in experimenting with folk art embroidery patterns. Of abundant variations of regional folk embroidery, the artist was inspired mostly by the Slovak regions of Horehronie, Detva, Liptovská Lužná,... |
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| ARTONIVO 2007: Old Materials New
In an exploration of the subtle borderline area between contemporary art and craft, Artonivo uses an interactive positioning of the art works to create a stimulating thematic presentation of glass objects, ceramics, jewelry and design, side by side with two-dimensional work: textiles, calligraphy, etching, photography, lithography, video, visual poetry, motion graphic design,... |
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| Mexicana: Discovering Mexican Popular Arts, 1919-1950
April 28 - November 25, 2007
During early decades of the 20th century, Americans eagerly traveled to Mexico to discover their culturally distinct neighbor “south of the border.” During their sojourns, Americans were especially taken by Mexico’s unique and diverse craft traditions—from painted earthenware pottery, to glazed majolica, lacquer ware and textiles. To them, these... |
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| Finns at Venini
The Venini glassworks on the island of Murano in Venice is an outright symbol of new Venetian glass. |
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| NETWORK
New ceramic works by Malene Müllertz at the Danish Museum of Art & Design from 12 January to 11 March 2007. |
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| Cartier 1899-1949. The journey of a style
“Cartier 1899-1949. The journey of a style” brings together an outstanding set of 230 jewels, watches and personal objects from the Cartier Collection, as well as some of Calouste Gulbenkian’s acquisitions that now belong to the Foundation. |
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| Great French Tapestries
From mid-November the Danish Museum of Art and Design turns the focus on a group of outstanding French tapestries from the latter half of the twentieth century, prompted by a wish to present parts of the museum’s rich collections from time to time – normally they cannot be shown in their entirety. |
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| Solo for a Glass Blower's Pipe
This is the first exhibition of unique pieces of artistic glass in the Hermitage. In 1967 and 1989 the museum had retrospective exhibitions of artistic glass which also showed modern works. Today's exhibition provides a much more complete survey of different trends in the art of Russian glass production during the 20th and 21st centuries. |
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| Ways - Ceramics from the Czech Republic – Between Prague and Budweis
Galerie Heller, Heidelberg
June 18 to July 30 2006
Gallery of Contemporary Ceramic Art Marianne Heller was established in 1978.
With an emphasis on England, the gallery has presented ceramic vessels and sculptures by European artists for more than twenty years.
Situated in the centre of Heidelberg and right in the middle of Europe the gallery has become an international... |
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| Noel Hart in Cosa Gallery
Cosa Gallery is presenting a new collection of outstanding glass vessels by Australian artist Noel Hart. He will be present at a special preview on June 28 and over the weekend of July 1 & 2 to talk about his work and the inspiration he gets from his extraordinary surroundings at his home in the subtropical rainforest of northern New South Wales. |
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