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Download Biographies of Artist and Makers ROCK PAPER SCISSORS Contemporary and Country’s (C&C) latest exhibition Rock, Paper, Scissors encompasses art and handmade objects fashioned with the process of their making in mind. Skills made evident in bringing about their innovative ideas through a diverse range of art and handmade objects have been a recurring point of interest for the artists and makers that work with C&C. Rock, Paper, Scissors refers to the childhood game of chance where material properties prescribe the outcome of each playful exchange between two players, with the material choice made by one player winning the point. The artists and makers contributing to C&C’s latest exhibition at Houghton Hall Stables show how they exploit material qualities during the production process to create an original and unique work of art. Technical ability has played a subsidiary role in the production and appreciation of art in recent decades. More conceptual work has proved dominant in contemporary museums and galleries around the world. Rock, Paper, Scissors celebrates creatives who have developed what they do against the grain, despite this prevailing direction. They’ve accumulated a wellspring of personal experience coaxing their creative ideas into being. Carved stone bowls, single sheet paper cuts, clever collages, poured paintings, hand-built porcelain vessels, hand woven baskets, welded and sand-cast sculptures, hand blown glass, tactile turned wooden bowls and hand-hewn wooden platters acknowledge their material origins. Each piece reveals the alchemy that occurs between creative intent, material choice and dexterous fabrication. Artists and makers contributing to C&C projects live and work in non-metropolitan, rural locations in the east of England. They have a strong connection with or include the natural world in their subject matter. Everything exhibited will be for sale or available via C&C’s online shop. There will be 40+ artists and makers,11 of whom are new* to C&C: CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS AND MAKERS We are displaying paintings, drawings, sculpture, printmaking, ceramics, glass and handmade objects for the home. PAINTINGS WORKS ON PAPER SCULPTURE MAKERS Mary Blue* Buckmaster & French* Keron Beattie Ros Arrowsmith Kate Giles Katarzyna Coleman Esmond Bingham* Carolyn Brookes-Davies Jane Hindmarch* Amanda Edgcombe Jonathan Clarke Jane Crisp* Linda Jamieson Gareth Hacon Roger Hardy Steve Gore-Rowe Suzi Joel Ruth Howes Bridget Heriz Kathryn Hearn* Elaine Pamphilon Liz McGowan Andrew Jones Stewart Hearn* Molly Thomson Pandora Mond Rachael Long Sue Kirk Brüer Tidman Maria Pavledis Christopher Marvell Charlotte Packe Colin Self Dan Meek Sarah Paramor* Joni Smith Ben Pusey Tim Plunkett Eleanor-Rose Stamp* Teucer Wilson Steven Will* Paul Wolterink Jack Wheeler* ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES / www.contemporaryandcountry.com ROS ARROWSMITH MARY BLUE JONATHAN CLARKE Ros is a Norfolk based ceramicist, Mary Blue has exhibited Jonathan was born in 1961 in specialising in wheel-thrown internationally having attained a Suffolk, UK, where he continues to stoneware. She makes functional, Fine Arts MA in painting from the work today. At the age of 16 he took beautiful objects for everyday use. University of Pennsylvania in 1989 up an apprenticeship with his father, Ros completed a BA (hons) in where she studied with landscape the renowned sculptor Geoffrey Decorative Arts at The Nottingham painter, Neil Welliver. She went on Clarke (RA), and he began exhibiting Trent University, where she to study at the Vermont Studio his own sculpture in the early 1980s. specialised in ceramics. Following School, the Maryland Art Institute He works in sand-cast aluminium, her degree, she lived in London, and the American Institute in initially carving his sculpture in Japan and Spain, finally returning to Avignon, France. She relocated to polystyrene. This method relies on Norfolk, where she works in her the UK and has lived in North the destruction of the original studio in the countryside south of Norfolk raising her family, while mould as it is vaporised by molten Norwich. She lives in Norwich. teaching and running courses in art aluminium. The result is an entirely education. She established the unique, one-off sculpture. KERON BEATTIE Handa Gallery at the refurbished Keron Beattie gained a first-class BA Wells Maltings in 2018, coordinating KATARZYNA COLEMAN (Hons) in Contemporary Art and their outreach and education Katarzyna is from London and Design (2016) and MA Fine Art with programme. studied at Hornsey College of Art Distinction (2018) from Norwich (1979-1982, followed by an MA in University of the Arts (NUA). His CAROLYN BROOKES-DAVIES Fine Art at Manchester College of work is concerned with fragment- Carolyn graduated from the Royal Art (1982-1983). Katarzyna’s work ation, remaking and wholeness and College of Art in1982. After a explores industrial and urban the potential of materials to change twenty-five-year career in London as landscapes, predominantly the or transform. Keron prefers to use a fashion designer she moved to unarranged landscape near her found and recycled objects, North Norfolk in 2003. Carolyn’s studio in the harbour area of Great generally working by hand using background in sculpture, her love of Yarmouth, Norfolk. traditional tools and techniques. natural form and the close proximity This slower process encourages a of the beach led her to indulge a JANE CRISP way of seeing and then re-seeing childhood interest in shell collecting. Jane Crisp works from her studio the materials and allows new ideas Shells with their accidental beauty, and new workshop surrounded by and forms to emerge. subtle colours, variety in shape and beautiful countryside she is inspired texture appealed to her. Their by the flora and fauna of her ESMOND BINGHAM endless ornamental possibilities surroundings in Hale Fen, Born in Ulster, Esmond Bingham have inspired her recent shell work Cambridgeshire. She reveals the started his training at Ulster College of elaborately decorative objects, qualities of natural materials like of Art and Design, then from 1969- which are as exquisitely beautiful, wool, wood, copper and brass and 72 at Wolverhampton Polytechnic intricate and unique as the shells experiments with the mythologies of (Wolverhampton University) he themselves. making amplifying traditional attained a degree a BA (Hons) in techniques in a contemporary way. Fine Art, moving on to Goldsmiths BUCKMASTER & FRENCH Jane is interested in maritime College, London University in 1972- Based in Suffolk, Emma Buckmaster heritage after living on a narrow 73 where he gained an ATC (Art and Jane French work together on boat in Norfolk. Copper nails and Teachers Certificate). After lecturing an ongoing series of etchings of roves, steam-bending and her in art he studied at Norwich School British trees printed onto paper clinker-like constructions are all of Art (Norwich University of the made from the leaves of the trees inspired by traditional boatbuilder Arts) for his MA. Esmond works they depict. Janet French gained a techniques. across a variety of media both 2D BA (Hons) Fine Art at Colchester and 3D and on scales ranging from School of Art and Emma received an AMANDA EDGCOMBE environmental to miniature. His work MA in Printmaking at the Amanda has lived in Suffolk since is characterised by his interest in Cambridge School of Art. They 2005. Amanda's creative work has construction and a delight in the jointly chaired Gainsborough's encompassed several media carried unexpected in ordinary materials. House Printmakers for three years out to a consistently high level of and in 2019 Buckmaster and French expertise, including printmaking, were made Fellows of the Society of painting and architectural glass Botanical Artists. design. Born in London, Amanda ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES / www.contemporaryandcountry.com studied for her initial BA Fine Art ROGER HARDY exhibiting his glassware degree at Nottingham University. Roger trained at Kingston upon internationally. In 1999 Stewart was She went on to study print at the Thames College of Art and Design accepted into the Crafts Council Slade School of Art UCL and (Kingston University) where he was Index of Selected Makers. In 2002 he architectural glass at Central Saint awarded BA (Hons) in graphic set up London Glassworks, the Martin's London (University of the design. He had a successful career company he still runs from his Arts London), for which she was as a designer in London before he workshop in Cambridgeshire. awarded a Fellowship in started making sculpture and moved Architectural Glass. Alongside her to Suffolk in 2000. Roger’s figurative BRIDGET HERIZ design work she has continued to constructions and sculpture made Bridget Heriz trained at Goldsmiths paint. Recent canvases have using found elements from local College and Ravensbourne College stripped back elements and lighter boat yards and estuary worn wood of Art and Design (1973-77), after colours. from the river Alde, Suffolk, could which she returned to Suffolk to have been carved long ago. work at Clock House Fine Art KATE GILES Cleansed of their original purpose Studios. She moved to Great Her first degree (1981 – 84) was his figures take on a totemic Yarmouth in 2002. After a period taken at New College Oxford. She resonance that help define the working with traditional methods to graduated with a BA (Hons) degree human condition. evolve an earthy and spirited in English Literature. She then went approach to figurative sculpture, on to take a Foundation in Art and KATHRYN HEARN Bridget has returned to Design at Camberwell School of Art Kathryn Hearn is a ceramic maker experimenting with constructions ((1986 – 87) and followed this with a and designer who works from her using wire and card or balsa wood. Fine Art degree at Falmouth School workshop in Cambridgeshire. She Her constructions have a delicacy of Art and Design (1987 – 90). She attained a degree in Ceramics at and tension that reflect, at a glance, grew up in Norfolk and lived in Loughborough College of Art and the animated anatomy of a human Suffolk and now resident in West Design and has spent many years figure in motion, people interacting Norfolk.
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