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*

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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

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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. She has exhibited regularly teaching her discipline at that engenders an instant feel of ever since, in London, East Anglia Sunderland University and Central St what it is to be human. and internationally. Martins (University of the Arts). Employing a formidable variety of JANE HINDMARCH STEVE GORE-ROWE techniques developed over many Born in Haverfordwest Southwest With a background in Graphic years, Kathryn works mainly in Wales, Jane lives and works in South Design, Steve Gore-Rowe now porcelain exploring the nature of Lincolnshire, near Stamford. She concentrates his creativity on the contemporary in relation to the studied drawing painting and making decorative and functional natural and manmade, through printmaking at Cambridge College interior pieces using new and used hand building flax paper porcelain, of Arts and Technology, Edinburgh materials. Based in West Norfolk, he creating jars, bowls and vessels that College of Art and Montpellier applies combinations of modern reveal subtle layering, intricate Ecole Des Beaux Arts, France. Her and traditional workshop skills to lattice work and pigmented subject matter is taken from natural create original designs that explore lamination. The manmade sources. Jane approaches her contrasting materials and surface landscape of the Fens is a constant landscapes with a foreshortened finishes. source of inspiration, huge expanses representation, so that the viewer of sky meeting the horizon made experiences glimpses through a GARETH HACON indistinct by ground mists, dykes foreground of plants and trees Gareth Hacon is a photographer and ditches. leading the eye beyond to the wider based in Norwich. He originally horizon and sky. studied graphic design and moved STEWART HEARN on to photography later on, starting Stewart was born in South Shields, RUTH HOWES with an interest in the contrast Tyne & Wear. He lives and works in Ruth studied Fine Art, specialising in demands between photographing Cambridgeshire. Between 1983 and sculpture and over the years has open and confined spaces. His 1986 he attended Sunderland shifted to painting and illustration in photographic work is concerned Polytechnic (University of her work. For Ruth the intrigue of a with the passage of time and led by Sunderland), gaining a BA (Hons) paper cut is in starting with a blank the possibilities of open space degree in 3D Design, Glass & paper and carefully, intricately representing a thought or state of Ceramics. He has had a long and removing bits of it to make an mind. successful career producing and image. She starts with a minimum of

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material and rather than adding careful balancing, can then be easily CHRISTOPHER MARVELL more and more pencil, pen, ink, disturbed by even the slightest Christopher Marvell works mostly in paint, she carefully cuts into the breeze. Chaos may follow but bronze to make his sculpture. He sheet by hand, extracting an image usually a gentle sort of chaos that takes his subjects from life, the from exploiting positive and reminds us that all is not rigid, nor natural world and mythology. He is negative space. She lives and works should it be. based near Cambridge and St Ives, in Norwich. Cornwall. He studied at University of SUE KIRK Newcastle upon Tyne, from 1982 to LINDA JAMIESON Sue makes traditional and 1986. Initially his ideas are worked Linda was born and spent her contemporary baskets made using out through drawing, planned and childhood in Norfolk. She trained at willow grown in King’s Cliffe near plotted further in a 3D maquette, St. Martins School of Art and her home in Cambridgeshire. She then finalised in plaster and cast in studied further at Heatherlys and uses several varieties of willow that bronze. His sculpture follows the with Francis Pratt in France and have been growing for a minimum modernist tradition in allowing the Norfolk. She worked for many years of15 years. The hazel used is also material to bring enrichment to the in the field of textile design in locally sourced from coppiced slightest of human or animal forms. London, France and Italy, and as a woodland. “I love the qualities of consultant for interior design. She the willow; it’s colour, strengths and DAN MEEK now divides her time between her texture. I also make large-scale Dan is a Norfolk based stone carver studios in Norfolk and London and outdoor sculpture that has a steel and letter cutter, is acclaimed for his has exhibited regularly in both. frame and a willow ‘skin’” She is memorials, commemorative plaques influenced by heavy, solid forms, and ground-breaking conceptual SUZI JOEL such as natural rock formations, and sculptures. Meek, who trained as an Suzi Joel is a multidisciplinary artist love the fluidity and movement Architectural Stonemason, studied based in North Norfolk whose work which willow gives to the sculpture. carving and letter cutting at Bath – explores the process of attachment. he qualified in 1995 – has worked on Drawn to the small and fragile, her RACHAEL LONG many of the country’s major work has always united Rachael makes large-scale sculpture restoration projects, including St conventionally incongruous of animals and birds, using George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle. elements and discordant materials redundant farm machine parts. They For some years, as a member of the such as wood and woven fibre or are welded together and sometimes Commonwealth War Graves paper and cotton thread. Through forged to subtly change them. The Commission’s stonemasonry and this she invites ideas about alchemical transformation of cold letter carving team, he was interdependence, habitat, hard metal into fluid animated responsible for restoring First and contextualisation and the nature of creatures interests Rachael. She Second World War monuments pattern or repetition. Her latest graduated in History of Modern Art across the country. project repurposes wooden BA in 1990. An award-winning artist fragments collected from the North with many successful public PANDORA MOND Norfolk coast where she lives and commissions across the UK Educated at the Ruskin School of works. Suzi has worked with special including Lifeboat Horse at Wells Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford needs children for many years next to the Sea, she has work in Pandora has painted all of her adult teaching techniques for weaving collections based in France, Austria, life. She lived for many years on and stitched textile work. She has New Zealand and the US. Exmoor before returning to her exhibited in London and roots in North Norfolk. Her internationally. LIZ MCGOWAN inspiration and reference have Liz works with natural and found always been the natural world and ANDREW JONES materials, creating responses to even beyond. She works in oil and Andrew studied at Newcastle in the environments through installation, mixed media on canvas, often on a early 1970’s and began a project on sculpture, drawing and large scale. Her works present the the wind that lead to a 30-year conversation. Her focus is the greatest challenges, depicting career in power kite design. After meeting point between inner and places of tranquillity and threat, over 30 years of designing for kite outer landscapes, where personal vastness and peace. power and control, Andrew has creativity is given inspiration and returned to explore the wind for its form by those elements – stone, own sake. His sculptures have an reed, tree, earth, tideline – that order to them, which, by means of combine to form a landscape.

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CHARLOTTE PACKE and then continued to an MA in exhibited at the influential Robert Charlotte Packe is a lighting printmaking at Camberwell College Fraser Gallery, alongside Peter designer and artist who was born in of Art. She works with the dream-like Blake, Richard Hamilton and Clive Suffolk and studied at Goldsmiths world of fairy tale and narrative, Barker. By the late sixties Colin Self College, London University and is including its darker and uncanny was producing technically innovative now based in Norwich. She has elements. Starting from a very prints alongside drawings, paintings been working with lighting since strong commitment to drawing, she and maquettes, as he terms his 3D 1990, creating lighting installations develops images using a mixture of haiku. He has remained true to his and designing bespoke luminaires traditional and non-traditional Pop roots and sees potential in the for private and corporate clients as methods, including etching which everyday objects that surround us well as manufacturing small batch she uses to explore new ways of and calls himself a ‘hunter’, seeking runs for select retail outlets. Her mark making and expression. Maria out connections between objects he work is inspired by the materials she has exhibited widely and is a has selected out from the detritus of favours, it is refined and pared back member of London Organisation of mass consumption. His work is fresh, with a clear influence from nature, Original Printmakers. She is based in immediate and frequently delivered that brings a calm sculptural form to Norwich. with a punch line. lighting with warmth and restraint. TIM PLUNKETT JONI SMITH ELAINE PAMPHILON With a BSc in Environmental Science Norwich based, Joni completed an Elaine is a painter and musician. She and a deep passion in opposing the MA at Norwich University of the Arts often takes breakfast coffee and sits destruction of ancient forests and (2007) achieving a distinction in on the warm slate step in front of cultures, it is important to Tim that Textile Culture. She enhances and her house and studio in St Ives, to all his work is made from locally re-imagines the perceptual mapping watch the sunlight, sparkling on the sourced wood. Entirely self-taught out of a landscape on paper, sea. “Each morning is different and through trial (and often painful error) playfully using collage and cutting something new holds your he strives to produce elegant, techniques to create new attention” She loves the wild, functional pieces with graceful, associations between different map windswept beauty of the coastal uncluttered lines, for the kitchen and locations. Impeccably handcrafted, paths, the changing light and table. Smith’s work encompasses drawing, different textures of land, sky and paper cutting, painting installation sea. “I can come back from a walk BEN PUSEY and sculpture. with lots of ideas and starting points Graduating from Hereford College for new work. And that is Cornwall, it of Art, Ben trained as an artist ELEANOR-ROSE STAMP gets into your heart and soul, blacksmith and explored the Eleanor’s childhood was spent in romantic and inspirational” possibilities of kinetic art. He loves Norfolk surrounded by horses and working with forged metal kinetic dogs. After studying Fine Art and SARAH PARAMOR sculpture because of the endless Psychology, she spent a decade Sarah Paramor lives and works in varieties of shapes and forms it is working successfully in advertising Applecross on the west coast of possible to make and the rich as a TV producer in London. Now Scotland. She makes her highly potential of orchestrating back in Norfolk Eleanor has decided prized baskets in a restored movement. He uses these to follow her creative instincts and cowshed. Sarah attended a two-year properties to inform the work’s depict the animals that she enjoyed part-time basketry course between interest in creating experiences of being with, particularly horses, 2015 and 2017 at London's City Lit ‘calm’ and ‘relaxation’. The forged capturing their character, strength & covering all aspects of basketry; steel process adds to these vulnerability. A deep understanding taught by Annemarie O'Sullivan, conceptual qualities, detaching us and knowledge of the physiognomy John Page, Polly Pollock and Louise from our ‘hyperculture’. of the horse imbue her work with Baldwin. She has taken on regular exceptional power. workshops ever since, most recently COLIN SELF in 2019, Sarah gained a place on the Colin Self was born in Norfolk, MOLLY THOMSON Emerging Maker Programme run by studied at Norwich School of Art Based in Norwich, Molly taught for Craft Scotland. and attended the Royal College of many years from Falmouth Art Art (RCA) in the early sixties. Self- Collage in the 1980s, to Cleveland MARIA PAVLEDIS arrived at the crucial moment Pop Art Institute in 1990 and then as a Maria originally studied painting Art emerged in London. Identified senior lecturer at Norwich University studied at Norwich School of Art as one of Pop’s exponents, Self- of the Arts (NUA) from 1991 to 2010.

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There is a surgical precision at work JACK WHEELER TEUCER WILSON here. Her canvases are constructed Jack Wheeler is a carpenter and Teucer is one of the country's and then reconfigured by cutting sculptor based in North Norfolk leading letter cutters and stone and removing component parts. She specialising in the design carvers. His training as a stone applies paint, often poured in construction and repair of timber mason, architectural carver and multiple layers so that her rejected framed structures and buildings. letter cutter has prepared him for a selection of single colours form a Having worked on a variety of variety of work for both private and crust at the edges. Thomson works projects Jack has experience of public settingd, garden pieces and within strict limits that she sets for heavy structural jointed carpentry, memorials. He has a workshop in herself to produce hard won historic building conservation, North Norfolk and he has been moments of colourful, collected joy. joinery, furniture and sculpture. influenced by twentieth century With a particular interest in utilising sculptors like Eric Gill, Henri BRÜER TIDMAN locally grown trees and likes to work Gaudier-Brzeska, Picasso and Brüer was born in Gorleston-On- with traditional hand tools. Barbara Hepworth and is inspired by Sea, Norfolk in 1939, and moved to African and Indian classical carving. Rackheath, near Norwich. Brüer STEVEN WILL studied art at Great Yarmouth Located in Suffolk Steven makes PAUL WOLTERINK College of Art 1957-1961 and at the pots rooted in the local landscape. Graphic designer, printmaker Paul Royal College of Art (RCA) 1961- He has developed an elemental was born in the Netherlands and has 1964, he continues as an Associate colour palette and sources for resided in Norfolk since 2015. He Member. The RCA was the starting natural materials he harvests from works across a range of print media, point for a long career as a his environment (mud, clays and believing “Anything can function as figurative painter, with references to wood ash) to decorate his thrown a carrier for information”. He is a earlier art movements effortlessly and hand cast porcelain. Steven Visiting Lecturer at Norwich rendered in his own rich visual regularly walks the marshes, heaths University of the Arts. He is focused language. Tidman has exhibited and woods where his studio is on the twists and turns in creating an internationally including Switzerland collecting interesting finds and image or piece of text using screen- and Finland and was a lecturer at recording the landscape through his printing. He prints in limited editions Lowestoft School of Art. He has photographs and drawing. with an eye for subtle details, love exhibited at the Royal Academy. He for print, a sense of joy and ives and works in Great Yarmouth. appreciation of the craft of printmaking.

THE CURATORS

PAUL BARRATT PAUL VATER Paul Barratt started working in contemporary art galleries in Paul Vater coordinates studio visits to maintain strong 1989, having graduated in Fine Art from Goldmsiths relationships with artists, designers and makers. He College, London University. He initially worked at Anthony manages the C&C website and has developed the online d’Offay Gallery, one of the contemporary art galleries that shop where selected works are presented for sale. dominated the London art market in the 80s and 90s. He was approached by the Lisson Gallery to be gallery Paul established his design company, Sugarfree, in 1990 manager for the influential art dealer Nicholas Logsdail. and quickly gained a reputation for delivering fresh, This was followed by a period in New York at Gladstone effective marketing campaigns and brand identities for Gallery, to work for visionary art dealer Barbara Gladstone. clients including Save the Children Fund, United Nations Association and UNHCR. Over the years those added to On his return to London, Paul secured a place on the the roster include IPC Magazines, Arts Council England, prestigious postgraduate curatorial course at the Royal The Roundhouse, Barbican Centre, Arts Marketing College of Art, to complete an MA. After graduation in Association, Look Ahead Housing and Care, Paddington 2001, he worked as an independent curator on several Waterside, BBC Worldwide, Commonwealth Foundation, projects in Oslo, London, Brighton and Basel, before Prestel, City of London Corporation, The Kennedy Trust joining Paul Vater at his design agency Sugarfree in London and the University of East Anglia. in 2004. He has worked with Paul ever since.

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