FRESHAIR 2011 FRESHAIR 2011
Contents
Welcome 4 The Essence of Quenington Old Rectory 6 History of the House 7 Education 8 Bursaries 9 Stroud College of Art 10 Exhibitors 14 Acknowledgements 54 Principal Supporters 55
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FRONT COVER 159. Blue Head by Patricia Volk THE 10 TH QUENINGTON SCULPTURE SHOW Sunday 19th June - Sunday 10th July ~ A celebration of contemporary sculpture in the riverside gardens of Quenington Old Rectory, Gloucestershire
FRESHAIR 2011
3 4 WELCOME...
It seems extraordinary to be welcoming you to our tenth In 2009 we had 9,000 visitors and ran a three week Fresh Air exhibition. We had no intention of creating such education programme for over 850 children and young a biennale. After our first purchase in Brewery Arts, a adults as well as master-class workshops with local wonderful Monica Young pot which we still have, the curator artists. We now award up to three bursaries a year there, Wendy Shales, asked if they could use the garden as for developmental work and sponsor apprenticeship an ‘outreach’ exhibition space. The idea was to show programmes. sculpture and the applied arts without the constraint of To flourish, artists need a show case for ideas and walls. That was in 1992 and the exhibition was called ‘Art fine craftsmanship and they need buyers and people who is upon the Landscape’. A simple printed sheet acted as a are prepared to commission their work and most of all to catalogue. We sold one or two pieces and had a few visitors enjoy it. I hope you will. and it was fun. I don’t know what David and I would have thought if we had gazed into the future. Lucy Abel Smith
5 THE ESSENCE OF QUENINGTON OLD RECTORY
A monolith of blue glass, one half of which is bubbly, the other On the lawn, a swimmer emerges from the turf: head, shoulders and smooth, literally colours the view that unfolds beyond it: river, hands all that are visible, eyes darting a somewhat suspicious look meadow and trees. Beside the wooden bridge - too ingenious to at people who live above ground. A library has been made in the negotiate with ease - is a stone hut, its pyramid roof half lost beneath form of a circular dovecote; the big double doors open so that it becomes a stage. Plays are acted here, beside the river. They are almost certainly mounted to raise money for some local cause, which is right and proper, but as everybody knows, something of an excuse. The real purpose is to celebrate the pleasures of the countryside in this age of peace and plenty. Of all the sculptures in this remarkable place, there is no altar to flute-playing, goat-footed Pan. Perhaps there should be.
Extract from ‘Villages of Britain’ by Clive Aslet
a scrambling rose. Outside hangs a different sort of flower, an enormous one, with petals made of sharp steel. The trunk of a tree “Art washes from the soul is wrapped with the words ‘The Soul of Man resembles the Water, the Fate of Man resembles the Wind’. It is a memorial to the Abel Smith’s the dust of everyday life.” gardener, Esme Bradburne, who died in 2000. Pablo Picasso
6 THE HISTORY OF THE HOUSE
There has been a rectory in Quenington since the time of the This was completed towards the end of 2008. Mrs Cadogan Knights’ Hospitallers in the twelfth century. It belonged to was a great gardener, and it was she who an important group of buildings which included the Church, laid out the structure of the present garden. Further The Knights’ Preceptory, farm, barns, dovecote, mills and enlargements were later made by Lady Abel Smith mill race until the Reformation. The earliest surviving part especially in the area of the Pool Garden. Esme Bradburne of the house is the old kitchen adjacent to what had been arrived in 1987 (her memorial by Gary Breeze is the lavatory, now the boat house. in the garden on a tree). She helped Lucy Abel The façade facing the river is seventeenth to Smith and Robert Wyatt, turn the mid eighteenth century of which only one sash garden organic. window remains. The rectors involved with the various builds have their monuments in the church of St. Swithans. The house was bought from the Church in 1928 by Elizabeth Bazley who, with her husband Christopher Blunt, made many changes. Her mother, previously living at Hatherop Castle, and stepfather, Commander Cadogan lived here. David Abel Smith’s step mother (née Cadogan) and father commissioned the Stroud architects Falconers to modify the building in the late 1960s. The façade facing the lawn is c1800. The addition to the north was built in the Lucy has further developed the planting and finds it difficult Cotswold style in 1930. David and Lucy have made their to stop. The last mill wheel of the Quenington corn mill is contribution to the house in the form of a circular library now resting by the road bridge and this is the newest area designed by Michael Gold on the south side balancing to receive attention. the boat house.
7 EDUCATION
“Art isn't simply Some comments after the 2009 Education Programme important education; > The students response to the activities at Fresh Air has made me want to do similar activities creating art as we go along and it is education. allowing the pieces to naturally evolve. Have always taught using 2D Art is the gymnasium art but will use 3D forms from now on.
of the mind, body and spirit. > We were planning activities around school and have been inspired It is the place to try some of the techniques we learnt at Fresh Air. where we can totally address > Definitely, never thought about using sounds. I feel more confident every element of ourselves; to have a go at teaching using a variety of media. it doesn't matter what the content is.” ECCO! (Encouraging Children to Collect (art) Objects) Loren Hollander ECCO! will again be a feature at Fresh Air 2011. We are asking every exhibitor to donate a working sketch or model. These will be for sale The Education programme is once more organised by New Brewery in the entry tent and will only be sold to young people aged 18 years Arts to run alongside the exhibition. Over 800 children will take part and under. Prices will be kept to £10 - £60. We aim to catch budding in a tour of the show led by professional artists/tutors, culminating collectors early on and to encourage the excitement of collecting in sculpture workshops. There also will also be a series of adult master original works of art. classes led by exhibition sculptors.
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” Pablo Picasso
8 BURSARIES AT FRESH AIR 2011
Strutt and Parker have awarded a £1,000 bursary to:
Mila Furstova to develop work that is suitable for showing outside.
The Quenington Sculpture Trust have awarded bursaries to:
Davy and Kristin McGuire to show their innovative video installation ‘Pinboard’ in the boathouse.
Irene Hoppenberg for her bold and colourful ‘Butterfly’ sculpture coming from Germany.
Alec Finlay for his conceptual installation ‘Chekhov's Dogs’.
Laura McKinley will be showing the exciting new work she developed while she served her apprenticeship at Loco ‘Bromide’ from ‘Chekhov’s Dogs’ Glass, Cirencester, made possible by the hot-glass bursary by Alec Finlay she was awarded at Fresh Air 2009.
Main picture: Nasturtium by Laura McKinley
9 COLLABORATION WITH STROUD COLLEGE OF ART
“The creative person is
both more primitive 1 and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.” 2 Frank Barron, Think, November-December 1962
Eight Foundation students from Stroud College of Art have been invited to make a series of works as part of their coursework remit. 3
The work will be judged at Fresh Air 2011 and the 4 marks will go towards the final assessment for their Foundation Diploma. The course encompasses a wide range of approaches to making art and we are hoping for some original thinking and fresh ideas. These young artists will have the opportunity to conceptualise and create work in a completely different environment from their college practise. It is a unique opportunity for students to plan and execute work for a public exhibition with 9,000 visitors, over 5 a three week period and a full education programme with over 850 children taking part. We hope to accelerate the development of 6 new ideas, new knowledge and new enterprises.
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MEGAN BARNETT ROSIE ROWLAND I am exploring the concept of empty space in my work. This will There is a strange beauty that resides in the stories from Greek, Norse enable the viewer to project their own thoughts and feelings into the and other Ancient Mythologies. This work explores the processes of sculpture. working with wood and metal to express the deep resonance that these stories have held timelessly throughout the age of man. JAMES CRISP Conflicting Environmental Relations; exploring humanity’s JOSHUA SCOTT relationship with the earth. Have humans destroyed some of the I want to explore how the excitement and anticipation of a dream world’s natural attractions to create urbanized districts, or have we coming true can make a person feel trapped, lonely and stagnant created beauty with synthetics by constructing some stunning cities during the immediate build up. I want the piece to show the consisting of substantial engineering feats? juxtaposition of emotion that comes with the fruition of one’s dream. I am especially interested in using the river as a boundary, a way of DANIELLE DAVIES symbolising the separation between the present and future. Symbiosis: a relationship between two dissimilar entities which is usually mutually beneficial. My work will be an exploration of the ISSY STARKISS connections between organisms and the delicate balance of biota I am exploring motion in a sculpture; using kinetics and the viewers’ within our lives. movements, by doing this I want to create an experience that encourages the curiosity of the viewer so that they become involved TABITHA DUNNING with the piece. Pieces inspired by the senses, triggering memories of experiences and associations with specific places. The Foundation students are very excited about showing their work at BEN MOSELEY Fresh Air 2011. They are really motivated by the prospect of exhibiting to a I feel my work is a physical connection, which I find inspiring. large public audience and inspired by the possibility of producing site-specific Wood is life, a tree is life like a flower, animal, yourself, rain, the work in such a beautiful location. It will be a challenge and an immensely Earth and so on. rewarding experience for those involved.
Sam Freeman - sculpture lecturer Opposite: 1. Danielle Davies, 2. James Crisp, 3. Megan Barnett, 4. Issy Starkiss, 5. Tabitha Dunning, 6. Rosie Rowland, 7. Joshua Scott
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Please note that all TOM ALLAN CAROLE ANDREWS work is for sale 1. Just Hooked 3. Villosa Carrara marble, polystyrene fishbox Aluminium and resin through the 60x40x17cms 200x50x45cms Quenington Sculpture £1,800 £2,400 Trust on behalf of the Tom has worked for thirty years as a 4. Franchettii Blue 1 & 2 artists. Please inform sculptor in Carrara and Glasgow. Roofing felt, steel and resin He has had solo shows in Scotland, 200cms high helpers at the Stratford-on-Avon and London. He is a Franchettii 1 £3,500 entrance gate if you regular exhibitor and prize-winner at the Franchettii 2 £3,000 Royal Glasgow Institute, the Paisley Art Carole has a degree in Fine Art. She would like to purchase Institute and the RSA. He founded the manipulates 2 dimensional materials into first Scottish International Sculpture a sculpture. If delivery 3 dimensional form to make sculpture symposium and was elected ARBS in with an organic influence. Movement, is required, charges 2006. He is collected worldwide. reflection and translucence have become ______may apply to some important factors in her work which has sculptures depending LAURENCE AMBROSE been exhibited widely around the UK and USA in both gallery and landscape 6. Rock Pool 1 by Diana Barraclough on size and distance. 2. Nenuphars settings. Her work has been shown widely Varnished steel around the country including the Royal DIANA BARRACLOUGH Installation £9,900 Academy Summer Exhibition. She is a Set of 8 £4,950 fellow of the Royal British Society of 6. Rock Pool I Stoneware 40x32cms Laurence is an artist and sculptor who has Sculptors. £550 worked in the UK, USA and France. She ______creates striking abstract images using 7. Rock Pool II WALTER BAILEY coloured inks on paper she waxes by hand Stoneware 46x40cms and she forges fantastic pieces in steel and 5. Solve et Coagula £700 objet trouve. Her work has hung in the Carved from a single redwood tree Diana gained her degree in ceramics at White House - President Bill Clinton’s grown in Ashdown Forest Bournemouth College of Art in 1968. speechwriter George Stephanopoulos has 243x152x20cms During her course she worked for David bought her work - and it has been sought £11,900 Leach and afterwards, for Mary Rich. Her out by Hollywood writers Dick Clement and Drawing on his deep knowledge of trees journey through ceramics has been a long Allan Scott and actor Jonathan Pryce. and the cycle of the seasons, Bailey and varied one. She is increasingly drawn makes public sculptures for public and back to the rugged landscape of West private commissions in the UK and Cornwall and its dramatic coastline for 10. Vantage Point abroad. He is currently working with inspiration. Using broad, free strokes, a by Adam Binder Robin Partington Architects on large-scale palette of clays and slips, and bird imagery 2. Nenuphars (right) public sculptures and designs for a new she seeks to create rock pool forms by Laurence Ambrose development in Oxford Street, London. redolent of this ancient area.
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BEN BARRELL LUCY BIRTLES SARAH BLOOD ADAM BOOTH
8. Crescent Bench 11. Mother 14. Luna Fossil III 16. A Flight of Iron Marble composite/stainless steel Cranks clay/porcelain slips Glass, argon 70 birds in hot forged mild steel, 160x54cms 60cms high and mixed media acid etched, galvanised finish £3,800 £750 60x65x92cms 50 to 110cms high £1,800 Set of 3 (small/med/large) £210 9. Fin Back Seat 12. Sibling I Individual birds can be Bronze resin Cranks clay/porcelain slips 15. Luna Fossil IV bought for £75 each Edition 8 of 16 200x80cms 55cms high Glass, argon £4,800 £650 and mixed media Adam has run his own forge specializing 60x65x92cms in contemporary ironwork and sculpture Ben has been creating sculpture since 13. Sibling II £1,800 since 1987. He has represented the UK leaving Bristol University in 1996. Cranks clay/porcelain slips at international craft exhibitions and The inspiration for his sculpture and 50cms high Sarah is a mixed media artist whose undertaken commissions all over the outdoor furniture comes from his childhood £550 work questions the definition of strength world. In 2010 Adam was awarded the living on a farm near the rugged Cornish and permanence. The density of materials Lucy came to Ceramics as a mature title Eminent Master Blacksmith by the landscape. He would watch the shapes such as concrete and clay is contrasted student, completing her BA in 3D Design Worshipful Company of Blacksmiths in thrown by the Atlantic Ocean, sea when combined with the fragility of glass, (Ceramics) at the University of the West of recognition of his work. The majority of creatures cut through its waters and yachts inert gas, and light. Her forms are inspired England. Thanks to her years of experience Adams work is in private collections but sailed elegantly across its horizon. by science, geometric abstraction and as a pottery technician at Stroud College, there are several large public art pieces His visual memories and sketches of these post-minimalist sensibilities, but the work Lucy’s understanding of process throughout the UK. dynamic shapes translated into the evokes personal and human qualities. underpinned her development as a potter ______physical forms he makes now. Notable Since earning her MA in Glass in 2003 which became her full time occupation commissions include sculptures for a from the University of Sunderland, Blood having built her own workshop. She has CLAUDIA BORGNA skyscraper in Shanghai and the Four has exhibited throughout the UK, Europe always found particular inspiration in hand Seasons Hotel in Mauritius. and the US, as well as Hong Kong and 17. Everything Must Go building pots which evolve as families as ______the United Arab Emirates. Plastic bags, plastic pipes, cement, she makes them, taking shape as almost bamboo ADAM BINDER human forms. Approx 200cmsx150cms POA 10. Vantage Point Bronze 88x43cms Claudia is a literature graduate from Genoa £6,950 University, later receiving another BA in fine art from the London Metropolitan Adam was born in 1970 and grew up in University. She exhibits nationally and the Cotswolds where he continues to live internationally and is a recipient of the today. The natural world has been his Joan Mitchell Award, the Pollock Grant, inspiration for the last 20 years and his the RBS Bursary Award as well as the bronze sculptures of wild life are much Pritzker Foundation Endowed Fellowship sought after. His work can be found in Award. private collections both in the UK and abroad. Last year he won the David Shepherd Wildlife Artist of the Year. 11. Mother by Lucy Birtles
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HANS BORGONJON MICHAEL BRANTHWAITE EDWINA BRIDGEMAN NIGEL CANN
18. Black Dog 21. Present Tense 23. Angel 25. Friends United Segmented black stoneware Wood Post, Fixings, Coloured Cord Reclaimed wood Hornton stone, Pennant stone, Approx 15x40x40cms Size variable and found objects stained glass 150x80cms £1,500 Please note - price is a guide for 170cms high £2,450 this installation. Permanent works £900 Hans’s work is mainly based around 26. Ricochet will be priced according to client’s ceramics. He was awarded the Crafts 24. Guardians Standing stones, stained glass requirements and the specifics of Council Award in 2009. He has exhibited Painted branches 145x88cms the installation space. in London, the Netherlands, Belgium 150 to 250cms high £2,600 £3,000 and China. He works from his studio in £1,500 Nigel Cann works under the name of Somerset and achieved an MA in Ceramics Branthwaite has shown extensively across Edwina studied at the Rose Bruford Stone Rainbow. He gained a National at Bath Spa university. He finds ceramic the UK and abroad. Highlights of his College, Kent and gained a Diploma in Diploma in Design at Bristol and had a an incredibly versatile and inspirational practice include a permanent artwork in Technical Theatre. Selected solo shows career in graphics. He then studied glass material. Wirksworth, Derbyshire, a commission in include The Voyage Out, Black Swan Arts fusing, stone-masonry and letter-cutting ______Platomas Train Station in Greece and Frome 2000; Miracles, Victoria Art Gallery and his combinations of stone and coloured being selected as part of Saatchi Galleries Bath 2003; Paradise, Victoria Art Gallery glass sculptures are much sought after. JUDY BOYT ‘North Stars’ exhibition as one of the most Bath 2006; Procession Harley Gallery He has exhibited widely including the exciting artists practicing in Northern 19. The Golden Opportunity Notts 2006; Aldeburgh Cinema Gallery Chelsea Flower Show and he has been England today. Laser Cut steel, painted black 2008/10; Orchard, New Brewery Arts commissioned to make sculptures for the ______and Gold 250x120x0.5cms 2008/9; Shelter, Victoria Art Gallery National Tramways Museum, Crick; Sacred The price does not include GARY BREEZE Bath 2010. Heart Church Centre, Birmingham; and installation or delivery. Mickleton New School, Cotswolds. £6,290 22. Dryonautica Sea Shanties carved into hewn oak 20. 'Just a little Stick...!' Installation: 600x200x40cms Bronze resin Labrador - life size £9,350 £4,250 Bronze version available on request Gary exhibits widely and was awarded the Jerwood Contemporary Makers Prize in Judy studied at the Oxford Polytechnic and 2008. His commissioned work includes the University of Wolverhampton from the Bali Bomb Memorial in Horse Guards, 1972-76, then the North Staffordshire London and the Christ Church cloister Polytechnic from 1976-78. She is a Fellow garden fountain in Oxford. Other work can of Royal Society of British Sculptors and be seen in the New Scottish Parliament, received The British Sporting Art Award for Westminster Abbey, Chatsworth Gardens Sculpture 2006; The British Sporting Art and the Victoria & Albert Museum. Trust Award for Sculpture in 2004; and The British Sporting Art Trust Award for 'Evocation of Speed', Epson. In 2010 her Working Horse Monument, 'Waiting...' was installed at The Albert Dock in Liverpool.
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RACHEL CARTER 26. Ricochet 27. Fallen Eggs by Nigel Cann Mild steel and willow 120x80cms £800 each
28. Grand Spheres Mild steel and willow 90x100cms £800 each
Fallen Eggs and Spheres are now available to purchase as limited edition pieces that are made especially to order, no two eggs (please select the Standing or Fallen design) or spheres will be identical through the decorative swirls of the woven willow. Allow six weeks for your order LYNN CHADWICK STEPHEN CHARLTON DOUG COCKER to be created. £50 delivery charge (British mainland only) 29. Beast Alerted 1990 31. Bounce 33. Tools and Moons Welded stainless steel Bronze resin original NFS Various woods Rachel designs and creates sculptural Edition of 9. 57cms high 75x75cms 350cms high pieces for the garden using mild steel and POA Bronze edition of 8 £8,300 £1,800 woven willow. Trained at The University of Derby in the 3D Sustainable Design and 30. Lion 1990 32. Offering After studying at Duncan of Jordanstone Practice program, she has a studio in Painted branches Bronze resin original NFS College of Art, Dundee, Doug received Ilkeston, Derbyshire with four other Welded stainless steel 100x75cms many awards and scholarships and designer/makers to create the collective Edition of 9. 40.5cms high Bronze edition of 8 £8,000 completed postgraduate studies in New group 'Shed 2 Studios'. She mixes her love POA York and Greece. He has worked as a Please note that each order for of art and design with her passion for the lecturer in sculpture at art schools in Lynn is one of the giants of 20th century bronzes will take 10 weeks to deliver. Edinburgh, Dundee, Aberdeen, environment and exhibited her work at sculpture. His work spans fifty years and An award winning sculptor, Stephen Northampton, Newcastle, Ontario and RHS Chelsea Flower Show during 2010 includes over a thousand pieces. He first creates unique sculptured animal forms Philadelphia. In 1990 Doug Cocker took and 2011. came to prominence as one of the in bronze from his studio in the decision to become a full-time sculptor. semi-finalists for the Unknown Political Warwickshire, England. Working in He has built up a strong proven track Prisoner 1 Sculpture Competition in 1953 both clay and resin, Stephen uses the record of acclaimed exhibitions, major and went on to win the International Prize traditional loss wax process, casting commissions and an impressive body for Sculpture at the 1956 Venice Biennale. his limited editions in bronze. Each of work. Many honours and awards followed and sculpture is finished in a patina that Chadwick’s work is a cornerstone of all suits each individual piece. major international art collections.
17 DAVE COOKE TERENCE COVENTRY PAUL COX
34. Raven 36. Hound II 38. My lost love hunting you Ceramic with steel and resin Bronze Edition of 7 64cms high Polychrome resin, metal legs on oak post £12,000 115x42x70cms £1,275 £1,200 37. New Riders 35. Cockerel Bronze Edition of 10. 64cms high 39. Free range Ceramic on stone base £10,980 Polychrome resin, metal, grass £1,200 200x52x50cms Born in 1938, Terence studied at £1,950 David is based in Yorkshire at the Stourbridge School of Art and the Sculpture Lounge Studios. He has Royal College. Rooted in a strong Paul Cox is an award-winning sculptor been a professional wildlife artist figurative tradition, his sculpture who specialises in mixed media since graduating in 1992. He has explores familiar animals such as birds, construction. He was awarded the exhibited at some of the major UK bulls, cows and boars. The human Henry Moore scholarship to study Ceramic and Wildlife Art Shows such figure is another preoccupation to postgraduate sculpture at the Royal as Art in Clay, Hatfield House; Potfest which he frequently returns, producing Academy Schools, London. His work in the Park, Penrith and at the annual images of great power and tenderness. is now represented internationally in Society of Wildlife Artists Exhibition He exhibits widely and many of public and private collections. at the Mall Galleries in London. He his sculptures are held in public and had sculptures on show at the 2010 private collections. RHS Flower Shows in Malvern, Chelsea and Hampton Court. He sells work at Sotheby’s Summers Place Auctions in Billingshurst, Surrey.
37. New Riders by Terence Coventry
37. New Riders by Terence Coventry
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JOHN CREED SUE DARLISON KATE DENTON
40. Roll Over 43. Slow Wave Bench 45. Wolf 7 inter-related units Cedar, oak and stainless steel Bronze Resin - Edition of 6 in weathering and stainless steels 320cms long Lifesize £9,600 £5,250 60x80x200cms each 42. Plate and Spoon Table £7,140 for the group by Euan Cunningham 44. Restful Wave Bench 46. The Paladins of A sense of place is crucial to John’s Cedar and Green Oak Charlemagne ALISON CROWTHER thinking. Recent examples of his work are 220cms long Bronze Resin - Edition of 6 three gates for the National Trust at 41. Bridging £4,500 £24,990 group/£5,500 each Anglesey Abbey gardens near Cambridge; Bench carved in unseasoned These sculptures are also available Since graduating from the City of Bristol ‘Acceleration’, a screen for the Old Town English oak to order in bronze - ask at the College, Sue has become a maker on the Hall Square, Gateshead; and entrance 180x60x40cms entrance gate Craft Council’s National Register in addition gates for Kelvingrove Art Gallery and £3,570 to being a member of the Forest of Avon. Kate trained at Goldsmith’s. She has Museum, Glasgow. His architectural work Alison was born in Yorkshire in 1965. Her work has been exhibited widely and exhibited widely at galleries and gardens and public art can be seen throughout the She studied Furniture Design at The Royal she has received a number of awards. She across the UK and her native Jersey, UK with smaller works in museums, art College of Art 1987-89, and has since has been a furniture designer/maker for including three solo shows in London’s Cork galleries and institutions. The work ‘Roll been designing and making furniture and over fifteen years. Her passion is working Street. Her work has been included in Over’ continues his interest in rhythm and sculpture from unseasoned English oak. with beautiful, sustainable timbers, major exhibitions of contemporary sculpture movement. Notable clients include Swire Properties, creating furniture that becomes functional with many public commissions and over a Hong Kong; Canary Wharf Group Ltd, art in its own right. The simple, clean lines hundred private ones. London; The Montpelier Chapter Hotel, of her designs belie the complexity that is Cheltenham and Fidelity Investments, present in all of her work. Tonbridge. ______
EUAN CUNNINGHAM
42. Plate and Spoon Table Stainless steel and sand-cast aluminium 74x100cms £3,500 Since graduating in three-dimensional design from Newcastle in 1991, Euan has been self-employed and working to commission producing unique sculptural furniture. His inspiration is taken from the everyday objects and shapes that surround us. His work was recently featured on 40. Roll Over by John Creed 45. Wolf by Kate Denton television at the Ideal Home Show.
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AVRIL ELWARD RICHARD FARRINGTON ALEC FINLAY
49. Quixotic Flora - Group 1 53. The Cat’s Whiskers 56. Bromide and Quinine Mixed media and found objects Coloured Steel (Chekhov’s Dogs) £750 for 3 POA Oak and paint 90x90cms £3,750 Edition of 3 50. Quixotic Flora - Group 2 Richard has created many large scale Mixed media and found objects public artworks throughout the UK, often Alec Finlay was born in Scotland in 1966 £750 for 3 collaborating with property developers and and is currently based in Newcastle. Much councils as well as charitable trusts. His of his work reflects on our interaction with 51. Quixotic Flora - Group 3 aim now is to continue developing his own nature and considers how we, as a culture, Mixed media and found objects work through private commissions as a relate to landscape. His innovative use of £750 for 3 way of 'returning to the beginning' and form and medium is often playfully Individual flowers can be bought: finding new form for essential ideas. evocative. Recent projects include The Road Small: £255, Medium: £300, ______North and Specimen Colony. Finlay is Large: £375 currently Artist in Residence at Northumbria ANNIE FIELD University. Avril gained a Fine Art BA in 2005 and 54. On a Knife Edge ______49. Quixotic Flora MA in 2007 from the University of Central Bronze, steel, wood 73x32cms by Avril Elward England and has since been exhibiting ANDREW FLINT regularly in alternative spaces, galleries £775 FIAZ ELSON 57. Soloi and outdoor locations. Her sculptural forms 55. All Forked Up 47. On Reflection Hand-built stoneware form evoke a sense of fun and playfulness. Bronze, steel, wood 160x36cms Hand blown silvered glass 155cms high Using mundane materials Avril combines £1,500 Group of 3 - 50cms diameter each nature and artifice. £2,200 £1,800 for group of 3 Annie was an interior decorator for 30 ______58. Sialk £720 each years and co-presented the first ITV interior Hand-built stoneware form MO FARQUHARSON design series. She later did 3 years of 48. Catching The Light 155cms high study at the Sculpture Academy. She is Kiln cast glass base polished and 52. Indian Runner Ducks £2,200 a member of the SWSA, CAS, SWA Fine hand blown glass silvered Bronze 70cms high approx & Applied Arts. In 2011 she exhibited at Andrew is a British designer/maker. 70x40cms £10,625 for the pair the Royal College of Art Fair & Affordable His work spans product design, the applied £3,900 Mo trained as a sculptor in Edinburgh, Art in Battersea. She has portrait arts and sculpture. He has lectured and For the past 10 years Fiaz has been Oxford and the USA and she is a member sculptures in private collections, including demonstrated at three leading Universities producing one-off sculptural glass pieces of the Royal Society of British Sculptors. the Maritime Museum and the Lloyds and his designs have been incorporated for exhibition and commission. She shows Her work is mainly in private and public Register. into prestigious interiors throughout the nationally and internationally, most collections including the Botanical Gardens, world, including luxury yachts. recently at the Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, Edinburgh; Shell UK; Hamilton, 61. Grey Heron by Judy Francis SOFA New York, Adrian Sassoon at Lanarkshire; Invesco, London and Salem, ‘Masterpiece’ London and was the British Germany. Her work can be seen in the Glass Biennale winner of the Craft & Design Crane Kalman Gallery, London; the award 2010. Fiaz works from her studio in Padstow studio, Cornwall and several Stroud, Gloucestershire. galleries in Scotland.
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JUDY FRANCIS MILA FURSTOVA PETER GARRARD
61. Grey Heron 63. Soul 64. The Chalford Birdhouse Mosaic panel Etching on paper and wood Two nest boxes hand built in clay 122x56cms POA 18.5x45cms £975 £390 Mila Furstova is a Czech born 62. Three Pheasants internationally acclaimed artist, who has 65. The Naunton Birdhouse Mosaic panel shown in numerous solo shows in many Four nest boxes hand built in clay 61x73cms countries. Mila graduated from the Royal 24x46cms £600 College of Art in 2001 and has since won £500 fourteen prestigious awards. Her work has Based in Gloucestershire, Judy’s mosaics 65. The Babruysk Birdhouse become part of important collections, are inspired by Gaudi’s flamboyant Four nest boxes hand built in clay including that of Queen Elizabeth II and buildings in Barcelona. She taught art at 18.5x53cms the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Hatherop Primary School for many years £600 She was Artist in Residence at Cheltenham before studying with local mosaic artists, Ladies' College between 2002 and 2010. Peter lives in Gloucestershire and is a Erica Bibbings and Anya Burzec. Her work In 2010 she was elected the youngest member of the Cheltenham Open Studios. is now eagerly sought for its colourful and ever Academician at the Royal West of He exhibits in Winchcombe and London. vibrant evocations of bird-life and her more England Academy. During 2010 he won the prize for the abstract panels 59. Pirouette by Jenny Ford best exhibit at Showborough House and his work was selected to be exhibited at JENNY FORD GFEST in London. 64. Bird Houses by Peter Garrard 59. Pirouette mixed media textile 40x10x10cms approx £235
60. Scatterlings mixed media textile 20x130x10cms approx £735 Jenny lives and works in the Cotswolds and studied for her MA at the Royal College of Art, London 1991-93. Her vibrant textile sculptures are constructed from hand-dyed silk velvet, shimmering metallic organza and electrical cable amongst other unusual materials. She exhibits throughout the UK and has work in private collections in the UK and Japan. Jenny is a member of the Society of Designer Craftsmen.
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ANNA GLASBROOK
67. Aura Acrylic, stainless steel, wire, polyester yarn 182x60cms £1,800 71. π (p ) 2011 by Fiona Haines Anna creates dynamic stitched architectural GLYNN GRIFFITHS installations that vibrate with colour and movement. Exploring light, surface and 70. Specimen #1101 colour in the urban and rural environment, Wood, Nylon, Resin 190x70cms she pushes the boundaries of textiles to £4,500 produce bespoke three-dimensional pieces South African born Glynn is a latecomer to suitable for wall-hanging or as screens, the world of sculpture. For 35 years he panels and space dividers for interior and has worked as an award winning exterior. photojournalist and picture editor. In 2009 ______he successfully completed his MA FA PAUL GRELLIER Sculpture at the Wimbledon College of Art. In 2010 he won both the Clifford Chance 68. Belief Unsuspended Sculpture Prize and the Broomhill National Cast iron, steel, stone base Sculpture Prize. 160cms x several metres high ______POA FIONA HAINES 69. Everlasting Souls Cast iron, steel, stone 71. π (pī) 2011 80x150cms approx Mixed media £4,500 5 pieces each 32x21cms £450 each Having studied Fine Art at Chelsea College in the 1980s, Paul eschewed the then Fiona graduated in 2010 with a First Class burgeoning urban conceptual scene of his BA (Hons) degree from Bath School of Art contemporaries to produce figurative and & Design. A love of architecture, landscape abstract sculpture in the Cotswolds. and colour provide a catalyst for the Championing the rural environment he artwork, choice of materials and processes. gained much attention and acclaim. She works with highly engineered materials After a period working in specialist discarded by many as the by-products of education, Fresh Air 2011 represents packaging. Fidelity Investment House has Paul’s return to public exhibition, in which commissioned her work, she won a Merit he further displays his use of intriguing award at Chelsea Flower Show 2010 and 76. Harbinger by Wendy Henley salvaged components, subtle kinetic and was awarded the Bath School of Art & interactive aspects. Design Purchase Prize 2010.
26 JOHNNY HAWKES COLIN HAWKINS WENDY HENLEY SAM HERMAN
72. Mollusc 73. Contour Spheres 76. Harbinger 77. Father and Son Fibre glass and epoxy yachting 3 blown, clear glass spheres Galvanised aluminium wire Mirrored and clear glass, steel paint Each 30cms diameter and plastic carrier bags 160x35x35cms 167x132x103cms £1,560 100x50cms approx £3,750 £11,330 £750 74. Plantain Sam studied sculpture and glass at the Johnny is a self-taught ‘outsider’ 2 stainless steel rods with blown, Wendy is a multi-media artist with a University of Wisconsin and was in the artist and art school drop-out who clear glass spheres 250cms high BA in Fine Art from the University of first group of students that pioneered has worked predominately with wood. £3,230 Northampton. She creates 3D forms the Studio Glass Movement which he Now a renown furniture designer, that explore the characteristics of introduced to the UK and Australia. 75. Taper he has been invited to exhibit in human existence. Wendy was a He was Head of the Glass Department 2 stainless steel rods many national and international co-founder of the art organisation at the Royal College of Art from 1967 with cut and polished blown shows. His signature work creates Out Yer Tree curating outdoor sculpture to 1974. He conceived and established glass sections 200cms high sinuous forms centred around water exhibitions which include Barnwell the Glasshouse, London and helped £1,340 and women. Country Park in 2008 and 2009 to establish the Jam Factory in These sculptures are a collaboration followed by shows at East Carlton Australia. He has participated in many between Louise and Colin Hawkins, Country Park and Lickey Hills Country major global exhibitions including former Goldsmith College and Royal Park, also in 2009. the Victoria & Albert Museum. College of Art graduates. In the past 15 years they have exhibited all over the world and their glass designs can be found in numerous hotels, restaurants, gardens and homes. They set up their successful studio ‘LoCo Glass Ltd’ in Cirencester in the year 2000. 73. Contour Spheres by Colin Hawkins
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KAREN HILLIARD
78. Perennial Glazed Ibstock Brick, high fired and weatherproof 220x200x200cms £4,950 Since graduating with a degree in Ceramics from Cardiff University in 1991 Karen has continued to work mostly in ceramic sculpture. She was a finalist in the 'Best outdoor space' category of the 94. The Three Graces National Brick Development Awards 2009 MARIGOLD HODGKINSON TANIA HOLLAND by Rick Kirby and 2010, and part of a Collective 81. Fragments - double speak 83. Rocking Horse awarded a Bronze award at Hampton IRENE HOPPENBERG Court Flower Show. Mixed media installation - Resin and fibre glass ______reflective text 63x180x11cms 86. Twins (Two Butterflies) POA £500 Painted steel WENDY HOARE 150x210x230cms each 82. Emanations 84. Catfish £9,000 each 79. Chilli-Pepper Pot Mixed media installation - Resin and fibre glass Red crank clay and oxides plasma blood and chlorophyll - 46x176x11cms Irene studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, 100cms high air liquid and light £300 Munich, Germany and since 1987 she has £1,180 POA lived and worked as a painter and sculptor 85. Lucky Cow in Berlin. Exhibitions include: Art Society, 80. Fluted Seed Pod Marigold studied at RAS and Goldsmith’s Resin and fibre glass Heidelberg 2001; Mies van der Rohe Haus, Red crank clay and oxides MA London. She has carried out 62x177x11cms Berlin, 2003; Artist in Residence, Albs 100cms high site-specific projects worldwide. Exhibitions £450 Spital, Solothurn, Switzerland 2003; Artist £1,200 include RBS Spectrum 2007, Malmesbury Tania studied for her degree at the Ruskin in Residence, Sydney Olympic Park, Abbey and Hannah Peschar Sculpture Wendy gained her BA Hons Fine Art School of Drawing, Oxford. She was Artist Australia 2005; Biennale, Gongju, Garden 2008. She taught MA Site-Specific Degree at Reading 1963-67, where she in Residence at Spelthorne College South-Korea 2006; Sculpture by the Sea, Sculpture at Wimbledon until 2002 and specialised in sculpture. Having taught art Middlesex from 1999-2004. Exhibitions Sydney, Australia 2007; Busan Biennale, was associate lecturer at Byam Shaw for some years, she set up a ceramic include Fresh Art at the Islington Business South-Korea 2008. School of Art UCL until 2010. Recent workshop in 1989 producing large, Design Centre 2007; The Affordable Art exhibitions include ‘Time Archive Memory’ one-off pots as features for garden, Fair, Battersea 2008; RHS Tatton Park for the Byam Shaw Centenary 2010 and conservatory, domestic & commercial Flower Show 2009. She is a member of the ‘Coastal Currents’ Siteworks for Bexhill and interiors. She was recently commissioned Surrey Sculpture Society and her witty and St Leonards Garden, Sussex 2010. to make five pots for the indoor pool decorative sculptural animals are in great and sauna of a hotel in China. Wendy demand throughout the UK. She started is a professional member of The Craft her own gallery, the Tania Holland Gallery Potters Association. in Bridgnorth, Shropshire in 2008.
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INCISIVE LETTERWORK RICHARD JACK 79. Chilli-Pepper Pot 87. Waving and Drowning 89. Eye of the Wind by Wendy Hoare Welsh slate and goldleaf Serpentine stone, mild steel, 79.5x23x3cms stainless steel, bronze base Text: top and bottom line 164cms high Pam Nestor ‘Dry Land’ £4,500 £2,175 Richard was born in Zimbabwe and his 88. New family moved to Farnham in 2002. In Purbeck Pon Freestone 1992 he had a solo exhibition at the 63 x 63 x 2cms National Gallery of Zimbabwe and in 1996 Text: Rabindranath Tagore he made a granite mural for the 6th All £2,175 African Games. His work is both figurative and abstract, using a combination of wood, Annet Stirling is one half of ‘Incisive stone and steel to express everyday Letterwork’ which focuses on large-scale happenings and the changing world architectural inscriptions and word around us. He exhibits regularly in the UK sculpture. 'Incisive' have held several solo and has done numerous commissions, exhibitions exploring the boundaries of residencies and workshops. legibility and abstraction in letterform. ______KATHY RICK KIRBY They have worked extensively with Ian MORGAN KILPATRICK 94. The Three Graces Hamilton Finlay on major projects in RICHARD JACKSON Glasgow, Hamburg and Karlsruhe. London 92. One size fits all Stainless steel on mild steel bases clients include The National Gallery, 90. Seasonal Exchange I Red textile corsets, cotton, thread, 240x160x65cms National Portrait Gallery, Royal Opera Glass and stainless steel eyelets, ribbon £11,900 220x85cms £1,500 House and the Festival Hall. 95. Soaring Figure £5,712 93. Made To Measure Stainless steel on mild steel base 91. Seasonal Exchange II Pink textile corsets, cotton, thread, 210x40x70cms Glass and stainless steel eyelets, ribbon £5,950 200x95cms £1,500 Rick gained his BA in Fine Art at Newport £4,998 Katherine completed a BA at Sydney College of Art. He has worked as a sculptor Richard has an international exhibition College of the Arts in Australia, and an MA for the last seventeen years, at first carving profile with work in public, corporate and at Wimbledon in the UK. She is now head in stone, but now exclusively fabricating in private collections worldwide. In 2010 of art at Tiffin Girl’s School. Katherine’s welded steel. His public commissions are he won a prestigious commission for the own work is often site-specific and centred on permanent display all over the country award winning museum, The Lightbox, on different aspects of female clothing. from Hastings in the South, to St Thomas’s Woking, as part of the national This practice is underpinned by historical Hospital in London and Glasgow in the ’Museumaker’ project when he created a references and inspiration from the North. large permanent sculpture combining paintings of Gainsborough, Tissot and glass, steel and choreographed light for Reynolds, and an enduring affection for 78. Perennial by Karen Hilliard the museum’s entrance courtyard garden. clothes designed by Christian Dior.
29 KNIT INSTALLATIONS KOTODAMA
96. A Lasting Stitch 97. Function [8] Mixed media bridge Metal/sound/water/ 550x40cms audio interference waves/ POA wave propagation. 300x300cms Knit Installations is a collaborative POA partnership between Olivia Straker, Annabel Williams and Joanna Priest. Please note that the purchase These three new artists studied of this piece will include a together at Bath School of Art and personal visit by the artists to Design from 2008-2011 obtaining a discuss the installation of the BA (Hons) in Textile design for Interiors work which is suitable for both and Fashion. They create innovative indoor and outdoor installation. knit installations to build bridges Kotodama, which means ‘soul’, is a between the art and craft debate. collaboration between Angie Atmadjaja and Frank Darnley. They are interested in creating works that speak through the energies found in materials, believing in the spirits within all things around us. Within this ideology, Kotodama strives to create site-dependent sound sculptures that lie within the boundaries of science and art.
103. LoveBid Bananas by Taz Lovejoy and Mark Biddulph
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LOVEBID GILES MACDONALD JANE McADAM FREUD
100. Bird Box Light 104. Song of Ages 107. Stone Speak (duo) Acrylic sheet, exterior plywood, Portland stone Stone Speak 1 resin and solar lighting 56x89x5cms Stoneware 82x72x40cms 34x17x18cms £4,920 Stone Speak 2 £300 Stoneware 76x70x50cms 105. 7 Days £25,000 each 101. Bird Box Light Portland stone 9 pieces Acrylic sheet, exterior plywood, 120x23x7.5cms Jane is an internationally acclaimed resin and solar lighting £6,450 sculptor. Most recently she had a solo 34x17x18cms exhibition at the Sundaram Tagore Gallery Giles makes letters for a range of £300 in Los Angeles in 2010 and at his New applications including architectural York Gallery in 2011. Jane’s work has been 102. Bird Box Light inscriptions and commemorative work. acquired for the British Museum, the Acrylic sheet, exterior plywood, Born in 1967, he read Ancient History at National Gallery of Greece and is on resin and fairy lights St Andrews University and was assistant permanent display at the Victoria and 34x17x18cms to Alec Peever. He was awarded a Crafts Albert Museum in London. £300 Council Development Award and is a ______member of the Oxfordshire Craft Guild. 103. LoveBid Bananas ______Resin, pigment and wire DAVY AND KRISTIN McGUIRE 96. A Lasting Stitch £300 per bunch SALLY MATTHEWS by Knit Installations 108. The Girl with Two LoveBid is a recently formed artist 106. Deerhound Tone Hair is a 3D music video, AIMEE LAX collaboration between Taz Lovejoy and Bronze - lifesize an installation in which a love Mark Biddulph. They aim to create unusual £18,000 98. Wait a While artworks that subvert existing 3D forms to story is projected onto the notes of Porcelain and plastic tubing create humorous interactions in alternative Sally grew up on a farm with a strong a pinboard. 300x150x70cms exhibition environments. They are the sense of the importance of the individual POA £1,950 animal. Soon after graduation she made creators of Out Yer Tree, an organisation Davy and Kristin work as joint creative her first work - Boars, for Grizedale Forest. 99. Capsule specialising in curating outdoor exhibitions directors on productions that range from Over the past twenty years she has worked Ceramic, Acrylic glass and in country parks such as Coombe Abbey, music videos, commercials, animation films in Bialowieza, Poland, to celebrate the silicone 100x15cms approx Coventry, Barnwell Country Park, and installations to live theatre shows and 75th anniversary of the reintroduction of £1,020 Peterborough and Showborough House, dance performances. Davy McGuire is a European bison; documented hill farming Gloucestershire. film, animation and theatre maker who Aimee is an artist based locally at Stroud in Tarset, Northumberland with has produced work for a wide range of Valleys Artspace. She has won many photographer, Kate Bellis, and most contexts such as French TV channel awards and has permanent works recently, made wolves for a rock outcrop Canal+ and the Victoria & Albert Museum displayed at the refurbished contemporary in Norway and a Welsh mountain pony while Kristin is a dancer, choreographer ceramics galleries in the Victoria & Albert for the Welsh Assembly. and university lecturer who has worked as Museum, London. Current projects include a performer for Cirque du Soleil. working with the Millennium Seed Bank at Kew RBG,Wakehurst Place.
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LAURA MCKINLEY IAN MIDDLETON
109. Nasturtium 114. Collision Course Hand-blown glass, ‘Unique’ Bronze 50x30x20cms stainless steel rods £5,250 £1,875 115. Still Life with Laura McKinley studied for, and obtained Corporate Building her 1st Class BA Hons Degree in Blown White Kerneos alumina cement, Glass at Buckinghamshire Chilterns marble dust University from 2005 - 2008. Since her 180x70x45cms Edition of 3 degree she attended Pilchuck Glass School £6,000 which opened up a new world of using Ian studied at Sheffield College of Art and blown glass as a sculptural medium. the Royal College of Art, London. He was On her return from America she started her awarded a Royal College major travelling apprenticeship at LoCo Glass in Cirencester scholarship and after returning to London where she was awarded the Quenington worked briefly with Eduardo Paolozzi Sculpture Trust Glass Scholarship. 114. Collision Course by Ian Middleton before moving to the West Country. CAROL McNICHOLL MIRANDA MICHELS Exhibitions include the Toyamura International Sculpture Biennale in Japan, 110. Dutch Hanging Light 112. Great Egret and one-man shows at the Barbican Slipcast figures/pressed glass Stainless steel Centre, and Winchester and Norwich vases/metal structure by Robert 200cms high approx Cathedrals. Ian is an associate of the Marsden 87x40cms £5,550 Royal British Society of Sculptors. £3,800 113. Umbrella Bird 111. Now and Then Table Stainless steel Base handbuilt from slipcast 100cms high approx elements/Found metal table £3,000 48x40cms Born in Herefordshire, Miranda is self £3,000 taught. Originally known for her equine After education as a scientist, Carol worked sculptures and her time spent in Africa , as theatre wardrobe assistant then studied she has a deep interest in wildlife fine art at Leeds, then Ceramics at the generally. She has exhibited extensively Royal College of Art. She has exhibited in the USA , Ireland and the UK. Her widely, including a major touring work can be seen in the Galanthus retrospective at Leicester city art gallery Gallery, Wormbridge, Herefordshire and 2003 and the Tiawan Bienale 2010. Carol the Old Chapel Gallery - Pembridge, curated ‘Pattern Crazy’ with Jacqui Poncelet Herefordshire. at the Craft Council Gallery in 2002. 117. Wild flowers She has work in many public collections 120. Rompa Stompa Stompa Do by Ruth Moilliet including the Victoria & Albert Museum. by Nicolas Moreton
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TOMA NENOV
122. Female Form Bronze 256x98x56cms £29,780 Originally from Bulgaria, Toma has lived in Italy since 1990. In 2000 he developed his collection of sculptures and since then has had numerous solo exhibitions and participations in different group exhibitions with his sculptures in bronze and ceramics. Recent shows include: ‘The Noise of Silence’ Como, Italy 2008; International Open Art, Roveredo, Switzerland 2008; Gradska Xudogestvena Gallery, Xaskovo, Bulgaria 2010. ______
123. Fledge - Increments of Flight by Rebecca Newnham REBECCA NEWNHAM
RUTH MOILLIET PETE MOORHOUSE NICOLAS MORETON 123. Fledge - Increments of Flight 116. Pollination Stems 118. Connection 120. Rompa Stompa Stompa Do Fibre glass and glass Aluminium and high grade Steel 150cms diameter Ancaster weatherbed limestone 1st increment 210×110×100cms stainless steel £3,500 £7,500 2nd increment 150×150×45cms Prices from £20 to £55 119. Arabesque 121. Golden 3rd increment 160×120×40cms 117. Wild flowers Steel 220cms high Ancaster weatherbed limestone 4th increment 140×110×50cms Coloured acrylic and high grade £3,200 £4,500 Measurements include plinth stainless steel Pete studied sculpture at Bristol School of Nicolas was the winner of the ‘People’s Please note: Prices do not include plinths Prices from £265 to £1,950 Art and Design. He has exhibited widely, Choice’ Award, National Sculpture Prize, £11,500 each or £36,800 for 4 Please ask at the entrance gate for undertaken several major public art Liverpool in 2010. His work was part of For the last 20 years Rebecca has been the individual price sheets commissions and has sculptures in the National Sculpture Tour around English steadily producing sculpture both to collections in America, Italy, Norway and Cathedrals from 2004-2006. He was Ruth Moilliet produces highly finished commission and for exhibition. In addition Lebanon. Pete also works in education awarded the Brian Mercer International metal and glass sculptures inspired by to her fiberglass and glass works, teaching sculpture and public art modules Fellowship in 2006 and is an Associate the plant kingdom. Her artworks are Rebecca’s most recent commissions are to all ages and provides workshops for Member of the Royal British Society of collectible limited editions and are featured cast bronze sculptures and cast glass schools to create permanent artworks for Sculptors. He shows regularly at the in corporate and private collections across sculptures exploring the idea of flight and the school. He specialises in creating high Goldmark Gallery, the Robert Bowman the world. She has been commissioned to wind dispersed seed. A recent body of work quality sculpture for the outdoor Gallery, the Royal Academy and the supply sculptures for such luminaries as concerns photosynthesis, energy and environment.. Discerning Eye Exhibitions and his work Urban Splash, the Four Seasons Hotels carbon, and arose from collaboration with is in collections worldwide. and the BBC. the Hillier Gardens, near Southampton.
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ROB OLINS CAROL PEACE NICOLA RANSOM
124. C Line 130. Armour Girl 132. Flight I – (Butterfly) Painted steel, rare earth magnets Edition of 6 Kiln-formed glass, enamels, and wire. 75x60x60cms Bronze resin with gold leaf stainless steel 150x150cms £4,250 180x46x43cms £950 £4,800 125. Out and About 133. Flight II – (Dragonfly) Painted aluminium 300x300x300cms 131. Couple Kiln-formed glass, silver, bronze, £4,250 Edition of 9 copper, stainless steel Bronze resin on mild steel base 150x150cms After qualifying with a 1st Class Honours 164x80x80cms £1,200 degree in Art and Design in 1980, Rob 126. Fast Atoms Escaping £9,500 inc base worked part time in design companies, by Simon Packard Nicola Ransom graduated in 1998 with a £8,900 ex base architects practices and in a theatre design Design Studies degree and worked as an Also available in bronze company. This gave him the confidence to JACQUE PAVLOSKY interior designer within architectural £32,000 make large scale work and the experience 127. Aqua Zigzag practices for 10 years. She set up her to help him develop ideas using a wide glass studio on Eel Pie Island, Twickenham Cast Glass Carol Peace studied sculpture at range of materials and processes. 45x45cms Winchester School of Art and drawing in 2004 and exhibits regularly in the ______£2,625 at The Prince’s Drawing School. She has UK and internationally. Nicola developed obtained numerous commissions both an illustrative approach to working with SIMON PACKARD 128. Green Ovoid Zigzag public and private and solo shows in the kiln-formed glass, exploring her Cast and polished glass 126. Fast Atoms Escaping London, Athens, Zurich, France, Spain fascination with layering and the idea 40x20cms Stainless steel plasma cut shape and Holland. In 2007 she co-founded that an image, a thought, a moment in £3,000 Installation 5 metres high approx the Bristol Drawing School and is time is bound within an actual or implied £20,000 129. Figure currently the artistic director there. framework. Cast and hand finished glass Simon specialises in public art and design. 70x40cms He was awarded the Henry Moore Bursary 131. Couple by Carol Peace £3,000 at the Royal College of Art to study printmaking. Simon, who also teaches and Jacque is an American glass artist who often takes up residencies in schools and has studied internationally in the USA colleges, has impressive work credentials. and Italy, as well as the UK, obtaining a His public commissions include a seafront BA (first class hons) in glass from Bucks sculpture in Blyth called the Spirit of the New University in High Wycombe, where Staithes; steel gates for new-build Hartpury she now teaches kiln formed glass. She Primary School and metalwork artist for the has a second BA in art/art education with RHS Chelsea Flower Show Daily Telegraph humanities from Alma College USA, a Show Garden in 2007. His multi-media higher diploma of art and design from portfolio from 2D to 3D includes film set Amersham College, as well as receiving a design and large landscape sculptures. diploma from the Academia de Belle Arte His commissions include beacon artworks in Perugia, Italy. She has worked in Colin for the River Thames. Reid's studio for the past 4 years.
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134. Island Cone-shaped copper 220x153cms £9,350
135. Tectonic Copper plate exterior 100cms diameter £8,500
136. Sail stainless steel sail-shaped 200x80cms £6,290 Giles graduated from Kingston in 2002 building up a significant portfolio of large works, mainly individual water-sculpture commissions for the UK and internationally. His work is detailed in a recent book and he joined the Royal British Society of Sculptors this year. Giles creates sculpture in copper, bronze and stainless steel and the fusion with water creates sculptures that range from the intriguingly futuristic to those designed specifically for grand, traditional settings such as the magnificent Topiary at Castle Hill in Devon.
134. Island by Giles Raynor
3539 LINDA REES
137. Twiggy and Bob Yellow willow and dogwood 180x80x40cms each £150 pair Orders for more birds will take approx 1 week. Please note that the sculptures should be covered or brought inside in the winter. Linda’s original career was as a fish farmer but later she became a print-room supervisor. Dressmaking and gardening have always been her passion, and having also made basket-ware she eventually started making willow furniture, birds and animals. She has now been making willow sculpture for 11 years and has her own business ‘Willow and Wire’.
147. Chasing the Shadow 139. Fallen Leaves by Colin Reid by Tracey Snape
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COLIN REID JESSICA SCHRODER
138. Sabal Palm Table 144. Flight of Fallow Kiln cast glass with steel base Installation of stainless steel 45x102x89cms fallow deer £9,350 £10,000
139. Fallen Leaves Jessica was born in Paris of diplomatic Kiln cast glass 12x76x33cms each 148. Protrusion parents. Having led a nomadic childhood £5,100 pair by Antonia Spowers travelling far and wide she eventually settled down to life in the Cotswolds. In 137. Twiggy and Bob Colin works principally in kiln cast glass. JACK RUSSELL 2006 she rekindled her passion for art, by Linda Rees He exhibits internationally and has work 142. Fallen Angel enrolling at Heatherley School of Fine Art in over 45 museum collections worldwide. TRACEY SNAPE Stainless steel dove in London where she studied for four years. Established in 1981, his studio in Stroud 350x350cms This was followed by a sell-out exhibition 147. Chasing the Shadow has extensive facilities enabling him to £5,500 at The Gallery in Cork Street in 2010. Glass and noble gases undertake both private and corporate Fresh Air is the launch of her interest in 160x60x60cms commissions in addition to exhibitions. Jack was born and raised in the Cotswolds life-size sculpture. £3,000 Notable commissions include ‘Cipher and studied for a BA Hons in Sculpture at ______Stone’, the landmark artwork for the new Cheltenham Art College. He has spent the Tracey Snape achieved a Fine Art Degree GCHQ and ‘Ikthus’, a font in the Sacred last 13 years making metal sculptures and JOE SMITH in London 1999. Her work uses the Silver and Glass Gallery, V&A. He is an furniture in Cheltenham. He was runner up elusiveness of light to activate space. ssociate of the RSBS and an Honorary Life in the Cheltenham Art Prize open exhibition 145. Made for One Another This line of enquiry led her to want to Member of the Contemporary Glass Society. in 2006. Other exhibitions include Tetbury Westmorland slate and manipulate glass for herself, resulting in stainless steel 210x195cms ______and Chester Sculpture in the Sanctuary a Professional Development Award in in 2009; Nature in Art, Southwell, £5,700 pair Stourbridge 2006. A masterclass in DIANA ROLES Nottingham in 2010. He has also worked 146. Nest Turkey 2005 sparked an interest in with Laurence Llewelyn Bowen. Scottish slate and Scottish combining noble gases and blown glass. 140. Draped II ______whinstone boulders ______Ceramic stoneware birdbath 120cms 75cms high approx MIKE SAVAGE ANTONIA SPOWERS £3,600 £785 143. Five Leaf Form 148. Protrusion In the early nineties, having constructed 141. Glory II Copper sheet/patinated Verdi Gris Hardwood and glass floats most of Andy Goldsworthy's weaving Ceramic stoneware birdbath 125x125cms 177x44x44cms and circular dry stone walls, Joe decided, 90cms high approx £6,375 £1,800 in 1995, to set about designing and £750 Mike Savage studied at Camberwell School forming the first of his slate vases. Antonia lives on the edge of the Black Diana is based in Berkshire and has been of Art and Royal College of Art. His work is He has recent public works at Fernhill and Mountains and works in a wide range of designing and exhibiting her work a response to the complex shapes and David Walker centres in central Scotland, materials for exhibitions, commissions throughout the UK for the past 20 years. structures of organic segmentation in plants and private ones in numerous Scottish and residencies. New work for her last Her work reflects the natural world and and seeds. The intrigue of the natural form and English counties. His work can be exhibition at Newport Museum and Gallery each piece is created in order to enhance is developed and informed by an interest in seen in Keddleston, Thurlow, Clifton and was funded by a Production Grant from rather than dominate its setting. industrial and engineered objects. Buscot Park. the Arts Council of Wales.
3541 MELISSA SPYKERMAN LUCY STRACHAN
149. Crown Jug 151. Screwble Red earthenware ceramic Fibre glass/resin/polyurethane/ sculpture tufted polypropylene/steel 83x61cms approx 190x90cms £450 POA
150. The Listening Ear 152. Piece of Oblivion Red earthenware ceramic Perforated stainless steel/ sculpture tufted poyropylene 43x70cms approx 260x180cms £300 POA Melissa studied at Bath Spa University After leaving the RCA in the early from 2006 to 2010 and gained a BA 1980s Lucy has gone on to exhibit Hons in Ceramics. Exhibitions include widely both in this country and the the New Designers Show London in USA including, in London, The 2010. She is currently living in Israel Serpentine Gallery; Contemporary for one year to collect fresh ideas for Arts Society; Camden Arts Centre; new work and to gain experience City Racing Gallery and the ICA volunteering with Israeli ceramic Gallery. Other venues include Roche artists. Court, Salisbury; Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh and the Rabley Drawing Centre, Marlborough.
154. Fragment by Jilly Sutton
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LUCY UNWIN FIONA VALENTINE
156. Dance 157. Angel with Butterfly Galvanized and Oak 52x21cms powder coated steel £550 170x170x190cms 158. Angel with Bee £4,275 157. Angel with Butterfly Oak 52x21cms by Fiona Valentine Born in Suffolk, now working in a studio £550 in Gloucestershire, Lucy graduated from Fiona trained with a furniture maker in JILLY SUTTON Winchester School of Art in 2006. She Cirencester and later in Venice. She has continues to develop her style exhibiting 153. Architect 30 years experience in different areas of across the country and undertaking private Verdigris bronze resin woodwork and has now built her own and public commissions including The 142x104x132cms workshop in Nailsworth. She works to Brewery Conference Centre, London; £11,900 commission both locally and internationally Winchester University and Bergh Apton and she is a member of the Gloucestershire 154. Fragment Sculpture Trail. Guild of Craftsman. Olive stone cast 56x70x34cms 155. Finial Form by Jo Taylor £3,000 Jilly's sculptures are mainly wooden, PATRICIA VOLK although many pieces are cast in bronze, 159. Blue Head and principally figurative. She has work in Ceramic mounted on Welsh slate private collections and public galleries and finished with acrylic including The National Portrait Gallery, The 58x34x45cms Museum of Liverpool Life, The Prudential £1,500 Collection and The National Trust. Surface texture is important in both her 2D and 3D 160. Torq Head work. Recent shows include the Rebecca Ceramic mounted on Welsh slate Hossack Gallery, London; Beaux Arts, Bath and finished with acrylic and Goodwood Sculpture Park. 71x48x26cms ______£2,250 Please note that plinths are not JO TAYLOR for sale with these pieces 155. Finial Form Patricia Volk ARBS has exhibited widely Grogged Clay 73cms tall across the UK and in New York. In 2007 £675 160. Torq Head by Patricia Volk she was regional winner in the ING Jo is currently studying for an MA degree Discerning Eye exhibition at the Mall at Bath Spa University. She has been Gallery and last year was shortlisted for developing her work from thrown the Brian Mercer Bronze Casting Residency tableware into a more sculptural direction. by the Royal British Society of Sculptors.
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JOHANNES VON STUMM SHONA WATT
161. Light and Dark 167. Oriflames Stainless steel with Synthetic silk 6.5 metres high approx York stone column £900 for 3 flags 200x110x110cms 168. Pod Flags £11,900 Synthetic silk 8 metres high approx Johannes Von Stumm works in his studio £1,125 for 5 flags in South Fawley with stone, glass and iron, Shona studied at the London College of fusing these materials together to create 163. Germinal by Liz Warrington Furniture and Ravensbourne College of Art. symbols of a finely balanced and fragile She received an Individual Artist Award unity. Replacing glass with space his CAROLE WALLER CARA WASSENBERG from Northern Arts in 1995 and the Craft sculptures are now made out of metal, Council Award in 1997. Large scale light and shadows. He became the 162. Dream 164. Leaf Globe 1 commissions include the openings of the President of the Royal British Society of Laminated silk viscose inside Mild Steel frame wrapped with Millenium Footbridge, the Hungerford Sculptors in 2008. toughened glass forged copper leaf forms £6,800 pair 100cms Footbridge, the London Eye and the opening £4,500 of the Melbourne Museum in Australia. Carole studied painting at Canterbury, ______then completed a Fine Art MA degree at 165. Leaf Globe 11 Cranbrook Academy of Art in Detroit. Her Mild Steel frame wrapped with NEIL WILKIN work can be found in collections such as forged copper leaf forms the Victoria and Albert Museum and she 75cms 169. Floating Narelles exhibits all over the world. She has a £3,750 14 flameworked glass forms on studio and gallery outside Bath and her marine stainless steel frame 166. Leaf Globe 111 glass work is available for commission. £8,460 Mild Steel frame wrapped with ______forged copper leaf forms 170. Nimbus 50cms 10 flameworked glass drops on LIZ WARRINGTON £3,000 marine stainless steel stem 163. Germinal £1,206 Cara studied Fine Art at Coventry Mixed media various dimensions Polytechnic from 1986-89. She then Neil graduated from Staffordshire University £60 each apprenticed to several international metal in 1981, set up his own glass-blowing £1,500 for the installation smiths notably East German Achim Kuhn workshop in 1984 and went on to become Liz recently graduated with a BA Fine Art restoring Berlin’s damaged copper one of the UK’s foremost glassmakers. With from Camberwell College of Arts. She has monuments after the reunification from innate artistic flair and passionate skill, Neil exhibited in several group shows including 1992-99. In 1999 she set up a workshop designs and creates large garden sculptures, ones at Manchester Art Gallery and as part in Trotton, West Sussex making pieces chandeliers and smaller pieces which of Hereford Art Week. She makes sculptures mostly for private commission. Recent display a wonderful understanding of form from domestic and consumer ephemera, exhibitions: A Quiet Knowledge, Arlington and nature. His work is found in public and 164. Detail of Leaf Globe 1 the natural forms contradict the man-made Arts 08; Puthall Park Sculpture Show 08; private collections and exhibited throughout by Cara Wasseberg materials and bright artificial colours. Art in the Garden, Romsey 09. the UK, Europe, USA, Asia and Australia.
46 161. Light and Dark by Johannes Von Stumm
47 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Trustees would like to thank Launder and Lucinda Ash have taken up all the financial heartily all those involved with the control and organization. We also could not do without our setting up of Fresh Air 2011. neighbouring farmers who are prepared to lend muscle and Firstly, so many thanks to tractors to help with the installation of sculptures. curator Ana Bianchi for all The photography this year is by Steve Russell. There her hard, detailed and have never been such beautiful images of Quenington. inspirational work and to Rupert Purcell has designed the eye-catching posters and the ‘Committee of Taste’ colourful catalogue with great flair. especially Miranda Leonard The Education programme is indebted to the Arts for ideas. Adrian Council and the Summerville Trust for their vital support. Harrison with Ana Gwen Rogerson at New Brewery Arts has organised the has achieved miracles schools’ programmes and workshops with great flare as on the website. The always. They are run throughout the three weeks by the exhibition would not excellent tutors: Tessa Tyldesley, Laurie Plant, Charlotte happen without the Docking, John and Sue Green with Studio Seven doing volunteers on the gate - workshops and putting on a pop up show. Further thanks organised as always by are due to the Cotswold District Council whose help in Juliana Grose, who also kind is invaluable. Our grateful thanks are due to Axa Art manages to feed the 5,000. Insurance Ltd for underwriting the insurance. Without the backdrop of the garden the ‘credo’ Strutt and Parker have given a generous bursary of Fresh Air would not exist. Much gratitude to to Mila Furstova who will be experimenting with new Robert Wyatt assisted by Roger King. No other outdoor work. professional gardener would give so much of his Thanks also to Ken Norman and the Cotswold Wine time and energy in helping to dig up his own Company, the Hatherop Primary School PTA and the lawns. Our thanks also to Theresa Maunder, Chedworth Silver Band. A very special thanks must go to all June Evans and the volunteers who come with our neighbours in Quenington who put up with so much over secateurs. Sadly, the wonderful Shirley three weeks. Griffin died last year but Paula 130. Armour Girl by Carol Peace
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