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Artists Open Studios 2019 Artists open studios Sheffield and South Yorkshire Saturday 4th, Sunday 5th, Monday 6th, Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th May 11am to 5pm Keep up-to-date and follow Open Up Disclaimer: The organisers of Open Sheffield on social media: Welcome to the 21st year of Open Up Up Sheffield and South Yorkshire, and participating artists, cannot accept Once again we will have lots of artists opening their studios. Many of these are new to the event, and there liability for any loss, damage or injury are some interesting new venues too. We hope you will enjoy visiting artists and finding out about the huge @openupsheffield sustained by any member of the public amount of creativity that happens in Sheffield and surrounding areas. Be inspired, sign up for a workshop, visiting any site, exhibition or event. commission a piece of artwork, or just chat with the artist. The public do so at their own risk. The @openupsheffield New for the brochure this year are postcode maps to help you find venues, as well as a schematic map of the organisers cannot accept liability for any whole Open Up area. You can also use the maps on the website to help you plan your visits. Please note that injury, loss or damage to participating not all artists are open on all days – individual dates are in the brochure and on the website. artists, their property or works of art. Please note: our brochure was @openupsheffield Thank you to all the artists who are taking part, we couldn’t do it without you! And finally I would like to correct at time of going to press. There give huge thanks to the Open Up committee, all practising artists and craftspeople, who give up lots of time may be minor discrepancies between voluntarily to make this event such a success every year. printed and online information. If in Annette Petch doubt about opening times, avoid Chair disappointment by contacting the [email protected] artist(s) first. www.openupsheffield.co.uk Copyright notice: The entries, images and listings may not be reproduced in any form without the Visitor information prior written consent of the artists or organisation. C = commission T = tuition ) = disabled access Thanks to: Jerry Lampson for the design, Please check before visiting: creation and management of our website • the opening dates and times of the studios, as some artists are not participating on all five days of www.lampson.co.uk [email protected] the event. Tim Mackey for the design and production of • whether your chosen studio offers disabled access, if you need it, as some unfortunately can’t. this brochure [email protected] Many of our artists welcome enquiries about commissions (C) and tuition (T) at any time throughout the year; simply use the contact details provided. 1 S1- A The Committee Key to artists John Thatcher A John Thatcher Bespoke furniture made in S1 B Katie Jamieson Sheffield. Stephen Todd Studio 6, Yorkshire Artspace C Stephen Smith Persistence Works Denise Wrightson 21 Brown Street Vicky Platt SheffieldS1 2BS Miranda Trojanowska 01142 960 123 07722 173 346 D Emma Pearson www.johnthatcher.co.uk Nuala Price Rachel Lane Trafalgar Studios Lizzy Alageswaran Keith Nichols Fine artist [email protected] Mixed media fine artist Emma Pearson Alex McArthur Pam Jordan Mixed media and visual Fine artist Committee member E ) Director artist Jeweller Butcher Works Open 4th, 5th and 6th C Textile artist Committee member Annette Petch Company secretary/ Committee member Jeweller and silversmith Director Director Archivist Evaluation Social media Director/Chair Treasurer Applications/website S1- E C Alex McArthur Alex is a painter and printmaker with a Miranda D particular interest Trojanowska Cath Dunn Alfreda Reynolds in monotypes. Painter and mixed Photographer Abstract expressionistic E media artist She is inspired by artist Alison Riggott Rachel Durance Committee member James Prescott Jeweller A the natural world, Committee member Committee member Multi-media and digital Distribution Mixed media artist Evaluation Committee member artist Publicity Committee member landscape traditions Brochure/Applications Committee member and haiku. Social media All Good Stuff 72 Arundel Street SheffieldS1 2NS 07748 247 488 B [email protected] Open 4th, 5th, 11th and 12th )CT 2 3 S1 - B S1 - C S1 - C Katie Jamieson Stephen Smith Vicky Platt Exploring themes of space/ Working in clay, I am attempting I create digital images and memory, fragility/transience, to create a range of figures which also printmaking, drawing the impermanence of life/ captures a range of expressions, and animation. My work inevitability of change, I aim gestures and movements. is cheerful and I like to to redefine forms through The Exhibition Room make people smile. the interaction of materials The Art House The Art Studio using mixed media. 8 Backfields, The Art House SheffieldS1 4HJ 8 Backfields Bloc Projects 01246 569 031 SheffieldS1 4HJ 4 Sylvester Street 07802 371 938 SheffieldS1 4RN 07368 227 504 [email protected] 07496 140 988 [email protected] Open 4th, 5th and 6th ) katiejamiesonart.co.uk Open 4th, 5th and 6th ) [email protected] CT Open 4th, 5th, 6th, 11th and 12th )CT S1 - B S1 - C S1 - C Stephen Todd Denise Miranda Paintings, drawings and photographic based images. My work explores Wrightson Trojanowska English seas and landscapes. I am a painter of Abstract expressionistic style using “How we look at the landscapes and am oils, acrylics and mixed media landscape determines how inspired by the light interpreting the physics of force, we internalise it”. and colour in the Peak movement and flow; and the Bloc Studios District and southern chemistry of chromatic pigmentation. 71 Eyre Lane SheffieldS1 4RN Italy. The Art House Art Studio 8 Backfields 01142 305 104 SheffieldS1 4HJ 07980 281 737 The Art House 8 Backfields 07812 084 341 www.stephen-todd.com SheffieldS1 4HJ [email protected] www.mirandatrojanowska.com 07917 234 177 [email protected] Open 4th, 5th, 6th, 11th and 12th C denisewrightson.com Open 4th, 5th, 6th, 11th and 12th [email protected] )CT Open 4th, 5th and 6th C 4 5 S1 - D S1 - D Emma Pearson I use traditional goldsmithing techniques with precious metals and beautiful gemstones to create bespoke jewellery, and ready to wear pieces. Trafalgar Warehouse 120 Trafalgar Street SheffieldS1 4JT 07507 557 310 www.emmapearson.design [email protected] Open 4th, 5th, 6th, 11th and 12th C S1 - E 6 7 S2 - A S2 - A Key to artists Annette Petch Tim Rose A Annette Petch I make jewellery in recycled silver I paint in watercolour Tim Rose and gold, formed by traditional and oils and my subjects Alison Riggott S2 techniques including forging, range from architecture Becca Hopkinson Finbarr Lucas anticlastic raising, chasing and to portraiture. B Wayne Sealey repoussé, inspired by woodland, Studio 1 gardens and seashore. Manor Oaks Studios C Karen Sherwood 389 Manor Lane Studio 1, Manor Oaks Studios Nuala Price SheffieldS2 1UL Anne Smithies 389 Manor Lane SheffieldS2 1UL 01142 552 171 D Stephen Rodgers 07929 185 935 Johnny Tyson 07952 235 985 www.timroseartist.com Adam Crofts www.annettepetchjewellery.co.uk B [email protected] [email protected] E Soft Touch Studio ) Open 4th, 5th, 11th Open 4th, 5th, 11th and 12th CT ) F The Artful Bodgers and 12th CT A S2 - A S2 - A Alison Riggott Becca Hopkinson Alison is a contemporary A designer and maker E jewellery designer drawing of handcrafted beautiful inspiration from favourite wooden boxes, artists and the natural world, decorative wooden particularly her love of trees, homewares, quality flowers and their symbolism. wooden gift items and Studio 1, Manor Oaks Studios wooden jewellery. 389 Manor Lane Manor Oaks Studios SheffieldS2 1UL 389 Manor Lane 07970 831 642 SheffieldS2 1UL F 07966 360 964 C alisonriggott.wixsite.com/jewellery [email protected] BebaBespoke.co.uk D Open 4th, 5th and 11th )C [email protected] Open 4th, 5th, 11th and 12th )C 8 9 S2 - A S2 - C S2 - C Finbarr Lucas Karen Sherwood Nuala Price At Finbarr Lucas, we transform local hardwoods and reclaimed timber I love to draw, paint and mess My approach to art is into chairs and tables, around with collage. I create fuelled by my Catholic cabinets and wardrobes, expressive figurative and Irish/Welsh upbringing, display cases and abstract works inspired by the my working background shelving. landscape of Yorkshire and in architecture and Studio 2 Northumberland. archaeology, underpinned Manor Oaks Studios Replicast Art Studios by my strong feminist Green Estate 5 East Bank Road ethos. 389 Manor Lane SheffieldS2 3PT SheffieldS2 1UL RF11 07817 363 310 Replicast Art Studios 07796 626 219 www.cupolagallery.com/karen- 5 East Bank Road finbarrlucas.co.uk sherwood SheffieldS2 3PT [email protected] [email protected] 07879 686 984 Open 4th, 5th, 11th Open 4th, 5th, 11th and 12th C [email protected] and 12th )C Open 4th, 5th and 6th CT S2 - B S2 - C S2 - D Wayne Sealey Anne Smithies Stephen Rodgers I have an instinctive connection with wood art, discovering natural shapes/ Pivotal. Material. Matter. Textiles. I make an eclectic mix of fusions within Mixed Media. A curious range of ceramic sculptures, pots branches, stems and tactile, frivolous, useful, colourful, and planters. Elephants roots and work with cheery art. large and small along the wood to create RF14 with pigs, teardrops and usable objects. Replicast Art Studios the occasional horse. 5 East Bank Road Manor Cottages Blue Elephant Pottery SheffieldS2 3PT 449 Manor Lane Unit2, Harland Works SheffieldS2 1UL 07595 563 139 70 John Street 07799 413 940 www.annesmithies.com SheffieldS2 4QU [email protected] wayne@ 07429 444 224 naturalfusions.co.uk Open 4th, 5th and 6th CT www.blueelephantpottery.
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