All Blog Posts Tagged 'metalwork' - crafthaus2024-03-28T22:11:14Zhttp://crafthaus.ning.com/profiles/blog/feed?tag=metalwork&xn_auth=noUpdate August 2019tag:crafthaus.ning.com,2019-08-05:2104389:BlogPost:6370182019-08-05T13:52:07.000ZRebecca Skeelshttp://crafthaus.ning.com/profile/RebeccaSkeels
<div><div class=""><div class="_1mf _1mj"><span>Some of you may be aware that due to the restructure at the University for the Creative Arts there are no longer Course Leader positions. I will be finishing as Course Leader of the postgraduate programmes (MA Ceramics, MA Glass, MA Jewellery, MA Metalwork, MA Product Design and MA Textiles) in the School of Craft and Design at the end of August.</span></div>
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<div><div class=""><div class="_1mf _1mj"><span>Some of you may be aware that due to the restructure at the University for the Creative Arts there are no longer Course Leader positions. I will be finishing as Course Leader of the postgraduate programmes (MA Ceramics, MA Glass, MA Jewellery, MA Metalwork, MA Product Design and MA Textiles) in the School of Craft and Design at the end of August.</span></div>
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<div class=""><div class="_1mf _1mj"><span>This will give me the opportunity to undertake a few projects that are already underway, for example, I have won an Arts Council England Lottery Fund to work with organisations across Farnham to build October as craft month. Investments will be made in a craft commission, a street gallery, exhibitions, talks and a one-day international symposium to explore ideas around what a craft town might be. As a Farnham Craft Town supporter, I have also been invited to apply for World Craft City status.</span></div>
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<div class=""><div class="_1mf _1mj"><span>I also intend to continue my part-time PhD research programme, and I have a continuing interest in education and craft and design practices. When students graduate from jewellery courses there is an under researched period of time between leaving university and beginning a sustainable practice. This stage for jewellery graduates is the centre of my project. I will research and analyse a period of time from leaving education to see if the findings highlight any key actions, decisions and information that graduates live and experience that can inform how we support and empower graduates to establish a longer-term sustainable practice.</span></div>
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<div class=""><div class="_1mf _1mj"><span>I will also be undertaking some visiting lecturer and sessional teaching roles at the University for the Creative Arts ensuring I continue my contact and support of students at all levels. I will continue my jewellery practice, undertaking commissions and selling my work through various avenues.</span></div>
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</div>A Quiet Month - Not So Quiet Monthtag:crafthaus.ning.com,2019-07-07:2104389:BlogPost:6272852019-07-07T19:28:28.000ZThe Justified Sinnerhttp://crafthaus.ning.com/profile/TheJustifiedSinner
<p>A fairly quiet month, May... towards the end of the submission period for the students, followed by the assessments, then graduate shows.<br></br> <br></br> "Talking Practice" at the School of Jewellery with alumnus, Peter Taylor of the <a href="https://www.goldsmiths-centre.org/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Goldsmiths' Centre</a> who is being given an honorary doctorate by the University. I've known Peter for years and it was great to hear him talking about his surprising route from bench…</p>
<p>A fairly quiet month, May... towards the end of the submission period for the students, followed by the assessments, then graduate shows.<br/> <br/> "Talking Practice" at the School of Jewellery with alumnus, Peter Taylor of the <a href="https://www.goldsmiths-centre.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Goldsmiths' Centre</a> who is being given an honorary doctorate by the University. I've known Peter for years and it was great to hear him talking about his surprising route from bench jeweller to project manager for the Centre.<br/></p>
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<p><br/> Our "<a href="http://blogs.bcu.ac.uk/vittoriastreetgallery/talking-practice/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Talking Practice</a>" events have become increasingly successful, with the last couple being capacity, which is very encouraging.<br/></p>
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<p><br/> The same night, we hosted "<a href="http://blogs.bcu.ac.uk/vittoriastreetgallery/flux/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Flux</a>", the exhibition of work by our Artists-in-Residence, a programme which has been running for some years now and which grows every year. This year, we had 17 artists working across the programmes, helping out with the teaching, advising students and, most importantly, using the facilities to make their own new work.<br/></p>
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<p><br/> June brings marking and the GRADUATE SHOW! Always a time for panic but this year, the co-ordinating team had it all thought out and it went really, really well. Everyone said that it was the best in years and I agree. The quality of the work produced was overall much higher than usual too, and I am very proud of my HND students, more than half of whom got much-deserved "Merit" and "Distinction" grades.<br/></p>
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<p>As you can see, the full range of skills on show. Unfortunately, I was so caught up with everything that I failed to photograph any of the HND work. I do, however, have photographs and will post them soon. Here are the graduates, however:<br/></p>
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<p><br/> Genuinely one of the very best classes I've ever taught. Lovely, lovely people.<br/></p>
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<p><br/> <a href="http://craftspace.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Craftspace</a> are an amazing organisation. Regular readers will have noticed that I have mentioned them rather a lot since my move to Birmingham and I feel very fortunate indeed that I had the opportunity to connect with them and work with them. Deirdre Figueiredo heads up the dynamic team which can bring together an exhibition like "<a href="http://craftspace.co.uk/show-your-metal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Show Your Metal</a>" in the space of about 8 weeks, from conception to opening!<br/> <br/> Working with two graduates of the School of Jewellery - <a href="https://www.daisygrice.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daisy Grice</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/jordanherryjewellery/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jordan Herry</a> - we pulled together a show looking at how Heavy Metal, Jewellery and Birmingham go together as part of the much larger "<a href="https://homeofmetal.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Home of Metal</a>" exhibition which is happening across the city this summer.<br/></p>
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<p><br/> Working with fans and volunteers from the project, we had five, two-hour sessions to make pieces of jewellery which reflected their love of the music... Which, amazingly, they did! I will confess to having been very worried about whether this could work or not, but the results are superb:<br/></p>
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<p><br/> This is a big show - it is in one of the smaller galleries at the <a href="https://macbirmingham.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Midlands Arts Centre</a> until the middle of August alongside some marvellous photographs and the quilts by <a href="http://www.benvenom.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Venom</a>.<br/></p>
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<p><br/> The choice of bands for the cakes at the private view were somewhat controversial, I would suggest:<br/></p>
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<p><br/> Radiohead? Really?<br/></p>
<hr width="50%"/><p><br/> <a href="https://www.newdesigners.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Designers</a> next. Not an especially great show overall but it was good to catch up with some of the people I had met in Rochester for the opening of "A Waste Land" earlier in the year and to finally see <a href="https://wromeril96.wixsite.com/williamromeril" target="_blank" rel="noopener">William Romeril's</a> automatic pencil-sharpener finished and working:<br/></p>
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<p><br/> Also really nice to have a guided tour of the Glasgow School of Art stand by one of my ex-students, Cat Dunn!<br/></p>
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<p><br/> By far the most exciting work, for me, was not, however, jewellery. Fred Andrews makes very beautiful Aeolian harps and has been working on a method of allowing them to be 'played', for the user to influence the sounds which would normally be made by the wind:<br/></p>
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<p></p>The Disaster of Disaster Capitalismtag:crafthaus.ning.com,2019-03-31:2104389:BlogPost:5942312019-03-31T17:21:38.000ZThe Justified Sinnerhttp://crafthaus.ning.com/profile/TheJustifiedSinner
<p>Watching the hapless and not-very-bright Theresa May implode through the very density of her commitment to her beliefs would be a pleasure if I didn't know that she has the potential to take us all down with her. Almost three years ago, I wrote a <a href="https://wringhim.blogspot.com/2016/06/no-fun.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">blog post</a> about how David Cameron was the "worst prime minister since Chamberlain", never for one moment imagining that what came next could be worse: the…</p>
<p>Watching the hapless and not-very-bright Theresa May implode through the very density of her commitment to her beliefs would be a pleasure if I didn't know that she has the potential to take us all down with her. Almost three years ago, I wrote a <a href="https://wringhim.blogspot.com/2016/06/no-fun.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blog post</a> about how David Cameron was the "worst prime minister since Chamberlain", never for one moment imagining that what came next could be worse: the soulless block of dictatorial wood that is Theresa May, a dangerous, difficult, confused, theistic non-entity who has so little imagination that the naughtiest thing she can think of having done is "run through some cornfields" as a child. She has managed to piss everyone off completely - as has the equally hapless and equally dim Jeremy Corbyn, but that is another story - to the point that the EU are throwing her lifelines, presumably knowing that the UK is not in any way in favour of crashing out of the EU without a deal, plainly her preferred option all along, as well as creating a climate of blame in which MPs are advised to travel in groups in taxis to prevent them being attacked: immediately after one of her speeches, my MP for Brighton Kemptown was assaulted in the street by some leave-supporting thug. Meanwhile, the government petitions website crashes as literally millions of people flood to sign a petition calling on the government to call off the whole sorry mess and remain in the EU.<br/> <br/> Let me just remind everyone what this is all about. David Cameron, private schoolboy from Eton, fell out with his bestie, Boris Johnson, private schoolboy from Eton and they had a jolly big argument which meant that Boris Johnson had to get a new bestie in the form of Jacob Rees-Mogg, private schoolboy from Eton and form a secret club called the ERG or "European Research Group", which sounds frightfully dull but is actually frightfully exciting but not as exciting as the club that they all might have been members of where they possibly had to be fellated by a pig.<br/> To try and sort all this out, Cameron held a referendum - which has subsequently been proved to have been interfered with by foreign agencies and has been ruled 'unsafe' - and the British pubic were duped into marginally voting to leave the EU, probably the stupidest idea in modern British Politics.<br/> <br/> Now London is awash with fascists - actual "generation identity" fascists, the DUP and their ilk - and the government is out-of-control while Theresa May, like Violet Bott, just keeps repeating the same bad idea over and over until parliament crumbles and votes to support her awful deal.<br/> <br/> Also, she has the most ghastly, cheap-looking Marks-and-Spencer-from-a-knock-off-market-stall 'chunky'jewellery, jewellery so ugly that Wilma Flintstone would have rejected it.<br/> <br/> I'm optimistic that we have already passed the original date she set to leave the EU but I truly don't know what happens next.<br/></p>
<hr width="50%"/><p><br/> On to more pleasant topics - though this unpleasant topic will briefly return before the end - and something I forgot to mention in the previous post. My colleague, Katy Tromans, has been working with the first year BA Jewellery and Object students to help build their skills and she came up with a project where they had to design and make little robots.<br/></p>
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<p><br/> I think that the results are amazing and show incredible skills development in only half a year.<br/></p>
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<p><br/> I love the character in so many of these: the personalities of the students who made them really shines through.<br/></p>
<hr width="50%"/><p><br/> It only has one more week to run, but still time to get there if you haven't already, my collaborative show with Dan Russell is now installed in <a href="https://sunpierhouse.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sun Pier House</a> in Chatham, an absolutely wonderful venue and a fantastic gallery space, worth visiting at any time.<br/></p>
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<p>The show will look broadly the same as it did in Birmingham but without the vertical element. Unfortunately, I used my camera to make a stop-motion video of us setting up, ran out of battery and didn't have my charger with me, so there is only this photograph!<br/></p>
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<p><br/> The event closes on Saturday April 6th, so please come along and join us for music, food from the <a href="http://www.realjunkfoodbrighton.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Real Junk Food Project</a>, Brighton, an artists' talk and a performance...<br/> <br/> I can promise that this event is NOT happening:<br/></p>
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<p><br/> The BA Jewellery and Object students at the School of Jewellery were having their interim show, giving previews of the sort of work we might be privileged to see in the final graduate show. As ever, it is looking very exciting:<br/></p>
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<p><br/> There is a LOT of politics in the show, which is good to see. From the personal -<br/></p>
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<p><br/> To the global -<br/></p>
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<p><br/> There will be more on these works as they progress.<br/></p>
<hr width="50%"/><p><br/> The project Norman Cherry and I have been working on to try and engage young people with the issues around knife crime is now over. I can't really post any pictures of it due to the sensitive nature of working in schools but I can say that it has been a fantastic success. We are planning to scale the project up and move it forward. More soon!<br/></p>
<hr width="50%"/><p><br/> In between all this, I've been in Brighton and have been listening to lots of music, starting with another fantastic event by Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, "Murmurs", a concert of pieces by composers I had not previously heard, some of which was played on an instrument I had not previously heard, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheng_(instrument)" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sheng</a>, or Chinese mouth-organ.<br/></p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Saunders" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rebecca Saunders</a>' music is quite wonderful, being detailed by texture and sound quality as much as the more usual melody and harmony. I was reminded in an oblique way of the work of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacinto_Scelsi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Giacinto Scelsi</a>. Performed tonight were a new piece, "Murmurs", commissioned by BCMG, and an older piece, "CRIMSON - molly's song 1", which absolutely blew me away.<br/></p>
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<p><br/> Also performed was a work by <a href="https://www.bcmg.org.uk/blog/an-interview-with-composer-donghoon-shin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donghoon Shin</a>, who has been working closely with BCMG as a composer-in-residence and we heard his "Anecdote" for sheng and instrumentalists, reflecting his (by his own admission) strange life in Seoul, Korea!<br/></p>
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<p><br/> The sheng part for this and for Jia Gouping's "The Wind Sounds in the Sky" was played by master sheng player, <a href="http://wuwei-music.com/en_US/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wu Wei</a>.<br/> <br/> You can hear this unusual instrument here:<br/></p>
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<p><br/> Next was a series of three evenings at the <a href="https://www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Birmingham Conservatoire</a>, starting with the startling <a href="https://joebroughton.com/the-folk-ensemble" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Conservatoire Folk Ensemble</a>, one of our Vice Chancellor's recital series. I am not, as I've said before, a big fan of "folk music" of the sort which is beautifully lampooned by Reeves and Mortimer as "Mulligan and O'Hare" but will happily listen to Steeleye Span, Fado or Tuvan throat singing. This ensemble, however is something quite other and reminiscent in many ways of another folk tradition which I love, the Italian "banda", massive, ramshackle brass bands which play operatic themes and arias in a glorious, rumbustious racket. This is exactly what this amazing bunch of performers give:<br/></p>
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<p><br/> An added interest for me was seeing the performers in a different context from the way that I normally see them, so where they would usually be in a jazz band or an orchestra, here they are applying their talents to creating music which varied from 60s-John-Barry-style cinematics to a deeply mournful Greek song. Utterly thrilling. <a href="https://joebroughton.com/home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Broughton</a>, who leads the band, is brilliantly lively and very funny and, most endearingly, is plainly adored by his charges. Here they are, rehearsing, a couple of years ago:<br/></p>
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<p><br/> Next up was <a href="https://soundcloud.com/hugobell" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hugo Bell</a>'s (re)apropos, an evening of contemporary and experimental music for ensemble, electronics, video and a teapot!<br/></p>
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<p><br/> I only really went along for the teapot as it features in a piece by one of my favourite composers, Alvin Lucier, "Nothing is Real (Strawberry Fields)", a piece which takes fragments of the Beatles' melody "Strawberry Fields Forever" and then plays them back through a teapot.<br/></p>
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<p><br/> For all that is sounds a bit naff, maybe even twee, it is ravishing.<br/> Hugo's own piece was an electronic work with video, "Influence/Anxiety", unfortunately not on the Soundcloud link above and the programme was very strong. As will so many of these events, I discover something new to rave about and this time it was the absolutely breathtaking "Amproprification #6.1 'Kyrie', #6.2 'Gloria'" by <a href="https://www.marcoll.de/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Maximillian Marcoll</a> in which 6 singers perform sections of Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli while their voices are variously amplified. It is hard to explain quite what this is like but it is rather as if <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobukazu_Takemura" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nobekazu Takemura</a> had got involved...<br/></p>
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<p><br/> As the singers are in the same room as the amplified playback, I cannot imagine how difficult this must be to sing.<br/> <br/> Friday night brought the <a href="https://www.hardrainensemble.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hard Rain Soloist Ensemble</a> to play another favourite piece of mine, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Carter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elliott Carter</a>'s "Triple Duo" and yet again, I was introduced to something wonderful, this time the Contrabass Clarinet.<br/></p>
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<p><br/> I love bass notes in an orchestra. Bass clarinet is one of my favourites - the opening of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Things_to_Make_and_Do" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Moloko's "Pure Pleasure Seeker"</a> made me grin with joy when I first heard it - and while I have probably heard a contrabass clarinet before, I can't think that I've ever noticed it and certainly haven't heard it solo, so <a href="http://www.elizabethakelly.com/bio.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elizabeth Kelly's</a> "Into the Depths" was brilliant to hear, foregrounding the instrument with a piano accompaniment and showing off the extremes of range and extended techniques of which it is capable.<br/></p>
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<p><br/> The rest of the programme was just as good, including pieces by Joe Cutler, head of composition at the Conservatoire and, of course, the Elliott Carter was incredible.<br/></p>
<hr width="50%"/><p><br/> Sad to hear of the death of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Walker_(singer)" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scott Walker</a>. I eagerly awaited each of his intermittent releases. I can remember hearing "No Regrets" on the radio when I was younger and even to my bombastic, youthful self - who would rather have torn my ears off than admit to liking "easy listening" - I found his voice captivating, both powerful and intimate at the same time. I was introduced to "Tilt" about five years after it was released by my good friend, Scott Lowe, and have never looked back, every subsequent album being a fantastic gem, no matter how complex and strange.<br/> <br/> I know that there is a lot of music in this entry, but I'll leave you with "Epizootics!" from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bish_Bosch" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bish Bosch</a>.<br/></p>
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<p><br></br> Bathed in pink, Jacob Epstein's Lucifer looks disdainfully down on the crowd at this week's "Carnival of Cute" at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. There is no version of hell he could have imagined which could be worse than this...…<br></br></p>
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<p><br/> Bathed in pink, Jacob Epstein's Lucifer looks disdainfully down on the crowd at this week's "Carnival of Cute" at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. There is no version of hell he could have imagined which could be worse than this...<br/> <br/> "<a href="http://www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/bmag/whats-on/too-cute" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Too Cute! Sweet is about to get Sinister</a>" is a fantastic show, curated by an artist I've been watching for some time, <a href="http://www.rachelmaclean.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rachel Maclean</a>, probably best known for her work, "Feed Me":<br/></p>
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<p><br/> It is mostly not her own work - though there is a new video piece - rather, she has designed an environment in which to display her own curatorial choices of work from the collections of the Arts Council and BMAG which sit on the uncomfortable boundary between "cute" and "sinister". Having always been unnerved by an excess of the deliberately cute and not really getting the more usually-defined cute objects (nasally-deformed dogs, babies, miniature fruit and vegetables, inanimate objects with eyes...), I enjoy that Rachel performs a high-risk balancing act in which she reveres the cuteness while simultaneously undermining it. There is a lot of fun in what she is doing but there is also a vicious skewering of the late-capitalist urgency for consumption, something which she makes explicit in the accompanying video and about which she spoke passionately at the reception.<br/></p>
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<p><br/> It was rather a surprise to see her as a self-possessed, balanced and cheerful person!<br/> <br/> The show is excellent. It is funny, thoughtful, disturbing and only after leaving do you realise that it is transgressive and shocking.<br/> <br/> I have linked to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/aug/05/rachel-maclean-artists-in-residence-channel-4-birmingham-bullring" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this article</a> before, but I think it is critical - late-capitalism needs the population to be in a constant state of angst. Rachel Maclean has exposed yet another tool in their kit.<br/> The show runs until May 12th.<br/></p>
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<hr width="50%"/><p><br/> On the subject of late capitalism, I've been listening to the new album by The Specials, "Encore" (which is very good, exactly what I would have hoped for but with a bit of a 70s funk edge going on, a tango-tinged "The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum" and a song called "Breaking Point" which is one Optigon away from Tom Waits) and was also listening to Terry Hall being interviewed by comedian, Richard Herring. I'm not a huge Herring fan but listened because I haven't heard anything from Terry Hall since the eighties and wondered what he had to say, especially about the current state of the world, given his fantastically gloomy socialist view of the 1980s. As with so many of the socialists from that era, they were not suckered in by the softer capitalism - or is that centrist socialism? - of the early 2000s as they had seen what hard-line capitalism ("Thatcherism") had done. In this interview, Hall mentioned that his favourite book was "The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher" on the grounds that "I like a book with a happy end", which is a pretty good line but I was intrigued...<br/></p>
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<p><br/> Discovering a new writer for me to enjoy. These are just fantastic short stories, all with a lovely balance of bleakness and humour. I've never read any <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_Mantel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hilary Mantel</a> before, having written off her "Wolf Hall" trilogy as the sort of historical romance stuff that you see people reading in airports and therefore it was something of a surprise to read these elegant, literary stories and to do a bit of research to discover that she's something of a literary superstar! That's what comes of judging books by covers...<br/> Thanks to Terry Hall for that one.<br/> <br/> If you are interested in the interview, it is on the <a href="https://www.comedy.co.uk/podcasts/richard_herring_lst_podcast/rhlstp_199_terry_hall/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Richard Herring</a> podcast.<br/></p>
<hr width="50%"/><p><br/> Music has been a big part of the last few weeks and this week I signed up to <a href="https://bandcamp.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bandcamp</a> (yes, a full eleven years after the site launched!) after discovering that the new <a href="https://testdept.org.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Test Dept.</a> album was only available through that outlet. I've also been listening to the incredible Spellling and her album, <a href="https://spellling.bandcamp.com/album/mazy-fly" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mazy Fly</a>, which I also found on Bandcamp.<br/></p>
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<p><br/> Off to Dublin for a flying visit to see <a href="https://www.crashensemble.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Crash Ensemble</a> perform <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fausto_Romitelli" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fausto Romitelli's</a> "Professor Bad Trip", a most incredible piece of music which I have wanted to hear live since I heard it on a radio programme some years ago, introduced by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Harvey_(composer)" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jonathan Harvey</a>. I subsequently became a bit obsessed with Romitelli's music, which really sounds like nothing by any other composer, but have never had the chance to hear much live. The <a href="https://wringhim.blogspot.com/2019/02/not-out-of-woods.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">performance in Birmingham</a> of "Trash TV Trance" a few weeks back was the first piece I heard live and this is the second. I'm pleased to say that it exceeded my expectations and clarified so much about the music: the use of live electronics, amplification and spacialisation is not evident in the recording I have, nor is the importance of the 'cello in the central movement, played here with unbelievable bravado by Kate Ellis.<br/> <br/> Astonishing.<br/> <br/> Here is the "First Lesson", conducted by Ivan Volkov<br/></p>
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<p><br/> Perhaps we never had the same confidence in our own identity in the first place.</p>All About the Wastetag:crafthaus.ning.com,2019-02-20:2104389:BlogPost:5882642019-02-20T10:14:46.000ZThe Justified Sinnerhttp://crafthaus.ning.com/profile/TheJustifiedSinner
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<p>The last two weeks have been a bit of a whirl, what with the opening my collaborative exhibition "<a href="https://www.instagram.com/a.waste.land/?hl=en" rel="noopener" target="_blank">A Waste Land</a>" at the…</p>
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<p>The last two weeks have been a bit of a whirl, what with the opening my collaborative exhibition "<a href="https://www.instagram.com/a.waste.land/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Waste Land</a>" at the <a href="http://blogs.bcu.ac.uk/vittoriastreetgallery/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vittoria Street Gallery</a> in the Jewellery Quarter. The launch was on Tuesday 5th February and kicked off with me and Dan Russell, my collaborator, in conversation with Sian Hindle and, I'm pleased to say, a capacity audience in the Lecture Theatre at the <a href="https://www.bcu.ac.uk/jewellery" target="_blank" rel="noopener">School of Jewellery</a>.<br/></p>
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<p><br/> (I was wearing clothes which I had found discarded in the street! This includes the amazing 1970s Levi's denim jacket, which is now in my permanent collection of clothes.)<br/> <br/> After the talk, we had the reception downstairs in the gallery.<br/></p>
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<p><br/> The event was catered by by <a href="https://trjfpbrum.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Real Junk Food Project Brum</a> who supplied a fantastic vegan buffet and we had music by, <a href="https://twitter.com/James_Abel_Comp/">James Abel</a>, <a href="https://soundcloud.com/george-west-96">George West</a> and <a href="https://www.peterbellmusic.co.uk/">Peter Bell</a> -students at the <a href="https://www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Royal Birmingham Conservatoire</a> - who played found and discarded musical scores:<br/></p>
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<p><br/> Peeking out of that bag, on top, is the score I found during my <a href="https://wringhim.blogspot.com/2019/01/kingdom-come.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">litter picking trip</a> round the Quarter with the JQ Bid Clean Team.<br/> <br/> The exhibition moves next to Chatham in about two weeks' time. We've still not released any photographs of the work other than what can be seen in the general images and will be doing this after the show is finished in early April.<br/></p>
<hr width="50%"/><p><br/> The knife-crime pilot project "In The Cut" moved into the final phase this week with the young people visiting the School of Jewellery for a workshop session and getting to use flames to solder and seeing things like the laser-welder and other bits of exciting equipment. <br/></p>
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<p><br/> The knife material has proved to be somewhat intractable and I have had to use a local business in the Jewellery Quarter, the amazing <a href="https://rfbevan.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RF Bevan</a> to cut them by wire erosion.<br/></p>
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<p><br/> The finished work will be presented next week.<br/></p>
<hr width="50%"/><p><br/> Off to the <a href="https://www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoire/events-calendar/sean-shibe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Birmingham Conservatoire</a> again, this time to hear the amazing <a href="https://seanshibe.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sean Shibe</a> play an eccentric and thrilling programme of early music and ultra-modern music, ranging from Scottish early music by James Oswald through Steve Reich's "Electric Counterpoint" to the ear-shredding LAD by Julia Wolfe. Fantastic!<br/></p>
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<p><br/> Off to Sheffield with friend and colleague, <a href="http://www.annalorenz.com/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anna Lorenz</a>, for the Re:Mains exhibition by <a href="https://rachaelcolleyartist.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rachael Colley</a> at <a href="https://www4.shu.ac.uk/sia/events/gallery.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SIA Gallery</a> in Sheffield. This is a fascinating show and one which is distantly related to my own "A Waste Land" in that it deals with a lot of food waste. It also deals with the performance of eating and food and the implements for that performance, appropriate given Sheffield's history of cutlers and cutlery.<br/></p>
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<p><br/> Rachael also catered the event with food waste, as I had done for mine, hers coming from <a href="https://realjunkfoodsheffield.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Food Works</a> in Sheffield, an impressive display:<br/></p>
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<p><br/> There is something disturbing about being able to so easily cater events for 50+ people using only waste food from the catering and supermarket industries.<br/></p>
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<hr width="50%"/><p><br/> Off to the town centre and <a href="https://www.ikon-gallery.org/event/forward-new-art-from-birmingham/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Art from Birmingham</a>, an exhibition in <a href="http://www.medicinebakery.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Medicine</a> cafe/gallery as an outpost of the <a href="https://www.ikon-gallery.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IKON Gallery</a>. My next-door neighbour, <a href="http://www.leahcarless.com/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Leah Carless</a> is exhibiting as part of the show.<br/></p>
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<p><br/> I was disappointed to see that her work had been moved from the centre of the gallery to the edge, much lessening the impact. Overall, a very strong show and worth a visit before it closes on the 24th March.<br/></p>
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<hr width="50%"/><p><br/> For all that I go to endless experimental, contemporary and often complex music events, one of the constants in my musical life has been Henry Purcell. I can't even say what it is about his music that I love but there is a certain turn of minor-key musical phrase which he has which raises goosebumps. After New Art Birmingham, I went to hear <a href="http://excathedra.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ex Cathedra</a> perform his fragmentary "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Indian_Queen_(opera)" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Indian Queen</a>".<br/> <br/> The concert began with an unusual selection of Baroque music collected by conductor and musical director Jeffrey Skidmore from Bolivia and Mexico which were rather excellent and interesting, especially the little bits of history he gave, explaining why, for example, one of the pieces was in Angolan!<br/> <br/> Needless to say, The Indian Queen did not disappoint!<br/></p>
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<p>I've been avidly devouring a very strange and marvellous book indeed. "<a href="http://smarturl.it/outofthewoodsbook" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Out of the Woods</a>" by one of the founders and contributors to my favourite music website, "<a href="https://thequietus.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Quietus</a>", is an odd melange of autobiography, social history, confessional, and psychogeography which is - mostly - beautifully-written and poetic, his writings about his…</p>
<p>I've been avidly devouring a very strange and marvellous book indeed. "<a href="http://smarturl.it/outofthewoodsbook" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Out of the Woods</a>" by one of the founders and contributors to my favourite music website, "<a href="https://thequietus.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Quietus</a>", is an odd melange of autobiography, social history, confessional, and psychogeography which is - mostly - beautifully-written and poetic, his writings about his relationship with his parents being especially touching.<br/></p>
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<p><br/> What makes this book especially unusual is that it is written from the point of view of someone who defines himself as "bisexual", a definition which we have overlooked in recent years, one which we don't hear much from in the ever growing list of L, G, B, T, Q, I, +..., all of whom seem to be eager to shout each other down. Turner goes some way to explaining this - the fear of the 'other', the power of homosexuals to adopt heteronormative roles, the way in which bisexuality undermines those roles in a way which "gay" can never do. Based around the author's relationship with London's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epping_Forest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Epping Forest</a>, the book twists and turns around and within the forest, exploring the role of "nature" in modern life, the author's psyche and relationships and with London. This book opened my eyes to an aspect of sexuality which I had, like most people, inadvertently ignored, my only criticism being that it could have done with a more rigorous editor. Having said that, I am going to love any book which gets <a href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/01/in-epping-forests-dark-undergrowth/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this review</a> from tory rag, "The Spectator".<br/></p>
<hr width="50%"/><p><br/> On the subject of frothing tories, I came home to this heap of shite on my doormat:<br/></p>
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<p><br/> Needless to say, it wasn't ripped up when it was delivered. I did this for effect. Ghastly pub chain, owned by the definitive "swivel-eyed loon", Tim Martin (he really does look like something "League of Gentlemen" would have come up with) serial exploiter of poverty-wage employees and with a personal wealth of something around £500m has decided to squander some of his shareholders' profits on putting out propaganda for the disaster-capitalist wing of the tory party.<br/> Naturally, he doesn't consider that it will be his finest, elderly customers who suffer the most if the UK leaves the EU... he's alright, Jack! He's one of the richest people in the UK. Like all the others pushing for the UK to leave the EU: Rees-Mogg, Banks, the Barclay Brothers... <br/></p>
<hr width="50%"/><p><br/> I've spent the last week with friend and colleague, Dan Russell, setting up our "<a href="http://blogs.bcu.ac.uk/vittoriastreetgallery/a-waste-land/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Waste Land</a>" show, of which I have previously written. This week was the install, filling the gallery space with all the waste we've gathered from the streets of Birmingham and Chatham. Dan was brilliant at curating the waste and it looks really good.<br/></p>
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<p><br/> We've not released any photographs of the work yet, but can now reveal how some of the cabinets look:<br/></p>
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<p><br/> Each object comes with a "museum card" which we hope is in the style of anthropological museums, bolstered by an essay by Dr. John Scanlan and videos of our working process and the gathering of the waste.<br/> <br/> The opening is on Tuesday next week. Tickets for our "in conversation" event at 6pm are available <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/talking-practice-a-waste-land-tickets-54594618975" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.<br/> <br/> There will be music played on waste instruments by students at <a href="https://www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Birmingham Conservatoire</a> and food by <a href="https://trjfpbrum.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Real Junk Food Project Brum</a>.<br/></p>
<hr width="50%"/><p><br/> On Tuesday night, Dan and I went to Centrala to hear a piece I've wanted to hear live for years, Fausto Romitelli's "Trash TV Trance" for solo electric guitar and electronics. Played by Simon Aeschimann of the <a href="https://www.contrechamps.ch/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ensemble Contrechamps</a>, this was an amazing performance and everything I had hoped it would be.<br/></p>
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<p><br/> Afterwards there we moved upstairs for the performance with the percussion department of the Conservatoire along with the Ensemble for the premier of a ravishing new work for guitar and marimba by Fumiko Miyachi and a performance of Ligeti's absurdist song-cycle, "Sippal, Dobbal, Nadihegeduvel", which was also wonderful. It is such a privilege to have access to this much interesting music, played to such a high standard.<br/> <br/> Here is a recording of Trash TV Trance, performed by the person for whom it was written, Tom Pauwels:<br/></p>
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<p></p>Kingdom Cometag:crafthaus.ning.com,2019-01-27:2104389:BlogPost:5883162019-01-27T20:18:28.000ZThe Justified Sinnerhttp://crafthaus.ning.com/profile/TheJustifiedSinner
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<p>I've been a huge fan of JG Ballard ever since I read "High Rise" when I was about 16. I rapidly explored "Crash" and "Atrocity Exhibition" - which, at 16 or 17, I probably pretentiously pretended to understand: as an…</p>
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<p>I've been a huge fan of JG Ballard ever since I read "High Rise" when I was about 16. I rapidly explored "Crash" and "Atrocity Exhibition" - which, at 16 or 17, I probably pretentiously pretended to understand: as an adult, I still struggle with it - and up until his death, I eagerly awaited each new novel, "Rushing to Paradise", "Cocaine Nights", "Super-Cannes"... Thus it was that in 2006, I read "Kingdom Come". In this novel, middle-England revolts without realising that they are doing it. Led by a charismatic, media-managed, glossy 'eccentric' who is prone to outbursts of cruelty and buffoonery, they relieve the dissatisfaction generated by gigantic shopping malls and the boredom of consumerism by building a populist movement, sporting St. George's Cross teeshirts and hats, flags fluttering from car windows and suburban bungalows, overturning the rule of law and attacking Asian and Polish businesses.</p>
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<div>I have always viewed Ballard's writing as allegorical, sometimes far-fetched, but always with the point that society is only just held together by a thin veneer of civilisation but this novel is now something quite other. Re-reading it is actually frightening as it no longer reads like an allegory, more like a prediction: what seemed to be a warning now reads like an instruction manual with exact parallels in what is happening in the UK today. Ballard writes, "<i>The danger is that consumerism will need something close to fascism in order to keep growing.</i>"</div>
<div>We are close to some sort of fascism now, caused by the deliberate destabilisation of a consumer-led society. Artist, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/aug/05/rachel-maclean-artists-in-residence-channel-4-birmingham-bullring" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rachel Maclean</a> hit the nail on the head when she said of her residency in the Birmingham Bullring shopping centre, "<i>There’s something about shopping centres and the whole experience of advertising that is anxiety-inducing. It has to make you feel bad in order that you buy something to make yourself feel better. It’s an entire culture that necessitates dissatisfaction.</i>"</div>
<div>The problem here is that the whole population has been exposed to this culture, they have been saturated in dissatisfaction, itself a function of the neoliberal economic model which requires the population to consume endlessly. Ballard posits that the population have become bored of neoliberalism, bored of consumption and, as they have defined themselves through their consumption, bored of their very core of being. This disaffection manifests itself in outpourings of violence directed against the "other" and, ultimately, against manufactured "others": "<i>New enemies were always needed, and one in particular was soon found. The traditional middle class...</i>"<br/> The outlook for the UK is not good.<br/> <br/><table align="center" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;">
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In terms of my own work, the 'big project' I've been planning with Norman Cherry has now kicked off and it relates very strongly to this malaise. This week saw us taking a group of Artists-in-Residence from the School of Jewellery into Broadway Academy in Perry Barr along with a couple of local musicians, BCU Criminology students and the fantastic Criminology lecturer and researcher Yusef Bakkali with a view to trialling a prophylactic intervention amongst a group of young people who could potentially be at risk of being involved in knife crime.<br/> <br/> The reality is that there is an epidemic of knife crime and all young people, excepting, perhaps, the most isolated and/or privileged are at risk. This is partly to do with survival, or at least the idea of survival, the idea that other people are carrying knives and so knives are carried as a "protection" - despite figures which show that carrying a knife <i>increases</i> the likelihood of being injured or killed in knife-crime incidents. These young people are anxious. Anxiety and fear are part of their lives. Even the best brought-up young people are targeted by advertising and are made to feel inadequate, to doubt themselves. It is little surprise that they not only have alarming levels of mental-health issues but that they also feel the need to defend themselves, both physically and psychologically.<br/> <br/>
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<br/> Unusually, our project is prophylactic. It is an intervention before anyone is involved: it seeks to alert the participants to the issues in a creative and thoughtful way, to make them think about their environment and to try to make them think about committing to a life which eschews violence. To this end, we've been getting them to draw protective amulets which are going to be made from the knife blades and we've been really encouraged by the outcomes so far.<br/> <br/>
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<br/> Over the last month, we've had <a href="https://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/directory/maker/john-grayson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Grayson's</a> PhD exhibition "<a href="http://blogs.bcu.ac.uk/vittoriastreetgallery/enamel-substrate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Enamel:Substrate</a>" in the Vittoria Street Gallery and last week was his "Talking Practice" about the exhibition and his work on researching <a href="http://www.wolverhamptonhistory.org.uk/work/industry/enamels/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bilston painted enamels</a>.<br/> <br/>
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<br/> John is a great maker and a most engaging speaker and the talk was fully-booked, the reception afterwards very busy. I particularly like his work but his drawings and sketchbooks are really lovely:<br/> <br/>
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<br/><hr width="50%"/><br/> I have been making preparations for the show I am doing in Vittoria Street with Dan Russell, "<a href="http://blogs.bcu.ac.uk/vittoriastreetgallery/a-waste-land/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Waste Land</a>" which opens next week on the 4th with our "Talking Practice" on the 5th February. As part of this, I spent a day litter picking with the <a href="https://jewelleryquarter.net/jqbid/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jewellery Quarter BID</a> Clean Team:<br/> <br/><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oTFWXGIAtVs/XE4OEnMZ32I/AAAAAAAAXjQ/dLu0mmTE80IctpLyg7WvCsRJS6qBjK1egCLcBGAs/s1600/DA%2B-%2BJQ.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oTFWXGIAtVs/XE4OEnMZ32I/AAAAAAAAXjQ/dLu0mmTE80IctpLyg7WvCsRJS6qBjK1egCLcBGAs/s640/DA%2B-%2BJQ.jpg" width="640"/></a></div>
<br/> Working with Dennis and Allan, the regular team members, we wandered about the Jewellery Quarter, gathering up the rubbish, something they do four days a week, 10am - 4pm. I was only with them about an hour and we found some horrors...<br/> <br/>
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<br/> It wasn't all bad, though and I did hear some great stories, such as how someone had dumped a safe in the middle of one street and about the complete set of boxed false teeth which turned up in another. In case you are wondering, that IS a "Moomin" on the cart in the first picture:<br/> <br/>
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<br/> Work starts on the exhibition tomorrow. Should you be interested in coming along, all the details are <a href="https://mailchi.mp/84898a9bb4e5/transitions-643083" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>. There will be food from the Real Junk Food Project - made from food-waste - and music from students at the <a href="https://www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Birmingham Conservatoire</a> - <a href="https://twitter.com/James_Abel_Comp/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Abel</a>, <a href="https://soundcloud.com/george-west-96" target="_blank" rel="noopener">George West</a> and <a href="https://www.peterbellmusic.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Peter Bell</a> - which will include some sheet music I found on my litter-picking expedition, played on scrap materials and instruments:<br/> <br/>
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<br/></div>Celtic Connectionstag:crafthaus.ning.com,2018-12-02:2104389:BlogPost:5849762018-12-02T11:45:56.000ZThe Justified Sinnerhttp://crafthaus.ning.com/profile/TheJustifiedSinner
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<p><br></br> Kicked off from the end of the last post by jumping on a train to Glasgow to go and hear the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra perform three symphonies by Gloria Coates. I've been enamoured of Coates' work since reading an article about her in The Wire…</p>
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<p><br/> Kicked off from the end of the last post by jumping on a train to Glasgow to go and hear the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra perform three symphonies by Gloria Coates. I've been enamoured of Coates' work since reading an article about her in The Wire in the early 2000s and bought some CDs of her music on the strength of a verbal description of her music.<br/> <br/> Less hedonistically, I had planned to meet up with a friend who has become ill, but this was cancelled at the last moment as his daughter sent him to Valencia for the Moto GP! Instead, I met with my old friend, Janine and we headed off to the South Side of the city to the amazing "<a href="http://www.ranjitskitchen.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ranjit's Kitchen</a>". The story of how this place came to be is delightful and can be read on the website. Anyone visiting Glasgow should make the trip to eat there - the all-vegetarian food is really special.</p>
<div>What nobody visiting Glasgow should ever do is make the stupid mistake of booking to stay in the "City Center (sic) Rooms", bookable through Expedia and their own website, probably the most unpleasant hotel/rooming apartment I have ever had the misfortune to stay in. I can honestly say that my worst experiences of student accommodation have never come down to this level of damp, cold, drafty, dirty, noisy and:</div>
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<div>Verminous.</div>
<div>You can see how filthy the place was from the crud around the switches.<br/> Nasty.<br/> <br/> The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Coates" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gloria Coates</a> symphonies - Nos. 1, 7 and 11 - were truly fantastic and I was absolutely blown away by them. Ms. Coates herself was present and was interviewed by Kate Molleson at the interval:<br/> <br/><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_justified_sinner/44127160310/in/datetaken/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="Gloria Coates"><img alt="Gloria Coates" height="375" src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4872/44127160310_a6a639a981.jpg" width="500"/></a></div>
<br/> You can hear her First Symphony, "Music on Open Strings" here:<br/> <br/>
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<br/><hr width="50%"/><br/> I've been working on the next exhibition, a big show at <a href="http://blogs.bcu.ac.uk/vittoriastreetgallery/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vittoria Street Gallery</a> in collaboration with <a href="http://www.dr-jewellerydesign.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dan Russell</a>.<br/> <br/><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-881SfMgfSuo/XAO5cP8ZkeI/AAAAAAAAXOU/QH1KYKwmSA4SULgba1VjdObcaHgNdWomgCLcBGAs/s1600/A%2BWaste%2BLand%2BGraphic.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="169" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-881SfMgfSuo/XAO5cP8ZkeI/AAAAAAAAXOU/QH1KYKwmSA4SULgba1VjdObcaHgNdWomgCLcBGAs/s640/A%2BWaste%2BLand%2BGraphic.jpg" width="640"/></a></div>
<br/> I'm not going to say very much about it here, except that it will be unlike any of my previous work. Here is a glimpse of some of the making:<br/> <br/>
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<br/><hr width="50%"/><br/> One of the things which has started a the School of Jewellery are informal "Hack Nights" where staff, students and artists-in-residence can come along and play around with techniques with some instruction from someone who knows what they are doing. We've started with Enamel Hacks - something of interest to me as it is a technique I have singularly avoided!<br/> <br/><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_justified_sinner/31051904907/in/datetaken/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="Enamel Hack - 1"><img alt="Enamel Hack - 1" height="375" src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4809/31051904907_4f6f6b97ff.jpg" width="500"/></a></div>
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<br/> In the first session, we experimented with liquid enamels on steel. I was particularly taken with this and will definitely consider ways of using it further.<br/> <br/> The second session was plique-a-jour... An essay in frustration.<br/> <br/><hr width="50%"/><br/> Off to see <a href="http://www.mogwai.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mogwai</a> (again!) at a new venue in Birmingham, <a href="https://www.themilldigbeth.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Mill</a>, and they were as fantastic and as loud as ever.<br/> <br/><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_justified_sinner/32176513188/in/datetaken/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="Mogwai! (At The Mill)"><img alt="Mogwai! (At The Mill)" height="376" src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4881/32176513188_47bcc49d01.jpg" width="500"/></a></div>
<br/> Ever the purveyors of classy merchandise, you could have a "Brexit is shite" teeshirt, riffing on their earlier "Blur" affair, or this rather stylish limited-edition screenprinted poster which allows a man of my age to have a gig poster on the bedroom wall!<br/> <br/>
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<br/><hr width="50%"/><br/> The following day saw the start of the <a href="https://jqopenstudios.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jewellery Quarter Open Studios</a> and I was based in the wonderful gallery setting of what used to be "<a href="http://www.guildsman.gallery/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Guildsman</a>" (soon to re-open as "Quo Vadis"), exhibiting with students and artists-in-residence from the School of Jewellery. A great opportunity.<br/> <br/> Unfortunately, because I was working, I didn't get to go to many other places as part of the event.<br/> <br/><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_justified_sinner/31108503477/in/datetaken/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="Jewellery Quarter Open Studios - Quo Creations - 1"><img alt="Jewellery Quarter Open Studios - Quo Creations - 1" height="500" src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4913/31108503477_165d6992e0.jpg" width="375"/></a></div>
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<br/> I sold a fair amount of work but the real highlight was when I met a customer from 2011, who had commissioned a piece from me by email and brought it back for a small repair! It was such a pleasure to meet up with her and her partner, for whom it had been made. Even more bizarrely, it turned out that she and her partner had been at school with <a href="http://www.tina-francis-tapestry.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tina Francis</a>, organiser of the Open Studios Event... a small world, indeed.<br/> <br/> This was the piece:<br/> <br/>
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<br/><hr width="50%"/><br/> A remarkable concert at the Birmingham Conservatoire this week as <a href="https://tinmenandthetelephone.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tin Men And The Telephone</a> brought their incredible interactive jazz event to "The Lab". Using a mobile phone app, the audience can control the music and it is incredibly impressive to see the speed with which they respond to the input and then create a coherent - and enjoyable - musical experience from it.<br/> <br/><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_justified_sinner/44325604770/in/datetaken/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="Tin Men And The Telephone - 3"><img alt="Tin Men And The Telephone - 3" height="500" src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4850/44325604770_148bc7288e.jpg" width="375"/></a></div>
<br/> They were performing a set loosely based around the rise of far-right politics and there were some hilarious moments, such as looping Marine Le Penn and playing along with her vile opinions:<br/> <br/>
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<br/> Impressive set up to make all this happen, too:<br/> <br/>
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<br/><hr width="50%"/><br/> Finally, last night I went to see <a href="https://www.yazzahmed.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yazz Ahmed</a> and her Hafla Band at the CBSO Centre, a very funky evening indeed, with Yazz playing trumpet, flugelhorn and electronics and her band comprising keyboards, bass guitar, drums, hand-percussion, electric guitar and vibraphone.<br/> <br/><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_justified_sinner/31203120707/in/datetaken/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="Yaz Ahmed and her Hafla Band"><img alt="Yaz Ahmed and her Hafla Band" height="375" src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4816/31203120707_b9ff525aa9.jpg" width="500"/></a></div>
<br/> I couldn't help imagining a 1960s spy thriller set in a dusty middle-eastern city!<br/> Have a listen:<br/> <br/>
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</div>Over A Monthtag:crafthaus.ning.com,2018-11-14:2104389:BlogPost:5838842018-11-14T18:30:00.000ZThe Justified Sinnerhttp://crafthaus.ning.com/profile/TheJustifiedSinner
<p>It has been over a month since I last posted and this is just not good enough! However, I am working on some very interesting projects about which more will be revealed in the coming months. Here's a whistle-stop tour of what I've been up to for the last few weeks.…</p>
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<p>It has been over a month since I last posted and this is just not good enough! However, I am working on some very interesting projects about which more will be revealed in the coming months. Here's a whistle-stop tour of what I've been up to for the last few weeks.</p>
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<p><br/> We've had the "box project" with our BA Jewellery and Object students. This consists of them having to make a box in one week and the results this year have been fantastic!</p>
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<hr width="50%"/><p><br/> There has also been another run-down of work by our Artists-in-Residence. Here Nikki Pugh reveals some of her wearable technology which alters perception about the environment, ably assisted by Rebecca Steiner and one of my HND students, Jack Deeley:</p>
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<hr width="50%"/><p><br/> I went back to Wolverhampton for another exhibition, this time by another of our Artists-in-Residence, Zoe Fitzpatrick Rodgers. Organised around a theme of "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauntology" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hauntology</a>" at the <a href="http://www.theasylumartgallery.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Asylum Art Gallery</a> in the town, it proved to be a very interesting evening and it was great to see jewellery presented in the context of a mixed-media exhibition of fine arts:</p>
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<p><br/> The exhibition itself was somewhat provocative:</p>
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<hr width="50%"/><p><br/> Whizzed off to London for a few days at the UCAS careers fair, representing the University and caught up with my friend, Julia and her family. We went to the most wonderful and crazy restaurant in Peckham, Persepolis, a Persian restaurant run by the author of some very fine vegetarian cookbooks:</p>
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<p><br/> Peckham is a very interesting place. Quite run-down but lively, with lots of fantastic old signs and buildings.</p>
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<hr width="50%"/><p>Spent a day at the symposium held here on Magnesium and the use of magnesium for innovative technology. Unfortunately, of limited use for jewellery - it is used to some extent in watch cases - the symposium was interesting and a good event for meeting people.</p>
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<p><br/> Best thing was getting out onto the 5th-floor balcony at the Curzon building to see a panorama of the city:</p>
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<hr width="50%"/><p><br/> Went to hear contemporary baritone, <a href="https://www.thomasbuckner.com/">Thomas Buckner</a> perform a variety of contemporary pieces for (wordless) voice and electronics at the <a href="https://www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoire/events-calendar/songs-without-words" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Conservatoire</a>.</p>
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<p><br/> He was singing works by some of my absolute favourite composers, Phil Niblock, Alvin Lucier and Robert Ashely and introduced me to the work of Annea Lockwood. It was complete chance that I spotted this was on and I'm so glad to have been able to attend.</p>
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<p><br/> Back to the School of Jewellery and the opening of a new exhibition at our <a href="http://blogs.bcu.ac.uk/vittoriastreetgallery/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vittoria Street Gallery</a> of work by <a href="http://www.marianneforrestwatches.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marianne Forrest</a>, who designs watches and time-related pieces, including time-related collaborative drawings. At the private view, we had the chance to take part in one of her collaborative drawings:</p>
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<hr width="50%"/><p><br/> Fiona Harris is one of the Artists-in-Residence here at the School but she is in the unusual position of being placed within the <a href="http://www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/jewellery" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Museum of the Jewellery Quarter</a>, making work there and developing a collection of pieces from the archive for sale in the Birmingham Museums shops. We had the pleasure of being at her presentation of the work for production and sale:</p>
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<p><br/> I can't show any of the work at the moment, but it will be shown as soon as it is no longer under embargo. We did get a chance to look through some of the old Smith and Pepper design books, which was very exciting!</p>
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<hr width="50%"/><p><br/> Time for a soujourn in Brighton. Not much going on and the weather wasn't very good but it was nice to have a break!</p>
<hr width="50%"/><p><br/> Back to the Conservatoire for an amazing concert of music by Tommy Fuller, one of the final-year students on the Jazz course, performing works by Philip Glass and Frank Zappa (and others) in conjunction with two students from the Orchestral Percussion course.</p>
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<hr width="50%"/><p><br/> It's that <a href="https://www.lakesidearts.org.uk/special-events/event/3890/lustre-2018.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lustre</a> time of year again, always a good start to the wintry month of November. I drove up for the opening with Anna Lorenz. Loads of our graduates were taking part, as was my friend and colleague, <a href="https://www.jopond.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jo Pond</a>:</p>
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<p><br/> This last week saw the launch of the new <a href="http://craftspace.co.uk/shelanu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shelanu</a> collection of jewellery at the <a href="https://theassayoffice.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Assay Office</a>. It is so good to see that they are producing a quality product and I was pleased to be able to introduce them to potential outlets in the Jewellery Quarter.</p>
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<hr width="50%"/><p><br/> I went up to Derby last weekend to meet with Rachael Colley. Neither of us had visited the city before and had wanted to go purely on the strength of the industrial areas which the train passes through on the way between Birmingham and Sheffield! We were not disappointed.</p>
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<p><br/> Strangely, the highlight for me was lunch at the <a href="http://www.yafflecafe.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yaffle Cafe</a> and bookshop.</p>
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<p><br/> A proper, old-school radical bookshop with a vegan cafe attached! This reminded me so much of my student days and I couldn't have been happier to discover "Barleycup" on the menu and that all the food was basically brown... It was like the 1980s all over again and the radio even played Joy Division to make the illusion complete. What a place!<br/> <br/> There are some very odd things in Derby. I particularly liked the joke shop which specialises in wedding supplies:</p>
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<hr width="50%"/><p><br/> Sunday saw a night out at the <a href="https://www.ikon-gallery.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ikon gallery</a> for music by <a href="http://www.jothomas.me/en/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jo Thomas</a> playing music inspired by Daphne Oram, Delia Derbyshire and others. We also got to see the legendary visual synthesiser developed by Daphne Oram, the "mini-oramics":</p>
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<p><br/> Highlight of the evening for me was getting to see a live performance by <a href="http://www.olivialouvel.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Olivia Louvel</a>. I've been wanting to see her since reading <a href="http://thequietus.com/articles/22355-olivia-louvel-interview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this interview</a> with her in <a href="http://thequietus.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Quietus</a> and was not disappointed. What a compelling performance for live voice and electronics with visuals, all about the creative spirit of Mary, Queen of Scots. You can hear some of the music on her <a href="https://vimeo.com/album/4287533" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vimeo page</a>.</p>
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<hr width="50%"/><p><br/> Delighted to have been selected for the <a href="https://www.wienerschmucktage.at/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2018 Wiener Schmucktage</a> in, of course, Vienna, Austria. I was representing the UK, which is very exciting, with this piece made from old clay pipes from the Thames:</p>
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<hr width="50%"/><p><br/> I've been focusing a lot on litter and waste recently. It is depressing to walk about and see through the autumn branches, mixed up in the dropped leaves, low-grade litter: cans, bottle-tops, cups, crisp-packets, things just dropped or dumped because people couldn't care less.</p>
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<p><br/> But it is not just that. Cars, fridges, shopping trolleys, clothes... all this and more, just dumped in the street, an anthropogenic mess.<br/> <br/> What has been making me think about this waste?<br/> I'm working on a collaborative project with jeweller, <a href="http://www.dr-jewellerydesign.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dan Russell</a>, of whom I have previously written <a href="https://wringhim.blogspot.com/2017/07/the-heat-is-on.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>, exploring the ubiquity of waste in the environment.<br/> <br/> More on this project soon.</p>Triple Paradetag:crafthaus.ning.com,2018-10-19:2104389:BlogPost:5854062018-10-19T12:30:00.000ZRebecca Skeelshttp://crafthaus.ning.com/profile/RebeccaSkeels
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<p><strong><u>The Triple Parade October 2018.</u></strong></p>
<p>The Triple Parade event, opened on the 19<sup>th</sup> October 2018, organised and run by Sun Jie and the TRIPLE PARADE Biennale Organising Committee, HOW Art Museum-Design Center, College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University, Shanghai</p>
<p>This is the fourth edition of Triple Parade, with the first established in 2013. This year’s theme and dialogue was across the Past, the Present, the Future. The programme…</p>
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<p><strong><u>The Triple Parade October 2018.</u></strong></p>
<p>The Triple Parade event, opened on the 19<sup>th</sup> October 2018, organised and run by Sun Jie and the TRIPLE PARADE Biennale Organising Committee, HOW Art Museum-Design Center, College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University, Shanghai</p>
<p>This is the fourth edition of Triple Parade, with the first established in 2013. This year’s theme and dialogue was across the Past, the Present, the Future. The programme included a conference, exhibition and a series of workshops and talks.</p>
<p>The exhibition is running until the 5<sup>th</sup> February 2018, this is the biggest exhibition and event so far includes over 500 jewellery pieces from makers from 34 countries and regions on display in the How Art Museum. The exhibition is broken into various parts of the four sections. 1, Intimate Encounter, 2, Like Attracts Like, 3, Arty Game and 4, Viva La Different.</p>
<p>Rebecca Skeels curated the UK work for the exhibition, spoke about the past present and future of Jewellery in the UK at the conference and provided a paper on her own research and reasons for selection of the works for the catalogue.</p>
<p>The conference included presentations from curators, educators, makers, organisations and historians from around the world, creating a great debate around the past, present and future of the jewellery industry. Collaboration, supporting each other and creating a future for those learning and passionate about the industry is high on the agenda, with the Triple Parade events, Sun Jie and his team bringing together those passionate about the industry and opportunities that are to come.</p>
<p>Venue: HOW Design Center (3rd Floor of HOW Art Museum) 1, Lane 2277 Zuchongzhi Rd., Shanghai 201203, China <a href="https://tripleparade.org/tp2018/">https://tripleparade.org/tp2018/</a></p>
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<p><br></br> The wisdom of the "Ladybird Leaders" book, <b>Sounds</b> by Alan P. Sanday and illustrated by Bernard H.Robinson, published 1975. I wonder what his record is? In 1975, there were some…</p>
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<p><br/> The wisdom of the "Ladybird Leaders" book, <b>Sounds</b> by Alan P. Sanday and illustrated by Bernard H.Robinson, published 1975. I wonder what his record is? In 1975, there were some <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_in_music" target="_blank" rel="noopener">choice releases</a>, including <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Graffiti" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Physical Graffiti</a> (Led Zeppelin), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubycon_(album)" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rubycon</a> (Tangerine Dream), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow_Belongs_to_Me_(album)" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tomorrow Belongs To Me</a> (The Sensational Alex Harvey Band), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wish_You_Were_Here_(Pink_Floyd_album)" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wish You Were Here</a> (Pink Floyd), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiscreet_(Sparks_album)" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Indiscreet</a> (Sparks), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discreet_Music" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Discreet Music</a> (Brian Eno), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siren_(Roxy_Music_album)" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Siren</a> (Roxy Music), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Young Americans</a> (David Bowie)... It seems that some of my absolute favourite music was released in this year and this is only a scattered selection.<br/> <br/> I've never been much enamoured of the concept of "Britpop", loathing both Oasis and Blur with equal venom, foolishly ignoring Elastica because Justine Frischmann was tainted with whiny Damon Albarn (I've got over that one now) and only really enjoying one Pulp album, This Is Hardcore. At that point, I was immersed in obscure electronica of the sort produced by Toshimaru Nakamura, the post-pop of Stereolab and Black Box Recorder and the industrial of the re-emergent Einsturzende Neubauten and Laibach. There are clear links between this and the list above from 1975.<br/> <br/> It is a bit surprising that the first band to be christened with the title of "Britpop", was Suede with their swooping, falsetto vocals, strings, unexpected melodies and a plundering of British pop history which was so far from obvious, unlike the crass thieving of Oasis or the oh-so-clever fake barrow boy shtick of Blur. Suede managed to make pop music which is British without being obvious, wearing their references clearly but not ripping anyone off or being smugly intellectual: Bowie, The Associates, The Smiths, Roxy Music... All my favourites. Brett sang of British things like class: class warriors, not class tourists (Blur) or anachronistic class stereotypes (Oasis) and of the claustrophobia of urban life. Not an album went by without mention of disenfranchised youth, desperate drugs and desperate sex, road systems and traffic.<br/> <br/> This week, I got round to buying the latest Suede album, released last month, inspired by a review on my favourite music website, <a href="http://thequietus.com/articles/25392-suede-interview-the-blue-hour" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Quietus</a>.<br/></p>
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<p><br/> And it is fantastic. Everything is there that should be there: the disaffection, the swooping vocals, swelling strings, angular guitars and memorable melodies but while there are discreet songs, this is a <i>concept album</i>... Complete with orchestra, choirs, spoken word parts, a story about a missing child, or, perhaps, the missing child that we lose when we become adults.<br/> <br/> I've listened to this every night since it arrived. Especially wonderful is the track pair, "Chalk Circles/Cold Hands" which has more than a whiff of the "Wicker Man" about it.<br/></p>
<hr width="50%"/><p><br/> I have no idea why author, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Coe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jonathan Coe</a> has passed me by until last month. I found reference to his novel "The Rotters' Club" in an article in The Guardian and bought it, thinking it sounded interesting.<br/></p>
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<p><br/> Since reading that, I've finished "What A Carve Up!" and have just started "The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim". It is a long time since I felt so compelled to read a writer's entire output. These books are political, cultural, humorous, warm and easy-to-read, yet are written with enormous literary intelligence, with endless references, quotations and allusions, often in differing styles. (The last chapter of "The Rotters Club" references Joyce's "Ulysses" and is, apparently, the longest sentence in the English language.) There are also references to another of my favourite authors, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alasdair_Gray" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alasdair Gray</a>, in the books I've read so far.<br/> <br/> Like Suede, there is something essentially English about this writing: not the English of Wodehouse or Agatha Christie but the English of "Middle England". (Not to be confused with "Little Englanders".)</p>
<hr width="50%"/><p><br/> On Friday, I went to hear the fantastic <a href="http://www.annameredith.com/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anna Meredith</a> at the Town Hall, a rather sparsely-attended event which was, nonetheless, thrilling.<br/></p>
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<p><br/> Performing with an orchestra, rock drummer, a tuba standing in for a bass player, a guitarist, a superstar 'cellist and electronics, this really defied definition: lying somewhere between rock, rave and Michael Nyman, her music and personality had the whole audience dancing. Here is "Nautilus" to give you an idea...<br/></p>
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<p><br/> Wonderful! And this is it <i>without</i> the full orchestra.<br/> <br/></p>Farnham Craft Month: October 2018tag:crafthaus.ning.com,2018-10-01:2104389:BlogPost:5855822018-10-01T13:00:00.000ZRebecca Skeelshttp://crafthaus.ning.com/profile/RebeccaSkeels
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<p>Farnham Craft Town Celebrates throughout the year with many events, but Organisations and individuals come together each October to highlight activities across Farnham.</p>
<p>Rebecca has worked with the supporters of Farnham Craft Town and Craft Town England to develop the programme for 2018 Craft month as well as run events for the School of Craft and Design and develop two digital network pages to promote Craft Town activities throughout the year.…</p>
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<p>Farnham Craft Town Celebrates throughout the year with many events, but Organisations and individuals come together each October to highlight activities across Farnham.</p>
<p>Rebecca has worked with the supporters of Farnham Craft Town and Craft Town England to develop the programme for 2018 Craft month as well as run events for the School of Craft and Design and develop two digital network pages to promote Craft Town activities throughout the year. <a href="https://issuu.com/uca63/docs/web">https://issuu.com/uca63/docs/web</a></p>
<p>England’s Craft Town</p>
<p>From the University for the Creative Arts to a major museum, exhibition and specialist retail outlets and craft-related businesses, Farnham is home to both world-renowned craft artists and to the next generation of emerging makers. Craft sits at the heart of Farnham’s distinctiveness and this special feature was acknowledged in 2013 when Farnham was designated as England’s Craft Town.</p>
<p>The roots of Farnham’s engagement with craft can be dated back to the time when Farnham exported white clay to the Romans. In the 16th century, potteries in Farnham were major suppliers of pottery to London. But its real emergence as a town with a special leaning towards craft is in the Victorian era and the establishment and great success of The Farnham Pottery, Wrecclesham, with its reputation for the distinctive style of work known as Greenware (so-called because of the copper-green glaze).</p>
<p>Craft across the centuries can be seen and researched from Farnham Greenware in the town’s museum through to the unrivalled collections of the Crafts Study Centre. The New Ashgate Gallery offers a diverse range of craft work for sale and is especially focused on creating opportunities for emerging makers.</p>
<p>Craft is embedded into the fabric, the homes as well as the cultural life of Farnham.<br/> <a href="https://www.farnham.gov.uk/discover/craft-town-england/crafttown">https://www.farnham.gov.uk/discover/craft-town-england/crafttown</a></p>
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<p>...and I'm back at work.<br></br> <br></br> Summer kicked off with a new car:<br></br></p>
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<p>...and I'm back at work.<br/> <br/> Summer kicked off with a new car:<br/></p>
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<p><br/> Yes. I bought a 2-seater Smart Car! It is SO good. We were all over the country this summer and unlike the old car, the air-conditioning works in this one. Also, it doesn't leak when it rains.<br/> <br/> Started off in Brighton - of course - and a trip to West Dean to see Bob Ebendorf there, in excellent spirits as always and so good to catch up:<br/></p>
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<p><br/> We then headed off to Bristol for an ACJ meeting, then to Scotland to see my mum - an event which found us staying in the worst hotel I have ever been in - and travelled back in a leisurely fashion, visiting towns in the borders which I had been to when I was much younger and had not been back to since. Places like Moffat, famous for the sour toffee:<br/></p>
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<p><br/> and the sculpture of a ram in the high-street:<br/></p>
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<p><br/> Unlike the baking hot weather which had preceded the holiday, this dull grey followed us around the whole of Scotland. The rest of the summer was spent in Brighton and Birmingham and the usual nonsense:</p>
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<hr width="50%"/><p><br/> First thing back at work - after the 300+ emails - was the MA Jewellery exhibition which included a recreation of Bjork's "swan" dress in thousands of Iceland shopping bags:<br/></p>
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<p><br/> Made by my Hannah-May Chapman of "<a href="http://www.spamglam.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SpamGlam</a>":<br/></p>
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<p><br/> Also featured was a video with none other than Phil Jupitus being turned into a monster by <a href="https://www.chloehenderson.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chloe Henderson</a>:<br/></p>
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<p><br/> Bridie Lander and I had fun with the sleep inducing wearables by Yueshang Wang:<br/></p>
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<p><br/> My own favourite work was environmental, with Jingyao Sun's work made from dead leaves:<br/></p>
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<p><br/> And Haochen Chi's work in single-use plastic bags:<br/></p>
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<p><br/> Both really looking at the transformation of the materials.<br/></p>
<hr width="50%"/><p><br/> A very brief trip to Lichfield, which is lovely, to visit a magnesium casting plant. I've not been to Lichfield before and will take a longer visit soon. The mediaeval cathedral is incredible.<br/></p>
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<p><br/> I particularly enjoyed the "Kings of England" arrayed across the front! <br/></p>
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<hr width="50%"/><p><br/> A very quick visit to see my old colleagues in Glasgow at Glasgow Kelvin and City of Glasgow colleges (it rained, of course), I was horrified to discover that the awful bronze statue "The Spirit of St. Kentigern" which used to sit in Buchanan Street and which my friends and I referred to as "the flying jobby" has reappeared. I was delighted some years back when it disappeared and I imagined that the ugly sub-Henry Moore had been quietly retired but it is back:<br/></p>
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<p><br/> Tucked away in the car-park at the back entrance to the City of Glasgow College. Not sure what the college did to deserve this. I still think it is hideous but my art-critical language has improved since I was 14!<br/> <br/> (The sculptor was one Neil Livingstone, about whom I can find nothing.)<br/></p>
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<p>Opening night at the new V&A in Dundee.</p>
<p><br/> I was on my way to Dundee for the Handmade By Machines conference, held in Dundee University, where I was presenting a paper on "Technofreaks and Technophobes". The conference was excellent and saw an expansion of the event from an exhibition some ten years ago to an exhbition and symposium in 2013 and now this major event with an exhibition at the MacManus arts centre.<br/> <br/> The programme was really varied with friends and colleagues, as well as new speakers. Sandra Wilson kicked us off with her researches into retrieving precious metals from mobile phones, a project in which she is collaborating with Edinburgh University department of chemistry:<br/></p>
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<p><br/> We heard presentations from a wide range of makers, mostly about their practice. Antje Hiller spoke about her work using digital technology to make medical products more appealing:<br/></p>
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<p><br/> Bin Dixon-Ward spoke about her concept of "digital cities" and how grids in her work reflected some of this:<br/></p>
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<p><br/> The coup of the event was definitely getting Wendy Yothers to come over from the US to talk about her practice and meeting her for dinner afterwards was the highlight for me.<br/> <br/> My own talk was not about making but about the philosophy and politics of technology and how we should be thinking about teaching it. You can read it <a href="http://www.wringhim.co.uk/HMBM2018/DA_HMBM2018.docx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.<br/> <br/> The exhibition afterwards was excellent.<br/></p>
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<hr width="50%"/><p><br/> New students have all returned. We had an amazing ice-breaker this year where they all had to turn newspapers into wearable costumes, working in groups. The results were amazing!<br/></p>
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<p><br/> Here is a video of the final parade:<br/></p>
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<hr width="50%"/><p><br/> It was also time for our unique programme, the BA Jewellery and Silversmithing Design for Industry (DFI for short) to celebrate 10 years since it first began. This is the course which was so good that we stole the idea when I was still in Glasgow: convert a 2-year HND qualification into a BA with a 1-year technology- and business-based course. It's been run by Claire Price since the outset and it has produced some very well-known makers.<br/></p>
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<p>It was lovely to see so many people from the industry turn up for the reception:<br/></p>
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<p><br/> I think that they were most impressed that Claire had laid on Gin & Tonic instead of the usual wine!<br/></p>
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<hr width="50%"/><p><br/> FINALLY! Took a trip to London with the new students this week to see the legendary Goldsmiths' fair. Unfortunately, I was so engaged with talking to people (<a href="https://www.chrisbolanddesigns.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chris Boland</a>, <a href="http://www.jonathanmathewboyd.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jonathan Boyd</a>, <a href="https://www.susihines.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Susi Hines</a>, <a href="http://www.stephanieholt.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Steph Holt</a>, <a href="https://hazelthorn.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hazel Thorn</a> and <a href="https://www.lukasgrewenig.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lukas Grewenig</a> were all there) that I forgot to take many photographs.<br/> <br/> Kevin Gray introduced me to the pleasingly eccentric <a href="https://www.ryanmccleansilver.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ryan McClean</a> who shot these beakers out of a cannon:<br/></p>
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<p><br/> The videos of these being made are fascinating:<br/></p>
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<hr width="50%"/><p><br/> I'll end on an autumnal shot from my ride into work earlier this week:<br/></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">For the artists exhibiting here, these ideas are imbued with cultural resonances, often informed by the distances travelled – personally, as well as geographically. Yearning for the familiar has led some to search out materials that bear poetic traces of home – autumnal leaves, flawed concrete, reflective acrylic – whereas others have used their practice to prise open and probe the rupture in their lives created by the migrations that they have made. They have been taking in soundings, contemplating jewellery’s capacity to carry narrative, to communicate their ideas and challenge thinking. And yet, amongst all this variation and divergence, can we see evidence of a central value around which jewellery oscillates?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://www.chloehenderson.co.uk/chimera">www.chloehenderson.co.uk/chimera</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400;"><strong>Chun Cheng</strong><br> Earrings: <strong>Interpersonal Connection</strong>, 2018<br> Acrylic, elastic cord.</span>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Dantong Huang</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Necklace: <strong>Kinetic Energy</strong>, 2018</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400;"><strong>Haochen Shih</strong><br> Ring: <strong>Regeneration</strong>, 2018<br> Plastic bags, acrylic, sliver.</span>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400;">Instagram: @flora__shih</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400;"><strong>Yasi Hu</strong><br> Necklace: <strong>My Uncanny</strong>, 2018<br> Silicon, resin.</span>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400;"><strong>Jiaqi Zhang</strong><br> Brooch: <strong>Food, Fat, Anxiety</strong>, 2018<br> Brass, sugar, spray, resin.</span>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400;">chearzhang@foxmail.com</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400;"><strong>Jingyao Sun</strong><br> Brooch: <strong>Leaf Cycle</strong>, 2018<br> Leaves, copper, brass.</span>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://www.serendipityjingyao.wordpress.com">www.serendipityjingyao.wordpress.com</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400;"><strong>Ji-Ru Lin</strong><br> Necklace: <strong>Variation</strong>, 2018<br> Jesmonite, silver, silk, mesh tube.</span>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://www.yjlinstudio.com">www.yjlinstudio.com</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400;"><strong>Mengjing Tian</strong><br> Ring: <strong>Reframe</strong>, 2018<br> Acrylic, resin, copper wire, cotton thread.</span>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400;">Instagram: @tiantiantianmj</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/398964336?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="500" class="align-center" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/398964336?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024"></a><img width="500" class="align-center" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/398966920?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024"><strong>Yi Mu</strong><br> Set: <strong>What Affects your Perception of Things?</strong>, 2018<br> Acrylic sheet, gilding.</span>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400;">Instagram: @yimujewellery</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400;"><strong>Naomi Clarke</strong><br> Brooch: <strong>Magnetic Memories</strong>, 2018<br> Vitreous enamel, steel, bocote wood, tulipwood, neodymium magnets.</span>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://www.NWClarke.com">www.NWClarke.com</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/398968201?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="500" class="align-center" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/398968201?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024"></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400;">Ningjue Ji<br> Necklace: <strong>Your scarring is beautiful</strong>, 2018<br> Thread, cotton, beads, fabric, brass.</span>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">instagram: @jue_l</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">lery</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Prim Li</strong><br> Necklace: <strong>Second ”skin”</strong>, 2018<br> (PLA), silicon rubber.</span></span>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://www.primjewellery.com">www.primjewellery.com</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Qixuan Jin</strong><br> Necklace: <strong>The Relationship Between Movement and Colour</strong>, 2018<br> Fabric, acrylic.</span></span>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/jinqixuan">www.facebook.com/jinqixuan</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/398978462?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="500" class="align-center" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/398978462?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024"></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Spam Glam<br> Necklace: <strong>Time Capsule Creations</strong>, 2018<br> Plastic Iceland bags, textile, thread, tape, glue.<br> Photo by: Greenlandphotography</span></span>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://www.spamglam.com">www.spamglam.com</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Xingxing Yu<br> Necklace: <strong>Colourful Plants and Negligible Defence</strong>, 2018<br> Sponge, plaster, felt, lycra.</span></span>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://www.yxxjewellery.com">www.yxxjewellery.com</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Xinrui Fu</strong><br> Earrings: <strong>Vision of Depth</strong>, 2018<br> Acrylic, resin, brass, silver, rope.</span></span>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Instagram: @shunyuifoo</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Yahan Fan</strong><br> Brooch: <strong>Bubble Pop</strong>, 2018<br> Acrylic, TPU, PVC.</span></span>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">1975729524@qq.com</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Yanyu Chen</strong><br> Ring: <strong>B1 3PA</strong>, 2018<br> Concrete, resin, silver, jesmonite.</span></span>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Instagram: @angelia_chennn</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/398993283?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="500" class="align-center" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/398993283?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024"></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Zihan Zhou</strong><br> Brooch: <strong>Gold Tag</strong>, 2018<br> Brass, gold plating.</span></span>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">z.h.zhou@outlook.com</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Yiji Pan</strong><br> Necklace: <strong>Light</strong>, 2018<br> Acrylic</span></span>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Instagram: @pianchor</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Yueshan Wang</strong><br> Head Piece: <strong>Soothing Cocoons</strong>, 2018<br> Wool, silk, pearl, faux.</span></span>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Instagram: @shaniawang_syzm</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Yuexin He</strong><br> Necklace: <strong>Remains</strong>, 2018<br> Resin, eggshell, silver, gold plating.</span></span>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Instagram: @yuexin_he</span></span><br />
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<div class="description"></div>Join us at the Reception for Not-So-Lone Star Studios: A Gathering of Texas Makerstag:crafthaus.ning.com,2018-08-23:2104389:BlogPost:5801552018-08-23T19:49:52.000ZKathleen Janvierhttp://crafthaus.ning.com/profile/KathleenJanvier
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<p>Not-So-Lone Star Studios: A Gathering of Texas Makers<br></br> Curated by Kathleen Janvier and Natalie Macellaio<br></br> <br></br> Exhibition | August 21 - September 21, 2018 <br></br> Reception | Friday, September 14, 6-8 pm</p>
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<p>Not-So-Lone Star Studios: A Gathering of Texas Makers<br> Curated by Kathleen Janvier and Natalie Macellaio<br> <br> Exhibition | August 21 - September 21, 2018 <br> Reception | Friday, September 14, 6-8 pm</p>
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<p>Brookhaven College <br> Forum Gallery, F101 <br> 3939 Valley View Lane <br> Farmers Branch, TX 75244</p>
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<p>Not-So-Lone Star Studios: A Gathering of Texas Makers connects 37 artists currently residing in Texas whose creative practices engage in the conceptual dialogue of Contemporary Jewelry and Metalsmithing. As a rule, artists have been invited through a word-of-mouth selection process resulting in promising overlaps and differences of opinion.</p>
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<p>Immediate observations reveal issues of vulnerability and protection, the body and memory, nature and industry, sustainable materials and indifferently found objects. In truth we may not share much. Our chosen materials and tools may span continents and centuries, but the belief we have in the value of things is enough to make introductions and pick up the dropped threads of a long conversation; one that acknowledges the intimacy of small things, the boldness of worn statements, and the tactile communication of objects.</p>
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<p>Exhibiting Artists: Corey Ackelmire, Haydee Alonso, Harlan Butt, Kat Cole, Nicole DesChamps-Benke, Nathan Dube, Diane Falkenhagen, Laritza Garcia, Heidi Gerstacker, Robly Glover, David Griffin, Jan Harrell, Rene Henry, Kathleen Janvier, Anne Jones, Masumi Kataoka, Sarah Loch-Test, Ana Lopez, Criselda Lopez, Natalie Macellaio, Edward Lane McCartney, Jeffrey McGee, Tamar Navama, Beverly Penn, Sarah T. Roberts, Lauren Selden, Helen Short, Nancy Slagle, Jillian Sortore, Olga Starostina, Rachelle Thiewes, James Thurman, Umut Demirguc Thurman, Jess Tolbert, Erin Turner, Melissa Walter, Pilar Zornosa<br> <br> (Image) Beverly Penn, Twelve Months Time: Pittisporum Artense; Haydee Alonso, Inter-acting</p>From Melanie To Melaniatag:crafthaus.ning.com,2018-07-18:2104389:BlogPost:5791122018-07-18T17:30:00.000ZThe Justified Sinnerhttp://crafthaus.ning.com/profile/TheJustifiedSinner
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<p><br></br>What a few weeks!<br></br>First off was the visit to the <a href="https://www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/show-2018/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">RCA Graduate Show</a> to see the work by my friend and colleague,…</p>
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<p><br/>What a few weeks!<br/>First off was the visit to the <a href="https://www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/show-2018/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RCA Graduate Show</a> to see the work by my friend and colleague, <a href="https://www.anthonywongjewellery.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anthony Wong</a>. I have barely seen him since he started the MA at the RCA two years ago and I was intrigued to see what he would come up with.</p>
<p>I was not quite prepared for this, however! Nor, I learned, was he. As a British citizen, born in Liverpool to Chinese parents, he was surprised to find himself in a cohort of students who were Chinese and born in China, awakening his interest in the lives of his parents and, specifically, the Blue Star Line which brought them to the UK. This photograph gives absolutely nothing but an overview of the depth of the work, which features not only metalsmithing and jewellery but text and graphics as well, all exquisitely made.<br/> <br/>Also in the show was <a href="https://www.ionamccuaig.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Iona McCuaig</a>.</p>
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<p><br/>Iona has made a body of work which challenges the notion of "value" in the education she received at the RCA. A bold move, but one which paid off and which resulted in a witty and varied selection, playing with her background in traditional jewellery and allowing her to gently take the piss out of some of the famous artists who preceded her (such as Zandra Rhodes).<br/> <br/>I also loved the work of <a href="https://www.rca.ac.uk/students/kelly-toode/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kelly Toode</a>:</p>
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<p><br/>Combining ideas about armour and tailoring. Quite wonderful. The dress on the left, above, is tufted, like a rug:</p>
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<p><br/>On the jewellery front, I got a chance to catch up with Jonathan Boyd on his meteoric rise (currently acting head of Jewellery and Metals at the RCA).<br/> <br/>We didn't have a lot of time to see the rest of the disciplines, but I am glad I went to Ceramics - normally, I avoid ceramics: I don't get it and there are to many ugly lumps of clay for my tastes. However, this year, I was thrilled to find the work of <a href="https://www.ianthompsonceramics.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ian Thompson</a>:</p>
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<p><br/>Nothing to add to this. These are fantastic and utterly compelling.</p>
<hr width="50%"/><p><br/>After this, we wandered across London in the baking heat to get to New Designers, the annual festival of graduate design talent.</p>
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<p><br/>The School of Jewellery stand was expanded this year to include some work by my HND students - the ones who are leaving with an HND and not progressing to the BA - and some of the horologists:</p>
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<p><br/>I was in a bit of a dual role here, supporting the students of the School but also in terms of making introductions to the students who have been awarded our new <a href="https://acj.org.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ACJ</a> School prizes. (The ACJ is giving a free one-year membership to a star student on each of the jewellery and silversmithing courses run around the UK.) These prizes are awarded at the discretion of the teaching staff in each institution and it was great to see some of them present at New Designers. First one I encountered was the voluble and engaging <a href="https://klimt02.net/calimerojewels/morrant-ailsa-moment-come-moment-too-late-treasured-moment-hope-street-2018" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ailsa Morrant</a> from Glasgow School of Art:</p>
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<p><br/>Glasgow is increasingly presenting top-notch work, which is great to see.</p>
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<p>Pin Yak Tin from Sheffield Hallam University produced a body of work which I found to be quite challenging and controversial, seeming to play with tropes of BDSM:</p>
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<p><br/>I asked her about this and she staunchly defended the work as being about her own internal monologues, about how it prevented the outside from getting in, which, in my mind, opens up a whole other series of issues. A very successful collection!</p>
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<p><br/>Also at Sheffield, I loved Paige Newall's work in Whitby jet and fossils:</p>
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<p><br/>Off to Dundee, Duncan of Jordanstone, and another ACJ prize-winner, <a href="https://www.dundee.ac.uk/degreeshow/2018/workondisplay/jewelleryandmetaldesign/ievajankovska/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ieva Jankovska</a> who is making fascinating work from 3D printed models of muscles in motion while she grinds enamel and then using sections of that model to create work in conjunction with the enamel, fired onto metal. It sounds complicated and contrived but the work is lovely:</p>
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<p><br/>This is where the show became really interesting... I kept bumping into students who had been studying on my course in Glasgow the year I left, which was also the year that the Scottish Government decided that we could no longer run our degree. What a pleasure to see how far these people had come since their brief time with me.<br/> <br/>First up, again at Dundee, was <a href="https://www.dundee.ac.uk/degreeshow/2018/workondisplay/jewelleryandmetaldesign/erindyer/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Erin Dyer</a>, with a lovely collection of fine jewellery:</p>
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<p><br/>I then bumped into <a href="https://nicolafabianhotmailcom.portfoliobox.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nicola Fabian</a> at Edinburgh College of Art:</p>
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<p><br/>Also at Edinburgh was the fantastic work of Hongzhi Zhu:</p>
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<p><br/>Not visible here, these little "mouths" have details such ass tongues and teeth!<br/> <br/>In a surprising revelation, I met with <a href="http://www.ukyoungartists.co.uk/news/newdesignerswinner2018" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jasmine Brown</a>, partner of my collaborative partner, <a href="http://www.dr-jewellerydesign.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dan Russell</a>, showing her collection of deeply political brooches, verging on badges:</p>
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<p><br/>I particularly love "Hello! I am an Intersectional Feminist".<br/> <br/>Outside of this year's graduates were some remarkable works in the "One Year On" section, featuring people who had been making more work in the year since graduation. I fell in love with the work of <a href="http://www.gsa.ac.uk/m/degree-show-2017/profile-miki-asai/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Miki Asai</a> in Japanese lacquer and traditionally-associated materials:</p>
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<p><br/>Also in this area, <a href="https://en-gb.facebook.com/romanystarrsjewellerydesign/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Romany Starrs</a> (best name ever!), one of my ex-students, now working as a self-employed designer and maker. What a pleasure to see her again:</p>
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<p><br/>I've been a fan of <a href="https://www.rosiedeegan.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rosie Deegan's</a> conceptual craft work since I saw it at Lustre some time ago and it was a real surprise to find her in the "One Year On" section as I thought she had graduated some time ago. Impressive to have achieved so much in such a short period of time. Her most recent work is exploring her concept of the "pink tax", the idea that pink objects cost more than objects in other colours, relating this to feminist thought in a rather brilliant display of elegant and witty cast-glass:</p>
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<p><br/>The last thing at New Designers which particularly appealed was pointed out to me in advance by <a href="https://skfritte.wixsite.com/samuelritte" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sam Ritte</a>, a graduate of Plymouth College of Art with whom I have been in conversation over the last few years. He suggested that I check out Hereford College graduate, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/tomnicolson.artist/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tom Nicolson</a>, and I was not disappointed... his massive iron collars are based on ancient African forging techniques and are compelling:</p>
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<p><br/>Wolverhampton!<br/>I've never been to Wolverhampton before but it is a short ride on the tram from Birmingham city centre to go and see "<a href="http://www.wolverhamptonart.org.uk/whats-on/melanie-tomlinson-ghost-horses-guns/">Ghost Horses and Guns</a>", an exhibition of work by my friend and colleague, <a href="http://www.melanietomlinson.co.uk/">Melanie Tomlinson</a>.</p>
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<p><br/>Melanie is primarily an illustrator but has moved into three dimensions, making illustrated work in metal, wood and automata. For this show, she worked with groups of young people from around Wolverhampton and with a group of refugees. This formed the first part of the exhibition and is marvellous:</p>
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<p><br/>Using her metal-embossing techniques, she got the participants to create "2.5-D" portraits of themselves which were then exhibited. Unfortunately, what with there being a world-cup football match on at the same time as the opening, none of them turned up to see their work displayed so amazingly!<br/> <br/>All of Melanie's work tells stories: from the appearance of mystery lights in the sky over a residential suburb of Birmingham, through a love affair between punks in the back of a wrecked Reliant Robin car, to the animals which roam the streets as we sleep (including the five white horses of the exhibition title).</p>
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<p><br/>A fantastic show and worth travelling to see.<br/>It was great to catch up with Melanie and her partner, as well as Deirdre from Craftspace, who opened the exhibition.</p>
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<p><br/>Time again for the collaborative exhibition "<a href="http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/what-we-do/make-your-future/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Make Your Future</a>", setting makers from the School of Jewellery in place as tutors and mentors to school teachers and pupils in a variety of schools around the West Midlands. Working with the Crafts Council and the School of Jewellery, some of our tutors and some of our students worked with teachers and class groups to teach them skills which they can use in their craft, design and art teaching, all things which are under deliberate attack by a philistine government.</p>
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<p><br/>The atrium of the school filled up with makers, proud parents and teachers for a show of what is possible even under the most dire of circumstances and a collection of brilliant work.</p>
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<p><br/>To London and the Carnival Of Resistance!<br/>So, the odious Donald Trump was in town to hold hands with the incompetent Theresa May and to be boorishly rude and patronising to HM The Queen. (Jewellery fans: a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2018/jul/18/was-the-queen-sending-coded-messages-to-donald-trump-via-her-brooches-absolutely" target="_blank" rel="noopener">good article here</a> about how The Queen may have subtly slighted the monster with her brooches. Shades of Madelaine Albright.)</p>
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<p><br/>Some people, 250000 of us in London alone, decided that we couldn't let that go unmarked and someone in the weather department turned on the sun for us as we crossed London to Trafalgar Square, bearing all manner of wittily scurrilous banners. There is something about the Great British Protest that is really inspiring:</p>
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<p>And a LOT of "Handmaids". I am not sure what Margaret Attwood would make of that, but she might like this:</p>
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<p><br/>Under His eye.</p>Graduate Show, 2018tag:crafthaus.ning.com,2018-06-27:2104389:BlogPost:5781882018-06-27T12:30:00.000ZThe Justified Sinnerhttp://crafthaus.ning.com/profile/TheJustifiedSinner
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<p>Time once more for the School of Jewellery Graduate Show, the chance for our students to stop being students and show off what they have done with their shiny new qualifications. It feels like a bumper year, too.<br></br> <br></br>The graduate…</p>
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<p>Time once more for the School of Jewellery Graduate Show, the chance for our students to stop being students and show off what they have done with their shiny new qualifications. It feels like a bumper year, too.<br/> <br/>The graduate show ran for a week with two private views, one for "Friends and Family" and one for our industry partners, each having a very different character. The graduates themselves ran the first "Friends and Family" night with a band, a rather excellent bar (with sponsorship from local Purecraft Bar), band and introduction from our own starry Chancellor, Lenny Henry!</p>
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<p><br/>Lots of proud mums and dads, grandparents, partners, siblings and friends. An excellent night all round.<br/>The industry night had a rather different complexion, it also being the night of our prize-giving when the jewellery, horology and gemmology trade, as well as designers and makers and supporting organisations generously give prizes for the best work in the show.</p>
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<p>Over 42 prizes were awarded from the industry both locally and internationally, including from <a href="https://www.hswalsh.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HS Walsh</a>, <a href="https://theassayoffice.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Birmingham Assay Office</a>, <a href="https://www.bettsmetalsales.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Betts Metal Sales</a>, <a href="http://www.westonbeamor.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Weston Beamor</a>, <a href="https://www.acj.org.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Association for Contemporary Jewellery</a>, <a href="http://www.andrew-macgowan.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Regent Silversmiths</a>, <a href="http://www.scottishgemmology.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Scottish Gemmological Association</a>, <a href="https://bmi.org.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Birmingham And Midland Institute</a>, <a href="http://www.cartier.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cartier</a>, <a href="https://www.maunindustries.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Maun Industries</a> and many, many more.</p>
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<p>Of course, in order to win these prizes, the work has to be exceptional and this year's show is very strong. Here are just a few favourites from some of our most interesting exhibits:</p>
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<p>Overall, an excellent show.</p>
<hr width="50%"/><p><br/>Last week, we had a visit from the estimable Nicolas Estrada. I've been a fan of Nicolas' work for many years - I own one of his carved rock-crystal pendants, "Suffering" - and we've been in touch with each other for over a decade but have, to date, never met, so hanging out with him in the Jewellery Quarter has been a real pleasure.<br/> <br/>He was in Birmingham to work with our MA Jewellery and Object students on their presentations for their final show and to speak at one of Sian Hindle's "Talking Practice" events.</p>
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<p><br/>It's been music galore here for me and I've been making the most of the <a href="https://www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Royal Birmingham Conservatoire</a> opening festival to hear new music and discover new composers. My new favourite composer is Jennifer Walshe, a woman who sings like a broken sampler and writes music for electronics, video and traditional instruments. She is personable and charming - seen above in conversation with Sean Clancy - but her music swings wildly between the humorous and the harrowing, indeed this sign was posted outside the concert hall:</p>
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<p><br/>Well worth hearing. Here is a video of her from YouTube:</p>
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<p><br/>On Monday, it was a whole afternoon and evening of <a href="http://www.fitkin.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Grahan Fitkin</a>, largely in partnership with harpist, <a href="https://www.ruthwall.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ruth Wall</a>. It was brilliant to turn up early for the main concert and to be treated to a guitar and harp duo and a percussion quartet in the foyer beforehand. The main reason for me to go along was to hear "Hard Fairy" live and I wasn't disappointed. What a thrilling piece! However, I also really loved the harp pieces too: one harp, two harps, four harps, prepared harps, harps and electronics, harp and saxophone... you get the idea.</p>
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<p><br/>Here is a performance of "Hard Fairy" from YouTube.</p>
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<p><br></br>It's been a very busy month as the students finish off their work for the final shows and we start to make all the preparations. There hasn't been so much on - a couple of concerts with the…</p>
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<p><br/>It's been a very busy month as the students finish off their work for the final shows and we start to make all the preparations. There hasn't been so much on - a couple of concerts with the <a href="https://cbso.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CBSO</a> performing works by the great Russians, Prokofiev (5th Symphony) and Shostakovich (10th Symphony) which, of course, were stellar - as well as some interesting performances. The month kicked off with a talk by <a href="http://www.andrewlogan.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Andrew Logan</a> at the <a href="http://www.rbsa.org.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RBSA</a> Gallery in the Jewellery Quarter. I love the enthusiasm and positivity of Andrew: someone who doesn't take himself too seriously but who has been a serious mover and shaker in the British alternative art world since the 1970s.</p>
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<p><br/>Regular followers will remember that I went to the 25-year Anniversary of Andrew's museum in Welshpool, Wales. You can read about this <a href="https://wringhim.blogspot.com/2016/08/music-for-hedges.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.</p>
<hr width="50%"/><p><br/>I represented the School of Jewellery at the prestigious <a href="https://jewelleryquarter.net/jqbid/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jewellery Quarter Business Improvement District</a> Levy Payers' Dinner, which was held at the training restaurant of <a href="https://www.ucb.ac.uk/home.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University College Birmingham</a>, the food entirely cooked and served by students... and it was first-rate. I had heard previously that the food was excellent and I was not disappointed.</p>
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<p><br/>It was great to meet some new faces and spend some time with people I knew from the quarter in a relaxed and pleasant environment.</p>
<hr width="50%"/><p><br/>For family reasons, I had a very brief meeting with my mum, brother and sister, as well as various nephews, partners, and all the other acoutrements of modern families. It was great to see everyone again, even if the reason for the meeting with the family was not fundamentally a positive one:</p>
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<hr width="50%"/><p><br/>As usual, there has been lots of music, including the excellent "<a href="https://www.kitdownes.com/Projects/Enemy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Enemy</a>", a jazz trio who performed at the Birmingham Conservatoire:</p>
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<p><br/>You can hear them here:</p>
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<p><br/>I've also been immersing myself in the history of <a href="https://www.spoonrecords.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Can</a>.</p>
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<p><br/> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/may/07/all-gates-open-story-of-can-rob-young-irmin-schmidt-review" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The book</a> by Rob Young and Irmin Schmidt is highly recommended. (As is the <a href="https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/holger-czukay-cinema/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Holger Czukay box set</a>!)</p>
<hr width="50%"/><p><br/>I took the advice of a colleague at work and went to the Birmingham Rep to see a performance of a piece called "<a href="https://www.birmingham-rep.co.uk/whats-on/the-string-quartets-guide-to-sex-and-anxiety.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The String Quartet's Guide To Sex And Anxiety</a>" by Calixto Bieito, of whom I had previously not heard. I read that it contained a complete performance of Ligeti's second string quartet and a performance of Beethoven's 11th Quartet - not one of the late ones, but still interesting enough.<br/> <br/>The set was nice.</p>
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<p><br/>What a wretched piece of theatre. Not only were the string quartets interrupted by angst-ridden monologues, I actually started to be embarrassed by the fact that the really very good actors were having to declaim the dreadful crap. It was like listening to some self-indulgent neurotics talking about their own ghastly lives with no chance to change the subject.<br/> <br/>I suspect the self-indulgence is wholly on the part of the director.</p>
<hr width="50%"/><p><br/>I was down in Brighton for both bank-holiday weekends and the weather was great. Unfortunately the roads down and, more particularly, back up, were not so great!</p>
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<hr width="50%"/><p><br/>We had a staff night out last week and went to the <a href="http://www.birminghambrummies.co/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SPEEDWAY</a>!</p>
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<p><br/>I loved it. I thought I would enjoy it but it was really fantastic.<br/>This all started as part of <a href="https://www.johnwigley.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Wigley's</a> "<a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-736142991" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hidden City</a>" in which the staff of the University record their thoughts and feelings about an aspect of Birmingham which is normally overlooked. (I recorded one about going to the fruit and vegetable market in Digbeth, which you can hear <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-736142991/hidden-city-digbeth-market-dauvit-alexander-jewellery" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.) He invited <a href="http://www.drewmarkou.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Drew Markou</a> to do the talk - amusingly, Drew thought he was going to have to ride one of the bikes!</p>
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<p>Turned out to be too noisy to make a recording.</p>
<hr width="50%"/><p><br/>As mentioned at the top, the graduate shows are looming and we've been doing the photography for promotional materials. One of the more challenging items to photograph was this broadsword, made by one of my students, Kai-Blu Triassi:</p>
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<p><br/>Modelled by fellow student and battle re-enactment expert, Sofie Macearnuig.</p>
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<hr width="50%"/><p><br/> <a href="http://www.frictionarts.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Friction Arts</a> brought us one of the oddest and most affecting things I've seen in a long time with their "Everything Must Go", a strange work based in the old wholesale produce market in Digbeth, being closed down after trading for nearly 900 years...</p>
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<p><br/>It was an odd event, kicking off with an opportunity to explore the market in a kind of mass "urban exploration" for about an hour, discovering installations by a variety of artists hidden in old deep-freezes or on boarded-up units:</p>
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<p><br/>Everyone was then gathered together and a performance ensued:</p>
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<p><br/>All about the daily life of the market.<br/>There was a nude poet tied to a fruit barrow:</p>
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<p><br/>And a tap-dancer, shuffling away to an out-of-tune "Lullaby of Broadway"...</p>
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<p><br/>As we left, we shook hands with the workers who said "Goodbye" to us all.<br/>Fantastic and very sad.</p>
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<hr width="50%"/><p><br/>Went to Sheffield to meet with Rachael Colley and track down the only cheese made in the city, "<a href="http://www.sheffieldcheesemasters.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Little Mester</a>", a Camembert-like surface-ripened cheese which is eaten young.</p>
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<p><br/>Needless to say, we had lunch here and talked about cheese with the knowledgeable fellow in the picture above. I think he was a bit surprised that we had chosen to visit Sheffield specifically to find his cheese! While I was there, I discovered another Sheffield speciality of which I had never previously partaken:</p>
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<p><br/> <a href="http://www.hendersonsrelish.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Henderson's Relish</a>! It is like Worcestershire Sauce (slightly lighter body, less salty) but is completely vegan: no anchovies. I brought a couple of bottles back, adding it to my growing list of how Sheffield has made my life better: The Human League (pre-Dare, including their work as "The Future"), Cabaret Voltaire, Pulp, Tony Christie, Moloko, stainless steel... !<br/> <br/>I also caught up with Cóilín Ó Dubhghaill, always a pleasure.<br/> <br/>Coming up, our graduate show.</p>Mother Makers interview with Art Jewelry Fourmtag:crafthaus.ning.com,2018-06-03:2104389:BlogPost:5772482018-06-03T13:10:23.000ZMother Makershttp://crafthaus.ning.com/profile/MotherMakers
<p>We are delighted to share this interview by Sandra Wilson of Mother Makers for Art Jewelry Forum!</p>
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<p>We are delighted to share this interview by Sandra Wilson of Mother Makers for Art Jewelry Forum!</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We are pretty excited to have Minna Dubin publish in our peephole section of the blog!</span></p>
<p><a href="https://mothermakersblog.wordpress.com/2018/05/08/the-relentlessness-of-morning/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">https://mothermakersblog.wordpress.com/2018/05/08/the-relentlessness-of-morning/…</a></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We are pretty excited to have Minna Dubin publish in our peephole section of the blog!</span></p>
<p><a href="https://mothermakersblog.wordpress.com/2018/05/08/the-relentlessness-of-morning/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://mothermakersblog.wordpress.com/2018/05/08/the-relentlessness-of-morning/</a></p>
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<p style="background-color: transparent; color: #3d596d; font-family: &quot; noto serif&quot;,georgia,&quot;times new roman&quot;,times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px 0px;">Minna Dubin is a writer, performer, and educator in Berkeley, California. She is the founder of <a style="color: #00aadc;" href="http://momlists.tumblr.com/">#MomLists</a>, a literary public art project, which she is working on turning into a book. Her writing has been featured in Parents Magazine, Huffington Post, MUTHA Magazine, The Forward, and various literary magazines and anthologies. When not chasing her children in circles around the dining room table, she is eating chocolate in the bathroom while texting. You can follow her lists about motherhood here:</p>
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<p><br></br> I've been on holiday. Brighton again and this bizarre easter chick. To be fair, it was in the window of an "adult shop". The weather was absolutely stinking, rain, cold, only one decent day and that felt more like an early autumn day than a late spring…</p>
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<p><br/> I've been on holiday. Brighton again and this bizarre easter chick. To be fair, it was in the window of an "adult shop". The weather was absolutely stinking, rain, cold, only one decent day and that felt more like an early autumn day than a late spring one.<br/></p>
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<p><br/> Back to work now and Birmingham has been swathed in rain and fog and I've barely had a chance to get out to the garden.<br/> <br/></p>
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<p><br/> Rattling through the events as they unfolded, we kicked off after Easter with a talk by Alessandra Costanza, a new lecturer at the School of Jewellery and an expert on Connemara marble, she teaches Gemmology, unsurprisingly. Her talk was fascinating.<br/></p>
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<p><br/> Next, we had the closing event for the Subterranea exhibition in the Vittoria Street Gallery (see <a href="https://wringhim.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/a-wake.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> for the opening event). Nuala Clooney had very kindly made sweets for each exhibitor, sweets which reflected the work. By far my favourite were the liquorice buttons which she made for Bridie Lander's black mirror pieces. The work:<br/></p>
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<p><br/> The sweets:<br/></p>
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<p><br/> Delicious! I ate too many of these.<br/> <br/> The IAAF Medals just keep returning! This time in the form of two sets, one presented to the School of Jewellery and one presented to the designer of the medals, Menna Jones.<br/></p>
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<p><br/> Here are Stephen Bottomley - Head of School - with Leader of Birmingham City Council, Ian Ward, giving the medal set to Menna.<br/></p>
<hr width="50%"/><p><br/> The weather broke for the week of <a href="http://flatpackfestival.org.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Flatpack Film Festival</a> and Dingo came to visit in rather summery temperatures and mostly sunshine, which was great. We kicked off the week with the bewildering "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_Is_a_Four-Letter_Word" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Work is a Four-Letter Word</a>", shown at <a href="https://www.theelectric.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Electric</a> (the oldest continually-operational cinema in Europe, having been showing films continuously since 1909!). Featuring the talented David Warner, the talentless Cilla Black and with a soundtrack by Delia Darbyshire, this surrealist tale, set in Birmingham, features magic mushrooms, an evil corporation and an exploding power-plant. What more could you ask for?<br/></p>
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<p><br/> This song, it seems, split up The Smiths.<br/> Shame about Morrissey, isn't it?<br/> <br/> Tuesday night brought a stellar showing of the 1922 Swedish silent film, "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A4xan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Häxan</a>", a film about witches and witchcraft. The film was narrated with subtle humour - which is present in the intertitles - by Reece Shearsmith and was given a live soundtrack by multi-instrumentalist, <a href="http://stephenhorne.co.uk/biography/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stephen Horne</a>, who also got the subtle humour: just how <i>do</i> you score a film in which witches kiss the devil's bum?<br/> <br/> The whole thing is available on YouTube, should you wish to see it, but this was definitely worth seeing in this unique performance.<br/> <br/> Here's the trailer!<br/></p>
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<p><br/> Next up was a very odd film indeed, "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unarius_Academy_of_Science" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Unarius - The Arrival</a>", starring a space-version of Mollie Sugden! With music from <a href="https://twitter.com/shottivangorod?lang=en-gb" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scott Johannsson</a>, played on his Russian AELITA synthesizer from the 1980s and ending with a lovely version of Suicide's "Dream Baby, Dream".<br/></p>
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<p><br/> The film itself is a propaganda piece for some whacked-out millenial cult which believes in UFOs... If it hadn't been for the soundtrack, I am not sure I could have tolerated more than about five minutes of it.<br/></p>
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<p><br/> Should the lure of Space Mollie Sugden prove irresistible, you can see her here:<br/></p>
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<p><br/> After this mind-bending experience, I was to be further confounded by the latest offering from Sellotape Cinema, of whom I have written before, several times. This time, they were presenting a film to the soundtrack of a found cassette, featuring the odious Genesis P. Orridge discussing the making of a film "Decoder" - of which, more later - set to their incomparable visuals.<br/></p>
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<p><br/> The Sellotape Cinema project was called "Recoder", here being introduced by Steve, one of the members of the collective.<br/> <br/> Needless to say, this was followed by a showing of "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decoder_(film)" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Decoder</a>", which 'stars' F.M. Einheit (of Einstrurzende Neubauten) and Christiane F. (yes, that one) and has a soundtrack by Soft Cell.<br/> <br/> The film struck me as a kind of paranoid European equivalent to the contemporary "Liquid Sky". I'm not sure if I liked it or not.<br/></p>
<hr width="50%"/><p><br/> During the week, things went on as usual at work. I photographed my final-year students for their Graduate Show Catalogue, taking advantage of the sunny weather:<br/></p>
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<p><br/> We also had our interim show of work by the MA students:<br/></p>
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<p><br/> In which Hannah-May Chapman showed us her latest monsters:<br/></p>
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<p><br/> I do like these!<br/> The piece above that is made from layered, dried leaves and set with fine wires. It is going to be a good final show, I feel.<br/> <br/> After that came our Artist-in-Residence show, an exhibition of the work made by the artists-in-residence during their last 9 months with us. It is really interesting to see what has developed:<br/></p>
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<p><br/> Shown above is work by Andy Mariott, <a href="https://www.racheljonesjones.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rachel Jones-Jones</a> and <a href="https://www.timontio.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Timon Tio</a>. For some reason, I didn't get round to photographing some of my favourite work, which is that of Matt Gale. I will get that posted next time around.<br/></p>
<hr width="50%"/><p><br/> This last week has been a week of music for me. Kicking off with a rare performance of Morton Feldman's compelling trio for flutes, percussion and piano/celeste, "Crippled Symmetry" at the <a href="https://www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Royal Birmingham Conservatoire</a> was just ravishing.<br/> <br/> I returned to the Conservatoire later in the week for "Entanglement! An Entropic Tale", an opera about quantum physics...<br/></p>
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<p><br/> A new work by composer, Daniel Blanco Albert, with a libretto by Roxanne Korda, a mezzo-soprano with the most compelling voice who also sang the role of "Entropy". It is hard to know what to make of the piece, which I thoroughly enjoyed musically but which left me a bit cold (heat death?) in that I couldn't really accept the premise of the anthropomorphic sub-atomic particles. Everyone in it was brilliant - especially Korda - and it was a pleasure to sit back and enjoy the sound.<br/></p>
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<p><br/> Saturday brought much more familiar musical territory with the CBSO performing Shostakovich's 10th Symphony.<br/></p>
<hr width="50%"/><p><br/> Freezing cold again today but I managed to get a bit of gardening work done.<br/> <br/> More soon!</p>CraftBoston Springtag:crafthaus.ning.com,2018-04-14:2104389:BlogPost:5758362018-04-14T16:00:00.000ZLindsay Mishttp://crafthaus.ning.com/profile/LindsayMis
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<p><strong>Cyclorama @ Boston’s Center for the Arts</strong><br/> 539 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02216<br/> <br/> <strong>Preview + Benefit: Makers in the Round</strong><br/> Thursday, April 19, 2017 / 6pm-9pm</p>
<p><strong>Show Hours</strong><span> </span><br/> Friday, April 20, 2018 / 11am to 7pm<br/> Saturday, April 21, 2018 / 10am to 6pm<br/> Sunday, April 22, 2018 / 11am to 5pm<br/> <br/> CraftBoston Spring is a selective display of 90 artists presented in the Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the Arts. A charming 19th-century brick building, the Cyclorama provides an intimate showing and shopping experience. Featuring one-of-a-kind art, CraftBoston Spring ensures craft of the highest caliber. Spend the day looking at and learning about contemporary craft, meet the artists, and take home something fabulous.<span> </span></p>
<p><span><strong>WHEN:</strong> April 20-22, 2018<br/> <strong>WHERE:</strong> Cyclorama @the Boston Center for the Arts<br/> <strong>WHAT:</strong> 90 local and national craft artists exhibit and sell handmade wearable art, furniture, decor + more<br/> <strong>TICKETS:</strong> General Admission $15<br/> Seniors/ Students - $12<br/> Society Members - $7.50<br/> Kids 12 + Under - free</span></p>
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<p>This last fortnight saw me off to the <a href="https://www.uca.ac.uk/life-at-uca/locations/farnham/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">University of the Creative Arts</a> (UCA) at Farnham for the conference organised by <a href="http://skeels.co.uk/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Rebecca Skeels</a>, "Future Craft:…</p>
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<p>This last fortnight saw me off to the <a href="https://www.uca.ac.uk/life-at-uca/locations/farnham/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of the Creative Arts</a> (UCA) at Farnham for the conference organised by <a href="http://skeels.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rebecca Skeels</a>, "Future Craft: Entrepreneurship or Enterprise", a great chance to catch up with old friends - <a href="https://www.elizabethshawjewelleryobjects.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Liz Shaw</a>, <a href="https://www.anastasiayoung.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ana Young</a>, <a href="https://www.dundee.ac.uk/djcad/staff/profile/sandra-wilson.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sandra Wilson</a> and <a href="http://www.karen-anndicken.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Karen Dicken</a> - and to listen to some of my favourite makers talk about their practice, including <a href="http://www.daphnekrinos.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daphne Krinos</a> and <a href="http://aditoch.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Adi Toch</a>. It was also an opportunity to meet with and think about aspects of my own practice and especially my teaching practice and a conversation with <a href="https://www.rca.ac.uk/students/emily-ohlund-14416/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Emily Öhlund</a> proved to be very interesting, talking about dyslexia and dyspraxia.<br/></p>
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<p><br/> In a certain sense, the conference lost the focus of the theme and became about the makers' own experiences of developing their practices, but this in itself was both useful and fascinating, from David Poston's view that once trained as a designer, even if one thinks of oneself as a jewellery designer, it is possible to develop a much larger career as a "design thinker", through to Vicky Ambery-Smith's acknowledgement of a somewhat hand-to-mouth existence as a maker.<br/></p>
<hr width="50%"/><p><br/> Went to London with Dingo over the following weekend to pick up my shoes from The Old Curiosity Shop. It was bitterly cold and London seemed deserted. We walked past a remarkable building which I had not spotted before, "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Kemble_Street" target="_blank" rel="noopener">One Kemble Street</a>" and its adjunct, CAA House, both by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Seifert" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Richard Seifert</a>, another stunning example of brutalist architecture at its very best:<br/></p>
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<p><br/> This week also brought the staging of a new opera, "The Wake", especially commissioned by <a href="https://www.birminghamopera.org.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Birmingham Opera</a> from Italian composer, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Battistelli" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Giorgio Battistelli</a> - apparently the "greatest living composer" in Italy - of whom I had never previously heard. (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/mar/15/wake-review-birmingham-opera-company-breathe-life-into-lazarus-tale" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Guardian</a> pointed out that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvatore_Sciarrino" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Salvatore Sciarrino</a> might be better known!) In keeping with the house style of the company, it was staged in an abandoned warehouse with a wandering audience and a community chorus and the principals were all fantastic. The orchestra were fantastic. The staging was fantastic. The audience were fantastic...<br/></p>
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<p><br/> The music, however, was a mess.<br/> None of it is actually bad. Some of it is excellent - the broken, Schnittke-esque "spiritual" in the middle is quite brilliant - but none of it really hangs together. It made me think of calculus, where sampling any given moment yields something quantifiable (and interesting) but the sum of the parts tends towards zero.<br/> <br/> It is a re-telling of the biblical story of Lazarus with strangely pointless moments of homophobia and police violence and while Graham Vick and his cast of thousands worked hard to create something amazing, it failed to thrill. It almost failed to rise about "moderately interesting", which is a great shame.<br/></p>
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<hr width="50%"/><p><br/> Our Talking Practice at the School this week was <a href="http://www.reytan.de/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Denise Reytan</a>, a jeweller who works with scrap materials to create pieces and photographic installations which bridge jewellery and fashion.<br/></p>
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<p><br/> She's been working with the BA students and I will post some of the resulting photographs soon.<br/></p>
<hr width="50%"/><p><br/> My own students have been working with the BA Illustration students to create graphic works based on themes derived from the Jewellery Quarter. They had a selling show this week:<br/></p>
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<hr width="50%"/><p><br/><a href="http://blogs.bcu.ac.uk/vittoriastreetgallery/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vittoria Street Gallery</a> hosted an exhibition of work by staff and alumni of the School, "Subterranea", a collaboration between <a href="http://www.drewmarkou.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Drew Markou</a>, Bridie Lander, <a href="http://www.racheldarbourne.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rachel Darbourne</a> and <a href="http://nualaclooney.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nuala Clooney</a>. Part performance, part exhibition, the show consisted of jewellery and objects and about 10 kilos of handmade marshmallow, which was served to the guests!<br/></p>
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<p><br/> Although I love the work of all the makers, my favourite piece in the show has to be Rachel Darbourne's monkey-body neckpiece. Which I would wear.<br/></p>
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<p></p>Future Craft: March 2018tag:crafthaus.ning.com,2018-03-14:2104389:BlogPost:5854972018-03-14T13:00:00.000ZRebecca Skeelshttp://crafthaus.ning.com/profile/RebeccaSkeels
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<p>Rebecca initiated and managed the Future Craft Conference, Exhibition, Publication and Networking. Future Craft was the first in a series of biennial conferences that will offer an opportunity for discussion, engagement and debate across a broad continuum of craft.</p>
<p>The ‘Entrepreneurship or Enterprise?’ conference will celebrate the continual innovation of the jewellery and silversmithing industry, learning, development, business and variety of contexts and…</p>
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<p>Rebecca initiated and managed the Future Craft Conference, Exhibition, Publication and Networking. Future Craft was the first in a series of biennial conferences that will offer an opportunity for discussion, engagement and debate across a broad continuum of craft.</p>
<p>The ‘Entrepreneurship or Enterprise?’ conference will celebrate the continual innovation of the jewellery and silversmithing industry, learning, development, business and variety of contexts and markets it inhabits.</p>
<p>This conference seeks to provide a framework for a discussion on and around Jewellery and Silvermsithing ‘Entrepreneurship or Enterprise?’ by celebrating present achievements and looking forward to exploring what the future might hold.</p>
<p>The next ‘Future Craft’ conference is to be hosted by Queensland College of Art Griffith University in Australia.</p>
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<p><br></br> A musical week, mainly, kicking off with the astonishing world-premiere performance of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Barry_(composer)" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Gerald Barry's</a> Organ Concerto by the…</p>
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<p><br/> A musical week, mainly, kicking off with the astonishing world-premiere performance of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Barry_(composer)" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gerald Barry's</a> Organ Concerto by the <a href="https://cbso.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CBSO</a>, conducted by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Ad%C3%A8s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Thomas Adès</a>. Part of the most satisfying programme of music I've encountered in a long time, kicking off with Britten's "Sinfonia da Requiem": I've struggled with Britten for a long time and just gave up even trying to understand or enjoy his music sometime in the late 1980s, so it was interesting to hear this piece again after avoiding his work for so long and finding that I really enjoyed it. Time to re-appraise.<br/> <br/> The main event, for me, was the Gerald Barry piece, which didn't disappoint. A riotous mess of sound, infuritating, funny, cantankerous and thrilling. It is hard to explain how the piece actually worked and I wanted to hear it all over again the second it finished: it is broadly programmatic and deals with the composer's early years working as a church organist but that is all gleaned from the hilarious programme notes, which include this image:</p>
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<p>The image appears alongside the gnomic comment,</p>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">There are always unexpected triggers in writing. For instance, I know a cat who lives in Washington Square in New York. His name is Blue Gadoo and he's a very peculiar cat. I saw a photograph of him in a book called "Sex and the Sacred in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde". By his expression, I knew he was mourning the loss of atonality. So I put his fight for atonality against tonality into the concerto.</blockquote>
<p>This was followed - after an interval to allow us to recover - by Adès' "Polaris", beautifully realised with the distant brass on the very top tier of the Symphony Hall, and Stravinsky's "Symphony in Three Movements", all superbly played.</p>
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<p><br/> <br/> Friday night brought a visit to <a href="https://www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoire/hire/venues/the-lab" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Lab</a> at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, the experimental music space with sound-spacialisation technology, to hear bassist <a href="http://www.chrismapp.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chris Mapp's</a> "<a href="https://gonimoblast.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gonimoblast</a>" and "<a href="https://stillefelt.bandcamp.com/releases" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stillefelt</a>" perform in a remarkable concert. Stillefelt Trio were up first, a gentle, meditative concert which felt like a showcase for the exquisite trumpet-playing of Percy Pursglove, not only a master of "Sketches of Spain"-era Miles Davis tone, but also of an holistic approach to extended technique. Quite wonderful.</p>
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<p><br/> Gonimoblast are a quartet of players, including percussion, electronics and keyboards, who were augmented by a brass section of five players on trumpets and trombones and who managed to make one almighty, exciting noise, part-composed, part improvised, the brass functioning - as Mapp explains in the notes - as an "ensemble within an ensemble".</p>
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<p><br/> Pursuing my casual interest in marginalised crafts, I headed off to "<a href="http://www.thecraftycowonthegreen.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Crafty Cow</a>" in Castle Bromwich to meet with Kiarna of "<a href="https://www.instagram.com/houseofmacrame/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House of Macrame</a>" for a lesson in... macrame! (No sniggering: The Guardian, in 2016, declared, "<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/mar/12/modern-macrame-craft-interiors-portland-emily-katz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Macrame Is Hip Again</a>".)</p>
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<p><br/> This was a tiny class - just three of us - and I really got into it. I hadn't realised quite how meditative it would be and I found myself really, really enjoying it. We started off with a simple series of knots:</p>
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<p><br/> By the time I had learned the "Monkey Head" knot, I was away!</p>
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<p><br/> Plant-holders next!<br/> Anyone interested should get in touch with Kiarna as she is running the classes regularly.</p>
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<p><br/> Saturday night brought another concert, this time one in keeping with the week in which International Women's Day falls: a concert of music by women composers, played by women musicians. "<a href="https://www.illuminatewomensmusic.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Illuminate</a>" is organised by <a href="https://angelaslatercomposer.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Angela Elizabeth Slater</a> (in the red jacket in the photograph above), a composer herself.<br/> <br/> Of the composers featured, I had only heard of two previously (three if you count Claude Arrieu, the gender of whom I had mis-attributed!) - Yfat Soul Zisso and Lilli Boulanger - and, if I am being honest, I struggle to think on many female composers... Gloria Coates, Ethel Smythe, Judith Weir, Hildegarde von Bingen: that is four off the top of my head but I could reel off literally hundreds of male composers.<br/> <br/> The concert was fantastic - a selection of fourteen pieces by eleven composers, some contemporary, some historic - all tiny chamber works which gave the event the feel of a "tasting menu", a superb way of getting a feel for the composers. It was performed superbly by <a href="https://kesiadecote.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Késia Decoté</a> (piano), <a href="http://www.cassandramathews.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cassie Matthews</a> (guitar), Sabina Virtosu (violin) and <a href="https://gemmamcgregor.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gemma Mcgregor</a> (flute/shakuhachi).<br/> <br/> Looking forward to more in this series.</p>
<hr width="50%"/><p><br/> After my post two weeks ago about re-reading Don Delillo's "White Noise", I've now finished that and started on Alexander Langland's "Cræft", an investigation into the meaning of craft. I've only just started - kicking off with an account of the wisdom of Alfred the Great - but can already tell that I am going to enjoy it.</p>
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<p><br/> <br/> More once I've finished reading.</p>
<hr width="50%"/><p><br/> Some months ago, I sponsored the legendary Czech film-maker, Jan Švankmajer, to make his last film, "Insects". I've loved Švankmajer since I saw "Dimensions of Dialogue".</p>
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<p><br/> This film is compelling, funny and disturbing, and, as I subsequently found out, this is the pattern for all his work. His work has influenced so many film-makers, most notably the Quay brothers, and his influence can be seen in television adverts, cartoons, serious films, pop-music videos (The Cure seem to have been especially keen). When the opportunity to help fund his "last film" came along, I seized it: yes, it is sad to know that he will not make any more films, but it is also exciting to have been able to help him realise a vision.<br/> <br/> Last week, an email arrived in my inbox: "Insects" is finished and now available for me to view. Of course, I viewed it. Needless to say, I can't share the video here but you can see the trailer in which Švankmajer explains a little bit about the incredibly complex film, a film about a film about an amateur dramatic group rehearsing an obscure Czech play...</p>
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<p><br/> The film is very different from his other films in that it is also a sort of documentary about the making of one of his films. There are some genuinely horrific moments but also some hilarious ones - who would ever have imagined that vomiting up a cockroach could be funny? - and the whole thing is as demented as I could have hoped. If you get the chance to see it, do.<br/> <br/> In addition to this access to the film before it has been generally released, I have also a signed book of the script and a collection of all his films on disc to look forward to!<br/> <br/> I will leave you with another of his marvellous short films, "Jabberwocky" from 1973:</p>
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<p></p>Windgate Museum Internship at SAC Bostontag:crafthaus.ning.com,2018-03-08:2104389:BlogPost:5762432018-03-08T18:38:26.000ZBrigitte Martinhttp://crafthaus.ning.com/profile/brigittemartin
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<p>Since our founding in 1897, The Society of Arts and Crafts has been committed to supporting American craftspeople and educating the public about the power of craft. We were the first crafts non-profit established in the US, and continue to fulfill this mission today through our programs: exhibitions; public programs (including an artist-in-residence); a marketplace…</p>
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<p>Since our founding in 1897, The Society of Arts and Crafts has been committed to supporting American craftspeople and educating the public about the power of craft. We were the first crafts non-profit established in the US, and continue to fulfill this mission today through our programs: exhibitions; public programs (including an artist-in-residence); a marketplace gallery; and twice-annual show, CraftBoston. Since the end of the 19th century, we have curated exhibitions of fine contemporary craft and made that work available free to the public.</p>
<p>The Curator is preparing a historical exhibition (working title: Society Through the Centuries) which responds to the Society's history from the 1940s to the 1990s. The historical period of the Society, from 1897 to the 1920s, is well known. Less so are our activities from the second half of the 20th century, an important time in studio craft. Slated for Fall of 2019, this exhibition will focus on the second half of the 20th century from the rise of the studio craft movement to the millennium.</p>
<p>The Intern will work directly with Luiza deCamargo, Associate Curator, in order to provide support for Society Through the Centuries while learning the ins-and-outs of developing research oriented exhibitions in a small non-profit.</p>
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<p>More information: <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="https://societyofcrafts.org/opportunities/item/windgate-museum-internship" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://societyofcrafts.org/opportunities/item/windgate-museum-internship</a></strong></span></p>Awards! Glamour! Events!tag:crafthaus.ning.com,2018-03-04:2104389:BlogPost:5762172018-03-04T17:26:32.000ZThe Justified Sinnerhttp://crafthaus.ning.com/profile/TheJustifiedSinner
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<p><br></br> What a week!<br></br> <br></br> Kicking it all off was the annual <a href="http://www.craftanddesigncouncil.org.uk/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Goldsmiths' Craft and Design Awards</a> in the gilded splendour of…</p>
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<p><br/> What a week!<br/> <br/> Kicking it all off was the annual <a href="http://www.craftanddesigncouncil.org.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Goldsmiths' Craft and Design Awards</a> in the gilded splendour of <a href="https://www.thegoldsmiths.co.uk/company/goldsmiths-hall/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Goldsmiths' Hall</a>. About thirty of us, staff and students, jumped on a bus to London to collect our prizes - not that I personally won a prize, but several of my students and ex-students did.<br/> <br/> Hosted with aplomb by <a href="http://www.theofennell.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Theo Fennell</a>, the awards celebrate all that is great in the UK jewellery industry (I was delighted by the Prime Warden's comments about how we need to be able to say that without being 'brexity'). The work, of course, is fantastic, not just the work from my own colleagues and students.<br/></p>
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<p><br/> With one of my first-year students, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/hamedarab/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hamed Arab Choobdar</a>, taking a silver for his startling CAD design for a ring:<br/></p>
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<p><br/> And with students from BA Jewellery and Object, MA Jewellery and BA Jewellery and Silversmithing Design For Industry, Staff AND our one of our Artists-in-Residence winning prizes, it is hardly surprising that the School of Jewellery won the coveted "College Trophy" for the second year in a row.<br/></p>
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<p><br/> On Tuesday we had the opening of the Staff exhibition in the Vittoria Street Gallery, "In The Loupe 2" - you can read about the secret box format in my previous post <a href="https://wringhim.blogspot.co.uk/2018/02/off-with-his-head.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>. As I hinted in that post, I've been working on something very, very unlike my usual work but first, the fun!<br/> Everyone had 30 seconds in which to open and explain the contents of their box and the contents varied from works-in-progress to pieces made especially for the show and every member of the teaching and technical staff was invited to take part.<br/></p>
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<p><br/> Unfortunately, I forgot my camera and so all of these were taken on my mobile. The shots of the work below were taken later.<br/></p>
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<p>And, of course, I unveiled the work I've been so secretive about since mid-January...<br/></p>
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<p><br/> Based entirely on a page of doodles from a long meeting:<br/></p>
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<p><br/> Made in silver, enamel, CZ and stainless steel.<br/></p>
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<p><br/> I've never thought of myself as someone who works from drawings and I certainly have never taken my doodles seriously: they are sub-conscious or semi-conscious outpourings, which I have always done (I can remember doing them on the back of rolls of wallpaper when I was about 6). Every notebook I own is covered in them, so it was a bit of a surprise when Zoe Roberston suggested I turn them into work. Problem-solving the piece was fascinating and it was a pleasure to be working in more traditional fine jewellery mode again.<br/></p>
<hr width="50%"/><p><br/> Somewhere in the middle of all this, <a href="https://katytromans.weebly.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Katy Tromans</a> won the top prize at this year's <a href="http://www.palazzogiureconsulti.it/eventi/artistar-jewels-2018.kl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Artistar Jewels</a> competition, which is part of Milan Fashion Week:<br/></p>
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<p><br/> Thursday brought a visit to the Birmingham Arena for the <a href="http://www.wicbirmingham2018.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">International Association of Athletics Federations World Indoor Championships</a> opening ceremony, with my student, Menna Jones, designer of the medals awarded at the event. I am not going to post the medals yet again - you can see them <a href="https://wringhim.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/ending-hiatus.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> if you are interested. The very idea of going to a sporting event leaves me cold: I might just about be persuaded to go to a rugby match or to a mountain-bike event, but <i>athletics</i>?<br/> <br/> Menna was part of the opening ceremony, which was amazing. Here she is being interviewed on the big screen:<br/></p>
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<p><br/> I had originally planned to go along for an hour or so, show face, support my students - the two runners-up in the competition, Rachel Bromley and Sofie Macearnuig, were also invited along - and then leave again, but it turned out rather differently. The whole thing was actually rather exciting and we ended up staying until the very end!<br/> <br/> It was the high-jump (men's and women's) and the women's 3000 metres and there is something compelling about seeing these competitors sail elegantly over the bar or strategically hang back for a dash at the end.<br/></p>
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<p><br/> Of course, I probably fail as a sports fan because I want them ALL to do well, not even caring what country they represented!<br/> <br/> It was so good to see the medals finally being presented and worn:<br/></p>
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<p><br/> Unfortunately, outside, it had been snowing...<br/></p>
<hr width="50%"/><p><br/> It has been freezing hard here. I've not been on the bike and my beard froze going to work!<br/></p>
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<p><br/> The poor garden is buried under an unseasonal 150mm of snow and has suffered -8 degrees C. The beans were up, the garlic was up, the artichokes were positively thriving and now this! The only thing I can see is that the artichokes are now looking very wilted indeed.<br/></p>
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<p><br/> SO, a weekend in the house.<br/></p>
<hr width="50%"/><p><br/> Trying out some designs for next year's Goldsmiths' Hall Craft and Design awards!<br/> <br/> Here is a stop-motion video of me making one of the drawings which were the focus of the piece in "In The Loupe 2", mentioned above:<br/></p>
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<p><br/> This one starts off by drawing round a matched - but not identical - pair of smoky quartz. May lead nowhere, but it is interesting.<br/> <br/> Lots of reading and cooking. I've nearly finished Don Delillo's "White Noise" (see last post <a href="https://wringhim.blogspot.co.uk/2018/02/off-with-his-head.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>) and have started this terrifying guide to post-Brexit Britain:<br/></p>
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<p><br/> Set in the town of Scarfolk, somewhere in the North England, somewhere between 1970 and 1979, this is part novel, part cultural critique, part artwork and wholly brilliant. My own theory is that the UK is the only place where surrealism really became entrenched in the national culture and where it is still alive and kicking as a thread running through the mainstream, an especially dark and sinister surrealism: think "Inside Number 9", "League of Gentlemen", "The Bed-sitting Room". This book fits squarely into that mould and is based on the blog "<a href="https://scarfolk.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scarfolk Council</a>", simultaneously hilarious and deeply disturbing, I can't help but imagine that post-Brexit Britain will <i>really</i> be like this.<br/> <br/> More soon!</p>2Roses Monday’s Child - A Weekly Creative Shot in the Armtag:crafthaus.ning.com,2018-02-27:2104389:BlogPost:5757002018-02-27T21:33:18.000Z2Roseshttp://crafthaus.ning.com/profile/2Roses
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<p><span>Venessa Hogge - efflorescent flowers</span><br><br><span>Vanessa Hogge is inspired by all things botanical. She creates dahlias, chrysanthemums, dashes, hydrangeas and daphne in pristine white porcelain and black clay. Her compositions are efflorescent in that they “flower out” as though they were blooms from an internally held salt in water. Hogge’s work demonstrates the wonderful beauty that can be achieved using all white or all black in a piece of work.</span></p>Residencies to USA, Canada, and International Artists to Study Foundry and Pottery Craftstag:crafthaus.ning.com,2018-02-25:2104389:BlogPost:5759662018-02-25T20:03:21.000ZBrigitte Martinhttp://crafthaus.ning.com/profile/brigittemartin
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<p><b>John Michael Kohler Arts Center (JMKAC)</b></p>
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<p>Residencies to USA, Canada, and International individual artists working in all disciplines to explore the practice of foundry and pottery at an arts center in Sheboygan,…</p>
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<p><b>John Michael Kohler Arts Center (JMKAC)</b></p>
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<p>Residencies to USA, Canada, and International individual artists working in all disciplines to explore the practice of foundry and pottery at an arts center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. The purpose of this residency is to provide artists with technology, resources, and materials to explore new processes, ideas, and perspectives.</p>
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<p>Each year, up to 16 artists are selected for residencies. Residencies run from two to six months in length.</p>
<p><strong>Artists from all disciplines are encouraged to apply.</strong></p>
<p>Artists are selected for residencies that give them access to the resources, technology, and materials of Kohler Co. in the Pottery and/or Foundry areas of the factory in Kohler, WI.</p>
<p><strong>No experience with clay or cast metal is required, just an interest in pursuing a new body of work and being open to new ideas.</strong></p>
<p>Applications for the 2019 residencies will be available from December 1, 2017 - April 1, 2018.</p>
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<p>Before starting your grant application, please review the funding source's website listed below for updates/changes/addendums/conferences/LOIs.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.jmkac.org/explore-discover/arts-industry-program/applications" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.jmkac.org/explore-discover/arts-industry-program/applications</a></p>
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<p>John Michael Kohler Arts Center<br> 608 New York Ave.<br> Sheboygan, WI 53081<br> <br> (920) 694-4548<br> <a href="mailto:artsindustry@jmkac.org">artsindustry@jmkac.org</a></p>
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