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Comment by Rebecca Skeels on August 21, 2016 at 5:19am

 

British Craft Pavilion

 

The Crafts Council and the London Design Fair are delighted to introduce the first British Craft Pavilion at the 2016 edition of the London Design Festival. The British Craft Pavilion 2016 will showcase a host of designers, makers and crafts people working through a range of mediums such as glass, ceramics and wood to create contemporary craft pieces. Employing intelligent ways of thinking and experimental ways of making, this year's exhibitors are reimagining and reviving British craft.

 

The British Craft Pavilion will showcase more than twenty eminent designers and makers, as part of London Design Fair. Selected by an industry panel, comprising of representatives from Crafts Council, London Design Fair and Grant Gibson of Crafts magazine, the pavilion will showcase Britain's most prominent contemporary craft pieces.

 

Crafts Council and The New Craftsmen present Nature Lab as part of this year's British Craft Pavilion at London Design Fair. An immersive experience, it tells the story of nature transformed by six craft talents.

 

Each maker has developed radical new techniques to transform such everyday substances as wood, sand, salt, clay, flowers and ice into objects of wonder. The six makers in Nature Lab are Eleanor Lakelin; Emily Gardiner; Jochen Holz; Joseph Harrington; Marcin Rusak; and Marlène Huissoud.

http://www.londondesignfair.co.uk/features/british-craft-pavilion?u...

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on August 21, 2016 at 5:17am

Jewellery Quarter on the move again.... http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/hatton-garden-jewellery-distr...

Hatton Garden jewellery district 'faces extinction over Crossrail rent rises'

Huge rent increases ahead of the start of Crossrail services threaten to destroy Hatton Garden jewellery quarter, a local business leader has warned.

Victoria McKay, chief operating officer of the London Diamond Bourse — a trading floor for the precious stones — said there was a growing risk that the community of specialist workshops in Holborn would be broken up.

In the past three years, rents in the area have risen from an average of £35 to £70 per square foot, according to commercial property agency Richard Susskind & Company.

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on August 21, 2016 at 5:15am

Wednesday 17 August – Sunday 4 September 2016

Antenna Gallery, Ground Floor, Wellcome Wing

 

Dress For Our Time by social artist and designer Helen Storey brings the worlds of fashion and data together to create a unique installation that traces the global movement of people who have been forced to flee their homes due to conflict or persecution.

 

This one-of-a-kind dress has been made from a decommissioned UN refugee tent that once housed families in a refugee camp in Jordan. It was given to the project by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

 

Dress For Our Time uses the very latest UNHCR data – which represents the movement of 8 million refugees around the world – to create an animation that is projected onto the dress. The data and the dress work together to highlight the number and location of displaced people around the globe, humanising the numbers by using a point of light for every one hundred human lives.

 

'Worldwide, one in every 113 people on the planet is now either a refugee, internally displaced, or seeking shelter - that's 65.3 million people on the move globally. This project uses the power of fashion to help us connect to what was previously unimaginable, asking how we can all remain a humanitarian in a time of colossal and irreversible change.' – Helen Storey

 

Created by Professor Helen Storey MBE, RDI (London College of Fashion, UAL) in partnership with UNHCR and digital innovation agency Holition. http://www.dress4ourtime.org/

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on August 21, 2016 at 5:12am

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Comment by Rebecca Skeels on August 14, 2016 at 1:03pm

Launching for the first time this year, Handmade Edinburgh is set to become the leading showcase for contemporary craft in Scotland and will take place at The Hub from Friday 28th to Sunday 30th October 2016 (Private View evening on Thursday 27th October 2016).

I’m in touch with some important and exciting news about the event. We’re delighted to say that we’ve managed to negotiate with the venue and we are now able to offer discounted rates for the show! We’ve re-worked the floor plan in your favour, expanding the show and creating new stand sizes with costs to suit all budgets.

Stands cost from as little as £400+vat and include traditional wooden shell schemes, two spotlights and name board. The application process is simple. All you need to do is submit some details about yourself via an online application form plus four images of your work: http://www.handmadeinbritain.co.uk/apply/

Please see the attached information pack for a full list of stand sizes, costs and locations. If you have any questions then please do not hesitate to contact a member of the team on 0203 105 1682.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Best wishes,

Tolani

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Handmade in Britain

0203 105 1682

 

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on August 14, 2016 at 12:59pm

Celebrating a decade of contemporary craftsmanship!
Handmade in Britain's Chelsea shows have become the top contemporary craft selling events for designer makers in Europe and this year we're celebrating with our 10th anniversary show! Browse exceptional crafts, buy unique and original gifts or commission a bespoke piece of work directly from a handpicked selection of the UK’s finest designer-makers.
To celebrate our birthday, we're offering visitors 2 for 1 tickets to show!
To book yours, simply click the button below.
Book your tickets http://www.handmadeinbritain.co.uk/shows/chelsea/buy-tickets/

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on August 14, 2016 at 12:58pm

Maker Assembly
Roco Creative Co-op, Sheffield
31 August 2016

Maker Assembly is a cross-UK series of gatherings that brings together makers, academics and the public to encourage critical discussions about maker culture: its meaning, politics, history and future. The next event will be taking place in Sheffield this August.

Maker Assembly is peer-to-peer, informal and conversational and encourages everyone to participate - with short talks, activities and plenty of room for discussion, there is sure to be something for everyone. Book tickets. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/maker-assembly-sheffield-august-2016...

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on August 14, 2016 at 12:54pm

PLEASE READ BELOW FIRST : 

Application procedure: 

A maximum of 3 clear photographs to be uploaded to a special Dropbox link (see application form). For selection purposes we don’t need professional images, but make sure that the photos are clear: ensure correct focus, use a plain background (please no grass, flowers, pebbles, stones or confusing background). Model shots are acceptable IF they clearly show the piece better than a product-type shot. 

Please try to keep to the format requested in the application form – jpg only, 300dpi, physical size between 8cm & 15cm longest side. 

Your photos may be used in the online catalogue if the standard is high enough. 

Display: not all pieces may be shown at each venue. 

The display team will have the final right of veto if the piece is not up to standard in terms of making, design or finish. In this case the work will be returned to the maker, who will pay the return postage but no participation fee. 

Money: The participation fee is £100. 

This includes return postage of up to £10 per maker (Special Delivery, insured). For return postage totalling more than £10 (including return of any rejected pieces), the excess above £10 will be charged to the maker concerned; this is in case of very high insurance or large or heavy parcels. Makers will pay their own delivery/ postage costs to the photoshoot. 

The £100 fee must be paid to ACJ by 14th November, or the work may not be shown in the catalogue. 

Catalogue: there will be a print catalogue. One page and one image per maker will be included for Visions, with name, title of piece, technique, materials, date of making, dimensions and either website OR email address. 

Sending your parcel: Since your own boxes will not be used, secure and protective parcelling is needed. Please do NOT use polystyrene ‘peanuts’ or an excess of sticky tape. Individual poly bags or bubble wrap with masking tape should suffice. The outer box should be sturdy, and will be used to return work. Do not include business cards or display materials (unless pre-arranged display agreed). Do include the delivery note (to be provided). 

Hallmarking: standard British Hallmarking regulations apply. 

Publicity : your piece may be used in publicity, print materials advertisements, social media, ACJ and other websites and PR campaign elements. Your permission for this is given freely as a condition of entry. If your existing photograph is used, ACJ will credit the photographer, and again your full permission of ACJ usage for PR purposes is a condition of entry. 

Your application includes full acceptance of these terms. 

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on August 14, 2016 at 12:53pm

ACJ 2017 – 20:20 Visions Members’ Show - touring

ACJ is celebrating its 20th anniversary year in 2017. To this end, we are organising a major touring show of excellence, and we’re holding a conference in July.
The exhibition is titled 20:20 Visions, and is in two parts.
20:20 involves 20 notable jewellers who have been involved with ACJ’s developments over the last two decades. These invited guests will show one piece from circa 1997, and one more recent piece. Guests include Jane Adam, Jacqueline Mina, David Poston, Caroline Broadhead, Maria Hanson and ACJ’s Chairs.

Visions is a snapshot of current best work from ACJ members, you are invited to apply.

Parameters: to show the innovative use of process, techniques and materials Work should:

•   Be of innovative and visionary design

•   Have a very high quality of making

•   Be interesting rather than commercial

•   May involve new technology (not compulsory)

•   Must be wearable body adornment

  The intention is to show a range of materials and techniques. Gold & silver are welcome but not compulsory, other materials are equally welcome. It is likely that one piece or a small group of no more than 3 related pieces will be shown for each maker.

  Venues: National Centre for Craft & Design Sheffield Institute of Art

  The Goldsmiths’ Centre, London

  School of Jewellery, Birmingham
  And other venues which have yet to have dates confirmed. The tour ends in February 2018.

  Dates: Deadline for applications 12th October 2016

  Photography of work: mid - November Show opens 14th January 2017
  Tour ends February 2018

  Costs: no application fee.
  Participants will pay £100, which includes:

•   return postage

•   work shown at 5+ prestigious venues across the UK

•   one page entry with photo in the catalogue

•   insurance, transport, a small contribution to overall costs

•   excellent exposure for your work in a very high quality touring exibition

  Deadline 12th October 2016

Terms and conditions of participation
Selection: by a Panel of respected people in the field, appointed by ACJ’s Board of Directors Parameters for submission, see the Call above, plus:

•   Clear photo of the piece or small group proposed – group of 3 pieces maximum

•   Relatively new work

•   Excellent design

•   High quality of design & making, as usual with ACJ exhibitions

   

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on August 14, 2016 at 12:49pm

Game of Thrones Season 7: In-Production Tease
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