To celebrate Cockpit Open Studios, we are showcasing work by seven artisans creating playful homeware, statement making jewellery, socially-aware sculpture and ready-to-wear artwork.
FiredUp4 is working with Adam Partridge to present the third fundraiser auction, being held live and online on 19th Oct 2023. The UK’s leading ceramic artists are donating their work to auction to raise funds to place clay into the hands of the young within the network of Youth Zones across the UK.
Curated by Brian Kennedy, the Cromwell Place exhibition In Residence III features gallery artists & key international artists. It is accompanied by a catalogue with essays by Sean Rainbird, Director of the National Gallery of Ireland & Emma Crichton-Miller, Editor of The Design Edit & fine art writer.
A passion for ceramics: The collectors is the second of a two part investigation where ceramic artist Tim Martin explores the whys & ways private collectors create collections, & how influential the galleries & secondary market are to collectors.
Textures of the Earth - contemporary woodwork & ceramics. Highlighting six makers whose work revels in the textures & forms of the earth, from jagged volcanic shapes to rounded, organic surfaces. Each maker is a craft master, working in dialogue with natural materials to let clay, glaze & wood speak.
Object Lessons with curators/artistic matchmakers Peter Ting and Brian Kennedy - pieces should be chosen not for their value but for the stories they tell us