Exhibitions for hireLife is Very Sweet Jane Wildgoose 18 July - March 2011Life is Very Sweet has been devised by Jane Wildgoose to complement the exhibition Dinner with a Duke.
A beautiful installation of sugar flowers combined with examples of porcelain, portraits, and garden sculpture from the Portland Collection, explores the complicated 18th century conventions for serving dessert. Inspired by the 155-piece dessert service commissioned by Margaret Duchess of Portland, and a set of Chinese watercolours from the Collection that depict porcelain production, Jane reveals the curious story of how the discovery of the secret of porcelain manufacture in the West led to replacement of the intricate sugarwork on the dessert table by fine chinaware.
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Jane’s sugarwork flowers were produced in collaboration with local expert Christina Ludlam and volunteers, food historian Ivan Day, and the School of Artisan Food at Welbeck. Bowers kindly supplied by Darfoulds Nurseries, Worksop. The Jane Wildgoose commissions at the Harley are part of museumaker, a prestigious national project involving sixteen museums across four participating regions. museumaker is supported by Arts Council England (ACE), Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) and its Renaissance Programme. The Harley Gallery Summer Party on 25th July will celebrate the launch of Life is Very Sweet and Dinner with a Duke. More pictures
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Pharmas Market A livestock and produce show by Cleo Mussi 25 August - 17 October 2010‘Pharma’s Market’ is a mosaic installation, the culmination of a two-year research project exploring the contrasting imagery of historical and contemporary farming. It connects traditional ideas about food, agriculture and animal husbandry with modern developments in stem cell research and genetic modification.
Cleo Mussi has an engaging story to tell, and her characters, from life-sized ‘robo-rabbits’ to ‘space scientists’ and ‘bucolic’ farmers, all jostle for their part in the plot. Her stories are derived from the real world of science and medicine, albeit reconstructed through the process of her own particular visual imagination.
Using recycled china to make her extraordinary figures, her surreal sense of humour is where she has made her mark. It’s as if the pieces of china she painstakingly chips at become fragments of DNA in her own genetic rearrangements of nature.
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Helen Denerley Mechanimals: scrap metal sculpture and work on paper 25 August - 17 October 2010
Helen Denerley's sculptures are made from scrap metal using relics of the horse-drawn days of agriculture alongside discarded modern machinery. Some of the parts have been hand-made by blacksmiths and used to farm the land until they are worn out. Based in Strathdon, Aberdeenshire Denerley is surrounded by life, people, plants, animals and birds, all living within the cycle of the changing seasons. This combination of material and subject become the focus of the large sculptures, breathing new life into old metal.
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Creature Feature 25 August - 17 OctoberThis special Craft Shop showcase features work by eight craftspeople who take inspiration from the animal world.
Tableware by Lowri Davies, glass by Julia Linstead, ceramics by Charlotte Cadzow and Jenny Southam, sculpture by Susan O'Byrne and Melanie Tomlinson, jewellery by Clara Francis and origami by Lesley Frew.
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Objects from Creature Feature are available from the Online Craft Shop visit the Harley Gallery to see the whole collection.
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John Makepiece Enriching the Language of Furniture 6 November- 24 December 2010
‘John Makepeace – Enriching the Language of Furniture’ brings together 25 pieces from public and private collections in the UK and abroad, some never before seen in public. Recent work includes designs made in limited editions from a single tree.
With Arts Council England support, audiences have a rare opportunity to view the work and journey of an influential furniture designer. A selection of work from ‘Ripple’ – a chest carved with wave forms penetrating the surface of the oak, from a tree originally planted in 1740 and harvested in 1980, and the ‘Phoenix’ chair combines indigenous holly, oak and burr elm evoking nature’s capacity for renewal.
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Makepeace’s visionary career to date spans 50 years. Inspired by Danish designers, the young craftsman built his own workshop and soon earned national acclaim for retail products for Heals, the Centenary Dining Room for Liberty’s and winning design competition entries. He gained international renown in the 1970s for an educational programme pioneered at Parnham College, which integrated the teaching of fine craftsmanship in wood with design and entrepreneurship. Of the alumni, Sean Sutcliffe of Benchmark and Constantin Grcic have all become leaders in the field. Through the ‘80s and ‘90s, whilst directing the College and running his own studio, Makepeace began to look at some of forestry’s most pressing economic concerns. He brought together foresters, chemists, material scientists, structural engineers and designers to research and develop sustainable new technologies and building systems. They used forest ‘thinnings’: low-value trees of small diameter removed to enable others to develop to maturity. The award-winning buildings at the Hooke Park campus are proof of a most successful cross-discipline collaboration. Since 2000, Makepeace has been leading initiatives with the V&A to encourage more adventurous design decisions both by craftsmen and senior executives. A Devon Guild of Craftsmen touring exhibition
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Nora Fok A Retrospective 15 January 2011 - 20 March 2011
The first ever solo exhibition by the extraordinary jeweller, textile artist and 3D designer Nora Fok will be on show at the Harley Gallery in January 2011.
The artist has established herself as a pioneering maker, crafting her delicate, intricate forms from woven nylon microfilament. Nora makes her work by hand using techniques she has taught herself: knitting, knotting, tying, weaving, plaiting. The list is deceptively simple, her chosen material of nylon monofilament is fine and hard to work but her results are spectacular. These pieces are often very complicated and take many hours, days or weeks to produce.
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