Skills funding
Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Neil Stevenson, furniture maker to the Queen, is featured in The Telegraph (24 January 2012) on crafting a business out of necessity rather than inspiration and why traditional manufacturers feel unloved.

Picture by courtesy of The Telegraph.
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Freud Museum portraits
Friday, 20 January 2012
25 January - 4 March
Bro. Jane McAdam Freud is showing her own portraits of her father Lucian at the Freud Museum
20 Maresfield Gardens
London NW3 5SX

Read the article in The Guardian - photo courtesy The Guardian
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Enid Marx
Thursday, 19 January 2012
2 February
The Prints of Enid Marx
Bro. Matthew Eve introduces the remarkable prints of Enid Marx, from her designs for the Curwen Press to her bestiaries of animals.

£7.50 (£6.50 students, £6 Friends)
Book at
http://www.pallant.org.uk/whats-on/events/all-events/2012/february/the-prints-of-enid-marx
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Judith Bluck retrospective
Tuesday, 10 January 2012
13 January - 11 February
An exhibition of Brother Judith Bluck's work will be held at Oundle School, Peterborough

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Gimson ladderbacks
Tuesday, 03 January 2012
Guild chairs are featured on this link http://www.bodgers.org.uk/bb/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1157
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Design Museum
Friday, 09 December 2011
16 November – 4 March 2012
Bro David Birch is showing his teapots at the Terence Conran's 'The Way We Live Now' retrospective exhibition at the Design Museum, 28 Shad Thames, SE1 2YD.

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Christmas Decorations
Tuesday, 06 December 2011
Limited edition Christmas decorations are on show (and on sale) at Contemporary Applied Arts at 2 Percy Street, London W1T 1DD
Bros Vicki Ambery-Smith and Katharine Coleman are among the exhibitors.

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Heritage Crafts Association
Monday, 05 December 2011
The Government agency NIACE want to know how you got into the crafts.
Name:
Location: (Where you are based)
Discipline: (General description of your craft)
How long you have been working as a craft practitioner:
Please describe briefly how you learned your craft:
Detail any training courses you have attended (these can be accredited or non-accredited, from half-day workshops through to degree courses)
Advise any courses which you would like to have access to (include any that may have been discontinued)
State how/where your work is sold: (ie website, galleries, etc).
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Craft Postings
Christmas Sales
Friday, 02 December 2011
Brethren are showing at various Christmas events including:
2-4 December
4 Christmas
Joanna Brendon oils on canvas and works on paper, exploring coast and garden
Bobbie Kociejowski hand-woven scarves, shawls and ties in silk, wool and linen
Annette O'Sullivan sculptural jewellery with texture, colour and found objects
Daniel Smith hand-thrown porcelain tableware; simple shapes, subtle glazes
59 Emlyn Road London W12 9TG
4 & 8 December and through to Christmas
Special events at
Ben Pentreath Ltd
17 Rugby Street
Bloomsbury
WC1N 3QT
8-9 December
Erdem Sample Sale
The Future Gallery
35-47 Bethnal Green Road
London E1 6LA
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Ardizzone Prints
Tuesday, 22 November 2011
14-27 November
A selling exhibitione of limited edition prints by past Bro. Edward Ardizzone. Visit ardizzoneprint.co.uk

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Live Drawing
Friday, 18 November 2011
Short film of a drawing by architectural designer George Saumarez Smith made at the Architecture Foundation as part of the shortlist exhibition for the Young Architect of the Year Award. The film was made by Ben Moore who also made the Three Classicist film at the RIBA last year. The subject is a detail of Sandy Stoddart’s frieze on Richard Green’s new gallery in New Bond Street. Click on the link below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL812QOY05Y&feature=youtu.be
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Printmakers’ Exhibition
Wednesday, 09 November 2011
18 November - 1 December
Bro jenny lagnado is exhibiting at the Printmakers' Council Exhibition at Highgate Gallery

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Open Studio in Winchester
Friday, 04 November 2011
11-13 November 2011
Bro Tracey Sheppard is doing another one ofher successful Open Studios in Winchester joined by Bro Jane Cox and others.

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Clare Hall Gallery
Monday, 31 October 2011
4 November - 18 December 2011
Paintings by Bro Renee Spierdijk at Clare Hall Gallery, Cambridge.

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Birds in Art
Saturday, 29 October 2011
Bro Rebecca Jewell is in three exhibitions celebrating the beauty of birds:

2-23 November
Ghosts of Gone Birds Rochelle School, Arnold Circus, London E8. Groups show about extinct and endangered birds.
10-20 November
The Discerning Eye Mall Galleries, The Mall, London
24 November - 17 December
Birds Becoming Artefacts at the Rebecca Hossack Gallery, 2a Conway Street, London W1T 6BA . Rebecca has collaborated with Bro Noel Stewart in designing some feather hats and tiaras. Noel is a milliner (www.noelstewart.com) and they met at one of the Guild meetings.
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