Joshua Blackburn, who I met during Clerkenwell Design Week, recently launched The Artful Project with his partner Rachel Hotchkiss, selling limited edition contemporary photographic prints. They spotted a gap in the market for affordable prints, either framed or unframed at incredibly reasonable prices (starting from just £75). No need to go to a standard shop […]
Fairs
Jewellery or objet d’art?
Definitions can be very restrictive for any category and jewellery is no exception. This fully articulated parchment fish by Babette Boucher for example, seen on the Marzee stand at Collect, may be worn as a necklace but I was impressed by the painstaking work and sheer craftsmanship of this one-off piece. Look at the inside…so […]
Jewellery from Galerie Ra seen at Collect
Galerie Ra never disappoints in its selection of innovative and thought-provoking makers. Here are only three from a wide range of creators who were on display at Collect. A simple yet clever idea from the kitchen jewellery collection by Gesine Hackenberg – a game as much as a necklace and that’s even before you think about the concept. […]
Upcycling and bikes
Upcycling, bikes and design – what’s not to like? I saw this when popping in to Grand Designs Live to collect some stuff and it was probably my favourite thing there. Harry Dwyer is one of the designers in a TV series Kevin’s Supersize Salvage challenged to use every aspect of a decommissioned Airbus A320 aircraft to make something not […]
The Other Art Fair – featured artists part 3 of 3
Last, but certainly not least, is Rod McIntosh. Trained in sculpture, he now works with gesso and print. There’s a strongly sensual charge to the work which I hope you get a hint of from my photos here. The marks are not on but in his gesso paintings, absorbed into the surface. Rod told […]
The Other Art Fair – featured artists part 2 of 3
Dolores de Sade has complete mastery of her chosen medium, etching, as shown below. Her concerns include the memory, myth and nostalgia of landscape. These prints could, at first glance, come from a Victorian book but reward repeated viewing. “Junction 4, A2” below looks like some exotic jungle. The work exhibited by Emma Davis could […]