Rising Stars 2013 New Ashgate Gallery Farnham 22 March – 4 May 2013

New Ashgate Gallery Trust Waggon Yard Farnham Surrey GU9 7PS 01252 713208 Registered charity no. 274326 newashgate.org.uk twitter.com/newashgate facebook.com/newashgate

Rising Stars 2013 is produced by New Ashgate Gallery Curated by Outi Remes, New Ashgate Gallery, Amy Collins, Farnham Maltings and Rebecca Skeels, University for the Creative Art Catalogue editor: Anna Garrett Cover and design: Ben Mobbs Cover artwork: Paul Stopler, Float, kiln-cast glass Cover photo: Ester Segarra First edition, 2013 Copyright: artists / New Ashgate Gallery Trust. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any other form. Rising Stars 2013 is supported by Billmeir Charitable Trust. New Ashgate Gallery would also like to thank the University for the Creative Arts and the Farnham Maltings.

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Rising Stars 2013: fresh talent and ideas for the UK's arts and crafts Rising Stars 2013 at the New Ashgate Gallery fosters and champions students and recent graduates of BA and MA fine and applied arts programmes across the UK. The Rising Stars exhibition aims to enable new artists and makers to access the market place and collectors during the challenging economic times. Opportunities such as the Rising Stars are now needed more than ever, due to reduced arts funding and as many galleries focus on established names that are less risky than presenting new artists. The artwork in the Rising Stars exhibition is available for sale and every sale supports the artist. In addition to the exhibition, the programme includes a national symposium that supports the professional development of emerging artists. The artists were selected following an open call with an overwhelmingly strong response that resulted in more than 200 applications and enquiries to take part in the project. The submissions were invited from undergraduates, postgraduates and recent graduates as well as from artists who have had a significant break due to personal circumstances. The selection panel consisted of Dr Outi Remes, New Ashgate Gallery, Rebecca Skeels, UCA and Amy Collins, Farnham Maltings.

The New Ashgate Gallery would like to thank the Billmeir Charitable Trust, the University for the Creative Arts and the Farnham Maltings for supporting the project.

Dr Outi Remes Gallery Director New Ashgate Gallery

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Meghan Allbright, Wooly Miro (2012), wool and

metal wire

Meghan Allbright Meghan Allbright is interested in the tenuous relationship between chance and control, which she explores in materials. Through repetitive and process driven actions, she brings the idea to the extreme. Her sculptures exaggerates the characteristics of material. Relinquishing the overall responsibility that is associated with the maker, the artist evokes the corporeality of making. It is through making, repeating and crafting that Meghan's process explores the constricting control of a material. This can ultimately reverse and the material dictates the creator's movements. In its displayed setting, the sculpture is free in movement and allows viewing from altered and transforming views. Meghan is currently working on the idea of objectifying experience, exploring the processes that document the physical trail and travel of a piece. 2012 BA Fine Art with International Studies, Leeds University 2011 Art Practice, Magyar Képzömüvészeti Egyetem, Budapest 2008 Foundation Art and Design Diploma, Bourneville Art College, Birmingham City Meghan Allbright lives and works in Birmingham.

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Caroline Allen, Boring is

Beautiful (2012), silver and found materials

Caroline Allen Interested in the value and hierarchy of objects, Caroline Allen’s work explores the human, empathic relationships we often have with them. By exploring the poetics of the every-day, the work champions the underdog, celebrates the banal and commemorates everyday experiences. Through an investigation into material culture and context outcomes aim to elevate the status of abandoned, lost, and overlooked objects. 2012 BA 3D Materials Practice, University of Brighton Caroline Allen lives and works in Brighton.

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Kathryn Baxter, Status

Series I (2012), crocheted brass wire encased within

hot poured glass

Kathryn Baxter Through her love of handmade processes, Kathryn Baxter explores how extravagant, skilled and flamboyant items can be an expression of power and wealth for some, or the economic survival for others.

Kathryn's works delve into the irony of cultural status within a community and the objects used to illustrate this. In relation to the Status Series, Kathryn was heavily influenced by Elizabethan Ruff Collars. Using a combination of glass and crochet, Kathryn highlights the illusion of grandeur by presenting a contrast of constructive styles within the same piece. Kathryn maintains clarity by hot pouring the glass over each crochet collar. This also controls the amount of bubbling emitted from the encased crochet wire whilst removing the known tension challenges when using metal wire as a glass inclusion. 2012 BA Glass and Ceramics, University of Sunderland Kathryn Baxter lives and works in Ipswich, Suffolk.

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Theo Brooks, Heria 1 (2013), hand blown and

lathe cut glass

Theo Brooks Theo Brooks’ body of work explores the unique relationship between the handmade object and the body. Throughout the process of glassblowing, the hand does not come into direct contact with the molten glass. However, it is the human manipulation of tools and the echoes of breath that produces the glass object. Theo believes by lathe cutting to the different pieces, the evident trace of the ghosting hand becomes more apparent. It also allows Brooks to hand manipulate the object directly, which is of high significance within his work. By cutting the glass via the lathe, Brooks addresses elements such as pattern, texture and a play on light through the movement of his own hands. 2013 Digital and Interactive Design, SCOLA 2011 BA Honours in Three Dimensional Design (Glass), UCA Farnham 2007 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, UCA Epsom

Theo Brooks lives and works in London and Surrey.

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Louise Cloke, Aura Series

(2012), glass

Louise Cloke

Whilst studying for her degree, Louise Cloke became enchanted by the inherent, seductive quality of glass as a medium for expression. Glass is a material which transcends boundaries, being all encompassing. She is inspired by its myriad of colour possibilities and application. Louise's new series of work explores the paradox of beauty and darkness. After studying images of microscopic life forms, she has become fascinated with viruses. She found them to be extraordinarily beautiful both in their startlingly vibrant colours and structure and has endeavoured to capture their essence in the Aura Series. 2012 Post Graduate Cert Ed, Plymouth University 2011 BA Applied Arts, Plymouth College of Art 2009 Foundation Degree Applied Arts, Plymouth College of Art Louise Cloke lives and works in Devon and London.

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Samantha Donaldson, Vug (2012), glass

Samantha Donaldson Samantha Donaldson’s interest lies in rock collections, particularly in the study of rock layering and the craftsmen themselves: skilled at cutting precious stones to obtain the best possible optical effects. Samantha creates one-off, sculptural blown and solid glass forms, exploring scale as well as incorporating harmonious layered colour combinations. Using extensive cutting techniques, Samantha transforms each individual specimen and brings each piece to life. She thrills when seeing the freshly exposed interior, which reveals the captured fragments of each piece’s unique formation. Samantha is intrigued by how the viewer encounters an unfamiliar object of desire. She explores this using the curious lore of this precious material. 2012 MA Ceramics and Glass, Royal College of Art 2009 BA Honours Design Crafts, De Montfort University 2006 Foundation Art and Design Studies, De Montfort University Samantha Donaldson lives and works in Peterborough.

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Anna Garrett, Untitled (2013), acrylic on canvas

Anna Garrett Anna Garrett's paintings derive imagery from advertising. By appropriating these images and translating them into paint, the work questions the falsities behind the visual and manipulative world of advertising and the media. It is the solidarity of painting compared to the ephemerality of the original fleeting image which makes the paintings significant. Her interest lies in how the public or ‘spectators’ are influenced and affected socially by advertising and consumer society-explored through the medium of painting. She uses a simplified and painterly, almost graphic style of painting. This highlights the physicality of the paint, loose brush strokes breathing a new lease of life into the flattened images. The narratives formed within the paintings are ambiguous, yet the characters and settings have a feeling of familiarity. The disconnection and change of context breaks the original meaning, encouraging people to question the importance of the image in the world around them. 2014 BA Fine Art, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham Anna Garrett lives and works in Farnham, Surrey.

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Shaun Grace, Sterling Silver Hand Raised Bowls

(2011), sterling silver

Shaun Grace

Shaun Grace places functionality at the forefront of his design ethos and delights in knowing the silverware is used for the purpose for which it was created. Shaun combines simplicity and complexity with precision geometry to present sleek fabricated utilitarian tableware. Drawing inspiration from contemporary architecture, particularly the concave and convex forms that harmonise within surroundings, Shaun experiments with the interaction between his designs and the consumer, which inspires Shaun to explore movement, perception, line and balance. This is amplified throughout each article of silver. 2012 Post-graduate Professional Development, Bishopsland Educational Trust 2011 BA Silversmithing, Goldsmithing and Jewellery, UCA Rochester Shaun Grace lives and works in London.

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Carlamaria Jackson, The

Three Graces (2012), limited edition of 5 on

aluminium

Carlamaria Jackson Carlamaria's digital prints are inspired by the use of the female nude in western art history, and how feminism has been an influence. She explores how the sexual objectification of women can be compared to the freedom to express one's femininity. Using digital techniques, photography and found images, she works in the same medium that exposes sexualised images of women. Carlamaria focuses on the idea that the objectification of women is primarily in the eye and imagination of the (mainly male) protagonist, and is merely exacerbated by media imagery. She toys with the idea that men see beneath a woman's clothes to the nakedness beneath, focusing on particular body parts that they find attractive. She suggests this is inherently natural, unavoidable behaviour that effectively renders the women a sex object. The artist also explores 'The Gaze' from different perspectives, imitating the human eye where the periphery vision is blurred, symbolizing the anonymity effect of the male gaze. The work is attempting to address the essence of womankind and the intrinsic behaviour of mankind. 2012 BA Fine Art, University of Creative Arts Carlamaria Jackson lives and works in Basingstoke.

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Min Jeong Song, Melting

(2011), furnace worked solid glass, ceramic

transfer

Min Jeong Song Min Jeong Song is interested in the materiality of glass in both physical and metaphorical dimensions. In particular, the fluidity of molten glass allows the maker some control while accepting the element of chance at the same time. The glassmaking process in Song’s work is a way of stylising by abstracting visual elements that are associated with specific cultures. The notion of in-betweeness has been investigated through the analogy drawn from the literal and interpretational dialogue between glass and culture. 2013 PhD candidate, Ceramics and Glass, Royal College of Art 2007 Master of Fine Arts in Glass, Rhode Island School of Design, USA 2004 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Glass, Ohio State University, USA Min Jeong Song lives and works in London and Seoul, Korea.

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Joot, Tanssi kanssani

(Dance with me), (2012), fine art quality print on

paper

Joot

Joot is a Finnish born artist whose emotionally evocative work tells stories of the isolation and defiance that is part of her Finnish heritage. Much of her work deals with our relationship with nature, the theatre of life and the hidden strength of individuals. Joot is a cross disciplinary artist who incorporates in her work not only painting and drawing, but also sound, music, writing and movement. 2010 BA Illustration, Arts University College Bournemouth Joot lives and works in Brighton.

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Silvia Kamodyová, Vessel

with yellow dot (2012), terracotta crank,

unglazed, polished with bees wax, green oak

handle

Silvia Kamodyová Coming from Slovakia, a country of incredible cultural heritage, Silvia believes that tradition is a vital element of our cultural and social history. Silvia finds fascination within old relics that transport to a different time and place. Her collection is inspired by an ethnographical study of historic peasant artefacts. She is captivated by simple beauty of agrarian vessels used mainly for gathering and storing harvest. The decoration is inspired by patterns left behind in the landscape, harvested fields and wooden houses beautifully decorated by graphic motifs. The selected palette derives from colours predominantly seen on peasant ceramic vessels. Silvia's range varies from large vessels that are made by press molding, to smaller thrown pieces. A significant part of Silvia’s work is the leather and wooden handle. 2012 MDes 3D Materials Practice, University of Brighton 2008 BTEC Diploma Foundation Studies in Art and Design, City College Brighton Silvia Kamodyová lives and works in Brighton.

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Katharina Klug, Still life in four pieces (2012), wheel thrown glazed porcelain

Katharina Klug

Katharina Klug’s work shows her love for simplicity of design and evokes the elemental colour and shape of ancient Korean pottery. Smooth surfaces are interrupted by wax resist lines – the matt outside competes with the glossy colour on the inside. She is inspired by contemporary architecture and the work of great makers such as Lucy Rie and Rupert Spira. Katharina’s vessels are wheel-thrown porcelain and the glazes are mixtures developed by the artist. In reifying her designs she employs techniques like carving, scrafito and wax resist. All of Katharina’s works are fired to 1260c in an electric or gas kiln depending on the glaze. 2002 Ceramic Master of Craft Landshut/ Germany 2000 BA, College of Ceramic Art Stoob/ Austria Katharina Klug lives and works in Cambridge.

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Eunice Kuo, Ring EL_GB (2012), sterling silver and

silicone rubber

Eunice Kuo This series of collection is inspired by Eunice’s observation of human behaviour. Many adults feel depressed during the time of bad weather and tend to protect their belongings away from the rain while a lot of children enjoy playing in the rain and around puddles in the road after the rain. With this observation in mind, Eunice creates a design that brings everybody back to the childhood and enjoy getting wet. Silicone rubber is selected as the core material because it is flexible and water resistant. The silicone units are flipped inside out from the mould to get the unique texture. The hollow sphere silicone unit is to contain the water. A silver base is attached to strengthen the whole structure and allows the water to be squeezed out. It is lightweight and easy to wear with a soft touch. Technically, the key elements of this series of collection are the carefully selected materials and moveable parts. 2014 MA Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork & Jewellery, Royal College of Art 2012 BA Jewellery & Silversmithing, Birmingham City University 2007 BA Philosophy, Fu-Jen Catholic University, Taiwan Eunice Kuo lives and works in London.

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Leigh Mason, 8 carat Gold Plate and Sapphire

Crush Ring (2013), silver, gold plate and sapphires

Leigh Mason

Leigh Mason creates jewellery with the wow factor whilst retaining its wearability. Leigh combines precious stones and resin, hand cast glass nuggets to emulate rough cut gems and manipulates wax to create new and exciting forms which is then cast in silver or gold. Leigh is fascinated by the process of making and experiments to invent new techniques. This desire to learn inspires and informs her work. Leigh hand carves and sculpts with wax before casting in metal. These pieces are then embellished with gemstones, resin or glass. 2012 MA Entrepreneurship in Creative Practice, Plymouth College of Art 2007 BA Fine Product, Coventry University Leigh Mason lives and works in St Austell, Cornwall. !

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Kirsty Morris, Jazz Age Large 3 (2012), spun silk,

natural and synthetic dyes

Kirsty Morris Kirsty Morris’ work is inspired by historical textiles and she enjoys using old and traditional techniques to create luxurious contemporary textile designs. Her textiles can be defined by her bold and modern use of ikat, a centuries-old resist dyeing technique, in which the yarn is tie-dyed in the desired pattern before weaving. Kirsty’s newest work, The Jazz Age, is a collection of silk satin samples influenced by art deco fashion, interiors and art. The designs contrast bold black and white motifs dyed with synthetic dye, with more feminine softly coloured and naturally dyed stripes. The lustrous textiles were designed to drape beautifully for use in fashion, interiors or as art. 2012 BA Textiles for Fashion & Interiors (woven), University for the Creative Arts Kirsty Morris lives and works in Farnham, Surrey.

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Jen Moules, Apple

Cushion (2013), screen printed by hand onto

linen

Jen Moules

Jen Moules is a designer maker specialising in textile home wares, wallpapers and hand embroidered wall panels.

Originally from Somerset she now works from her studio in Hampshire and draws inspiration from the surroundings. Jen has a passion for nature and wildlife which is reflected in both her textile designs and illustrative work.

Jen creates her products using a range of design methods including screen printing by hand, digital manipulation and embroidery techniques. Her collection of textiles and wallpapers include both commercially focussed repeat patterns and bespoke hand embroidered pieces. She also produces a range of unique hand embroidered wall panels available on commission.

2011 BA Textile Design, Arts University College at Bournemouth 2010 Fda Textile Design, Arts University College at Bournemouth Jen Moules lives and works in Southampton.

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Sian O’Doherty, Perceived Perceptions (2012), 1950’s cocktail

chairs upholstered with digitally created fabric

Sian O’Doherty Sian O'Doherty produces textiles that incorporate optical illusions: her creations are not what they first seem. They reveal themselves differently on second inspection. Fundamental to her body of work is the in-depth technical exploration of multi-layered weave structures. This combined with the addition of colour, and deviation of the expected path of warp thread, means the process is incredibly labour intensive. Impossible to produce commercially in volume, they are a celebration of hand-created textiles. Keeping in mind the aspect of optical illusions, Sian has digitally developed her woven creations into new patterns, which could not be physically woven- yet very much do look as though they have. Sian utilises modern technology to develop her weaves into new dimensions; she hopes creates a visual technical challenge that tricks the viewer when observing her designs. 2012 BA Contemporary Textiles, Carmarthenshire College Sian O’Doherty lives and works in Tenby, Pembrokeshire.

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Grace Page, The Miracle Cures (2012), silver, gold

plating, powder coating, packaging

Grace Page Based in Birmingham's famous Jewellery Quarter, the work of Dr Grace (aka Grace Page) is inspired by the bold claims and wild exaggerations of Victorian so-called 'miracle cures'. From melting polar ice caps and rising sea levels to hangovers and bad hair days there is nothing that Dr Grace jewellery cannot cure. Combining equal quantities of metalwork and mixed media, along with a smidgen of irony and a healthy dose of tongue-in-cheek humour she creates antidotal accessories - saving the world one piece of jewellery at a time! 2011 BA Jewellery & Silversmithing, School of Jewellery, Birmingham City University 2008 BTEC Foundation Diploma in Art & Design, Harrogate College, Leeds Metropolitan University Grace Page lives and works in Birmingham.

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Emma Rawson, No Going Back I and II (2011), glass

Emma Rawson

At first glance, Emma Rawson's glass works seduce the viewer. However, Emma's work explores material culture and memory through the universally common event of death. Emma focuses on her autobiographical experiences and photographic records of clearing a family home – a common but an extraordinary experience. Emma took time off to care for her terminally ill parents. Emma's printed pieces of fused glass return to her significant moments and images of the family space. She layers memories and marks transitions, time and movement of the newly altered relationships and the permanent consignment of places. The glass is first fired to 760c. She cuts and constructs solid blocks that are re-wired, now held at approximately 840c. Finally, she selects surfaces to be polished, revealing the interior of the work in multiple stages. 2012 MA Contemporary Crafts Glass, University of Creative Arts, Farnham 2010 PGCert Professional studies, Glass and Fine Art, Central Saint Martins 1992 PGCE Art and Design, University of Brighton 1988 BA Fine Art, UWIC, Cardiff 1987 ISEP exchange to Western Washington University USA Emma Rawson lives and works in East Sussex.

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Sarah May Rogers, Bindweed leaf bowl (2012), bone china

Sarah May Rogers Sarah May Rogers is fascinated by the process of creating something permanent through the death of a transient object. She expresses this through her technique; painting bone china slip onto a single physical leaf, which is in turn burnt away and lost during the china’s firing process. The china picks up every tiny detail of the leaf’s veins as well as the subtle three-dimensional form of the natural curls and creases. A permanent image of the leaf remains. The use of bone china enhances the idea of the interplay between life and death, through its ghost-like whiteness, translucency and its key ingredient: bone ash. Although the material moves and warps during the high temperature firing, this complements Sarah’s desire to relinquish control of the final outcome. She chooses not to glaze the work so the purity of the raw white clay can by seen and touched. 2003 BA Ceramics & Glass, De Montfort University.

Sarah May Rogers lives and works in South West London.

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Ruth Simons, Mutation (2012), screenprint

Ruth Simons Ruth Simons’ practice investigates the convergence between contemporary art and the biological sciences. Examining the universe at both macro and micro levels, she explores chaos as the boundary between pattern and randomness. Concerned with man’s interaction with the natural world; themes of growth, adaption, migration and colonisation are explored through the media of print, book works, drawing and installation. The screenprint Mutation comes from her KUNSTSTOFF – unnatural history series. This body of work explores materiality, structure and growth patterns, generating organic forms from inorganic materials and manmade objects. Reading as of the natural world, yet made from synthetic materials, these pieces raise questions of our relationship with nature, touching on issues of ecology and climate change. 2013 BA Fine Art, Oxford Brookes University 1989 MA Metallurgy, Economics and Management, University of Oxford Ruth Simons lives and works in Oxford.

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Paul Stopler,

Transition (2011), kiln-cast glass, lost-wax

process

Paul Stopler Paul Stopler’s kiln-cast glass explores the integral relationship between changing volumes and colour saturation in transparent monochromatic glass. As the sculpture’s mass changes, it reveals subtle transformations of colour and tone; the deeper the mass of glass, the more saturated is the hue derived from a single translucent colour. Each outer shape is initially turned as a plaster model on the lathe in order to make a curvaceous and flowing profile, the concavity at the apex offering a different aspect or view into the interior solid space. These shapes resemble vessels and yet are without voids, containers whose content is the transparent glass mass. By directing the design towards more ambiguous shapes and a less formal approach, Stopler produces work that pushes further the sculptural language of the abstract vessel and its evocative potential as familiar sign within the domestic environment. 2011 MA Ceramics and Glass, Royal College of Art 2009 BA Three Dimensional Design- Glass, UCA Farnham 1982 Foundation Course in Art and Design, Central School of Art and Design Paul Stopler lives and works in Bristol.

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Katalin Szallas, Large Bowl with Net Design

(2012), stoneware

Katalin Szallas

Katalin Szallas created functional and/or decorative stoneware vessels. Most of these are thrown on the wheel but she uses other techniques such as hand building and slab building, too. Sometimes she alters the thrown pot or joins two thrown pieces together. Shape is important but Katalin also puts a lot of emphasis on decoration. She finds decorative spherical forms pleasing and enjoys experimenting with pressing various objects into the clay to give the surface a different quality. On the slip decorated pieces she uses slip-resist and sgraffito techniques and underglaze brush lines. On some of her other pieces the unglazed slip surface contrasts strongly with the glazed surface. Katalin's works are fired at 1260c in an electric kiln. 2003 Ceramic Technology Level 2 and Wheel Thrown Ceramics Level 3, London Open College Network 1988-1992 Teachers Training College - Art , Eger, Hungary Katalin Szallas lives and works in Surbiton, Surrey.

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Keith Varney, Helix (2012),

Porcelain

Keith Varney Keith Varney's unique ceramic sculptures explore form, line and texture. The interaction of light and shade are the fundamental elements that motivate this body of work. Inspiration is drawn from the natural and constructed environment and geometry. The material qualities of clay and the physicality of the making process are at the heart of his practice. Fascinated by the translucency and purity of porcelain, Keith works with it as if it was paper. Scoring, folding and joining along curved lines to construct the forms from paper-thin corrugated porcelain sheets, creating gently curved and tensioned surfaces defining the interior and exterior space. The technique is borrowed and adapted from his background in cabinet making and in particular fine metals. The work is left unglazed, emphasising the pure white and translucent surfaces that play with light and shade, creating a sense of movement. 2011BA 3D Design - Ceramics, Bath School of Art and Design Keith Varney lives and works in Radstock, Somerset.

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Suzy Waldron, Fracture 1 (2012), mixed media on

paper

Suzy Waldron

Suzy’s practice focuses on the ways in which we perceive space and visualise information: the potential for discordance between our physical surroundings and how we make sense of them in our minds. Her paintings and drawings explore this theme through contrasts in scale, combining material drawn from aerial and microscopic photography with observational sketches. This series of drawings explores how Suzy’s personal experience of synaesthesia contributes to the way she perceives her surroundings. They act as visual recordings of external stimuli: in effect mental maps of time spent in a location. Sound, language and the passage of time, all of which the artist experiences as colour-coded and occupying a physical space around the body, are transcribed in series of diagrammatic and gestural marks. The use of translucent papers and glazes allows the simultaneous awareness of several layers of visual information, creating a sensation of disorientation and bombardment. 2012 BA Fine Art, Falmouth College University 2009 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, Totnes Foundation Art and Design Course Suzy Waldron lives and works in Torquay, Devon.

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Julia Webster, Beguiling Blue (2012), lead crystal

glass

Julia Webster

Julia Webster creates work predominantly in glass as an expressive medium to explore the real, the poetic and the multi-sensory qualities of balance, flow, void, mass and movement in stillness. The artist has a range of influences, including dance, music, travel, mythology and notions of the unending journey of the earth, turning on its axis through space and time. Julia's starting points include flowing gestural characters generated via brush calligraphy. She combines this with figurative drawing and dance photography. Experimentation plays a significant role in ideas development guided by visual imagination and materials. Julia embraces a variety of processes including mould making, hot glass blowing and centrifuging, kiln casting and fusing. Exploring a variety of qualities in glass such as flow properties, tonal and colour saturation, density, refraction and reflection. In some cases forms are cut to create edges that offer points of transition and tension between inside and outside surfaces and opportunities for playing with balance points. 2013 MA Contemporary Crafts (Glass), University for the Creative Arts 1983 PGCE, Brighton University 1982 BA (Hons.) 3DD, WSCAD Julia Webster lives and works in South West Surrey.

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Heather Woof,

Windswept Brooch (2012), anodised

titanium, sterling silver, gold plate, stainless steel

pin

Heather Woof

Heather Woof’s current 'windswept' collection is inspired by the wild Scottish weather and is reminiscent of the powerful natural forces which shape the landscape around us. Working with hand cut titanium and mild steel the artist aims to evoke a sense of dynamism in these otherwise static materials. She tries to capture a sense of fluid movement in hard and unyielding metal, to create sculptural pieces, which appear to have been quite literally blown over by the wind. 2012 MA Jewellery, Edinburgh College of Art 2010 BA Jewellery and Silversmithing, Edinburgh College of Art 2004 Foundation Course, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design

Heather Woof lives and works in Edinburgh.

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Muna Zuberi,

Contour (2011),

copper-foiled

stained glass

hanging

Muna Zuberi

Muna Zuberi is a stained glass artist exploring the potential of glass by making stained glass panels (both free hanging and architectural), painted pieces, mosaics and cold glass sculptures. She is conscious of the history of craft when designing new work and wants to revive the ancient art form through creating new and exciting contemporary pieces. Muna is particularly interested in modern and historic maps. Maps are a visual representation of an area depicting the relationships between elements and objects in the space. She explores how maps show the way and highlight barriers, offering a different perspective on the world and revealing things which were previously hidden. Muna asks how the viewer gains an additional vantage point through the use of a map - a tool to explore and understand the world. 2012 Architectural Glass Level 4 Workshop, School of Architectural Glass, Swansea 2001 BSc Computer Information Systems Design (Multimedia pathway), Kingston University

Muna Zuberi lives and works in London.

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Andrea

Zucchini, Theosis

(2012), HD video, 39

minutes on loop

Andrea Zucchini

Andrea Zucchini takes alchemical experiments and their psychological dimension as the foundation of his practice. Through a metaphoric use of materials and an exploration of their inherent properties, he seeks to arrive at embodying a state where mind and matter, material and immaterial, are no longer distinguishable. His working strategies resemble an ontological research into the nature of being: the meaning of the work lies not so much in the final piece but rather in the unfolding of ever-occurring processes, expanding from physical to conceptual movement. Through an interdisciplinary approach, his pieces seek to articulate a search for significance, at times fixed in form, at others performative. The emphasis lies in substances and their interaction, as the artist stands more as a mediator, one with the processes he evokes.

2013 BA Fine Art and History of Art, Goldsmiths Andrea Zucchini lives and works in London.