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What’s on Autumn 2015

Ruthin Craft Centre The Centre for the Applied Arts

26 September – 22 November 2015 Gallery 1

W is for Wallpaper is a visual romp through the best contemporary wallpapers by the most creative designers working in this medium today. The papers here are some of the most interesting, illustrative and creative wallpapers you can buy. All the makers and design studios represented here are passionate about and heavily involved in the craft of making their wallpaper, be it hand or machine printed.

Wallpaper represents one of the biggest aesthetic statements you will make in your home. But it is rarely a practical decision that wins out, the heart wants what the wall gets. Whether a bold graphic wood grain by All The Fruits, a meandering modern pastoral vignette by Angie Lewin or a mad, bad and dangerous to view paper by Timorous Beasties – we hope there is a wallpaper to please everyone’s eye here. Curated by freelance writer, curator and creative digital producer Jane Audas and independent curator, exhibitions and retail consultant Gregory Parsons.

W is for Wallpaper an exhibition of the best in contemporary wallpaper

All The Fruits, Marthe Armitage, Deborah Bowness, Jon Burgerman Claire Coles, Custhom, Lowri Davies, Hugh Dunford Wood Eley Kishimoto, Sian Elin, Claire Florey-Hitchcox, Kirath Ghundoo Jonny Hannah, Mark Hearld, Daniel Heath, Rachel Kelly Tracy Kendall, Angie Lewin, George Malyckyj, Mini Moderns Belynda Sharples, Squint, Timorous Beasties

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Wallpaper Weekend Workshop with Hugh Dunford Wood Saturday 10 & Sunday 11 October 10.30am – 4.30pm. £180 Includes light lunch Special discounted price at Ruthin Craft Centre

Hugh Dunford Wood is a multi-disciplined artist and designer, who has been making his own wallpaper for the past 40 years. The designs of Hugh Dunford Wood Wallpapers are contemporary classics. They carry a soft dignity appropriate for a stimulating background to modern living. Standing at the crossroads between tradition and cutting edge, these patterns balance rhythms with colour. He has exhibited widely in London and abroad with work in the collections of the V&A Museum, Christchurch & other Colleges at the University of Oxford, various County Councils, and private collections in Europe and America.

During the 2-day workshop you’ll discover the elements of simple pattern and principles of turning a plant study into a design. Learn the theory of repeat patterns by cutting a block and printing a length by hand. Artist Stories Series with Designer Rachel Kelly

Rachel Kelly, innovative wallcovering designer and W is for Wallpaper exhibitor will be in residence within the studios at Ruthin Craft Centre from 17–19 October. Come along to her Craft Workshop Events, please see page 12 for more information. Suitable for all ages including families.

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Talks, Events & WorkshopsTo book call 01824 704774. For the latest listings visit www.ruthincraftcentre.org.uk

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Julie Blyfield’s work is inspired by the botanical landscape in Australia. She interprets this in metal using the techniques of ‘metal raising’ and ‘chasing’. Julie enjoys exploring and collecting plant specimens from the rich and diverse environment her homeland offers, from places such as the Simpson Desert in the north of South Australia and further south around the coast of Kangaroo Island. She works with both pure silver and sterling silver her “preferred choice of material” and textures the surface to create individual pieces of jewellery, vessels and also more sculptural pieces. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

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photography: Grant Hancock

Julie Blyfield – PanoramaA beautifully presented 44 page book accompanies this exhibition. Call to purchase your copy Tel: +44 (0)1824 704774.


Gallery talk with Julie Blyfield Saturday 26 September 11.00am, Gallery 2 FREE please call to book a place as spaces are limited An afternoon workshop with Julie Blyfield Sunday 27 September 1.00pm – 4.00pm FREE no need to book Pop in at any time or come and spend the whole afternoon with us!

Join Julie for an afternoon of making your own jewellery pieces using simple drawings and designs; by embossing onto foil and making paper models; inspired by the texture and natural form of plants and flowers.

Suitable for all ages including families. All children must be accompanied by an adult. These activities have been funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.

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Jewellery workshop with Angela Evans Saturday 3 October 10.30am – 4.30pm £55 includes light lunch

Angela Evans designs and makes jewellery usually using wire, which might be copper, silver, gold or platinum. For the past few years she has been exploring the creation of 3D forms of jewellery using fine gauges of silver wire. Angela works from her studio at Siop Iard, Caernarfon.

During the workshop you will create a pair of earring studs from sheet silver using cutting and texturing techniques. You will learn how to cut, create a texture on metal, solder and polish.

Suitable for adults, beginner’s level.

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SUSAN O’BYRNEfive sisters & a family tree

Five sisters & a family tree is a new body of ceramics from the hugely talented Susan O’Byrne. It offers a very personal journey into a private world. “I’m taking inspiration from my own family history, specifically my mother’s side of the family who migrated from Germany to Ireland in the mid 1800s. The five sisters are my grandmother and her four sisters. They will each be represented by a ceramic animal, and are the largest pieces in the exhibition.” Susan writes: “Our childhoods are filled with animal images, their many names, shapes, colours and patterns fuel our early imaginations. Throughout history animals have also been used in storytelling, legend and folklore to simplify the complexities of adult life. In the same manner, I use the animal form as a vehicle for the expression of human emotions.”


1-day Master-class with Susan O’Byrne Saturday 7 November 10.30am – 4.30pm £60 includes light lunch please call to book a place

Susan’s work centres around making animals and birds using a very personal and unique set of processes. She uses the animal forms as a means of expressing human emotion and feeling.

This workshop will focus on printing and decorating with paper-clay slip. Susan will demonstrate the printing techniques she uses to create the patterned surfaces of her work in porcelain paper-clay. Participants will have the opportunity to experiment with these techniques and to apply this process in the creation of expressive clay collages and or 3 dimensional work.


Talk and Demonstrations with Susan O’Byrne Sunday 8 November 1.00pm – 4.00pm FREE please call to book a place as spaces are limited

Join Susan O’Byrne for a short talk in the gallery about her new body of work Five sisters & a family tree followed by a series of demonstrations on how she makes these extraordinary decorative creatures.

The demonstrations will include: • Building on a wire armature. • Making small animals and birds. • Creating the surface pattern in paper-clay: printing and drawing with coloured slip.


Artist Stories Series 2 – 8 November

Susan O’Byrne will be another of our makers for Artist Stories this autumn. Come and see her temporary workshop and studio space, where you’ll find her working away making new work in her new surroundings at Ruthin. For more information please see page 12.

These activities have been funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.

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photography: Bruno Gallagher

Susan O’Byrne Five sisters & a family treeA beautifully presented 28 page book accompanies this exhibition.Call to purchase your copy Tel: +44 (0)1824 704774.

What is Craft? Decoration Season 2 Autumn / Winter From 10 October 2015

We are all about decoration this season, whether it is wallpaper designs, Christmas decorations, patterns or decorative animals – we’ve got it covered!

Come and embellish our studio walls! Our resource space will feature a new hands-on activity designed by artist Eleri Jones. You’ll have the opportunity to get stuck in and ‘decorate’ the space with your own designs, drawings, collage and illustrations. Inspired by W is for Wallpaper in Gallery 1.

Eleri Jones is an artist based in north Wales whose work is very much inspired by her rural surroundings – her family, her upbringing on the farm. Eleri will also be working with a number of Denbighshire primary schools this autumn as part of the continuing What is Craft? project.

This Season and project have been funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation.

Ruthin Craft Centre is delighted to launch our next season’s theme Decoration.

Who does it? Why do they do it? Why does it matter?

Looking at the nature of craft and its relation to everyday living – based on four broad seasons over 2 years we aim to consider:

and explore the question... What is Craft?

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Professional ‘Makers’ Two new makers join our ‘Makers Collection’ area – ceramicist Lowri Davies and textile designer Ptolemy Mann. Come and touch their work… Come and see how they use decoration… Explore and discover the secrets behind the making of their extraordinary work.

Have you taken part? Collect your free season badge! Collect all four season badges and claim your free bag!

New Resource Pack The ‘Decoration’ resource pack full of creative activities and resources is now available. Download your FREE copy from our website or purchase a copy for £3.00 from our retail gallery. Designed to support teachers, gallery educators and our general audiences – the pack is aimed to inspire and get you thinking about Craft.

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Rachel Kelly – Interactive Wallpaper 17 – 19 October

Rachel Kelly is an award winning textile designer renowned internationally for her process led wallcovering designs. She is a W is for Wallpaper exhibitor. Craft Workshops Saturday 17 & Sunday 18 October, 10.00am – 12.30pm & 1.30pm – 3.30pm FREE please book in advance as spaces are limited

Have you ever wanted to create your own unique wall decoration? Now is your chance. Help Rachel create a large seasonal feature wall by working with her decorative wall stickers, printing and embellishing processes. You might be brave enough to take some samples and ideas to try out at home!

Suitable for all ages including families. All children must be accompanied by an adult.

Window Commission We have commissioned Rachel Kelly to decorate our Education Space window with her unique wallcovering designs. It can’t be missed as you walk in to the Centre’s courtyard!

Susan O’Byrne – Ceramics 2 – 8 November

Susan O’Byrne will be our next maker for Artist Stories this autumn. Come and see her temporary workshop and studio space, where you’ll find her working away making new work in her new surroundings at Ruthin.

Don’t forget Susan is giving a free talk and demonstrations and for the more adventurous, a Master-class workshop. Please see page 9 for more information.

Decoration workshops at Ruthin Craft Centre

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Artist Stories Series Ruthin Craft Centre, Studio 5 Following on with the theme of ‘Decoration’ we have invited two craft practitioners this autumn to share their artist story with you! What is Craft? Who Does it? Why do they do it?

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This Autumn we are offering two artist in residency programmes for emerging craft practitioners or those seeking a new direction within their current craft practice, to coincide with our current exhibitions, Julie Blyfield ‘Panorama’ and Susan O’Byrne ‘Five sisters & a family tree’.

We are pleased to announce our first artist in residence will be Karen Williams.

Karen set up as a jeweller in 1995. She is based near Bethesda, Gwynedd. The residency will allow Karen the time to focus and develop a new body of work, allowing her to cultivate techniques and designs for vessels with an opportunity to promote her work to a wider audience.

As part of the residency Julie Blyfield will be coming over from Australia from 26 September – 2 October 2015, and will offer her support to Karen as well as leading a whole range of other events for our audience whilst in Ruthin.

Studio Events with Jeweller Karen Williams Saturday 3 & 10 October 10.30am – 12.30pm & 2.00pm – 4.00pm FREE suitable for all ages

An opportunity for enthusiastic hammering and texturing to produce a copper or gilded metal pendant – using stamps, punches and wire embossing.

Would you like to be our second artist in residence this November?

Ceramicist Susan O’Byrne will be here in November as part of our Artist Stories series and we would like to invite those who are interested to apply for our next 3 week residency opportunity. We are looking for a dynamic, inspiring and enthusiastic maker with some experience of delivering innovative and engaging work across a wide range of ages and abilities.

The residency package will include a professional development day and/or mentoring session with Susan O’Byrne and an opportunity for the selected artist to develop their own ideas and work. If you would like to apply, visit our website for full terms and application information www.ruthincraftcentre.org.uk/residencies These programmes have been funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.

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The Big Draw: Every afternoon over a period of 5 days Saturday 24 – Wednesday 28 October. 1.00pm – 4.30pm Pop in at any time or come and spend the whole afternoon with us. FREE suitable for all ages

The Big Draw is the world’s biggest drawing festival with thousands of enjoyable, drawing activities which connect people of all ages with museums, outdoor spaces, artists, designers, illustrators – and each other. Join our learning team,

each afternoon as we explore different techniques of drawing in all manner of materials whether it is through the process of printing, 3D or collage. Come and unleash your creativity, it’s free!

All children must be accompanied by an adult

Halloween Craft Clubs for 5 – 11 year olds Thursday 29 October, 10.30am – 12.30pm & 1.30pm – 3.30pm £5.00 please call to book a place

It’s nearly Halloween and we’re here to help you decorate your home in time for your party! Come and make a Creepy Crawly Decoration! Lots of spooky fun guaranteed with this workshop.

All children must be accompanied by an adult

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October Half-Term ActivitiesWe have a bucket load of activities and events to inspire and keep you entertained this October half-term – for ALL ages

Portfolio: Art School for young people aged 14–18 Monday 26 & Tuesday 27 October, 11.00am – 4.00pm £13.00 please call to book a place

Portfolio is back and to coincide with our Blinc Festival this October we will be offering a 2-day workshop based on digital art and sound with artist Rob Spaull.

Rob Spaull is a Digital Artist, Musician and Media Developer

with over 20 years experience in the Digital Media and Arts Industries. He has a BA(Hons) in Creative Music Technology from Sheffield University. Rob founded Mediapod – a Digital Media Studio in 2003, which has produced a wide range of productions for both local and international clients including pop promos, projection mapping, sound scoring, web design, 3D animations and corporate presentations.

For more information about our next exciting Portfolio workshop please visit our website.

Please bring a packed lunch with you on the day.

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NEW to Ruthin Craft Centre: BLINC Digital Festival Friday 30 & Saturday 31 October

This October we are lighting up the courtyard with our festival of light – BLINC.

Come and join us as we decorate the courtyard windows with moving images and join in the exciting workshops to accompany the festival.

Earlier this year 3 digital artists from Wales were funded by Art Council of Wales to showcase their animation work in a major BLINC digital festival in Adelaide, Australia. The animations are now returning to be shown in Wales. To coincide with our current Australian jewellery exhibition the animations/ projections are being adapted to their new location: the Ruthin Craft Centre courtyard. We’re pleased to announce that we will be showcasing animation work by artists Jessica Lloyd-

Jones, Wendy Dawson and Sean Vicary. Curators of BLINC are Craig Morrison and Joel Cockrill.

Day 1: Friday 30 October

Lantern Workshop 3.30pm onwards FREE suitable for all ages

Come and help light up our courtyard as we make lanterns in time for the launch of the animations.

Official launch of the digital festival 6.00pm – 8.00pm FREE Suitable for all. Bring the family!

Day 2: Saturday 31 October

Talk and Demonstrations with Wendy Dawson 1.00pm – 2.30pm FREE Suitable for ages 15+ Please call to book a place

During the workshop Wendy will demonstrate how she’s made the bees for her recent installations through the process of casting in metal, and how she has developed these themes further and incorporated them into her current projections.

Family workshop 2.00pm – 4.00pm FREE pop in at any time or come and spend the whole afternoon with us.

Come and join our learning team as we will be busy bee’s making our very own hive of bees in Studio 5, inspired by Wendy Dawson’s installation Swarm.

All children must be accompanied by an adult.

Another chance to see the digital festival 5.30pm – 7.00pm FREE Suitable for all. Bring the family!

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Landmarks Exhibition 26 September 2015 – 3 January 2016, Studio 3

Following the success of last year’s exhibition Delight in the Everyday Design Commission for Wales is pleased to return to Ruthin Craft Centre with their new exhibition called Landmarks.

With its magnificent mountains, verdant valleys and characterful coastline, Wales is renowned for the beauty of its natural landscape. Yet, over centuries, it has been transformed by the designs of mankind. Farming, industry, transport, energy, wars,

religion and tourism have all left their marks on the Welsh landscape in the form of field boundaries, deforestation, roads, canals, quarries, mines, power stations, factories, monuments, pylons, wind turbines and the like.

For this exhibition, Design Commission for Wales has selected and curated the work of several designers in order to dig deeper into the relationship between natural resources and human intervention, informing and inspiring a future for design in our landscape.

For more information about the exhibition or Design Commission for Wales please visit http://dcfw.org/events/

Ruthin Art Trail

Ruthin Art Trail aims to encourage visitors to Ruthin Craft Centre to visit the centre of town, and to link the community of Ruthin with the Craft Centre. The Trail is designed by Fred Baier and Lucy Strachan and encourages people to look and through looking discover the beauty and mysteries of the town.

You can discover the 10 spy holes set into the town walls and spot the 22 figures hidden amongst the facades and roofs around the town. While searching for these figures there is every chance that you will notice, and for locals to be reminded, how beautiful the town is, and how the architecture from many centuries sits harmoniously together.

The intention of the Art Trail is that visitors will be rewarded by chance sightings of the acrobatic figures and appreciate the allusions to myths memories and historic moments captured in the spy hole tableaux.

Ruthin Art Trail Community Project and film

Over the course of the summer holidays leading up to Open Doors weekend in September, Cherry Head Productions and Musician Henry Horrell invited young people and pupils from Ysgol Brynhyfryd to respond and take part in a series of workshops and performances, inspired by the stories from the Ruthin Art Trail Spy Holes.

We would like to invite you to come and see the specially commissioned film of the performances which will be on display in the Cultural Gateway space (tourist information point) throughout the autumn season.

The film was produced and edited by Joel Cockrill.

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Neil Dalrymple, Artist Studio 4www.neildalrymple.com

Mirage Jewellery, Artist Studio 6www.mirage-jewellery.co.uk

Artist Studios: Here at Ruthin Craft Centre we have three on-site Artist Studio’s to explore. Textiles and fabrics by Cefyn Burgess, Stoneware ceramic sculpture by Neil Dalrymple and Jewellery by Mirage Jewellery. Come and visit the studios today for some original gift ideas. Please contact the makers individually for their opening times.

With three galleries showing the best in national and international contemporary applied art, on-site makers studios, café and retail gallery – visit Ruthin Craft Centre.

Visiting Information

Café R Restaurant: Visit Café R Restaurant with its courtyard terrace for seasonal homemade fayre, morning and afternoon snacks and a lunch menu. If you’re planning a group visit, why not reserve a table? To book call 01824 703571. Retail Gallery: Offering contemporary work for sale from some of the country’s leading makers.Browse and purchase from a broad selection of jewellery, ceramics, glass, metalwork, textiles, books, stationery and unique gifts.Collectorplan, the Arts Council of Wales’ interest free credit scheme, is available on most purchases in the gallery.

Collectorplan is an interest-free* credit service to help you buy contemporary art and craft in Wales. *APR 0% representative. Find out more at: www.artscouncilofwales.org.uk

Ruthin Craft Centre The Centre for the Applied Arts

Park Road, Ruthin Denbighshire LL15 1BB Tel: +44 (0)1824 704774 Open daily 10.00am – 5.30pm

FREE Admission FREE On-site parking

Scan this QR code with your smart phone or device to visit our website for more information.

www.ruthincraftcentre.org.uk

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