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Artist Statement - 'Without As Within' (Installation- Sycamore Tiles & Furniture with Pewter Inlay

Laura Carnell

Without As Within – Pewter-Inlaid Sycamore Tiles and Furniture,

including: Bench, Shelves

Also: Locale – Digitally-printed wallpaper

[Exhibited: 17-21.06.08 @ Summer Shows UCF / 3-6.07.08 @ New Designers]

Artist’s Statement

With her exciting and innovative technique, Laura Carnell inlays intricate pewter designs into solid timber, creating beautifully tactile surfaces, invested with personal meaning.

She states: “There is no border between entity and environment, inside and outside, self and other”

In this piece, by merging life-drawing and landscape-based imagery personal to her, Carnell has created furnishings for an interior environment that echoes her own life.

Of her inlay patterns, she says: “they speak to me of histories and half-forgotten feelings evoked by places and people that I have known”. Then, of course, there are the books: “Books sustain me, they are vessels of knowledge and experience, like people”.

When discussing the composition of Without As Within, she admits: “I have an awkward streak. My Bench is on the wall and the Shelves are set high. This is not the way things are supposed to be, but that’s why I enjoy them”.

“Although my work respects the rich craft-histories of both Pewter and Inlay, drawing on them for research and meaning, in my own little way I like to push things forward. The technique I use, which employs a combination of CAD/CAM technologies, enables me to work on a much larger scale, with more fluid and complex patterns than would have been possible using traditional methods”.

For her, digital technologies act as a bridge between an idea and the physical material of the work, allowing her to translate a sketch or photograph into pieces of pewter and timber that can then be hand-worked to create a final piece. This hand-working and finishing is central to the overall feel of the work, returning surfaces to a crafts-based aesthetic and investing each tile or piece of furniture with time and care.

The technique can be applied to any number of surfaces from floors and walls to kitchen and bathroom worktops, as well as free-standing furniture and fittings.

Laura Carnell is a recent graduate of University College Falmouth and member of Hidden Art and the Association of British Pewter Craftsmen. Winner of Pewter Live 2007’s student architectural category and 2^nd prize winner of the open category 2008, she also won the 2007/08 competition to design and make sets of awards for the Unlocking Cornish Potential initiative. She has exhibited a number of times in London and recently at the Milan Furniture Fair 2008.

Laura runs Rara Design with fellow UCF graduate, Grant Jones, producing bespoke, contemporary inlaid furniture for both corporate and individual clients.

If you are interested in commissioning a piece, would like to discuss your ideas, or for more information, please feel free to contact laura@rara-design.co.uk

To view some of Rara’s past projects please visit their web gallery at www.rara-design.co.uk

Project Introduction of Runway - Fashion Cafe

LOCATION: Emerson Chambers, Blackett Street, Newcastle Upon Tyne

Emerson Chambers is a Grade II* listing building. It was designed by the architect Benjamin Simpson F also known as Simpson, Lawson & Rayne in 1903 replacing an 1821 Presbyterian Church know as Scotch Church.

This building is a fine example of the Art Nouveau style. It has 5 storeys, an attic and a basement. It was originally built for the developer R. Emerson and contained shops, offices and, in the basement a restaurant. It sits on the Newcastle city center and near the Monument Metro Station. Now it is currently occupied by Waterstone as a bookstore.

DESIGN CONCEPT

The idea of Fashion Café comes from the research based on brand flagship store and the fashion week. The concept is to create a multifunctional space that mixes fashion retail, runway performance and café in one. It provides a multi-faceted ‘experience’ rather than a simple retail store or café. And this will be a new type of urban shopping experience that is demanded by the twenty-first-century consumer. With this concept in mind, space for dining, performance and exhibition are required. This project is not designing department store for any particular brand but mixing fashion with culture and blurring the boundaries of the store and cafe. Runway shows are held monthly and worldwide brands will be invited to promote their products on site. The relationship between brands and buyers will be built up through promotion and seasonal sales event. Even more, the Fashion Café provides a stage for local designers and design students to present their works.

The design concept is inspired by a modern monochrome pattern. Then it has been developed to a double layer pattern Perspex that contrasts modernism and classicism. The classical pattern in background represents the classical building; and the modern pattern stands for the new feature. Both stand alone, yet being perfectly merged. During the development, the pattern is kept developed and brought into the final design to create a dramatic vision throughout the interior. A series of sketch models are made to understand the site. Also materials within the scheme are carefully selected.

Alannah Ross

A recent graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design I am skilled in both commercial accessory design and haute couture creative designing and making.
For the past nine months I have been working for Rawhide Accessories Ltd on their Pacha brand. In my time with them I have been collaborating with international DJ's Erick Morillo and Sarah Main on a mens' and women's jewellery range named 'DJ Elite Accessories'. This range is available in all major retailers including Selfridges in Spring/Summer 09. Alongside my commercial work I have designed and made several Pacha inspired body pieces, working with silver chain and Swarovski crystals.

Sarah Howells Textiles for Kyoto

Press Release

Sarah Howells is a contemporary textile designer who has just completed her final year in Textile Design BA (Hons) at the University College of the Creative Arts. Sarah Derives inspiration for her work from countries she has been to around the world. Sarah finds that the cultures and colours heavily influence her designs. Sarah’s most recent collection was based on her recent visit to Kyoto in November Her intimate knowledge of textiles combined with a keen eye for modern artistic trends has led her to create outstanding inspirational work. As you can see she has used luscious greens, purples and reds that create a subtle sheen. The finish on these fabrics are extremely sophisticated and particularly effective when they catch the light with the two toned fabric. - It certainly makes a statement. Sarah’s more recent collection was designed for cushions; she believes that they will bring glamour to all interiors. Sarah will be exhibiting these samples at New Designers 2008 from the 3^rd-6^th July.

Contact Details:

Name: Sarah Louise Howells

Telephone: 07825730752

Email: sarah_louise_howells@hotmail.co.uk

Web: www.newdesignersonline.co.uk/sarahhowells

BEANIE MAJOR, JEWELLERY DESIGN

Recent Graduate from Edinburgh College of Art
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Award Success for Dundee Design Graduate….

Lynne MacLachlan, new graduate Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee, has been enjoying great success scooping several major awards with her stunning range of jewellery.

Lynne has been awarded the prestigious SIET Visual Arts prize. A £2000 prize judged across all disciplines and presented to an ‘outstanding student at one of the four Scottish Art Colleges’ from the Scottish International Education Trust, set up by Sir Sean Connery.

She has also won a generous donation from the Dewar Arts Awards to help fund her ambition to attend the Royal College of Art, where she has secured a coveted place on the Goldsmithing, Silversmithing Jewellery and Metalwork MA course, starting in September.

Graduating with first class honours Lynne also received prizes from Duncan of Jordanstone college: the Thomas Dalgety Dunn Prize for excellence in a discipline and the Eckersley Book prize and School of Design Dissertation prize for her written investigations into the use of CADCAM technology by the studio jeweller. Lynne also received a Precious Metal Bursary Award from Goldsmiths towards buying materials for her degree show work.

Her fascinating structural jewellery aims to weave together and explore the relationships between, the opposed realms of craft and computing; mathematics and nature. The abstract 3D patterns, inspired by butterflies and insects, were created using computer aided design techniques. These patterns are then laser cut and photo-etched onto silver and handmade into delicate structures. Gemstones and plique-à-jour enamel are use to accent the resulting wearable collection.

Lynne says, ‘I have always been inspired by nature and I also wanted to use the latest technology available while retaining craft values. I felt this would not only be the route to exciting work but also throw up some interesting contrasts and challenges. I have been absolutely delighted with everything I’ve achieved this year and can’t wait to develop my work further at the Royal College.’

Too see Lynne's work visit www.lynnemaclachlan.co.uk, or New Designers Part 1.

Turbine Chair

The Turbine Chair

The Turbine Chair is a concept lounge chair aimed at

collectors of Art, designed to be made in limited

numbers without the constraints of market and

production.

The concept addresses the chair as a 21st Century Art

form, inspired by the Vitra Edition range.

The chairs form is taken from industrial wind turbines,

with cable suggesting a rotating motion, the chair is

made from 304 Stainless Steel in respect and

admiration for the Steel City.

Inspired by Sheffield icon Park Hill, the structure

draws its aesthetics from the architectural style of

brutalism, exhibiting striking repetitive angular

geometries, rough, blocky appearance and the

expression of its raw structural materials.

The Turbine Chair would be best shown in a domestic

setting further realising its brutalist qualities, looking

alien and out of place.

design by Ashley Rees

tel: 07747852344

email:info@ashleyreesdesign.co.uk

www.ashleyreesdesign.co.uk

in association with:

Wig & Pen

44 Campo Lane, Cathedral Quarter, Sheffield

www.wigandpensheffield.com

David Fearnley – Lotus Eigne

Today’s car enthusiasts who appreciate the experience of a sports car often have to face the fact that the passion for this type of driving doesn’t combine very well with having a family to transport. Often the sports car will be exchanged for something more practical and family friendly. But what if there was another option…
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Antonia Booker press release 2008

Press release 6^th June 2008

Antonia Booker is a Design Craft student from Staffordshire University who specializes in silver and resin. She currently works from her home workshop in Derby where she creates contemporary jewellery.

Her work will be exhibited at her Degree show at Staffordshire University from 6^thto 14^th June and then the New Designers Exhibition at the Business Design Centre in London from 30^th June to 6^th July

For these two exhibitions she has created contemporary jewellery with accompanying containers made from her latest designs of etched silver and coloured resin with cubic zircons.

‘‘My work is based around the flowing organic patterns of Gustav Klimt. Etched into silver they give a sense of beauty in a simplistic form. These pieces are unique multifunctional items which are distinctive and elegant. I am excited to show my work at these events and become more involved in the design craft scene’’.

Antonia was previously awarded a ‘highly commended’ by the Victoria and Albert Museum and Ancestors Ltd as part of a Jewellery Competition in 2007.

Antonia is setting up her studio workshop from August 2008 in Derby where she will be continuing her journey into the jewellery business.

For information please contact Antonia at toni.booker@ntlworld.com

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