NEW DESIGNERS EXHIBITION TO WELCOME SPUNKY NEW TALENT, JENNY BLAND.


Jenny Bland will present SPUN, her exciting graduate lighting collection, at the renowned New Designers Exhibition. The collection will occupy the Manchester Metropolitan University stand at this leading design talent showcase due to take place at London’s Design Centre at the end of the month.

The SPUN collection includes a series of pendant lighting wound like bobbins using the rotations of a record player to produce the unique design. The shades are light and airy hollow structures made from yarns and threads spun into a gossamer web, frozen into faceted forms and held in tension by the invisible resin. The shades hang in clusters of varying shapes, colours and sizes.

Also in the collection are much larger SPUN WEB LIGHTS, huge teardrop shaped pendants. The weave of the yarn becomes increasingly more open towards the bottom of the shade so it appears gradually more transparent and ethereal.

Jenny said: “I am excited to be exhibiting my work at New Designers. It is a wonderful platform from which to launch my collection and I’m looking forward to meeting a wide range of people from within the design industry. It is a great opportunity and I anticipate I will take much from the experience.”

To create the lights Jenny built a machine that would run the thread through the resin, remove the excess and guide it onto the removable wooden former that spun on a turntable. Her “Heath Robinson” style production process was designed to be enjoyed as a live working spectator piece. During the final degree show, which saw over 1500 visitors during the nine day event, Jenny presented live demonstrations of the SPUN process.

Jenny Bland recently graduated with a first class honours degree in Three Dimensional design and her beautiful final year lighting collection SPUN has already attracted attention, impressing industry professionals and picking up two awards at the opening ceremony of her degree show.

Jenny will be exhibiting at the Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair in October and will also hold a solo exhibition at Manchester Craft and Design Centre early next year. She is currently looking for a studio in the North West to continue her work as a designer/maker.

Kelda Savage, Crafts Programme Office at the Manchester Craft and Design Centre said: I’m very much looking forward to working with Jenny over the next year as she is an exciting, bright new talent and has an unrivalled enthusiasm for her work. It will be an interesting process to see how her work progresses following the recent success of her degree show."

More information on Jenny Bland and the SPUN collection is available at www.jennybland.co.uk

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For further information please contact:
Jenny Bland
19, Ormonde Road
Chester
CH2 2AH
Email: bland.jenny@ymail.com
Tel: 07834421550
Web: www.jennybland.co.uk