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Jun 2006 - Jude Stoll - Recycling back for the third time |
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PRESS RELEASE – Release Immediate - June 06 RECYCLING BACK FOR THE THIRD TIME Jude Stoll, a contemporary glass artist based in Cumbria, develops her work through emphasizing the unique qualities to be found in waste. She has once again been selected to show during week one of the prestigious New Designers Exhibition at Islington’s Business Design Centre, which this year runs from 29th June – 2nd July. Stoll first showed as a new graduate in 2004 when she won the Future of Design award sponsored by DKNY and also took home the runner up prize in the Bombay Sapphire glass design competition. The following year she was selected by the Crafts Council for their One Year On stand, and returns this year on stand ND02 as a selected maker in the newdesignersonline area. Stoll stated, “New Designers is the ultimate showcase so it’s a great honour to be asked back once again. Opportunities still regularly appear from conversations held here in previous years, and I’m sure that contacts made this year will continue to fuel my career. I have a lot of happy memories from this show, not least the fact that my husband Ed proposed to me here in 2004, so I’m hoping that the luck continues!” Coincidentally, the work of her ceramicist husband Ed Bentley, one of the Crafts Council Next Move Scheme residents, will be on show on an adjacent stand in the newdesignesonline area. Stoll was recently awarded an Arts Council Grant which enabled her to attend the world famous Pilchuck Glass School in the USA. It will also fund her attendance at North Lands Creative Glass in Scotland and various glass conferences and events throughout the summer. She is currently setting up a public access glass studio in a recycling centre near her home where she will create a new body of work developed during her stay in the states. She is also about to embark on a research project to help her reduce her own energy consumption through the use of kilns and furnaces fuelled by recycled cooking oil. Stoll is undoubtedly one of the country’s hottest new design talents working in glass. Her dedication to recycling other people’s rubbish and dealing with environmental issues is very welcome at a time when these issues are at the forefront of the media. END For more information please contact;
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