Contemporary Applied Arts Gallery

'Windows onto Making: Wood' Shown here, Sally Burnett, Rod Page, Naomi Mcintosh and Caroline Sharp. Today is the final day to see this showcase of work exploring the different techniques and approaches our maker members use in their work, we're open until 6pm #WindowsontoMaking

Object of the Week: Porcelain bowl by Sue Paraskeva
Sue Paraskeva is a British artist based on the Isle of Wight. Known for her elegant porcelain tableware, which she throws on a wheel, her accomplished and fine porcelain vessels underpin her practice which is held in both public and private collections.
Available to buy online https://www.caa.org.uk/shop/object-of-the -week/

Windows onto Making: ANGUS ROSS – Steambent ash stool, wedged tenon joints
Angus Ross bends, moulds, sculpts and folds wood to make furniture that has structure and balance and is characterised by pure flowing lines. As a maker he is inspired by his material: wood and the processes involved working with it. The small sections of green oak which are produced have led to a deep exploration of the ancient art of steam-bending which was used for centuries in Scotland to make barrels and fishing boats. Ross is now an acknowledged master of the technique and for achieving new precision, complexity and scale in his work. He co-owns a small woodland in Perthshire, where he is involved with growing, felling, milling and preparing timber for furniture making.

Windows onto Making: HEATHER BELCHER – Knitted felt place matt
Heather Belcher’s work explores the traditions and processes associated with hand-made felt, often combining felting processes with other techniques including hand knitting and weaving. On her larger, one-off works Belcher makes drawings with loose wool fibre laid directly into the surface of the cloth. Underpinning her work is the desire to celebrate the rich language of felt as a carrier of both cultural and personal identities.

Object of the Week: ‘Dahlia Universe Tile’ by Amanda Simmons
Amanda Simmons uses gravity, mass, heat and time to shape glass vessels in the kiln. The forms are intricately constructed with glass powders, designed to react with changing light. Simmons is interested in our emotional responses to contemporary objects and the connection we build with inanimate things. Her work also reflects her abiding interest in science and the cosmos.
Available to buy online from our website: https://www.caa.org.uk/shop/object-of-the -week/

Windows onto Making: ANE CHRISTENSEN – Spun, soldered and patinated, copper vessel
Ane Christensen makes contemporary vessels and wall pieces in metal. Originally trained as a jeweller, Christensen continues to apply traditional techniques, including hand piercing, soldering and patination, to her large scale pieces. All of her work begins as a simple spun form or flat sheet of metal. The early stages of each piece are intuitive and process led, both material and idea are challenged through deconstruction, interruption and reconstruction. A slight imperfection in a pattern or a structure is magical to her and when translated into metalwork, makes the piece come to life.

Windows onto Making: ZOË HILLYARD – Stitched patchwork vessels
Zoë Hillyard uses the tradition of hand-stitched patchwork as a ‘mending process’ to revive the fortunes of discarded and broken ceramics. She replaces their original surface decoration with vintage textiles, wrapping the individual fragments and reassembling them, stitch by stitch without glue. Hillyard works intuitively, pulling from a palette of textiles: pattern juxtapositions, colour nuances, fibre qualities and woven structures combine to create a rich surface quality – a textile glaze. Missing fragments and chips create an imperfect landscape that is all the more interesting for its irregularities. Each piece is unique, with a flawed beauty that celebrates imperfection.

Windows onto Making: JOHN CREED – Raised and oxidised copper, silver and brass
John Creed’s work often uses a combination of materials to achieve a concept. A practising silversmith since the early 1960’s and blacksmithing since 1990, he works in both precious and non-precious metals, relishing the physicality of the processes of metal working. Creed says the ease of ‘drawing’ in three dimensions through hot forging is ‘magic’ to him, but his interest is across the whole spectrum of metalwork – these include one-off site specific architectural projects such as the sculptural standing lamp here in the gallery, public art, functional pieces for the garden, to small objects for the home such as a coat stand, music stand, fruit dish, or silverware for the table.

'Windows onto Making: Part 2' continues until 3 November. Shown here a selection of makers from our Metal discipline featured in the exhibition, Ane Christensen, Michael Carberry and Claire Malet.

Object of the Week: ‘Dahlia Universe Tile’ by Amanda Simmons
Amanda Simmons uses gravity, mass, heat and time to shape glass vessels in the kiln. The forms are intricately constructed with glass powders, designed to react with changing light. Simmons is interested in our emotional responses to contemporary objects and the connection we build with inanimate things. Her work also reflects her abiding interest in science and the cosmos.
Available to buy online from our website: https://www.caa.org.uk/shop/object-of-the -week/

Windows onto Making: CAROLINE SHARP – Woven willow and birch vessels
Caroline Sharp’s work is strongly influenced by natural form, containment and movement and her pod forms are woven in a random method which she has developed to emphasise this. Sharp uses entirely natural materials including willow, poplar, birch, hazel, and dogwood stems. Tip rods and leaves are left to give contrast in colour and texture. Working in both 3D and 2D, her work has become a medium for an interaction with nature which is deeply personal.

Windows onto Making: LOUISE RENAE ANDERSON – Hand woven silk and linen panels
Louise Renae Anderson designs and makes one-off handcrafted textile pieces. Working mainly within her weave specialism, she uses natural materials, processes and techniques involving traditional methods of dyeing and weaving, combined with a contemporary approach to design. Her subtle aesthetic is explored through mark making, the breakdown of regular pattern into irregularity, and the beauty of imperfection.

Object of the Week: ‘Flight Neckpiece’ by Naomi Mcintosh
Naomi Mcintosh refers to her pieces as ‘wearable architecture and wearable drawings’. She utilises architectural processes and methodologies and has developed her style through exploring the potential of CAD/CAM technologies and materials such as wood and acrylic. Volumes and scale are important, as external and internal forms and patterns are revealed in the pieces through movement. When worn, the jewellery has a synchronicity with the wearer as it relates, outlines and reshapes profiles.
Available to buy online: https://www.caa.org.uk/shop/object-of-the -week/

Windows onto Making: MALCOLM MARTIN & GAYNOR DOWLING – Carved and scorched oak
Working in partnership Malcolm Martin and Gaynor Dowling’s sculptural pieces are made from English oak. The wood is worked by hand with an axe, gouges and drill to create the basic form and undulating surface texture, which belies the hardness of the wood. The final treatment may be scorching or liming the surface and, more recently, staining with raw pigment colours. Many of their pieces start life inspired by the shape of a small off-cut from the bandsaw, or even through cutting up a larger ‘failed’ piece and making a series of smaller forms, preserving the original textures.

Windows onto Making: SALLY BURNETT – Sycamore, pyrography, acrylic, metal leaf
Sally Burnett creates turned vessels from freshly felled timber known as ’green wood’. This living material moves and twists as it is worked and Burnett is fascinated by the many inclusions, knots and grain patterns which often dictate shape and design. This forces her to continually reconsider a piece during the making process. Turning wood is a combination of ancient practical skills and an intuitive sense of material. Using a lathe, traditional chisels and gouges alongside modern techniques and tools, Burnett finishes her richly textured vessels with pyrography and carving, often embellished with acrylic colour and silver leaf.

Windows onto Making: MAJEDA CLARKE – Mill woven lambswool and angora blanket
Majeda Clarke weaves colour samples in her London studio, which are sent to one of the few remaining working mills in Wales for small batch production of double cloth blankets. Double weaving is an ancient technique. Examples from Peru have been dated to before AD700. This particular type of cloth is made of two or more sets of warps and one or more sets of weft. The fabric has two right sides or faces, there is no wrong side. Clarke aims to bring a modern aesthetic to this ancient craft. Clarke sets out to highlight the geometry of the weave and plays with pops of vibrant colour, inspired by her own cultural journey from Bangladesh to Britain.

Windows onto Making: RAJESH GOGNA – Powder coated brass, 3D printed handle
Rajesh Gogna creates unique, contemporary metalwork objects from precious and non-precious materials. He uses a combination of traditional handcraft techniques, such as hammering and soldering alongside low-tech production methods, with the aim of challenging traditional concepts to contemporise the ancient craft of silversmithing. In his most recent work, Gogna has incorporated elements of 3D printing to create handles and also powder coating to give a silky, saturated colour finish to his brass-bodied decorative vessels.

‘Windows onto Making’ continues with part 2 and a focus on our textiles, wood and metal disciplines. Shown here in the textiles window are pieces by Majeda Clarke, Nao Fukumoto and Heather Belcher. On display until 3 November 2018

Object of the Week: ‘Flight Neckpiece’ by Naomi Mcintosh
Naomi Mcintosh refers to her pieces as ‘wearable architecture and wearable drawings’. She utilises architectural processes and methodologies and has developed her style through exploring the potential of CAD/CAM technologies and materials such as wood and acrylic. Volumes and scale are important, as external and internal forms and patterns are revealed in the pieces through movement. When worn, the jewellery has a synchronicity with the wearer as it relates, outlines and reshapes profiles.
Available to buy online: https://www.caa.org.uk/shop/object-of-the -week/

love~naju korea

Visited the gallery in the summer. Beautiful gallery space, light, bright and airy. Excellent location. Be great to showcase the Parka which was made as part of an experiment for 'Kevin Mclouds Man Made Home' sometime soon..........

Shellie Holden, CAA member.

Such amazing work and beautiful desirable objects. Great location to also visit Tate Modern

and Borough market all a short walk away!

Had an amazing time visiting and viewing some of the most exciting and cuttings edge designs. Very unique and original works of art from makers all across Britain and other parts of the world.

love~naju korea

Visited the gallery in the summer. Beautiful gallery space, light, bright and airy. Excellent location. Be great to showcase the Parka which was made as part of an experiment for 'Kevin Mclouds Man Made Home' sometime soon..........

Shellie Holden, CAA member.

Such amazing work and beautiful desirable objects. Great location to also visit Tate Modern

and Borough market all a short walk away!

Had an amazing time visiting and viewing some of the most exciting and cuttings edge designs. Very unique and original works of art from makers all across Britain and other parts of the world.

love~naju korea

Visited the gallery in the summer. Beautiful gallery space, light, bright and airy. Excellent location. Be great to showcase the Parka which was made as part of an experiment for 'Kevin Mclouds Man Made Home' sometime soon..........

Shellie Holden, CAA member.

Such amazing work and beautiful desirable objects. Great location to also visit Tate Modern

and Borough market all a short walk away!

Had an amazing time visiting and viewing some of the most exciting and cuttings edge designs. Very unique and original works of art from makers all across Britain and other parts of the world.

love~naju korea

Visited the gallery in the summer. Beautiful gallery space, light, bright and airy. Excellent location. Be great to showcase the Parka which was made as part of an experiment for 'Kevin Mclouds Man Made Home' sometime soon..........

Shellie Holden, CAA member.

Such amazing work and beautiful desirable objects. Great location to also visit Tate Modern

and Borough market all a short walk away!

Had an amazing time visiting and viewing some of the most exciting and cuttings edge designs. Very unique and original works of art from makers all across Britain and other parts of the world.