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Breeze Art & Makers Fair
Trereife House | Penzance
14 to 16 September 2018
Dancing Candelabrum | Sterling Silver | by Brett Payne | photo: Jerry Lampson
This autumn sees the launch of the Breeze Art & Makers Fair at West Cornwall's beautiful Trereife House, an event which will showcase the very best designer-makers and artists in the region, with three days of exhibitions, workshops, talks and demonstrations. Previously known as the Cornwall Design Fair, Breeze will profile the finest luxury craftsmanship and contemporary art, presenting the work of over 45 selected artists and makers, including silversmiths Brett Payne and Fenella Watson, ceramicists Paul Jackson and Richard Phethean, sculptors Richard Holliday and James Eddy, jewellers Emily Nixon and William Blaikie and glass artists Antonia MacGregor and Helen Eastham, and exhibiting collections from twelve of the South West's leading art galleries, including New Craftsman Gallery, White Space Art, Circle Contemporary, Yew Tree Gallery, Makers Emporium and Guild of Ten.
In addition, the elegant interior of Trereife House will be open to visitors as the backdrop for a special exhibition of contemporary glass. Entitled Glass Glamour and curated by artist Fiaz Elson, the exhibition will showcase the work of makers who specialise in creating bespoke cast or hand-blown pieces to commission.
Outside, the parterre and long border of Trereife's formal gardens will be the venue for Form and Formality, an exhibition of outdoor sculpture in wood, glass, metal, ceramic and stone, curated by Miranda Leonard; on the green, there will be live Raku firings, while the walled garden will also host Christian Funnell's mobile metalwork van, and the event's Education Marquee, which will offer a programme of design-led workshops and demonstrations, alongside a pop-up café and artisan cake outlet.
In the main exhibition tents, there will be a stylish chill-out lounge, with Prosecco and specialist gins on offer, while in the estate's courtyard, visitors will find a café and artisan food market offering quality fayre from local producers, alongside food options from the Kernow Forno wood-fired pizza company, and vintage ice cream bar Cecil on Ice.
Tickets are available on the day, or in advance at breezefair.eventbrite.co.uk
Entry
Early Bird online tickets | £7.50
Day tickets online and on the gate | Adult £10, Student £8
3 Day ticket | £18
Under 16s FREE
Find Breeze Art & Makers Fair on the A30 between Penzance and Buryas Bridge, at Trereife House, Nr Penzance, Cornwall TR20 8TJ |www.breezefair.org. Breeze Art & Makers CIC is a not for profit company.
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Dancing Candelabrum | Brett Payne
Please photo credit Jerry Lampson
Editors Notes
Selection Panel | Breeze Art & Makers Fair 2018
Richard Buckingham
Richard trained at Buckinghamshire College, High Wycombe, in Furniture Design and Craftsmanship.On Graduating in 1994 he worked as a cabinetmaker for Waywood, an established company specializing in bespoke hardwood furniture.In 1996 Richard joined Pendrym Furniture of Looe (now TJH Productions), where he worked as a part of a two-man team producing one-off designs and a wide range of subcontract projects for some of Britain's leading furniture companies. For the past 16 years, he has lived and worked on the Lizard Peninsular, producing work to his own designs using native hardwoods and other appropriate materials inspired by the Cornish surroundings. While concentrating on natural colour and texture, Richard aims to produce honest, practical furniture which is only intended to become precious through its use.Richard has had 12 years' experience teaching furniture design and making.
Katherine Sorrell
Katherine is an experienced freelance writer specialising in design and lifestyle. She contributes regularly to a range of leading national magazines and newspapers, and has written 20 books. A former associate editor of Homes & Gardens, Katherine now writes for a variety of leading publications. She has contributed to, among others, the Sunday Times Style, the Telegraph Magazine, Country Living, Homes & Antiques, House Beautiful, Coast, Period Living, Ideal Home, Real Homes, Grand Designs, 25 Beautiful Homes, Period Homes, Mollie Makes and Country Homes. Katherine has experience in selecting and curating for prestigious crafts organisations, including the Chelsea Crafts Fair (now called Origin), Hidden Art Cornwall and the Contemporary Craft Fair, Bovey Tracey. She has completed a television training course, and undertaken several radio interviews. Her recent project is Make: Cornwall a book using her research into innovative makers of Cornwall, ‘who are incorporating the latest in modern technology while honoring age-old skills'.
Veronica Manussis
Veronica spent the first ten years of her life living in Kenya with her Greek father and half-American, half-English mother. In England since 1962, she did a foundation course at Croydon, although she was most interested in pottery and furniture. She had a shop in the King's Road, Cobra & Bellamy, selling Twenties and Thirties objects and furniture. Today she lives and works in Lamorna running her online business in fine wristwatches and collectable jewellery.
John Miller
John Miller is co-director of Mark Product a furniture design and manufacturing company based in Falmouth He and his co-director Anna Hart met in Cornwall in 2007 through a shared passion for furniture, design and a belief in British manufacturing craft. Drawing on talent from across Cornwall and the UK, skilled craftspeople from the creative, automotive, marine and textiles industries bring the MARK vision to life. John's passions lie in the manufacturing side of the industry, the interface between design and technology, and connecting people and skills to create better products, outcomes and experiences. He is a furniture design graduate of Leeds Metropolitan University and went on to do an MA in Design Research for Disability at the London College of Furniture before working as a design consultant in healthcare design and point of sale design. John established Design Strength in 1994 to manufacture furniture for the home healthcare market, which he ran for four years until moving into leading the Furniture Design and Technology BA at London Metropolitan University. Next up (John has boundless energy and insatiable drive!), he established Furniture Works - a resource centre and series of projects linking designers with manufacturers - closely followed by the Metropolitan Works Digital Manufacturing Centre, both fueled by his conviction of the need to improve dialogue between designers, manufacturers and technologists. John joined Falmouth University, as the Director of its School of Design, before meeting Anna and starting on the project that was to become MARK whose clients included National Gallery, Price Waterhouse Cooper, Google, World Wildlife Fund for Nature.
Margaret Steigner
Margret is a painter. Her work is inspired by nature in all its aspects, including the microscopic. She has immersed herself in her beautiful surroundings. Though she spent the early part of her life in Germany, she seldom travels, having an affinity with Cornwall, which reveals itself in her semi-abstract landscapes. She studied photography and graphic design in Germany, and after moving to London in 1989 and studying and City Lit, she became a Goldsmiths student. Here Margret felt that the work of female students was often overlooked, but she was fortunate to benefit from the guidance of some exceptional women tutors. Influences on her work include the American minimalist painter Agnes Martin, and Antoni Tapies, a prominent Catalan artist. Margret also admires Warhol for ‘breaking the rules'.
Exhibiting Artists:
Carole Waller
Ben Cook
Jonathan Fuller
Rob Braybrooks
Lisa Wisdom
Books n Boxes
Lincoln Kirby Bell
Mitch Pilkington Ceramics
Eleanor Crane Ceramics
Paul Jackson
Amy Cooper Ceramics
Demelza Whitley
Laura Lane
Cookie Scottorn Ceramics
Catherine Luck Taylor
Richard Phethean
Carole Waller
Michelle Kersey
Off the Wall Glass
Antonia Macgregor Designs
Helen Eastham Studio
Becca Williams
Katy Luxton Jewellery
Bronwen Gwillim
Mamm & Myrgh Goldsmiths
Katherine Priest
Anne Farag
Made by Caroline
Fionna Hesketh
Emily Nixon
Claire Allain
Sharon McSwiney
Hazel Rose Jewellery
Daisy Dunlop
William Blaikie
Gosia Weber Handmade
Sticky Paper Studio
Gary Scott
Zoe Watts Designs
Steelmaiden
Karina Gill
Brett Payne
Fenella Watson Designs
Amanda Richardson
Liz Lippiatt & Kathryn Clarke
Sam Pickard
Teresa Dunne
Exhibiting Galleries:
New Craftsman
White Space Art
Georgia Stoneman Fine Art
Online Ceramics Gallery
Round House Gallery
Circle Contemporary
Yew Tree Gallery
Meta Gallery
Makers Emporium
Colour and Space
Cornwall College
Guild of Ten
Including Works By:
Chris Keenan
Walter Keeler
Tony Laverick
Tim Andrews
Peter Beard
Lara Scobie
Jack Doherty
Matthew Chambers
Akiko Hirai
Adam Buick
Tanya Gomez
Mark Hearld
Robina Jack
Reece Ingram
Guy Royle
Jenny Ryre
Esther Smith
Terry Shone
John Maltby
John O'Carroll
Bob Aldous
Emily Crookshank
Peter Hayes
Pine Feroda
Dan Miles
Jenny Beavan
Shelley Anderson
For further press information or additional images contact Mercedes Smith at Fine Art Communications director@fineartcommunications.co.uk / Tel 07825 270235 /www.fineartcommunications.co.uk
