Jerwood Contemporary Makers is the Jerwood Charitable Foundation’s new initiative to support the applied arts and encourage new and stimulating ways of showing work across a range of disciplines. It replaces the Jerwood Applied Arts Prize, which was run in partnership with the Crafts Council for 11 years.
For further information on the work of the Jerwood Charitable Foundation, please contact Thomas Ponsonby, Administrative Director: thomas.ponsonby@jerwood.org
Tel: 020 7261 0279.
Jerwood Contemporary Makers 2009: Selection panel
Award-winning textile designer and environmental researcher Rebecca Earley is to chair the selection panel for Jerwood Contemporary Makers 2009. She will be joined by designer Tomoko Azumi and Andy Horn, curator from Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, to create an exhibition that explores the theme of ‘impact’ and brings together work by the new generation of contemporary craft and design talent.
This initiative does not operate a shortlist system. Please refer to the Winners section.
Committee – product design
Clare Page and Harry Richardson are a collaborative practice called Committee. They work together to assemble, adapt and juxtapose discarded objects, the leftovers from the retail world. Their signature Kebab Lamps are ‘totems' for today’s material culture, painstakingly constructed by skewering different objects together to create standing lights.
Linda Florence – surface textiles
Creating customised, tactile and highly decorative surfaces, Linda deals with our messy and complicated world in her work. She is known for her application of ‘fugitive’ materials in her works: sugar, rust, iron filings and biscuits, and as a designer specialises in bespoke hand made wallpapers.
Julia Lohmann – design object installation
Inspired by flotsam, jetsam and the ever-increasing masses of rubbish floating in the oceans of the world, Julia will create a series of objects made from porcelain, leather, rubber and plastic for this exhibition. Working with a zoologist, she will 'seed' them with tiny marine organisms called Bryozoa to create intricate, lace-like surface patterns on the objects.
Geoffrey Mann – glass
Through art, craft and design in his work, Geoffrey Mann has created a new hybrid practice. Using a combination of cinematic stop-motion techniques, CAD modeling, rapid prototyping and traditional hand-craftsmanship, his work challenges the known boundaries of glass kiln casting fabrication. For the first time, he will present two works concurrently, both produced virtually by a glass factory in the Czech Republic. Geoffrey creates highly crafted objects which, while not made by him, are still loyal to his signature style.
Rachael Matthews – knitting
Co-founder of Cast Off Knitting Club, Rachael Matthews works with other artists, knitters and collectives to organise events that are always collaborative, socially interactive and unique. For the exhibition, she will create an X-Factor style knitting experience, inviting knitters to present their half-made, problem pieces to a panel of artists who will decide whether or not they are worth taking on to complete.
Claire Norcross – lighting
A textile graduate who until recently has been known as lighting designer for Habitat, Claire Norcross is inspired by organic forms and is passionate about paper and origami. Her concept for the exhibition focuses on the light source being central to the sculptural form of her works. Using energy saving bulbs at the centre of her design, she will create huge, bespoke and highly crafted paper lights inspired by the geometric structures within nature.
Ismini Samanidou - weaving
Ismini is a textile designer and artist working with woven cloth. She is fascinated by the construction methods of woven fabrics and by the way textiles can exist within an architectural space. Her work is mainly woven on a computerised jacquard loom, and will create her piece for the exhibition on a special large size loom in North Carolina. The finished piece will be a 3m high walk-through installation inspired by the history of the Jerwood Space building.
Each exhibitor in the Jerwood Contemporary Makers exhibition will be awarded a share of £30,000 to take part.
Jerwood Contemporary Makers 2009 exhibition 10 June – 19 July
Jerwood Space, 171 Union Street, London, SE1
GALLERY EVENTS
Monday 6 July 6-8pm
Discussion led by Martina Margetts with Geoffrey Mann, Ismini Samanidou and Claire Norcross
To book a place please call: 020 7654 0171 or email: jva@jerwoodspace.co.uk
Jerwood Contemporary Makers 2009: Exhibition tour
To be confirmed
The Jerwood "In Conversation" series 2008
The aim of the one-hour public conversations between two artist/makers/designers/choreographers/architects is to increase awareness of the shared practice of materials concerns, conceptual rigor and application processes undertaken by artist, makers and designers.
The "in conversation" series explored the connections between practice and the shared values held by the practicioners in these conversations.
Monday 16th June - 6pm till 7.15pm - Cornelia Parker and Ron Arad
Monday 23rd June - 6pm till 7.15pm - Keith Harrison and Richard Wentworth
Monday 30th June - 6pm till 7.15pm - Edmund de Waal and Siobhan Davies
Monday 7th July - 6pm till 7.15pm - Hans Stofer and Paul Williams
Jerwood Contemporary Makers 2009 Exhibition
Jerwood Contemporary Makers 2008 Exhibition
The catalogues from previous Jerwood Contemporary Makers exhibitons are available to download here:
Jerwood Contemporary Makers catalogue 2009 (inside)
Jerwood Contemporary Makers catalogue 2009 (outside)
Jerwood Contemporary Makers catalogue 2008
Jerwood Contemporary Makers 2008: Selected makers
Gary Breeze – Letterforms
Sara Brennan - Textiles
Lin Cheung – Jewellery
Drummond Masterton – Metal
Deirdre Nelson – Textiles
Nicholas Rena – Ceramics
Clare Twomey – Ceramics
Jerwood Contemporary Makers 2008: Selection panel
This year’s selection panel was led by ceramist, writer and critic Edmund de Waal with Swedish craft and design critic Love Jönsson and Amanda Game, former Director, Crafts The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, currently Lead Director IC: Innovative Craft, Edinburgh.
Jerwood Charitable Foundation: www.jerwoodcharitablefoundation.org
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Colman Getty
28 Windmill Street
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