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Artist in Residence
Shiree Allen - Digital Art & Design
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Shiree Allen uses technology to explore the interplay between contemporary and traditional art processes. Starting from snapshots she transforms images through layering and deconstruction to explore perception, memories and the dichotomies between urban and natural landscapes.
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https://shireeallen.wixsite.com/mysite
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@AllenShiree
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@shireeallenart
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Rachael Parfit / Word Artist
Senior Designer in Children’s books at DK/PenguinRandom House and Hand Lettering Artist/illustrator. Worked on many different titles from early preschool books, animals, craft and cookery books.
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Hiromi Watanabe / Bjoux Jewellery
Beautifully designed jewellery inspired from patterns in nature and resulting pieces become a fusion of delicate structures.
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Katie Iacovou Ceramics
Organic forms and vessels are very much inspired by the Cornish coastline and motivated by the textures that nature provides. The rugged cliff tops are a constant source of inspiration, providing marks, patterns and colour such as rust and corrosion. It’s also the sea moss and kelp that sweeps across the rocks as the waves sway in and out that captures her attention, including shellfish and barnacles that cling fiercely onto the rock surfaces and metal that's found embedded in the cliff's structure.
A constant source of inspiration and it’s this deep love for Cornwall are reflected in the glazes, with found objects of driftwood and metal, collected from the beach. A juxtaposition of the natural and man-made world and is very much an influence, with works described as sculptural and are unique one-off pieces.
www.instagram.com/katieiacovouceramics/
www.facebook.com/katieiacovouceramics
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Joy Heard - Reformed Glass
Creating beautiful functional objects from single use glass bottles.
I score the bottles and then separate the glass using a flame and then ice. The glass expands and contracts causing the glass to separate at the weakest point.
My fascination with glass started as a teenager cutting bottles in my parents’ cellar but it is only in recent years that I have refined my technique and have become completely hooked on repurposing ‘single use’ glass bottles in a variety of ways.
I love bottle glass with all its unique imperfections. All my products are hand cut and hand sanded to 800 grit.
Joy Heard @reformed_glass
Guest artist for 2022 - John Jones Photography
John is new to the Open House event and will be showing his photography during the lock down in London.
Liz Holness / Photography & Ceramics
Liz's current practice focuses on the domestic environment, looking at the emotional relationship we have with home as a place of safety and confinement, questioning the significance of the objects we chose to keep there.
Her photography and artist books, capture overlooked and unseen details; the mistakes, stains, blurred edges and cracks present in our daily life, but not often celebrated.
Recently working with clay again after 20 years, Liz is working on a series of hand-coiled patterned porcelain vessels that record the minutiae of daily repetitive domestic tasks.
Liz's artist books are in the special collections of Tate, V&A, and University of the Arts London, a book of my photographs has been published by Rizzoli.
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