19th September @ Ryedale Folk Museum
Ryedale Folk Museum on 19th September.
Drinks from 4-7pm
Talk and discussion about our new work from 4.30 and the new catalogue will be available.
This event is strictly RSVP due to the size of the venue. Please email studio@gilliesjonesglass.co.uk
Closet and easiest car parking is at the ‘National Parks’ car park off the Lastingham road and its £1 after 4pm
work in progress
Colour Vision / Scottish Gallery
We will be showing 3 pieces in some good company, as part of this show at the Scottish Gallery.
Exhibition ‘Glas uit Engeland’
St. Joseph Galerie is hosting an exhibition of contemporary glass from England from 5th September – 17th October 2009 in Leeuwarden the Netherlands.
We will be sending this piece and as part of a group of 4.
Tony Bartholomew
This is an image of Tony, a photo of a photographer.
Tony has been following us about during the process of making the exhibition. He has taken some great images, its interesting to see the process through someone elses eyes and look at what catches Tonys very good eye.
Tony had made the long photo montage of the process of making the pieces , this is part of the exhibition at the Musuem and much of his work will feature in the catalogue to come.
Richard Lamming
This is an image of the incredible Richard Lamming. Richard is a glass repairer by trade, very highly skilled and was one of the last apprentice cutters at Stuart Crystal. He can ‘really’ cut glass and likes a challenge, which is good, as it is a real challenge cutting our sculptural blown glass vessels. I really had no idea how hard it was, until spending two days with Richard last week.
This piece will eventually be part of the show at Ryedale Folk Musuem.
New Work / Ryedale Folk Museum
The exhibition at the Contemporary Gallery at Ryedale Folk Museum looms large. The show opens on 8th August and runs through to 11th October .
‘Vessel, bounded space’… its still a working title
The show will have a catalogue which will be presented at the end of the exhibition.
Will blog more later, but we are making new work and developing the forms and content of our work. A thank you to the Arts Council for the funding which enables us to take the time to do so and Andrew Dalton for the invitation to show.
The jist of show is we use the blown glass vessel, as metaphorical containers for our thoughts, our interests, and as a way to reveal the possibilities of our shared world.
Also, really like the context. Here we are makers on a post industrial island, showing work within a museum, where 85% of the objects were made by people. Objects that were made to last, time taken, thought given, materials conserved and considered… by necessity. Hmmmm.
Contemporary Applied Arts / New Work
Five new pieces on exhibition. Five with a similar colour theme but each an individual.
Vessels
…came across a lecture by Jeremy Rifkin … he talked about us as the last of the oil people, before us it was the coal people, and before it was the grain people, each development in our civilization has been driven by a specific fuel… but… civilization as we know it now was started when a container, a vessel was created as a means to preserve, transport and trade the fuel ( grain ), so I would argue for the significance of the vessel, as still much more than ‘just’ a container.
Vessels are ubiquitous as Mark L Johnson says..” We automatically learn the meaning and logic of containment, since hundreds of times daily we interact with various types of containers – cups, boxes , clothes , rooms , our bodies etc. as bounded spaces .”
Hmmm… “bounded spaces” We are bounding spaces by continuing to make vessels. It begs a whole other set of questions.
The Scottish Gallery
*06/05/09®30/05/09.
“Gallery Focus: May”. Solo
Stephen Gillies & Kate Jones. The Scottish Gallery. Edinburgh. GB.
Tel: 0131 558 1200.
Fax. 0131 558 3900. Email: mail@scottish-gallery.co.uk
Website: www.scottish-gallery.co.uk
A group of 5 individual pieces on show between these dates, 3 pieces in a monochrome theme, and two bright colours. red over blue and blue over green. First time showing with the highly renowned Scottish Gallery, looking forward to another visit to Edinburgh for the PV on Tuesday 5th
Christmas Shows / NGC
Find two of our Aesculus in the show and our beautiful hand mand bowls in the NGC shop
Beautifully Crafted
Opens 25 October ‘08 – 22 February ‘09
‘Beautifully Crafted’ is a showcase of ingenuity, exquisite workmanship, innovation and delight, that explores the way contemporary artists and designers create works that fuse cultural histories and ancient techniques with new technologies and new ways of working. This exhibition pays homage to artisan techniques, from glass making to taxidermy, lace making to marquetry, and objects that have been created with meticulous attention to ‘making’.
