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A Reflection on Elaine Bolt’s ‘Trees’ Installation
Two Decades of Glass Sculpture by Richard Jackson and Sally Fawkes
An Interview with Steve Messam
Clare Palmer Ceramics at ‘Growth’ in OmVed Gardens, London
Our Education Programme Begins
August in The Old Rectory Garden
Elaine Bolt at Fresh Air Sculpture
Guest Blog Post by Sarah Edmonds
Loco Glass: From Where I’m Standing
Laura Hickman
New pergola in the gardens
Jackson Fawkes

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ABOUT FRESH AIR SCULPTURE

Set up by art collectors, Lucy and David Abel Smith, the first Fresh Air Sculpture was held in the Quenington Old Rectory gardens in 1992. Acclaim for the show’s originality and innovative mixture of traditional, modern and cutting-edge outdoor sculpture has grown year by year and Fresh Air Sculpture is now an established and much anticipated fixture in the art events calendar. Fresh Air Sculpture became a charitable trust, under Quenington Sculpture Trust, in 1997.

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L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped @christojeanneclaude L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped @christojeanneclaude Posted @withregram • @christojeanneclaude Time-lapse of yesterday's fabric installation! --- Courtesy Perle Productions #ChristoParis #Christo #ChristoJeanneClaude #ChristoandJeanneClaude @leCMN @ArcdeTriomphe_Paris @CentrePompidou @Paris_maVille
Our friends at The Gloucestershire Guild of Crafts Our friends at The Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen @glosguild have organised the most beautiful craft show - CRAFTS ALIVE at Rodmarton Manor. 5 days celebrating craft, creativity and community inside and in the extensive gardens of this historic arts and crafts building. There is amazing craft and design to see and buy, talks, demonstrations, workshops, children’s activities, a brilliant cafe and more. We highly recommend it. On until Sunday 12 September. #craftsaliveatrodmartonmanor #glosguild #rodmartonmanor #daysoutingloucestershire #craftshow #designermakers
Job title Freelance Curator Organisation Quening Job title Freelance Curator Organisation Quenington Sculpture Trust Location Quenington, Gloucestershire and Remote working Deadline 30 September 2021 Description Fresh Air Sculpture is a 3-week, biennial contemporary sculpture exhibition, held in the private riverside gardens of Quenington Old Rectory, Gloucestershire raising funds for the Quenington Sculpture Trust. The 2019 exhibition had 75 exhibitors showing some 160 works and over the 3 weeks we had over 10,000 visitors. The Quenington Sculpture Trust is looking to appoint a freelance Curator for its 2022 show and then ongoing for subsequent biennial shows. The role of Curator is to support the exhibition by searching for artists and makers whose work would animate a private outdoor space but also would be well made and affordable. The Curator will manage the placing of works for the show, the day-to-day running of the show and any related administrative tasks. The ideal candidate will have a background in the arts and an understanding of the administration behind an exhibition, along with experience of grant applications, budget management and reporting on progress. Candidates will also need excellent interpersonal skills and a talent for working collaboratively and flexibly as part of a small but dedicated team. The 2022 show is our 2021 show, delayed due to Covid, so much is in place already, therefore the new Curator will concentrate on building relationships with exhibiting artists, organising the final photoshoot and siting pieces for the show. For future exhibitions, the work will be spread across a 20-month period with a peak during the build up to, over the exhibition and its dismantling. How to apply Please submit a letter of interest and CV presenting relevant knowledge, skills and experience to info@freshairsculpture.com. #freshairsculpture #quenington #freshairsculpture2022
We are excited to welcome ceramicist, co-founder o We are excited to welcome ceramicist, co-founder of Art Studios ‘StudioDo’ and Art Foundation course leader, Marion Stuart @marion.stuart to Fresh Air Sculpture 2022. Marion will be exhibiting a series of porcelain paper clay tools in The Old Rectory Gardens and relief plaques in the Pool House Galley. In the 1940’s, a charity helped Marion's father to access an apprenticeship by purchasing him work tools. His family were poor, and his mother widowed; these tools changed his life. At the age of 14 he began work as a ship-maker for Blackmore and Sons and continued to use them throughout his life. Now, 80 years later, Marion has found her way of putting these tools to work. By making reproductions in porcelain paper clay, each one takes on a ghostly portrayal of the original object. When held, the viewer experiences the unexpected lightness of the tool, suggesting melancholic themes of transcendence and mortality. Yet the careful re-construction of these everyday objects highlights the true value of her fathers legacy Despite being unfit for purpose, the tools are beautifully ergonomic and tactile, each one holding the imprints of the artists hand. The fragility of the porcelain juxtaposes the durability of work tools, one can only imagine the consequences of using a porcelain hammer… Marion physically imprints the replicas with the metal originals, creating inverted patterns and textures on the surface. In addition to this, she is known to scribe her work with phrases from ‘Dartmoor Omnibus’ a book by Eden Philpotts. The Devonian dialect connects to her heritage, circling round to the life her father lived when building boats in Bideford, Devon. #marionstuart #marionstuartceramics #ceramicart #ceramicsculpture #toolsofthetrade #paperclay #paperclayart #paperclaysculpture #porcelainart #freshairsculpture #freshairsculpture2022 #quenington #porcelaintools #paperclaytools
‘Birdsong’ by @simonconollysculptor from our r ‘Birdsong’ by @simonconollysculptor from our recent visit to @spetchleygardens. We will be showing Simon’s work at Fresh Air Sculpture 2022. #simonconollysculpture #birdsong #bronzesculpture #mananddog #contemporarysculpture #sculpturegarden #sculpturepark #spetchleyparkgardens #sculptureuk #sculpturelovers #dogsculpture #workingdog
We had a lovely day out at Spetchley Park recently We had a lovely day out at Spetchley Park recently wandering the gardens and looking at the work in The Sculptures in the Gardens exhibition. This is Richard Cresswell's Quill. The show is on until September 19th. All the details via @spetchleygardens @richardcresswellsculptor #sculpturegardens #quill #kineticsculpture #metalsculpture #richardcresswell #movingsculpture #contemporarysculpture #modernsculpture #britishsculpture #sculpturelovers #gardensculpture
Ben Nicholson @pallanthousegallery A treat. #p Ben Nicholson @pallanthousegallery A treat. #pallanthousegallery #bennicholson #culturetrip #artgallery #artforthesoul #chichester
There’s a wonderful collection of Zoe Hillyard’s ceramic patchwork currently @caagallery. We will have some of Zoe’s pieces in our contemporary craft and design space in the Pool House Gallery at Fresh Air Sculpture 2022. Posted @withregram • @caagallery Take a look at this breathtaking combination of patterns, colours and woven structures with missing fragments and chips, creating an imperfect landscape in Zoë Hillyard’s ceramic work. Zoë 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 as she wraps individual fragments and then reassembles them, solely by stitch. Each piece is unique, with a flawed beauty that celebrates imperfection. Having spent a year working as a VSO volunteer in Mongolia, Hillyard draws particular inspiration from the resourcefulness of nomadic life. Through adding new chapters to the journeys of existing objects, she seeks to question and strengthen our relationship to possessions. The Japanese ceramic mending tradition of Yobitsugi often challenges western conventions in relation to patching and this provides a reference for ongoing explorations into colour and pattern combinations. Zoë’s ceramic patchwork pieces are seductively tactile, with a surprising handling quality. Pieces can simply be the result of an interesting combination of unconnected second-hand items; equally they can be a commission to re-work imagery, textiles or ceramic possessions that have sentimental or historic value. They are designed to delight and to be treasured for the long-term. Visit CAA gallery to enjoy seeing Zoë’s work in person. We are open Wednesday-Friday 11am-5pm and 11am-4pm on Saturday, 6 Paddington St, London W1U 5QG. @ceramicpatchwork @caagallery #ZoeHillyard #ceramicpatchwork #contemporarycraft #stitched #handmade #ceramics #textileart #materialjourneys #mending #madetotreasure #marylebonegallery #marylebonevillage #contemporaryappliedartsgallery
Photo dump from our recent trip to The Hepworth Wa Photo dump from our recent trip to The Hepworth Wakefield. Glorious inside and out. @hepworthwakefield #hepworthwakefield #wakefield #yorkshire #yorkshireart #sculpture #sculpturelovers #contemporarysculpture #sculpturephotodump #freshairsculpture #culturetrip
Bridge maintenance getting real. Our beautiful fo Bridge maintenance getting real. Our beautiful footbridge was designed by Richard la Trobe Bateman and is made from painted Douglas Fir and galvanised steel and spans 10.5 metres across the River Coln. It can be raised and lowered easily by hand using a unique arrangement of cables and pulleys. #talesfromthegarden #sharegardenjoy #gardentherapy #quenington #cotswoldgarden #englishgarden #freshairsculpture #gardendesign #junegarden #cotswolds #cotswoldlife #countrygarden #gardening #gloucestershire #gardenlife #beautyyouseek #gardensofinstagram #englishcountrygarden #englishcountryhouse #gloucestershiregarden #theconstantlycurious #gardenersofinstagram #sculpturegarden #sculpturelovers #gloshour
When doors are truly something else ! Amazing work When doors are truly something else ! Amazing work @calebwoodardfurniture. Swipe left for the beautiful detail. Posted @withregram • @calebwoodardfurniture Sculpted sliding doors, 10’ wide, carved from solid walnut for @suzannelovellinc - heading off tomorrow to their new home . A truly wonderful experience working with Suzanne, Kristin, and the rest of the team. I cannot speak highly enough of them and their support of artists. . #calebwoodard #calebwoodardfurniture #art #sculpture #design #interiordesign #basrelief
Life size mosaics by @cleomussimosaics for @britis Life size mosaics by @cleomussimosaics for @british_ceramics_biennial. We can’t wait to see these ! Posted @withregram • @cleomussimosaics Pieces are now all packed and ready for Stoke-on -Trent for The British Ceramic Biennial. Six hours of packing ! 12 life size figures telling the story of Phylum, Phylon, Phylogeny, Phyllon and Phyllosilicates. Taxonomy, Race, Origin, Leaf and Clay. Nature Recycles Everything is one from my personal collection . The law of the conservation of energy which ‘can be neither created nor destroyed, but can change form’. Importantly, seeing the human as a gateway to our individual choices - what we choose to ingest, what we buy and discard and what we choose to say, reveals much of our personal values. Rachel Carson showed, in her 1962 book, Silent Spring, that when a single species grows dominant and scatters its waste throughout its environment, the system can then tip out of balance. @british_ceramics_biennial #silentspring #naturerecycleseverything #mosaicinstallation #ceramicinstallation #ceramicart #cleomussi #mussimosaics #recycledchina Thank you @carmelkingphoto
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