2∙2012

Talk by Adam Green Thursday 23 February, 6–7pm

Tickets from gallery desk: £10 Concessions and Patrons: £5 Angels: free Membership information: see back cover

Image above: Adam Green

Adam Green, Masks of Paracus Acrylic on canvas, 2011

Adam Green’s paintings have constant presence of ornamental, hypnotic patterns draw on his love of Mexican and African iconography. He takes reference from vintage commercial images, pulling together diverse elements to achieve a quirky, yet dynamic composition. Humour flows throughout his work, giving the underlying complexity a more approachable edge. Green’s influences, motifs and use of pattern offer fascinating appeal, but he is primarily driven by the physical process of putting paint to canvas. It is from this point that everything else flows, and reveals the incredible tenacity in his application of paint.

Adam GreenThe Baines Surrey Artist of the Year Solo Show Winner 2010Pavilion Room

This exhibition is inspired by Green’s recent trip to Peru and the textiles of the Paracas and Nazca cultures from around 700BCE. The vibrancy and intricacy of their animal designs and symbols have influenced the artist’s palette. The paintings have been made using a series of layers to recreate the feeling of a piece of woven material. Using repetitive lines, circles and motifs, the paintings create the illusion of the depth of fabric, yet retain the sense of a painting.

Green has exhibited widely, including major spaces such as the Royal Academy.

The Surrey Artist of the Year is an annual competition established in 2009 by the New Ashgate Gallery and Surrey Artists’ Open Studios in 2009 to increase the profile of the county’s best artists and makers. The exhibition is supported by the Baines Charitable Trust.

Syann van Niftrik has a strong sense of structure and a delight in the process of working with metal: she is interested in the inherent possibilities of the material. Forging is at the centre of her practice and her work is distinguished by a deceptive simplicity. As she says: “I keep my methods simple to allow elements of my subconscious and the response of others to have life”.

Syann van Niffrik has a strong voice as a designer maker. For over 30 years, she has worked with the some of the best galleries worldwide. Now she is internationally renowned and enjoys exploring her creativity and shares a passion for the beauty of life and contemporary design with her husband Nick Barberton.

Syann van Niftrik and Nick Barberton:Marriage of Wood and Jewellery Foyer

Syann van Niffrik, Leaf Fall Bracelet 2, Sterling silver

Nick Barberton began turning wooden bowls in 1988 when he was given some large pieces of Honduras mahogany. He wanted some light relief from the furniture he was making, but felt that this obedient wood was so dull that it demanded the application of some texture.

Barberton loves the immediacy of the lathe, and discovered that he could generate a bowl from a lump of fruit tree wood. During his trip to Chelsea Crafts Fair he noticed that several potters were making flat pots. The idea appealed because work made in this way lent itself to narrow city mantelpieces and windowsills. As few such locations are able to accommodate a wooden platter 60cm in diameter, he developed long, carved wooden bowls in which the rhythms of the chisel interplay with the light and the reflection and grain of the wood. These carved patterns now have a life of their own, migrating to walls.

Nick Barberton has worked as a draftsman, a designer, a despatch worker, a teacher, a technician, an occupational therapist and a yacht carpenter, but always as a maker. He refitted the vestry of Ringwood

Nick Barberton

Parish Church, and has work in Winchester Cathedral, Manchester Art Gallery, Sculpture at Goodwood, Artsway, and in several churches around the south of England. He is on the Crafts Council’s selected makers list and is a wood advisor for the gallery collection at the Crafts Study Centre, Farnham.

Ceramics Daniel Boyle; George Ormerod; Jacqueline Leighton Boyce; John Masterson; Kerry Hastings; Lucy Burley; Maria de Haan; Matt Horne; Adam Marsh; Paul Jackson; Richard Miller; Sherry Richmond.

JewelleryHannah Bedford; Lauren Davies; Hannah Louise Lamb; Helen Shere; Jo Lavelle; Sadie Chesterman-Bailey; Vanessa Pease; Machi de Waard; Li-Chu Wu.

Spring Contemporary Crafts3 February – 28 April 2012 Craft Gallery and Jewellery Room

Printed textilesMelanie Mayho

AccessoriesKay Morgan

SculptureJill Walker

Mixed media on canvasRachel Grant

Textile cushionsLisa-Marie Gibbs

Felt jewelleryBev Harris

Knitted scarvesAlison Dupernex

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Machi de Waard

Adam Marsh looks at the function of classic forms and recreates them in a contemporary format. Our familiarity with, and the accessibility of objects such as plates and cups, means that playing with different contexts – whether as a single vessel or a collection – can change how their function is perceived. Hand-thrown, they are all slightly different with individual quirks and subtleties, which means that when grouped as an installation they form different lines and shadows, creating different points of interest according to individual perception.

Sale in the Balcony Room Gallery: All works in this gallery are discounted by up to 30%. Angels are eligible for additional discounts, so why not join today?

Makers in Focus in February Curated by Alison Woodley

Matt Horne uses crystalline glazing that is time consuming and expensive to produce. There can be many failures, but also stunning effects. Matt’s work is hand thrown in porcelain: one of the most difficult clays to throw. Crystalline glaze is mixed using a variety of ingredients, some measured in minute amounts. It is applied thickly, up to 4mm, to encourage the glaze to run. The object is then placed on a pedestal and stood in a dish, to catch the run-off during the firing. The kiln reaches the maximum temperature, up to 1300°C, but is then cooled to a specific holding temperature in which crystals form in the glaze. The amount of time held at this temperature contributes to the size of the crystals, which occur randomly, making each pot unique.

Matt Horne

The New Ashgate Gallery is an educational charity that promotes contemporary visual arts and crafts to as wide a public as possible, through a programme of changing exhibitions, projects with artists, makers, and projects of support and development delivered by the trust with local, regional, national and international partnerships and educational events.

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