Hajnalka Rezes, Connected Bowls, Rising Stars 2014

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2014

The destination in Farnham Town of Craft

New works on paper by the 2012

Surrey Artist of the Year Tessa Pearson

who has been creating stunning mixed

media paintings and monotypes for

this major solo show.

Tessa Pearson New Work by the Surrey Artist of the Year 2012

Private view:

Fri 17 Jan, 6-8pm

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Well known for her glorious

use of colour, Pearson sees

the world as a myriad of

pattern and captivating

images. She marvels at

patches of brilliant yellow in

a dramatic green landscape,

and the glimpse of a violet

pot against a cobalt blue

wall will haunt her.

The Surrey Artist of the Year

celebrates the partnership

between the New Ashgate

and the Surrey Artists Open

Studios. The exhibition

showcases a variety of

artwork created in the region

and is supported from the

Patricia Baines Trust.

Sarah Shaw, Roads

Sarah Shaw

Sarah Shaw’s work is located between figuration and non-

figuration. It comes from a quiet place of meditation where

metaphorical or symbolic images/barriers/passages are explored

in the painterly dialogue about the condition of being human and

the concept of living through time.

The paintings are not whole images, but snatches of images, sounds and

thoughts, briefly forming into coherence like a painterly slideshow of memory.

Shaw’s work has been purchased by private collectors in the UK and abroad,

most notably by Ronnie Wood. She has featured in many competitions,

including the National Open and the Aesthetica Art Prize and was shortlisted

for the Threadneedle Art Prize.

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Dan Baldwin creates a unique and

immediately recognisable vision in his

silkscreen prints. His work reflects both

reality and the world of imagination.

Private view:

Fri 17 Jan, 6-8pm

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Baldwin’s subject matter is the interior of his own mind, from rumination on

love, memory or philosophical issues, to an airing of opinion on politics and/

or current affairs. The work is multi-layered, both physically (Baldwin can use

glazes, diamond dust collage and 3D media on top of his silkscreen surface)

and in terms of meaning.

Symbolism is a key to Baldwin’s oeuvre – his interpretation and the personal

response of each viewer. The symbols of death, life and love reflect Baldwin’s

preoccupation with the ‘big questions’ of human existence. Baldwin lives

and works in West Sussex and his work is collected and exhibited nationally

and internationally.

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Love, Life and Death Prints by Dan Baldwin

Spring Craft Collection

Known for selecting the best of craft talent, the gallery team has

handpicked many of their makers at events such as Collect, Art in Clay,

Art in Action, Rising Stars, New Designers and the Festival of Crafts.

The exhibition presents both established and emerging makers, focusing on

affordable, high quality crafts by:

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Peter Archer

Ikuko Iwamoto Maker in Focus18 January – 1 March

The ceramic sculpture and tableware by

Ikuko, the quirky and critically acclaimed

Japanese ceramic artist, suggest the

everyday, the ordinary, but is in fact extra-

ordinary. It takes you to a world of intricacy

and detail, mathematical pattern and

organic chaos, beauty and repulsion. There

is also a Japanese theme in ceramics in

the Spring Collection that will show Chito

Kuroda and Namiko Murakoshi, curated

by Yuka Kikumoto.

• Peter Archer

• Suzanne Breakwell

• Rowena Brown

• Ali Cooper

• Nina Gale

• Robert Goldsmith

(Selborne Pottery)

• Mei Kwin Wong

• Chito Kuroda

• Eleanor Lakelin

• Claire Lowe

• Namiko Murakoshi

• Joy Trpkovic

• Timea Sido

• Katalin Szallas

and many more.

Ikuko Iwamoto, Large Sake Jugs

British Art Medal Society Student Medal Project

The 21st Student Medal Project is a success story for bringing the

art of the modern medal into the art college curriculum, whether

in sculpture, metal work or jewellery.

It is an introduction to the age-old art of bronze casting, where students

themselves each create a small but powerful work of two-sided relief

sculpture, which can be held in the hand. The British Art Medal Society

commissions medals every year for sale to its members, arranges

lectures and conferences.

Each year colleges around

the UK are invited to

participate, plus an academy

from abroad, this year, the

University of Sofia, Bulgaria.

This exhibition takes us

from the political to the

personal, the abstract to the

mainstream, as the students –

and some professional

makers – express their

creativity and craftsmanship

in the surprising medium of

the modern art medal.

HOLD IT! The Art of the Modern Medal

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Bo Behan (2012 winner) Are you who you say you are? UCA, Farnham

Private view: Fri 7 Mar, 6-8pm

Rising Stars 2014

Ruth Harrison, Green Disk with Red Slip Inlay

• Elodie Alexandre

• Elizabeth Ashdown

• Juliette Bigley

• Rachel Britch

• Jessica Coleman

• Polly Collins

• Brittany Delany

• Eva Farkasova

• Joanna Fronczak

• Jessica Frost

• Kerstin Haigh

• Ruth Harrison

• Anna Collette Hunt

• Mirka Janeckova

• Anum Khan

• Lisa Larcombe

• Beatrice Larkins

• Anne Laycock

• Beth Lewis-Williams

• Agnieszka Maksymiuk

• Elise Menghini

• Kelly Munro

• Izzy Parker

• Anastasija Pjatinicka

• Hajnalka Rezes

• Charlotte Stockley

• Julia Webster

• Simon Wilks

• Penny Wheeler

• Hannah Whittle

• Cristiana Zani

• Sevak Zargarian.

We also present new jewellery by Heather

Woof, the 2013 winner of Rising Stars award.

This curated, selling exhibition will tour

from the New Ashgate to the Milton

Keynes Arts Centre and the Smiths Row,

Bury St Edmunds. Rising Stars includes

a publication and a programme of

workshops and a symposium. Rising Stars

2014 is supported by Arts Council England

and Billmeir Charitable Trust. We work in

partnership with a-n, the Artists Information

Company and the University for the

Creative Arts.

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Heather Woof

Rising Stars is a platform to view and collect

some of the most exciting new crafts

by emerging makers from applied arts

programmes across the UK. It presents work by:

Private view: Fri 7 Mar, 6-8pm

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By rail: The Farnham Station is served by London Waterloo. The Gallery is a five-minute walk from the station.

By bus & coach: Buses run from Farnham to surrounding towns and villages, generally every hour. For enquiries contact Traveline on 0871 2002233 or visit traveline.info

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.

New Ashgate GalleryWaggon Yard, Farnham, Surrey, GU9 7PS

gallery@newashgate.org.uk01252 713208

Opening hoursTuesday–Saturday 10am–5pm.

Free admission and groups are welcomeAll exhibition rooms are accessible to wheelchair users. Guide dogs are welcome.

DirectionsWe are situated on the edge of Waggon Yard, just off Downing Street.

By road: Farnham is 11 miles south-west of Guildford, Surrey, and is clearly signposted from the A3, A31, M3 and A287. There is a pay and display car park in front of the Gallery. The adjacent car park has four dedicated disabled parking spaces.

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