It’s official! Our Summer Open Studios Weekend is 6th/7th July 2013 11AM-6PM – all welcome! Please spread the word…

Come and meet the artists and take a look around our studios which are built around a pretty cobbled courtyard, nestled in a quiet street between Dalston and Stoke Newington.

Click here for a glimpse of some the work from the last Open Studios weekend.

18th June - 17th August 2013

Akiko Hirai  is showing her Moon jars as one of the U.K. potters who was inspired by legendary  Korean Moon jar.
Marking 130 years of Anglo-Korean relations the exhibition celebrates these
ties through the work of four leading UK potters and a Korean artist.
The Korean Moon Jar or dal-hang-a-ri has an iconic, almost mythological
status. The artists have each been invited to present their work alongside
the historic vessel form, re-contextualising it through their individual
ceramics practice. The exhibition explores a contemporary response to
the Moon Jar and its symbolic position in Britain today.

The Chocolate Factory’s Sarah Hyndman held a Type Tasting exhibition and workshop at Pick Me Up. The work exhibited was created during a day long workshop in which participants learnt about Victorian display typefaces and played with creative typography. Each participant created their own customised display letter and added it to the exhibition at Somerset House.

In Her Caravan was based on a poem by Elaine Randell and was taken without employing any digital manipulation. For further information about the prize and exhibition  www.twenty-twenty.co.uk

In her caravan

She has his photograph, it a blurred picture of a tiny baby

propped up by the Tampax box.

She tells me that she has no regrets

he had to go

what with her health and all that.

Signs readily the adoption paper to make him

someone else’s to love and restore back into focus.

Elaine Randell

“Typography is what language looks like.” Ellen Lupton. This is a creative typography workshop led by the Chocolate Factory’s Sarah Hyndman in which participants get away from the computer and explore how sound can be expressed typographically.

Type Tasting workshops are sessions in which participants get away from their computers and get their hands dirty – experimenting with type and exploring its expressive qualities. They give experienced designers an imagination refresher and novices an accessible introduction to typography.

Type Tasting presents ‘Type and Sound’
Sunday March 17th, 3-7pm
£20 (limited spaces left)
Chocolate Factory N16
For people with creative/typographic experience
Apply to type@withrelish.co.uk and you will be sent a Paypal link, (limited spaces left)

Work from a previous workshop held at Hoxton Hall will be exhibited at the Dalston C.L.R. James Library from March 27th, and Sarah will have a piece of her typography in the ‘Take The Stage – Stories of Hip Hop’ exhibition to be held next month.

(Image Claire Pringle)

The writing is on the wall for the pleasure loving king of Babylon who decides to entertain his guests with wine served from the golden vessels looted from the Temple of Jerusalem. Big mistake.

Here are all the Baroque devices which make us feel the horror of the doomed Belshazzar and his guests. Partly comical, partly a work of genius, the painting is a tribute to the artist’s psychological astuteness and technical sleight of hand.

Studio F9 / 7 for 7.30 / £10 including a glass of wine.
To book contact Lydia Bauman on lydia.bauman@googlemail.com
or 020 75023367
www.lydiabauman.com

The Chocolate Factory’s Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini is exhibiting her work at The Gallery At Foyles from 5th March to 26th March. 113-119 Charing Cross Road, London, WC2H OEB.

Opening | Private View: Friday 22 February 6 – 9 pm
Exhibition: 22 February – 23 March 2013
Opening Times: Tuesday – Saturday 10 am – 5 pm
Address: Occupy My Time Gallery, Enclave 9, Resolution Way, Deptford, London, SE8 4AL

The show is part of the South London Art Map http://www.southlondonartmap.com/

Also opening this week is Catherine Jacobs solo show in the elegant new art space at the Clapham Picturehouse Cinema, on until 17th March. www.catherinejacobs.co.uk

This year, 2013, will be Akiko’s 10th anniversary of her graduation from her ceramic course at Central St. Martins.

“I make, so people describe, asymmetrical, imperfect and organic forms in ceramic ware for domestic use. These words become a clichéd description of some types of oriental ceramic ware, and mine. Yet, it does not explain why beauty manifests itself in such controversial forms. Imperfection itself is not synonymous with beauty. Beauty in imperfection only applies when it shows flexibility and balance between objects and their environment. My practice over the past 10 years has been a journey to create this balance in everyday objects.” Akiko Hirai

Contemporary Ceramics Centre
63 Great Russell Street
London WC1B 3BF
tel 020 7242 9644

28th Jan:
The Arnolfini Marriage by Jan Van Eyck
Studio F9 / 7 for 7.30 / £10 including a glass of wine.

To book contact Lydia Bauman on lydia.bauman@googlemail.com
or 020 75023367
www.lydiabauman.com

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