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Green Shoots - Fen Ditton Gallery
Exhibition dates: 18th January - 2nd March 2025
Open Thursdays 12 - 5pm and weekends 11am - 6pm
‘Life is so exciting; nature is so exciting. Trying to catch that one simple statement about it. That’s what I’m aiming for.’
Wilhelmina Barns Graham (1912-2004)
Fen Ditton Gallery is delighted to start the New Year with an exhibition which highlights different artistic responses to the colour green.
Life, art and nature are intertwined in a show which brings together 15 artists across three generations exploring the cultural associations, moods, tones and materials of a green world.
A selection of fine artist print collaborations from the studio of the late Kip Gresham, include works by:
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham; Willard Boepple; Stephen Chambers and John McLean as well as a rare work both conceived and printed by Kip himself.
Rachel Gracey (winner of the Pressing Matters Award at Fen Ditton Gallery’s 2023 Printmaking Prize) will show a group of works inspired by gardens and we are delighted to include a rare Michael Rothenstein print from the collection of Rampant Lions Press.
Seaweed as a valued natural material appears in works by artist/anthropologist Rebecca Jewell and by emerging Glasgow designer Iona Turner. A special event will be hosted by them during the show.
Green glass is given breathtaking form in new handblown vessels by two leading UK glass studios: Bob Crooks and Gillies Jones. The Transglass upcycled domestic glassware collection by designers Tord Boontje and Emma Woffendenalso returns to the gallery following its first appearance here in 2018.
Celadons, pastels, ikat silk and jade will also make an appearance in this world of greens. .
Exhibiting artists include: Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Willard Boepple, Clive Bowen, Stephen Chambers RA, Bob Crooks, Charlotte De Syllas, Edmund de Waal, Gwynn Hanssen Pigott, Gillies Jones, Rachel Gracey, Kip Gresham, Rebecca Jewell, John McLean, Tess Recordon, Mary Restieaux, Michael Rothenstein/Rampant Lions Press, David Stonehouse, Transglass (Tord Boontje / Emma Woffenden), Iona Turner, Susie Turner.
Viewing appointments can be arranged at other times by contacting info@fendittongallery.com or 01223 295657
All works are for sale.
Purchase enquiries can be made to info@fendittongallery.com or online from the 18th January.
Fen Ditton Gallery, 23 High Street, Fen Ditton, Cambridge CB5 8ST
British Glass Biennale 2024
We are delighted to have had one of our Landscape Bowls selected to show at the 10th British Glass Biennale.
The piece is a Swedish Overlay in gold and Heliotrope, wheel cut, sandblasted and engraved with a collection of marks gathered from observations of the Rosedale landscape. For millenia, people have shaped this dale, working the landscape to survive and thrive, leaving behind marks of their toil.
One hundred and twenty-one artists were selected out of 326 applicants to present the most interesting, diverse and outstanding glass art made in the UK in the last two years.
The exhibition is open Tuesday to Saturday from 26 August to 28 September at the Glasshouse, Stourbridge; the heart of the historic glass industry in the UK.
The show is an eclectic mix of techniques and works and well worth a visit, with more works on view than ever before.
The next event, in 2026, moves lock stock and barrel to the World of Glass St Helens. We look forward to the next incarnation of the event now in the hands of the American Glass Art Society.
The Americans have a vast experience in staging events for glass, we visited the annual GAS conference in Berlin this year and loved every minute of it, so we look forward to seeing how the Biennale and the IFG develops in 2026.
Glass Delivered
Had a trip to the big city to drop some new pieces off at Vessel Gallery.
Necessary and brief parking by Mr Gillies.... very Ad Fab.
British Glass Biennale
We are very pleased to announce one of our new pieces has been selected for the British Glass Biennale 2024.
"One hundred and twenty-one artists were selected out of 326 applicants to present the most interesting, diverse and outstanding glass art made in the UK in the last two years.
The work forms a cutting-edge showcase of contemporary British based glass talent.
Prize winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on 22 August at the Glasshouse, Stourbridge. Winners of the prizes chosen through public votes will be announced at the closing ceremony on 28 September.
The selected artists have been brave and innovative, using a wide range of styles and techniques both traditional and experimental."
Image - detail of the selected piece.
Vessel Gallery
Kate has an exhibition of new work 'Oculus' at Vessel Gallery London from May 1st until June 12th.
We have been making a series of new spun roundels and large bowls, developing and abstracting themes around the landscape and introducing new works that reference the sky and beyond.
Images and more details to follow of the pieces in monochrome and colourful overlay glass.
"It's been wonderful, creative winter, working with new materials and ideas, exploring established patterns and making fluid linear marks on the surfaces of some beautiful glass Stephen has made for me".
We are looking forward to sharing images of the exhibition in due course. If you are in or near London I hope you can visit.
The exhibition will be on during London Craft Week May 13 - 19 so that's two reasons to head to town.
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