Keen crafters are being encouraged to go along to the Contemporary Craft Festival in Bovey Tracey next week (Friday 7 to Sunday 9 June).
Devon County Council’s Adult and Community Learning will be providing workshops for anyone who might be interested in taking up a craft and enrolling on a course. Current learners’ and tutors’ work will also be showcased at the festival.
“Bovey Tracey Craft Festival is an excellent event for anyone who may be thinking about enrolling on a craft a course with Devon Adult and Community Learning” said County Councillor Roger Croad. “It’s the...
Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, The Contemporary Craft Festival brings together exceptional work from leading makers from all over the UK and Ireland. Over 10,000 visitors are anticipated to visit one of the UK’s largest and finest craft events. To celebrate the strength of the national interest in craft the festival will have more makers exhibiting and demonstrating craft skills than ever before. There will be demonstrations by some of the UK’s leading practitioners in contemporary furniture design including Gareth Neal and Sarah Kay, wheel thrown ceramics by Clive Bowen,...
Selected by Polly Macpherson (Associate Professor in Design, Plymouth University) a group of the freshest, most exciting emerging makers have been chosen to take part in the Guild’s biennial exhibition aimed at highlighting the best that the South West region has to offer. This is a chance to see new interventions in print, furniture, textiles, glass, ceramics, sculpture, enamel, jewellery and silver.
Exhibitors: Sue Brown, Grace Coombes, Hannah Felicity Dunne, Tracey Falvey, Bethan Jones, Joshua Kerley, Emma Lavery, Sylvia Llecha, Rebekah Lockley, Stuart McFarlane,Jennifer Norris...
