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In:Site 2019
craft - design - make In:Site Festival 2019 returns to Birmingham Cathedral Square for its ninth year in partnership with Birmingham Cathedral. It is curated and produced by Craftspace, a Birmingham based charity creating opportunities to see, make and be curious about contemporary craft. It is free to watch and take part. Each day recent applied arts and design graduates make bespoke artworks in situ responding to the space, architecture, people and heritage. The passing public can watch or join in with the creation of artworks and learn different techniques which have, in previous years, included embroidery, weaving, clay modelling, casting, smelting, enamelling, furniture making and spinning wool. The festival aims to showcase new talent and develop emerging craft businesses. It provides graduates with a paid early career commission and profile for their CV. Benefits include being able to: enhance skills, test viability of ideas, respond to a public art brief and a specific site and engage with the public at first hand. It presents contemporary craft for all to encounter and experience in an unconventional public setting. The artists have been selected by Jane McArdle, Freelance Heritage Manager for Birmingham Cathedral and Craftspace, following research visits to regional and national degree shows. This year visitors can create mini objects using local clay, make jewellery from jesmonite, take time to stitch or collaborate with a designer to make furniture from scrap wood. The artwork is continually installed as it is made around Cathedral Square and displayed inside the Cathedral and is on show until Sunday 8th September.
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Luba Maxwell de Jong lubamdj University of Plymouth 3D Design Sir Edward’s Windows Creating a piece with the public that mimics the Cathedral’s stained glass windows, Luba will share the remarkable story of how the Civic Society of Birmingham removed the windows to protect them from bomb damage during World War II.
Marylene Esmy Antony esmy.jewellery School of Jewellery, Birmingham City University Jewellery Design and Related Products Home Marylene uses poetry to inspire the form, pattern and colour used in her jewellery, reflecting her British-Tamil Muslim identity. Using the same techniques, Marylene invites the public in Birmingham to create small decorative pieces reflecting their interpretation of ‘home’.
Jennifer Bloomfield midnightmalachitedesigns jenbloomfield.wixsite.com/portfolio University of Hertfordshire Contemporary Design Crafts Lines: 2019 Jennifer’s project is influenced by topography and the different perspectives of the landscape and built environment that it provides. Using topographical imagery to create a design, Jennifer will use weave and crochet to create a textile piece reminding us of the legacy of Birmingham’s famous topographer Samuel Lines, who is buried in Cathedral Square.
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Emilie Helliwell emiliefloradesigns Birmingham City University Textile Design (constructed textiles) Inspired by the architecture of the Cathedral and its surroundings, Emilie would like the public to capture - in writing and drawing – the meaning that the Cathedral holds for them. As the piece builds up, Emilie will connect each individual contribution together using various crochet techniques.
Ryoji Morimoto ryoji.textile Bath Spa University Textile Design for Fashion and Interior Gathering Wishes Ryoji is a textile designer using silk screen paint and hand embroidery, refreshing traditional techniques with a new aesthetic. Ryoji will create a piece of applique which the public will help to stitch, contributing good fortune motifs to the design that reflect their own cultural backgrounds.
Milly Day millydaydesign Hereford College of the Arts Textile Design Street Macramé Using repurposed and unusual materials, Milly invites people to collaborate on large scale macramé pieces, inspiring them to repurpose their own materials at home. The final pieces will be hung around Cathedral Square.
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Xanthe Maggs xanthe_maggs University of Brighton 3D Design and Craft, Ceramics Collective Mapping of Birmingham in Clay Using clay dug locally at the Lickey Hills, Xanthe will be working with the public to locate and create personal clay objects relating to their experiences of living in the city of Birmingham. With thanks to Lickey Hills Country Park for helping to source and dig the clay for Xanthe’s project.
Annie Wilkinson annie_wilkinson_ anniewilkinson.co.uk Birmingham City University Art & Design (Ceramics) From the Concrete Grew a Rose Inspired by lichen, moss and funghi and the way they reclaim the urban environment, Annie invites the public to use rag-rugging techniques to create a piece that replicates the way nature grows onto man-made structures in city centre spaces.
Mary-Joyce Davis maryjoycedesigns & MJMau2000 University of Creative Arts Textile Art / Design The Faces of Birmingham Inspired by traditional masks of Botswana and the colours of the Cathedral’s stained glass windows, Mary-Joyce invites the people of Birmingham to work with her to add their own expressive and diverse contributions to a sculptural mask that builds up during the course of the day.
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Niamh Duddy niamhduddy_jewellery University for the Creative Arts Rochester Jewellery Jesmonite Pin Brooch, Birmingham Style Niamh is a jeweller who creates bold pieces using jesmonite. Niamh invites the public to create their very own jesmonite brooches from start to finish, expressing their individual style and using a Birmingham inspired colour palette.
Ryan Daniel Dilkes ryandanieldesign Manchester Metropolitan University 3D Design, Furniture Design RE:STRUCT Using his specially designed RE:STRUCT set that enables unused materials to become bespoke furniture or sculptures, Ryan invites the public to challenge him to create site specific functional objects by upcycling from a range of discarded items sourced in Birmingham.
Lottie Percival lottieperc_textiles wholelottalottie.com Chelsea College of Arts Textile Design Stitch & Loop Lottie has a multi-disciplinary approach to textiles, using screen print, ceramics and embroidery to create surfaces and objects. For In:Site Lottie invites the public to contribute to and experience a tactile multi-purpose blanket and other sensory objects, accessible to those with stitch and making experience, those who would like to learn and those who would like to sit and enjoy the pieces.
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