The Blackwater Polytechnic are showing at Sluice [Vernacular] Colchester Expo 2024.

The Minories, 74 High Street, Colchester, Essex CO1 1UE
Friday 14 – Sunday 16 June 2024
10h – 16h daily
Free entry to all venues
Some events may require booking, please see programme

The 2024 Sluice expo centres on the idea of the vernacular, exploring how culture can emerge and adapt in reaction to various influences, whether structural or ethical. The expo is an opportunity for a loosely defined sector, encompassing artist-led initiatives, curator-led projects, collectives, non-profit organisations and galleries to converge.

Sluice is a non-profit initiative based in the UK, led by artists and curators. Since 2011 Sluice has collaborated exclusively with other artist and curator-led projects, collectives and non-profit initiatives. They create multi-faceted events around the world, focusing on the local in a transnational context. Sluice vernacular was developed in partnership with the Minories.

The current faculty at the Blackwater Polytechnic is Ben Coode-Adams (Vice-Chancellor & President), Dr Annabel Dover, Tristan Howe (Associate Lecturer), Sara Impey (Senior Lecturer), Dr Alex Pearl and Professor Freddie Robins. Professor Knopphauser is on sabbatical.

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Cedric Bardawil
1–3 Old Compton Street, London W1D 5JB
Open Wednesday to Saturday, 12–6pm
Or by appointment
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+44 (0)20 7287 1175

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Freddie Robins’ work, I, purchased for the Government Art Collection in 2021 through Art X-UK Acquisitions, has now travelled to Turkey as part of the new display for the British Ambassador’s Residence in Ankara.

The new display in the British Ambassador’s Residence in Ankara reflects the long diplomatic relations between the UK and Turkey, which date back to the 16th century. The new installation coincides with an important centenary, the establishment of the Republic of Turkey in 2023. When the Lausanne Treaty of 1923 was signed recognising the boundaries of the modern state of Turkey, King George V was on the throne, and he along with his Queen-Consort Mary of Teck are displayed at the Residence as a reminder of this salient moment in the country’s history.

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Freddie Robins will be exhibiting Craft Kills from the Crafts Council Collection in History in the Making: stories of materials and makers, 2000 BC – Now

Compton Verney
Warwickshire
CV35 9HZ

Tues – Sun – 10am-5pm
Mon – Closed, except bank holidays
Galleries are open from 10.30am-5pm

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“ The exhibition brings together outstanding examples of historic craft from the collection of Woburn Abbey, with recent creations by some of the most exciting makers working today from the collection of the Crafts Council, for a unique exploration of materials and making across the ages.

Throughout human history, materials have been fashioned by skilled people into objects of beauty and utility. Taking six material groups – wood, clay, stone, metal, textile and organic – as a starting point, History in the Making will present the historic and contemporary side-by-side to explore changing attitudes towards materials over time, the importance of craft traditions for communities and the environmental impact of craft. As well as celebrating the amazing skill of leading makers. From a monumental mid-17th century Mortlake tapestry, woven to a design by the great Italian Renaissance artist Raphael – on loan from Woburn Abbey for the first time – to expressive hand-painted silks by award-winning artist and designer Christian Ovonlen, and precious 18th century silverware made by French Huguenot migrants, to highly personal glazed ceramic vessels by rising-star ceramic artist Shawanda Corbett, this exhibition presents a treasure-trove of unique and fascinating objects.

As well as celebrating more traditional approaches to craft, the exhibition will also pose questions about how scientific advances and new approaches to existing materials can offer more sustainable and planet-friendly methods of making. The final room of the exhibition will display recent creations by exciting makers who are at the forefront of developing new materials and processes, from living textiles made from plant roots to 3D printed vessels made from recycled coffee cups”.

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