February Exhibitions

1. 2∙2012

2. Talk by Adam Green
Thursday 23 February, 6–7pm
Adam Green, Masks of Paracus Tickets from gallery desk: £10
Acrylic on canvas, 2011 Concessions and Patrons: £5
Angels: free
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Image above: Adam Green

3. Adam Green
The Baines Surrey Artist of the Year Solo Show Winner 2010
Pavilion Room
Adam Green’s paintings have This exhibition is inspired by Green’s
constant presence of ornamental, recent trip to Peru and the textiles
hypnotic patterns draw on his love of of the Paracas and Nazca cultures
Mexican and African iconography. from around 700BCE. The vibrancy
He takes reference from vintage and intricacy of their animal designs
commercial images, pulling together and symbols have influenced the
diverse elements to achieve a artist’s palette. The paintings have
quirky, yet dynamic composition. been made using a series of layers
Humour flows throughout his work, to recreate the feeling of a piece
giving the underlying complexity of woven material. Using repetitive
a more approachable edge. lines, circles and motifs, the
Green’s influences, motifs and use of paintings create the illusion of the
pattern offer fascinating appeal, but depth of fabric, yet retain the sense
he is primarily driven by the physical of a painting.
process of putting paint to canvas.
It is from this point that everything Green has exhibited widely,
else flows, and reveals the incredible including major spaces such as the
tenacity in his application of paint. Royal Academy.
The Surrey Artist of the Year is an
annual competition established in
2009 by the New Ashgate Gallery
and Surrey Artists’ Open Studios in
2009 to increase the profile of the
county’s best artists and makers. The
exhibition is supported by the Baines
Charitable Trust.

4. Syann van Niftrik and
Nick Barberton:
Marriage of Wood and Jewellery
Foyer
Syann van Niftrik has a strong sense Nick Barberton began turning
of structure and a delight in the wooden bowls in 1988 when he
process of working with metal: she is was given some large pieces of
interested in the inherent possibilities Honduras mahogany. He wanted
of the material. Forging is at the some light relief from the furniture
centre of her practice and her work he was making, but felt that this
is distinguished by a deceptive obedient wood was so dull that it
simplicity. As she says: “I keep my demanded the application of
methods simple to allow elements of some texture.
my subconscious and the response
of others to have life”.
Syann van Niffrik has a strong voice
as a designer maker. For over 30
years, she has worked with the some
of the best galleries worldwide. Now
she is internationally renowned and
enjoys exploring her creativity and
shares a passion for the beauty of
life and contemporary design with
her husband Nick Barberton.
Syann van Niffrik, Leaf Fall Bracelet 2,
Sterling silver

5. Barberton loves the immediacy of
the lathe, and discovered that he
could generate a bowl from a lump
of fruit tree wood. During his trip to
Chelsea Crafts Fair he noticed that
several potters were making flat
pots. The idea appealed because
work made in this way lent itself
to narrow city mantelpieces and
windowsills. As few such locations
are able to accommodate a
wooden platter 60cm in diameter,
he developed long, carved wooden
bowls in which the rhythms of the Nick Barberton
chisel interplay with the light and the
reflection and grain of the wood.
These carved patterns now have a Parish Church, and has work in
life of their own, migrating to walls. Winchester Cathedral, Manchester
Art Gallery, Sculpture at Goodwood,
Nick Barberton has worked as a Artsway, and in several churches
draftsman, a designer, a despatch around the south of England. He
worker, a teacher, a technician, an is on the Crafts Council’s selected
occupational therapist and a yacht makers list and is a wood advisor for
carpenter, but always as a maker. the gallery collection at the Crafts
He refitted the vestry of Ringwood Study Centre, Farnham.

6. Spring Contemporary
Crafts
3 February – 28 April 2012
Craft Gallery and Jewellery Room
Collect the best of the UK’s emerging and established talent
Ceramics Printed textiles
Daniel Boyle; George Ormerod; Melanie Mayho
Jacqueline Leighton Boyce; John
Masterson; Kerry Hastings; Lucy Accessories
Burley; Maria de Haan; Matt Horne; Kay Morgan
Adam Marsh; Paul Jackson; Richard
Sculpture
Miller; Sherry Richmond.
Jill Walker
Jewellery Mixed media on canvas
Hannah Bedford; Lauren Davies;
Rachel Grant
Hannah Louise Lamb; Helen Shere;
Jo Lavelle; Sadie Chesterman-Bailey; Textile cushions
Vanessa Pease; Machi de Waard; Lisa-Marie Gibbs
Li-Chu Wu.
Felt jewellery
Bev Harris
Knitted scarves
Alison Dupernex
Machi de Waard

7. Makers in
Focus
in February
Curated by Alison Woodley
Adam Marsh looks at the function
of classic forms and recreates them
in a contemporary format. Our
familiarity with, and the accessibility
Matt Horne
of objects such as plates and cups,
means that playing with different Matt Horne uses crystalline glazing
contexts – whether as a single vessel that is time consuming and
or a collection – can change how expensive to produce. There can
their function is perceived. Hand- be many failures, but also stunning
thrown, they are all slightly different effects. Matt’s work is hand thrown
with individual quirks and subtleties, in porcelain: one of the most difficult
which means that when grouped clays to throw. Crystalline glaze is
as an installation they form different mixed using a variety of ingredients,
lines and shadows, creating different some measured in minute amounts.
points of interest according to It is applied thickly, up to 4mm, to
individual perception. encourage the glaze to run. The
object is then placed on a pedestal
and stood in a dish, to catch the
Sale in the Balcony run-off during the firing. The kiln
Room Gallery: reaches the maximum temperature,
up to 1300°C, but is then cooled
All works in this gallery are
discounted by up to 30%. Angels to a specific holding temperature
are eligible for additional in which crystals form in the glaze.
discounts, so why not join today? The amount of time held at this
temperature contributes to the
size of the crystals, which occur
randomly, making each pot unique.

8. The New Ashgate Gallery is an
educational charity that promotes
contemporary visual arts and crafts
to as wide a public as possible,
through a programme of changing
exhibitions, projects with artists,
makers, and projects of support
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