Talk
Geoffrey Mann - Artist Talk
21 Oct 2015
Arts University Plymouth
Plymouth, United Kingdom
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Flow Bracelet, J307, Yoko Izawa, 2012. Photo: Todd White Art Photography, courtesy Crafts Council
Exhibition
ECHO
12 Oct 2015 – 7 Nov 2015
Regular hours
- Monday
- 08:00 – 20:00
- Tuesday
- 08:00 – 20:00
- Wednesday
- 08:00 – 20:00
- Thursday
- 08:00 – 20:00
- Friday
- 08:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 08:30 – 14:00
Address
- Tavistock Place
- Plymouth
England - PL4 8AT
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- The university is within walking distance of the coach station on Mayflower Street. National Express services run to London Victoria via Exeter and lots of other UK destinations, and for super-cheap deals try booking with Megabus or Falcon via Stagecoach.
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- We’re just five minutes away from Plymouth train station, where direct services depart to London Paddington (taking 3-3 ½ hours), Bristol, the Midlands, the North of England, Scotland and Penzance. There is even a sleeper train to and from Paddington if you want to leave London late and arrive in Plymouth early.
Event map
By repeating a singular form, action or process and intensively layering and building pattern, makers create opportunity for variation and unexpected discoveries. Through attempting to replicate elements within an object, the makers presented in this exhibition, allow for infinite possibility.
About
The process of making by hand can be a valuable trigger for determining an outcome; allowing for subtle changes in design, aesthetic and form to be driven by intuition. The machine, in contrast, allows for precise replicas to be created ‘perfectly’, presenting opportunities for complex and accurate designs to be produced.
The exhibition features 18 makers from the Crafts Council Collection and beyond, revealing the potential to embrace both machine and handmade processes. It seeks to question where we place value within contemporary craft, asking audiences to consider how each item in the exhibition has been produced.
Angela Jarman / Dail Behennah / Drummond Masterton / Esther Ward / Geoffrey Mann / Jane Atfield / Jo Hayes-Ward / Junko Mori / Max Lamb / Naoko Sato / Pauline Burbidge / Rachael Woodman & Neil Wilkin / Ruth Harrison / Sally Freshwater / Shuna Rendel / Tord Boontje / Yoko Izawa
Echo is curated by a group of 8 second year Contemporary Craft students, working with the support of the Crafts Council and the exhibitions team at Plymouth College of Art.
Curated by: Fern Robinson, Frances Phillips, Helen Creedy, Joanne Tyler, Kate Lyons-Miller, Sarah-Jane Rossi, Sophie Holland and Sybella Buttress.
