Frances Priest

New Manor Ware

fran — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:15:50 +0000

New Manor Ware is a bespoke table setting designed especially for the Banqueting Room of the Manor Lodge Turret House developed in response to the Yorkshire Artspace Ceramic Residency program based at their Manor Oaks Ceramic Studio and on site at Sheffield Manor Lodge. During the 17th century, local potter John Fox set up a workshop in a disused wing of The Manor House at Manor Lodge producing functional domestic pottery known as Manor Ware. Widely used across Sheﬃeld, remnants of the pottery are still being found in the archaeological digs that regularly take place across the Manor Lodge site today. During the residency I have worked with a number of different community groups to explore the ornately decorated plasterwork ceiling in the banqueting room of the Tudor Turret House, using original drawings made by individuals from these groups to from the basis of a range of surface pattern designs for a contemporary take on Manor Ware. Inspired by the traditional use of the banqueting room as a place to hold lavish sweet feasts, I also worked closely with the students and staff in the Freeman College Whittle Tang Cutlery Department to create a set of steel and ceramic Cake Slices that form part of the complete table setting. New Manor Ware is my personal response to the richly layered history of craftsmanship and decorative art that forms an integral part of the Manor Lodge story, from the 16th century through to the present day. New Manor Ware was presented as part of the Sheffield Manor Lodge Field to Feast Festival on Saturday the 24th September in the banqueting room that inspired it’s design. Guest were invited to climb the spiral staircase of the turret house to partake in a sweet feast of specially made, gold leaf decorated ginger cake, baked on site by Green Estate café manager Anthony Dunn. This event was documented by timelapse filmmaker Richard Bolam. Thank you to all the participants who contributed to the designs for New Manor Ware: Manor Lodge Over 50’s Lunch Club. Anchor Court Sheltered Housing. Enable – Kathleen Finchett, Michelle Belton & Bethany, Andrew, Jackie, Gareth, Mark, Tracy & Marlene. Endeavour – Patrick Callingham & Nabair, Darren, Bohus, Perla, Katrina, Noordin, Jan, Robert, Liam & Julius. Freeman College – Richard Beatson, Carole Baugh & Jake, Sarah, James, Luke, Lee, Lewis & John. Thank you also to: The staff teams at Yorkshire Artspace & Green Estate, especially Mir Jansen, Sue France, Anna Plant, Peter Machan & Tony Dunn. All the Yorkshire Artspace studio artists, especially Sue Disley, Miles Gavin, Joel Neild, Annette Petch, Finnbarr Lucas & Emillie Taylor.Emma Paragreen & Sarah McNeil at Sheffield Assay Office. Clare Starkie at Sheffield Museums

Ein Tag…

fran — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 18:18:30 +0000

Ein Tag am Strand

Galerie Handwerk

22nd June – 23rd July

A celebration of summers at the beach featuring work by: Helen Beard, David Bielander, Marian Bijlenga, Helen Britton, Annemie De Corte, Katrin Eisenblatter & Astrid Triska, Hans Fisher, Neville French, Anne-Marie Gaspar, Sebastian Andreas Heger, Emmanuel Heringer, Mirjam Hiller, Charlotte Houman, Francoise Joris, Kilary Judd, Beppe Kessler, Susanne Klemm, Korbwerk Heringsdorf, Natalie Luder, Barbara, Ludin, Sia Mai, Nicki Marquardt, Birgit Morgentern, Olivia Oberlin, Danilo Prufer, Frances Priest, Cornelius Reer, Dorothea Rees-Heim, Caludi Richter, Lucy Sarneel, Dik Scheepers, Helena Schepens, Dorit Schubert, Freia Schulze, Michael Sindhauser, anna Sykora, Kristallglasmanufaktur Theresienthal, Felieke van der Leest, Leinenweberei Viebock, Gerry Wedd. For further information visit Galerie Handwerk

FCA&C Coastal Path

fran — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 12:59:49 +0000

Fife Contemporary Art & Craft invited me to take up one of three residencies exploring the Fife coastal path supported by Celebrating Fife 2010. Based at Buckhaven Community Centre I worked with users of the Buckhaven Community Pottery and CLEAR to make contemporary versions of ceramic carpet bowls, also known as ‘Piggies’, which were traditionally produced in the Fife potteries and were a very popular Scottish parlour game. Four boxed sets of carpet bowls were designed and created by Gareth Baglow, Janette Easson, Christine Flynn, Marion Garry and Liz Houston. We decided to call the project ‘Buckhynd Braes Bools’ and used the finished sets to hold a community bowls tournament. The completed sets will now be placed in Berts Bar, The Railway Tavern and Buckhaven Community Centre, all of which are participating in the Fife Coastal Path ‘Welcome Port’ scheme where you can stop for a rest, some refreshment and a game of bowls with the Buckhynd Braes Bools. You can read a blog about the project at FCA&C Fife Coastal Path Residencies and to find out how to walk the Fife Coastal path you can visit www.fifecoastalpath.co.uk A pdf version of a book made to accompany the sets of bowls will be available to download from this page shortly.

Pentland Court

fran — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 07:52:15 +0000

An Artlink Edinburgh project working at St Johns Hospital with residential patients in Pentland Court. Over a period of 13 weeks residents worked on pre made clay tiles exploring pattern and mark making using ceramic printing and imprinting processes to create a permanent wall panel for Pentland Court.

Bone china forms

fran — Mon, 10 May 2010 16:34:05 +0000

From 2000 – 2002 I worked predominantly with Bone china paper clay on a series of objects that focused on the notion of drawing in three dimensions, using the material to define positive and negative spaces. These objects evolved to include drawn marks on the surface of the bone china and led directly into work for the solo exhibition Line and Form. The Bone china forms series was exhibited at Dundee Contemporary Arts, The Scottish Gallery, Barrett Marsden Gallery, SOFA Chicago, and The Hub: Edinburgh International Festival Centre as part of the Scottish Gallery curated series of exhibitions Material Matters. Photography: John McKenzie

A Method For Creative Design

fran — Sat, 08 May 2010 18:01:47 +0000

Work made in response to an invitation from visual artist Abraham Cruzvillegas to contribute work to Autoconstrucción a collaborative performance project for the gallery Kurimanzutto Mexico City, 20th May 2010. The objects depict a set of seven symbols devised by Adolfo Best Maugard for his book A Method for Creative Design published in 1927. The objects will be used during the performance, along with contributions from 19 other artists, and then given away as gifts to all the participants. Each object is wrapped in a fabric bag printed with pages from the book and a request by me for information on the objects location and use. Any responses I receive to this request will be added to this page. Photography: Shannon Tofts

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fran — Thu, 06 May 2010 07:33:19 +0000

IDEALS

fran — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:01:34 +0000

Regents International School Residency 05/06. The IDEALS banner project took the form of a primary school competition to create designs for a series of banners to decorate the school playground celebrating the seven IDEALS of The Round Square Organisation; dedicated to broadening students educational experiences through a commitment to: Internationalism, Democracy, Environment, Adventure, Leadership, Service. These seven IDEALS formed the basis for the design competition with all primary school pupils submitting design ideas, helping in the production of the banners and taking part in a final parade and unveiling ceremony.

FOL Children’s Project

admin — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:15:59 +0000

Regents International School Residency 05/06. A weekly group for children between the ages of 8 – 14 attending the Fountain Of Life Children’s Centre in Pattaya Thailand. An initial series of one off workshops aimed at developing confidence and trust amongst the group led onto a more in-depth collaborative project. See: We Listened to Fourtet…

We Listened to Fourtet…

admin — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:57:01 +0000

Regents International School residency 05/06. We Listened to Fourtet… was a temporary artwork sited in the grounds of Regents International School, created in collaboration with children attending the Fountain of Life Children’s Centre in Pattaya, Thailand. Initial ideas were developed through a series of drawing and making activities responding to music from the album Pause by Fourtet. Design proposals were developed out of these activities and a final selection voted upon. Production of the artwork was undertaken by the whole group over a two week period with the final work installed in the grounds of the school for one month during spring term. A private view and party were held to mark the completion of the project. For further information go to Regents International School Residency and FOL Children’s Project