Jane Dzisiewski: April 2012

Wednesday, 25 April 2012

30th Anniversary at Manchester Craft & Design Centre

Celebrations for Manchester Craft & Design Centre's 30th Anniversary kick off on Saturday 28th April - all details about this are HERE. I have just finished my contribution for the jewellery showcase of rings 'Past, Present & Future Makers Celebrate 30 Years at Manchester Craft & Design Centre', which is launching the same day.

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Inspiration for this piece has come from the building within which Manchester Craft & Design Centre resides, seeking to depict its industrial past and creative present.

From drawings made of this former fish market, I have hand pierced in silver a detail from the original 1870's ironwork roof and struts using traditional, metalsmith techniques, and layered this with digital imagery of fishing nets which have been encapsulated in resin using contemporary, laser technology.

Jane Dzisiewski - Sketchbook

Jane Dzisiewski - work in progress

Jane Dzisiewski - handmade resin stone mounted in silver

Smithfields Market roof (MCDC) which inspired the opacity and colours used in the resin stone

Jane Dzisiewski - work in progress

Jane Dzisiewski - handmade resin stone mounted in silver

Jane Dzisiewski - Past, Present & Future Makers Celebrate 30 Years at Manchester Craft & Design Centre

This exhibition is on at Manchester Craft & Design Centre until Saturday 30 June 2012, and is held in both Studio 22, Divinity and Studio 9-11 Jo Lavelle. Participating artists are as follows:

Alena Asenbryl, Leslie Britton, Sadie Blythin, Alex Bushell, Selina Campbell, Ciara Clark, Rochelle Dobson, Jane Dzisiewski, Deborah Forrest, Lucy Harvey, Collette Hazelwood, Tara Kirkpatrick, Jo Lavelle, Andrea Lord, Helen Markham, Eve Redmond, Anne Rowson, Julia Roy-Williams, Amy Wilkinson, Kate Wimbush, Deborah Zeldin-O'Neill.

Saturday, 14 April 2012

Sketchbook Work - Past, Present & Future Makers Celebrate 30 Years at Manchester Craft & Design Centre.

I managed to steal some time and start working from the photographs I took of Manchester Craft & Design Centre. Time constraints at this juncture will not allow me to experiment with materials as much as I would like for my finished piece for Past, Present and Future Makers Celebrate 30 Years at Manchester Craft & Design Centre (in 2 weeks), however I will be continuing this work for Collecting History (for which there is a Blog) and for Crafting History immediately afterwards. These related projects around the Craft Centre's 30th Anniversary will also be the basis for a new body of work. I will tag all posts relating to this as 30 Years at MCDC.

Jane Dzisiewski - Manchester Craft & Design Centre

N.B. Anyone who has a story about Manchester Craft & Design Centre (memories of visiting there, commissioning a piece of work, etc.), can share your story HERE. These stories will be the starting point for the next exhibition, Crafting History later in the year at the Craft Centre, when the 30th Anniversary celebrations will be in full swing.

Thursday, 12 April 2012

Past, Present & Future Makers Celebrate 30 Years at Manchester Craft & Design Centre.

I've made a start on gathering research for "Past, present and future makers celebrate 30 years at Manchester Craft & Design Centre" (MCDC).

As this show is running alongside the Craft Centre's "Collecting History" exhibition celebrating the launch of MCDC's 30th Anniversary, I have therefore chosen to make a piece which is directly inspired by the architectural details of the building itself, for these are what caught my eye the first time I visited this former fish market hidden away in Manchester's Northern Quarter.

Manchester Craft & Design Centre

Sketchbook out next.

Past, Present & Future Makers will run from Saturday 28 April 2012 until Saturday 30 June 2012

Participating Artists: Sadie Blythin, Rochelle Dobson, Jane Dzisiewski, Deborah Forrest, Lucy Harvey, Jo Lavelle, Eve Redmond, Carly Petitt-Taylor, Deborah Zeldin-O'Neill

Saturday, 7 April 2012

All change at Manchester Craft & Design Centre

Manchester Craft & Design Centre

Much has happened these past few months, all starting with my husband being taken into hospital before Christmas. Luckily he is fine and back at work, but the last 4 months have flown by in a bit of a blur.

The Crafts Council UK Hothouse programme drew to a close, although I am now privileged to be working with my Hothouse Mentor Yvonne Kulawgowski and Hothouse Buddy Marianne Anderson. This week I moved out of Studio 21, Designers Eclectic and my work will now have a new home next door in Studio 22, Manchester Craft & Design Centre. I also have 2 exhibitions and the Contemporary Craft Fair, Devon to create work for, all of which are happening in June 2012!

First up is a ring to celebrate Manchester Craft & Design Centre's 30th Anniversary - "Past, Present & Future Makers Celebrate 30 Years at Manchester Craft & Design Centre". This will run alongside the "Collecting History" exhibition (lead curating Artist Lucy Harvey), from 28 April 2012 to 30 June 2012.