craftscotland at Collect 2010

Tartlets on Tour!

'Blunede Fantasien/Flourishing Fantasies'

12th May - 16th July

craft2eu - Agency for European Craft and Design

Eppendorfer Weg 231

20251 Hamburg

Germany

www.craft2eu.com

I'm delighted that the Eat Me Keep me range is about to have it's first European adventure. From 12th May - 16th July the 'Tartlets and Floozies' and some of their friends will be taking a trip to Hamburg for an exhibition wich will explore the metamorphisis of the everyday entitled 'Blunede Fantasien/Flourishing Fantasies'.

Collect 2010

Craft Scotland have once again selected my work to show in Collect 2010 at the Saatchi Gallery in May.

Relaunched at the Saatchi Gallery in May 2009, COLLECT has an enviable reputation as a premier, annual fair for contemporary craft. Through its presentation of work from the best international applied artists, COLLECT has become a prestigious event in the international cultural calendar gaining the respect and support of many private collectors, museum curators and galleries.

From 14 – 17 May 2010, Collect will occupy all three floors of the Saatchi Gallery (http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/).

The other artists represented by CraftScotland at Collect 2010 are;

Stacey Bentley - http://www.craftscotland.org/makers_search_results_by_ID.html.MakerID-1196.html
Leah Black - http://www.craftscotland.org/makers_search_results_by_ID.html.MakerID-1438.html
Jilli Blackwood - http://www.craftscotland.org/makers_search_results_by_ID.html.MakerID-228.html
Libby Day - http://www.craftscotland.org/makers_search_results_by_ID.html.MakerID-1218.html
Pauline Edie - http://www.craftscotland.org/makers_search_results_by_ID.html.MakerID-1442.html
Lorna Fraser - http://www.craftscotland.org/makers_search_results_by_ID.html.MakerID-659.html
Elin Isaksson - http://www.craftscotland.org/makers_search_results_by_ID.html.MakerID-422.html
Rebecca Wilson - http://www.craftscotland.org/makers_search_results_by_ID.html.MakerID-640.html
Misun Won - http://www.craftscotland.org/makers_search_results_by_ID.html.MakerID-1499.html

HOTPOT: Art, Food & People

Ceramics by Rebecca Wilson at HOTPOT [art, food + people]
St Andrews Museum 23rd January 2010- 7th March 2010.

Have you recovered from the seasonal festivities? Then you should be ready to indulge yourself again in the calorie free ‘HOTPOT [art, food + people]’. Fife Contemporary Art & Craft in collaboration with SAC funded trainee curator Tonia Lu brings together a group of artists who present work which is inspired by the emotional relationship between food and people. Artists Ruth Archibald-Swaans, Gayle Chong Kwan, Alex Frost, Alex Wilde and Rebecca Wilson take part.

Ceramics by Rebecca Wilson explore the indulgent, frivolous even naughty nature of food cravings. The Eat Me; Keep Me series focuses on the notion of self indulgence. Titles of some works are borrowed from popular marketing slogans which are telling of the current attitude towards what we buy and eat. In today’s recession the supermarkets put the cross sections of the market firmly in their places with ‘best’ and ‘value’ ranges. Advertising campaigns play to our vanity and suggestibility, and in the competition to see which brand can be the sexiest we don’t know any more whether we should be eating the chocolate pudding or pouring it all over ourselves! We are clearly enticed by the notion of food as a luxury, an indulgence, something a little bit naughty, and equally so by Rebecca’s deliciously naughty ceramics.

http://www.axisweb.org/sneakpreview
http://www.fcac.co.uk/
Fife Contemporary Art and Craft
Town Hall
Queen's Gardens
St Andrews
Fife,
KY16 9TA
tel +44 (0) 1334-474610

Times Online - Artists Make Light of Domestic Routine

The C-Word: Craft Scotland is celebrating its artisans. This week it’s Julia Douglas, Clare Waddle and Rebecca Wilson; aka A Wee Bit of Light Relief.

Read the article from this weeks Sunday Times at;
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/architecture_and_design/article6907756.ece

New Work for The Affordable Art Fair

I've just finished a new round of works for the Affordable Art Fair (22nd - 25th October, Battersea Park). Here is a sneak preview for you of some of the new range of Tarts and Floozies. Enjoy! (Click the images to enlarge).

For those of you who won't make it to London, this body of work will be making it's way to Newcastle at The Biscuit Factory following the AAF.

Light Relief and The C Word

Things are really starting to happen for 'A Wee Bit of Light Relief'. We were really well recieved at Homes and Interiors Scotland at the SECC, and have a few commissions in the pipeline from that. The large chandelier is also featured in Craft Scotlands C Word campaign which will screen on STV and in Scottish Cinemas in conjunction with Pearl and Dean.

So with everything being on the up we thought it was about time Light Relief deserved it's own blogspot, so here it is; http://aweebitoflightrelief.blogspot.com/. We'll keep you up to date with developments as they happen here. Watch this space for new works coming soon. Don't want to spoil any surprises but there is wallpaper in the pipeline among other things...