For a humble pie or a festive banquet… In celebration of the eleventh Abergavenny Food Festival, an abundance of functional and decorative contemporary ceramics for all occasions.
Abergavenny Food Festival 2009
Location: The Art Shop
George Rowlett – A Given Glory
George, the landscape painter of thick, sumptuous, glowing paint, brings the same intense energy, keen observation and lightness of touch to his joyous flower paintings. “I always take a five-litre tin of Stokes Titanium white, two and a half of Bright Red, two and a half of Chrome Lemon and the same of Spectrum Ultramarine..”… Read more »
Unfolding I 2007
The Art Shop is holding a special exhibition, the first of many we hope, on Book Art. This is an opportunity to see and buy one-off and small limited editions and related artwork by book artists from around the world. You will see many examples of working methods, both traditional and contemporary, from screenprinting, etching… Read more »
Abergavenny Food Festival 2010
This year we are putting on quite a spread… Rachel Eardley, printmaker and textile artist, combines print and embroidery to produce a delicious, stunning window display. New ceramic work by two talented recent BA graduates from Cardiff, Jessica Hopewell and Anisha Mistry. Beautiful new collections of ceramics – honest and earthy jugs, the flamboyantly hand-decorated… Read more »
George Rowlett in Wales
The paintings that make up this exhibition are the result of a working residency in the Welsh Marches offered to the artist by The Art Shop. Following in the footsteps of Turner, Eric Gill & David Jones, they are Rowlett’s first paintings in Wales. In conjunction with Art Space Gallery: Michael Richardson Contemporary Art, London.
Unfolding II 2008
For a second year, The Art Shop is hosting ‘Unfolding’ – an exhibition of Book Art – books as contemporary artworks. This is an exciting, diverse and informative exhibition. A unique opportunity to see new work by a collective of artists from around the world showing one-off, hand produced pieces of artwork and affordable small… Read more »
Abergavenny Food Festival 2011
Graphic designer, David Meldrum, one of the guest speakers at the Abergavenny Food Festival, will be showing works on paper from ‘The Food Illustrator Project’, a culinary journey he undertook last year. Come and enjoy The Art Shop’s Festival Fete with Jessie Chorley and Cornelia O’Donovan RCA over the festival weekend 17th-18th September outside our… Read more »
Jane Bennett – Beach
‘Beach’ is an exhibition of new paintings of the Gower coastline by the Welsh contemporary landscape painter, Jane Bennett. Jane works on tiny, stretched linen canvases and on broader, larger boards, many of which are primed in red oxide and then painted over with oils, all traditional techniques. The beach is a continuous reference point… Read more »
Unfolding III 2009
Celebrating the book as contemporary art. Now in its third year, this exhibition continues to be exciting, diverse and informative. Come and see new work by fine artists, printmakers and applied artists from around the world showing one-off, hand produced pieces of affordable small artwork. Includes work by Elizabeth Barnett, Jessie Chorley, John Dilnot, Ciara… Read more »
Abergavenny Food Festival 2012
A Theatre of Plates – An exhibition of artist decorated ceramics Stimulate the senses with a fusion of art, trickery and fun. 1 Take a piece of vintage, reclaimed China 2 A selection of porcelain pens in many colours 3 A visual artist Combine these with imaginative flare and themes – maybe flora, mythology, follies… Read more »