Festival of thrift

Date: Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th September
Time: 10:00 - 17:00 
Location: Stable
STABLE – a project combining the talents of selected new and established artists from Teesside and County Durham, creating a series of striking new artworks to temporarily transform the historic stable block on the Festival of Thrift site.  Works will respond to the history of the site and the Festival’s commitment to sustainability.  They include a walk-through woven installation, a series of 80 cast sandcastle sculptures and a light and sound responsive suspended ceramic and glass installation.  Look out for Steve Messam’s transformation of the tower!
The emerging artists selected for the project are:
Self-taught glass and porcelain artist Janet Rogers from Durham
Teesside University Fine Art graduate film and sculpture maker, Kirsty Childs
Stockton-based Paul Theo Murray, a graduate in visual communications from Leeds College of Art
Textile artist, Christina Hesford, a graduate of Hartlepool’s Cleveland College of Art and Design (CCAD)
Former Ian Ramsey School and Stockton Sixth form pupil, Becky Nicholson, a graduate in stage production also from CCAD.
Photo: left to right; Christina Hesford, Paul Murray, Vicky Holbrough (Navigator North), Kirsty Childs, Steve Messam, Stella Hall (Festival of Thrift), Janet Rogers, Nicola Golightly (Navigator North), Becky Nicholson, Alex Nicholson (Festival of Thrift). Image by Jason Hynes

http://www.festivalofthrift.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/FoT-programme-final.pdf to get the programme

The Somme Remembrance & Expression

Beautiful but Deadly

No 5 Mills Bomb, hand grenades in cast glass.  The first modern fragment grenade used by the British army.  70 million units build, 7 second fuse.

Exhibition runs 8th February - 26th March 2016  POD Bishop Auckland

Photo c Louise Taylor / Wideyed

Cast Glass using lost wax method.  www.crushedchilli.co.uk

Drop in Fused Glass Workshops in Durham

Crushed Chilli Gallery, South Street, Durham DH1 4QP Drop in Workshops   Our workshop table is now available every day for drop in workshops.  £15 per tile.  Any age, takes about 90 minutes, so give yourself plenty of time to complete.  We are open Tuesday to Saturday 10 am to 4 pm.  Please email janet@crushedchilli.co.uk or telephone 0191 3750644 just to make sure we are not already full with another event.       Thank you for looking:) Please like us on  Facebook, we update daily with details of new artists work delivered to the gallery and up and coming events. Facebook Twitter Website Email Copyright © *|2013|* *|crushed chilli gallery|*, All rights reserved.   Our mailing address is: *|janet@crushedchilli.co.uk|*  unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences

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Durham School Chapel Window

Durham School Chapel Window is now complete and installed.  Designed by Alex Douglas, a year 11 pupil and donated by Old Dunelmian Lodge No. 8100 to celebrate the 600th Anniversary of the School.  A brilliant commission to help us on our way.

Summer fruit

Hand painted with enamel, sifted glass powder and fired

Pate de Verre

Love making these

Fused glass workshop today at the crushed chilli gallery in Durham City

 

Filled the kiln with Bullseye glass. Great day. Website has details of the workshop www.crushedchilli.co.uk

Recycled Electrical Tower Insulator Bowls

Insulator Bowls

15cm - 43cm

All individual recycled Insulators from the de commissioning of North London

Electrical Tower.

Extreme Platters Unique Service Ware

A UNIQUE piece of glass is being served up to art-lovers

A Pioneering design for extreme platters, which double up as serving ware and works of art.

Three feet long and fashioned from beautiful glass, the bespoke creations can form the centrepiece of a table of goodies, and when not in use hang resplendent on the wall.

Nowadays so many people entertain at home and I wanted to create something that could be used practically in the home but also had the wow factor as a piece of art.

They can be a real talking point when friends are round.

I like big and chunky as I like them to have presence. This is the biggest thing I have ever made for the home and as far as I know I am the first to do this.

The extreme platters can be made in any colour to match interior décor. They are constructed using fibreboard cut into various shapes and sizes to create moulds for the glass making each platter totally individually, numbered and signed.

The extreme platters are available to buy from £150 and can be viewed in the Crushed Chilli gallery and glass studio.

Durham School Student Stained Glass Workshop

Just completed a full day with students from Durham School.  We made stained glass panels from start (cartoon) to finish.  Everyone had a great day although very busy! All panels were completed on the day to take home.  Must say all pupils were exceptionally polite and well behaved.  A credit to Durham School.

Spennymoor Town Hall Art Event

This is where it's Art....exhibition this weekend at Spennymoor Town Hall. Fab time made loads of coasters and suncatchers.


They will be available for collection from the Gallery in the Town Hall from Tuesday onwards.

Biscuit Factory Summer Exhibition.  Pate de Verre and Crackle Glass

New work for the Biscuit Factory.  Pate de Verre and Crackle Glass.

Dedication of new font

16/04/2012

Yesterday morning (Sunday 15th April) a new font was dedicated during the morning Communion Service at St John's Church Neville's Cross by Revd Barnaby Huish. St John's was able to commission the font after being left a bequest for a work of art by Margaret Rodgers.

The font was designed and made in glass by Janet Rogers who is based in the Crushed Chilli Gallery, South Street, Durham.

Janet, who joined the congregation for the service of dedication, said, "I am so pleased to have been given the commission to design and manufacture this Font. It is unlike anything I have ever done before, the design incorporates the holy trinity three crosses and fishes; bright vibrant and colourful to express the bold style in which I work."

Photographs by Janet Rogers and Ruth Jagger