Hornseys' - the gallery: new stock for autumn

The Shop @ Newby Hall has now closed until April 1st 2010, when it will reopen with a wide array of new products and designs. Until then, many of the products are available at our gallery in Ripon. Please go to www.hornseys.com for contact information and directions.

New for Autumn 2009 in our gallery here in Ripon are original prints by Sir Terry Frost RA, Sandra Blow RA, Jonny Hannah, Peter Wray RE, Emily Hayes, Laurie Hastings, Kittie Jones, Michael Kirkman, Sarah Young and Al Heighton. We also hold a varied range of original prints by Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, John Tenniel and Sir William Nicholson.

We have new scented candles by Pacifica and True Grace, pencils and artists’ materials by Derwent, mugs from McLaggan Smith, including those in their Charlie and Lola range, artists’ sketchbooks by Pink Pig, new colouring books and posters in the Rosie Flo and Johnny Joe range by Roz Streeten, jewellery by Sara Withers, Gail Klevan, Sarah McKenzie, Lis Holt, Jessica Sherriff and Sarah Packington, puppets from Crazy Kids, Alphabet Jigsaws from Ireland, Air Dough and Newplast modeling clays from Newclay, scarves, baby blankets and woollen and mohair throws from Abraham Moon, Bronte Tweeds and Yungi, lighting and lampshades from Hannah Nunn and Lush Designs, textiles and soft furnishings from Lost and Found, Thornback & Peel and Lush Designs, camper van inspired products from Pearl & Earl, Made in Britain designs from Pintuck, beauty products from Balance Me, new polka dot and cow bags from Basket Case, and the Kong Box, nightlights, clocks and other ranges of The Original Metal Box Company. We have many new card designs from Alice Melvin, Art Angels, Umpen editions and the Paintings in Hospitals Christmas card by Mark Hearld.

SALE ON THIS WEEK!!!!!

As Newby Hall closes down for the end of the season this week, we're having a rather big sale.... included will be ceramics, mugs, cards, jams, chutneys, chocolate, tea cosies, textiles, handbags and more!!! For more information, please contact Daniel Hornsey on 07736 000531....

Laurie Hastings & David Troupes: 'As We Make Our Way Home'

Opens: 15 August 2009

In the winter of 2005 Laurie Hastings and David Troupes spent seven weeks working in the Gyle, an industrial estate just west of Edinburgh. Like many recent graduates and would-be artists they had signed on with an employment agency, and, after two days of rushed and totally inadequate training, were thrown onto the phones in a Telewest call centre. In between processing card payments and enduring verbal abuse, they struck up a friendship, swapping bits of creative work. One of these was a poem David had written about leaving the Gyle on a packed but quiet bus, called ‘As We Make Our Way Home’. Four years later, this poem became the kernel for a collaboration between the two: six poems paired with six illustrations, half instigated by Laurie and half by David. At the centre of this work are the moods and scenes and rhythms of a city – people, and the textures that people form.

Laurie Hastings is an Edinburgh based illustrator, graphic designer and printmaker, inspired by the city and urban landscape, people and their eccentricities, poetry, train journeys, music and drawing. She works by developing pencil sketches into collages and digital illustrations, and then uses the process of silk screen printing to build up layers of delicate colour. Born in Hong Kong, Laurie graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2004 with a BA Honours degree in Visual Communication, specialising in illustration. She also studied at Rhode Island School of Design, USA, while on placement, and at Chelsea College of Art, London, during her art foundation course. Currently, Laurie is working on freelance and exhibition projects, as well as her line of Suki Dances fashion accessories.

David Troupes grew up in the town of Hopkinton, Massachusetts, a leafy place with good woods and swamps for wandering. He studied English at the University of Massachusetts, and then Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh. His poetry has appeared in a variety of journals on both sides of the Atlantic, and in 2004 he was the recipient of a Scottish Arts Council writer’s bursary. His comic art appears regularly in at least one Vermont newspaper, and has been featured in periodicals in Sweden, Portugal and the US. He currently lives in West Yorkshire. David’s first full collection of poetry, ‘Parsimony’, has recently been published by Two Ravens Press.

The private view will be held on Saturday 15th August in The Shop @ Newby Hall between 12noon and 2pm. For more information, or to be on our mailing list, please contact Daniel Hornsey on 01765 602878 or e-mail info@hornseys.com

Sarah Young & Ed Kluz: The Shop @ Newby Hall

New for July and until the 15th of August are original prints by Sarah Young and collages of London's Pleasure Gardens by Ed Kluz.

Sarah Young is a Painter, Printmaker, Illustrator and maker. Her work is often narrative, inspired by and referencing, myth, folk tales, circus and burlesque imagery. Sarah Young has worked as an illustrator for many years becoming best known for her black and white scraperboard work. She is currently working on a major book of Greek Myths for a leading publisher. Sarah has been well known for her lino and wood cuts, but also works in screenprinting and has recently been developing new methods of working in monoprint and collagraph.

Sarah has exhibited her prints and paintings at many galleries and exhibitions around the country including Affordable Art Fair, Brighton Art Fair, Brighton and Arundel Open Houses, Pallant House (Bookshop), Brewery Arts Cirencester, Rye Art Gallery, Castor and Pollux Brighton, Model House Gallery Llantrisant, Bonhoga Gallery Shetland, and Cambridge Contemporary Arts amongst others.
Sarah is also founder and director of Brighton Art Fair and MADE - Brighton's Design and Craft Fair.

Ed’s work is rooted in our heritage. He seeks out the eccentric, the lost and the overlooked – vanished buildings, follies, centuries old text, ancient imagery - and uses them as starting points for vibrant paintings that explore themes of renewal, reinvention and the passing of time.

‘I am fascinated by the past. Our architectural heritage is a huge source of inspiration for me. The great edifices of the realm, past and present, have always conveyed a sense of power, which fails to dwindle with the passing centuries. Even the overgrown foundations of a long demolished country house hold a melancholic power as does the shattered body of a great abbey.’

Ed’s detailed and meticulous research into early Renaissance painting has led him to experiment with and re-interpret centuries old traditional techniques. Amongst other materials, he works with egg tempera, gum Arabic, gold leaf on vellum and gessoed oak panels. He also shares an affinity with the British art movement of the early to mid 20th century. He believes strongly in the role of the artist as designer and embraces all forms of image making, from printmaking and textile design to illustration and painting.

Ultimately Ed’s work tells stories by representing or recreating known and unknown histories.

‘So many of our great buildings have been lost, yet still many survive. I seek the standing and the fallen and in turn aim to create images which look at the very fabric of our identity.’

Tessa Bunney and Peter Heaton: Contemporary Photography Exhibition

JUNE 5TH - JULY 4TH 2009

An exhibition of two unique photographers: Tessa Bunney, whose work for this show focuses on the photography of plants in the British National Collections and Peter Heaton whose subject is the interaction between photography and the landscape.

Tessa Bunney, a documentary photographer, is the artist in residence at Newby Hall this year. Previous projects include ‘Moor and Dale,’ which was exhibited and published by The Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate and shown at various venues in the UK including Hereford Photography Festival, 2004. ‘Lamb’, commissioned by The Culture Company, was shown at Impressions Gallery, York, in 2000. ‘Eat Better, Eat British’ received an Honourable Mention in the Leica Oskar Barnack Award and was shown at Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France in 2000.

Between September 2006 and May 2008 Tessa spent two six month periods in Vietnam working on a new project looking at domestic labour in the suburbs and villages in and around Hanoi which will be exhibited and published in 2009. Images from this project were published in ‘Portfolio, Contemporary Photography in Britain 48’ in November 2008.

Peter Heaton, based in York, is an artist and photographer who lectures in photography and digital imaging. From a Fine Art background he works with film, video and photography. His interests are directed towards the creative amalgam of traditional chemical based photography and digital imaging. Whilst landscape and architecture often form the obvious subject matter of this work, there is also a concern with working with what has been termed ‘Spirit of Place’. In recent years the receipt of production awards from Yorkshire Arts has enabled collaborations with other artists and provided new aspects to his work enabling the production of two DVD pieces, ‘Winter Sea’ and ‘Reconfigured’: both which were shown during York’s international festival of digital art ‘Sightsonic’. He has exhibited widely since 1987, his work being featured in many publications and recently on BBC Television. He has work in private collections in Europe and America.

Newby Hall’s annual Contemporary Sculpture Trail will also be open and Justin Bartlett of ‘Treske’ - the makers of the ‘Newby’ range of furniture - will be discussing their work. New ceramics by Barbara Wood and Lis Holt, glass by Desiree Hope, hand-made boxes by Mark Barlow and sculptural willow work by Jess Travers will also be on show.

Newby Hall Craft & Food Fair 29th - 31st May 2009

The weekend of Newby Hall's Craft and Food Fair is packed with events in the Newby Hall Marquee. Standing alongside Newby Hall Farm Shop, this is the guide for 'The Shop @ Newby Hall' activities throughout the weekend:

Friday 29th May:

From 11am-4pm: Sculptural willow weaving by Jess Travers an exhibitor in the Newby Hall Contemporary Sculpture trail, 'Same Difference' global art project childrens' creative workshops, exhibitions of jewellery by Gail Klevan, Sara Withers, Sarah Packington and Emma Turpin, 'Treske' furniture displays and examples of ceramics and textiles by makers represented by 'The Shop @ Newby Hall' and 'Hornseys - the gallery' in Ripon.

Saturday 30th May:

From 11am-4pm: Product demonstrations by 'Derwent' Pencils and 'Balance Me' Aromatherapy Range therapists, 'Same Difference' global art project childrens' creative workshops, exhibitions of jewellery by Gail Klevan, Sara Withers, Sarah Packington and Emma Turpin, Treske furniture displays and examples of ceramics and textiles by makers represented by 'The Shop @ Newby Hall' and 'Hornseys - the gallery' in Ripon.

Sunday 31st May:

From 11am-4pm: Product demonstrations by 'Balance Me' Aromatherapy Range therapists, 'Same Difference' global art project childrens' creative workshops, sculptural willow weaving by Jess Travers an exhibitor in the Newby Hall Contemporary Sculpture trail, exhibitions of jewellery by Gail Klevan, Sara Withers, Sarah Packington and Emma Turpin, Treske furniture displays and examples of ceramics and textiles by makers represented by 'The Shop @ Newby Hall' and 'Hornseys - the gallery' in Ripon.

'Same Difference' in The Shop @ Newby Hall

From May 15th to June 15th, The 'Same Difference' Global Art Project interactive exhibition will be held in 'The Shop @ Newby Hall'. This is the first time that Newby Hall has been involved with a project of this nature and we hope that it will be well supported by visitors to Newby of all ages. Art workshops will also be held on the weekend of the Craft and Food fair from the 29th to the 31st of May. More detailed information will be available on this blog during May.

About the Project (courtesy of the Same Difference website) http://www.is-samedifference.org.uk/home.htm :

Same Difference is a never-ending arts project which links children all over the world. Using art and creativity, it boosts the self-esteem of children around the world living with oppression, disability, violence and poverty. In the UK, it gives children the opportunity to explore their similarities and differences, and put their creativity into action.

The project began in December 2005 in Craigmillar in Edinburgh, Scotland (home town of Ross Georgeson) with an art workshop for local children. As part of the workshop, the children were encouraged to produce a picture to send positive messages to children around the world.
Each child was given a 12 cm x 12 cm card to make a picture on using textiles from their own culture. After finishing their picture, the children filled out the back of the card like a postcard.
The cards produced in Scotland were then taken to Burkina Faso and slotted into CD cases, joined together and exhibited as a sculpture. This was photographed, the cards collected, and then taken to the next country to be used as part of the next larger sculpture. As the project moves from country to country, the exhibition grows.

Art workshops for the children and training for their teachers, parents, carers and youth workers have taken place in each of the five countries International Service is working in.

Through working with our partner organisations, staff and teachers, the project has strengthened the capacity of our partners to deliver more creative learning in their curriculum, and shown how it can be adapted for children with different needs; for example, those living with disability, trauma or conflict. Training courses in art education have also been given to organizations working with children, youth and people with disabilities.

Each child who has taken part in Same Difference has created a unique art postcard, which has collectively formed an evolving art exhibition in each country at the end of the workshops.

About the Children:

Same Difference achievements to date:

Since March 07 the touring exhibition has been shown in 28 UK locations including libraries, galleries, shopping centres and the UK Department for International Development and York Minster;

200,000 people have actively engaged with the Same Difference exhibition by interacting with the artwork or a member of staff;

4,845 children have participated in Same Difference workshops the UK, Burkina Faso, Palestine, Bolivia, Mali and Brazil, many of whom had never had the experience of making anything creative before;

569 teachers, parents, carers and youth workers have been trained to creatively promote confidence building and self-esteem for many more vulnerable children;

2700 children from 51 UK schools have participated in art workshops including:- 400 pupils from Windmill Primary School and Low Road Primary School in Leeds took part in Same Difference workshops during a Global Week in February 2008 (most of whom later wrote letters to the President of Brazil about the destruction of the Amazon rainforest) - 105 able and disabled children and young adults from the Cheshire region at the first Same Difference Global Arts Week event in August 2008. - 100 children at the The Royal Institution of Great Britain as part of The Big Draw.- 194 Year Seven pupils from Millthorpe School, in York took part in an African Arts Day in January 2009.

Same Difference has been accepted by the Human Rights Education Associates for inclusion in the compendium of good practices in human rights education in the school system.

The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) used a Same Difference case study in a keynote speech at the British Council Annual Conference in London in November 2007.