New Ashgate Gallery

Crafts Council and Hothouse programme by Madeleine Furness at Rising Stars 2014 Symposium

Crafts Council and Hothouse programme

Madeleine Furness, Maker Development Officer, Crafts Council

Introduction to the Craft Council and the Hothouse programme that supports emerging makers across the UK. Hothouse provides makers within two years of setting up their business and who already display a high level of technical craftsmanship and originality, with a tailor-made six-month programme of business and creative support.

Rising Stars 2014 is produced by New Ashgate Gallery in partnership with Milton Keynes Arts Centre and Smiths Row, a-n The Artists Information Company and University for the Creative Arts. It is supported by Arts Council England and Billmeir Charitable Trust. We would also like to thank all speakers.

New Ashgate Gallery was originally established in the late 1950s. It has been located in the centre of the Farnham Craft Town in a seventeenth century listed building in Waggon Yard since the 1970s. Today, New Ashgate Gallery provides an unparalleled resource for Farnham, Surrey and beyond. It is the destination for viewing and buying the best of affordable contemporary art and craft by established and emerging artists and makers. The Gallery curates an exciting programme of exhibitions and is dedicated to champion the best contemporary art and craft in the market place. As a not-for-profit charity, it also fosters emerging artists and makers through mentoring and touring exhibitions, working in partnership with organisations such as Crafts Council.

At Play 2012 - South Hill Park - HD

As a participatory exhibition, it encourages viewers to gaze, remember, touch, explore, trust, think, laugh, peer, concentrate, join in, bend down, take a chance... and play. It explores the way that play can be free and spontaneous or bound by rules and conventions -- as with board games and sport. The exhibition considers ideas about rules or the lack of them, and the spirit of the Olympics in the year that the summer Olympics come to Britain. At Play also supports artists in making participatory, engaging and interactive work in a variety of art forms.

At Play 2012 is a project in partnership with the New Ashgate Gallery, Surrey, South Hill Park, Berkshire, and OVADA, Oxfordshire, exploring concepts of play and participation. At Play is a collaboration, produced and curated by Dr Outi Remes and Cally Trench.

At Play 2012 is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and by the Foundation for Contemporary Art, New York, and Farnham Town Council. We would also like to thank Gemma Cumming; Diana Healey; Laura James; Ingrid Jensen; Carol McFarlane; Lucy Philips; Roger Prynn; Kate Ratcliffe; Jonathan Roe; Robert Harvey at B&H Autos, Dagnall; University of Westminster; and Sandy Hill Bungalow.

Historic Farnham - Surrey

Portfolio Careers by Dr Maureen Bampton at Rising Stars 2014 Symposium

Keynote: Portfolio Careers: Contemporary Crafts over the Past Thirty Years

Dr Maureen Bampton, Director, Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool

Making the most of career opportunities that present themselves, and examining emerging contemporary makers career patterns.

Rising Stars 2014 is produced by New Ashgate Gallery in partnership with Milton Keynes Arts Centre and Smiths Row, a-n The Artists Information Company and University for the Creative Arts. It is supported by Arts Council England and Billmeir Charitable Trust. We would also like to thank all speakers.

New Ashgate Gallery was originally established in the late 1950s. It has been located in the centre of the Farnham Craft Town in a seventeenth century listed building in Waggon Yard since the 1970s. Today, New Ashgate Gallery provides an unparalleled resource for Farnham, Surrey and beyond. It is the destination for viewing and buying the best of affordable contemporary art and craft by established and emerging artists and makers. The Gallery curates an exciting programme of exhibitions and is dedicated to champion the best contemporary art and craft in the market place. As a not-for-profit charity, it also fosters emerging artists and makers through mentoring and touring exhibitions, working in partnership with organisations such as Crafts Council.

Exciting taxation by Alison Branagan (taster) at Rising Stars 2014 Symposium

Exciting taxation (first 10 minutes of the talk)

Alison Branagan, Creative Industries Consultant,

When you start selling your craftworks, accept commissions, run workshops or take on other creative freelance opportunities you must register yourself as a sole-trader (self-employed), partnership or as a limited company. This talk covers the gripping and exciting topic of tax for self-employed practitioners. We will embark on a thrilling journey where all that groovy accountancy jargon is explained. If you are presently a bit bewildered by what we mean by net profit and 'off-setting' business expenses, then by the end of this talk you will leave with a whole new enthusiasm for calculators, plastic wallets, box files and more.

Rising Stars 2014 is produced by New Ashgate Gallery in partnership with Milton Keynes Arts Centre and Smiths Row, a-n The Artists Information Company and University for the Creative Arts. It is supported by Arts Council England and Billmeir Charitable Trust. We would also like to thank all speakers.

New Ashgate Gallery was originally established in the late 1950s. It has been located in the centre of the Farnham Craft Town in a seventeenth century listed building in Waggon Yard since the 1970s. Today, New Ashgate Gallery provides an unparalleled resource for Farnham, Surrey and beyond. It is the destination for viewing and buying the best of affordable contemporary art and craft by established and emerging artists and makers. The Gallery curates an exciting programme of exhibitions and is dedicated to champion the best contemporary art and craft in the market place. As a not-for-profit charity, it also fosters emerging artists and makers through mentoring and touring exhibitions, working in partnership with organisations such as Crafts Council.

If you would like to attend a business start-up for artists and designers please visit Central Saint Martins Short Courses, and search for 'Business Start-up for Creatives' or 'Entrepreneurship for Creatives', taught by Alison Branagan. She has a range of college based and online courses available.

Her books 'The Essential Guide to Business for Artists and Designers Revised and Updated' and 'A Pocket Guide to Business for Artists and Designers' can be purchased from Amazon, Water Stones, Foyles and the Tate Modern Bookshop.

If you would like a business advice session, please email Alison on alison@alisonbranagan.com

Signpost guide for new artists by Emilia Telese at Rising Stars 2014 Symposium

Signpost guide for new artists

Emilia Telese, Artist and Writer, a-n The Artists Information Company

Signpost, a-n's guide for new graduates is aimed at helping new graduates 'negotiate the first few years out of higher education'. Signpost is a practical guide pointing to all the information and advice new artists need to get started in their chosen creative profession.

Rising Stars 2014 is produced by New Ashgate Gallery in partnership with Milton Keynes Arts Centre and Smiths Row, a-n The Artists Information Company and University for the Creative Arts. It is supported by Arts Council England and Billmeir Charitable Trust. We would also like to thank all speakers.

New Ashgate Gallery was originally established in the late 1950s. It has been located in the centre of the Farnham Craft Town in a seventeenth century listed building in Waggon Yard since the 1970s. Today, New Ashgate Gallery provides an unparalleled resource for Farnham, Surrey and beyond. It is the destination for viewing and buying the best of affordable contemporary art and craft by established and emerging artists and makers. The Gallery curates an exciting programme of exhibitions and is dedicated to champion the best contemporary art and craft in the market place. As a not-for-profit charity, it also fosters emerging artists and makers through mentoring and touring exhibitions, working in partnership with organisations such as Crafts Council.

Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment in Farnham June 2011

Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment 2nd Battalion parade through Farnham town exercising the freedom of the Borough of Waverley in June 2011.

Vertu Advertisement - The Code

An advertisement produced, filmed and compiled by Nathan Clough to complement a concept devised by Rockyie Shielsone. Locations include Fortnum and Mason, Chelsea Imperial Wharf and the New Ashgate Gallery in Farnham, Surrey.

Amazing Facts about Farnham

Contemporary art

Contemporary art is art produced at the present period in time. Contemporary art includes, and develops from, Postmodern art, which is itself a successor to Modern art. In vernacular English, modern and contemporary are synonyms, resulting in some conflation of the terms modern art and contemporary art by non-specialists.


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Rococo | Wikipedia audio article

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Rococo


00:01:00 1 Origin of the term
00:02:27 2 Characteristics
00:03:35 3 France
00:05:03 4 Italy
00:06:25 5 Southern Germany and Russia
00:10:32 6 Britain
00:12:58 7 Decline and end
00:15:09 8 Furniture and decoration
00:18:07 9 Painting
00:20:58 10 Sculpture and porcelain
00:23:37 11 Music
00:25:16 12 Fashion
00:28:50 13 Gallery
00:28:59 13.1 Architecture
00:29:07 13.2 Engravings
00:29:15 13.3 Painting
00:29:24 13.4 Rococo era painting
00:29:33 14 See also
00:30:06 15 Notes and citations
00:30:16 16 Bibliography
00:32:50 17 Further reading
00:33:50 18 External links



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Rococo ( or ), less commonly roccoco, or Late Baroque, was a highly ornamental and theatrical style of decoration which combined asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colors, sculpted molding, and trompe l'oeil frescoes to create the illusions of surprise, motion and drama. It first appeared in France and Italy in the 1730s and spread to Central Europe in the 1750s and 1760s. It is often described as the final expression of the Baroque movement.The Rococo style began in France in the first part of the 18th century in the reign of Louis XV as a reaction against the more formal and geometric Style Louis XIV. It was known as the style rocaille, or rocaille style. It soon spread other parts of Europe, particularly northern Italy, Bavaria, Austria, other parts of Germany, and Russia. It also came to influence the other arts, particularly sculpture, furniture, silverware and glassware, painting, music, and theatre.