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Recollection
3rd May - 26th July

Julie Arkell
An exciting and charming exhibition of applied art by nine female contemporary designer-makers. The exhibition aims to rekindle childhood memories and to remind people of treasured items. The designers take their inspiration from 'old loved things', from personal memories, fables, dreams and wishes.
Each piece, which is special and collectable, tells an enchanting tale of sentimentality or naivety through the ingenious use of techniques such as collage, embroidery and assemblage, and through the subtle use of materials, such as fabric, thread, found objects or papier-mache.

Janet Bolton
The select group which includes new and well established makers is comprised of

Julie Arkell, Janet Bolton, Jennifer Brampton, Samantha Bryan, Lucy Casson, Adele Christie, Victoria Lindo, Nina Mankin and Linda Miller.
Victoria Lindo calls herself a 3D maker and illustrator as she creates stuffed animals and collage embroideries made from collections of precious bits and pieces.

Julie Arkell and Nina Mankin like working with scraps of fabric, wool and paper to create their narrative pieces.

Jennifer Brampton uses remnants as inspiration but recreates her quirky pieces in paper, clay and wire.

Lucy Casson is well known for her cleverly constructed tin sculpture, she explains"My childhood was spent constucting things out of jumble sale finds and bits lying around." She has just continued on this theme with great success.

Victoria Lindo

Lucy Casson

Victoria Lindo


Adele Christie
Janet Bolton, Adele Christie and Linda Miller 'sketch with thread', they each produce wall hung embroideries depicting scenes from everyday situations, using a variety of techniques from simple collage to intricate embroidery and moulded reliefs.

Linda Miller

Samantha Bryan also looks to everyday life for her inspiration but amusingly she becomes lost in the imaginary world of fairies. Samantha's extraordinary objective is to provide everything that a fairy would require during it's daily existence through "Brains Fairy Aiding Inventions".

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Samantha Bryan


Samantha Bryan

As part of the gallery's increasing educational programme, The Craft Centre & Design Gallery has collaborated with a local school, Robin Hood Primary in Wakefield. The children were asked to produce a collection of drawings and sculptures to be featured in the exhibition. The infants have provided drawings inspired by everyday situations which will be mounted as exhibition boards and some drawings will be used within the display cases as a backdrop for the jewellery.
The juniors have taken part in a sculpture workshop run by Samantha Bryan and The Craft Centre's Educational Co-ordinator, Janet Chin held at the school on Tuesday 4th March. The sculptures produced will be displayed in the gallery alongside the exhibition.

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A wonderful jewellery showcase, entitled Drawing from Childhood will complement this slightly eccentric exhibition.
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