Rising Star 2025
Exhibition: 15 March – 26 April 2025
Private View Opening: Friday, 14 March 2025, 6–8 pm
Location: New Ashgate Gallery,
Farnham, GU9 7PS
Rising Star 2025 is a prestigious curated exhibition organized by New Ashgate Gallery Trust, in partnership with the University for the Creative Arts, Making Goode, and the Crafts Study Centre.
Dedicated to championing the next generation of makers, this program provides a vital national platform for emerging talent. Artists are selected through a highly competitive process, recognized for their originality, skill, and creative vision. The exhibition proudly showcases the most promising makers in ceramics, glass, and craft, highlighting the innovative directions and fresh perspectives shaping the future of contemporary craft.
MURMURATIONS
Exhibition: 10th September - 14th September 2024 (12 - 6pm)
Private View: Tuesday 10th September (6 pm - 9 pm)
Location: Avenue Studios
11 Sydney Mews, South Kensington
London, SW3 6HW
Preston Fitzgerald Arts Advisory presents an exhibition featuring selected RCA Ceramics & Glass 2024 Alumni.
Murmurations celebrates the creative explorations of a group of Ceramics & Glass graduates selected from the Royal College of Art 2024 Alumni. Capturing the patterns and movements of over 25 innovative artists and designers, the exhibition explores the myriad of possibilities of both ceramics and glass.
RECIPROCITY
Exhibition: 10th April, 2024
Public Opening: 6 pm / Performance: 6.30 pm
Location: Bridge Studio in the Dyson-Woo building
Battersea Campus, Royal College of Art
London SW11 4AY
We continually live through numerous moments within the ever-changing flux of time. Essentially, the accumulation of time is happening infinitely, even now. Time acts as a medium that allows for change and development. These moments continually accumulate and overlap, creating new meanings and values. Accumulation also has to occur within a specific space and is not merely an additive process but one that happens through a complex interaction. (Michel Foucault, 1969) This implies that time, space, culture, knowledge, discourse, and all such elements are instantaneously accumulated, resulting in the formation of layers.
The "Accumulated Point" show is all about the idea of 'Layers', presenting a variety of perspectives and interpretations. Each artist builds up their own 'Layers' from their different angles and views. Moreover, the present moment, still accruing, represents the most overlapped and layered instance, a captured point, where artworks embodying diverse viewpoints can be showcased. Through this show, by exploring the stories and hidden meanings within each piece, we aspire to understand the various strata of life and gain a more profound perspective. Additionally, we hope that everyone can discover the 'Layers' accumulated in their own lives, finding new values and meanings within them.
RECIPROCITY
Exhibition: 20 February - 22 February 2024
Public Opening: Tuesday 20 February (6 pm - 9 pm)
Location: Hockney Gallery
Stevens Building, Royal College of Art
South Kensington, London, SW7 2EP
“Reciprocity is defined as a mutually beneficial exchange. In biology, the concept of reciprocity may be synonymous with the term mutualistic symbiosis, which describes a relationship where all species benefit from the interaction. Mutualism is contrasted with two other types of symbiosis: competition (a struggle for limited resources) and parasitism (living at the expense of the other).
As the climate crisis becomes an increasingly immediate challenge in today’s world, it has become more apparent that our relationship with the natural world may be likened to that of competition and parasitism. In Reciprocity, the artists, designers, and researchers respond to our changing climate, develop processes that move away from an extractive nature, and propose a future where collaboration, co-creation, and mutualistic symbiosis with Nature is at the forefront of art and design.”