Christmas Open Studios

Saturday & Sunday 3rd & 4th December 2011
Café open both days
Location: Whole Building
Admission: Free

How do you see art and design as it is created? How do you buy art before it is even out there? How do you pick up a cool present direct from the source?

Come to GWS Christmas Open Studios. It is a rare chance to explore Great Western Studios and to meet the artists, designers and craftspeople that inhabit it. This is a unique opportunity to see developments at the cutting edge of contemporary art and design.

Plus this December: A unique sample sale from Orlebar Brown with a preview of their spring season available to buy. An ilovegorgeous sample sale – beautiful outfits for every child. Pitman Tozer and Threefold will be doing their excellent Architect’s Surgery, and there will be a new multicoloured children’s art trail. Sundog – an off spring of the brilliant Penguin Orchestra – will be playing music during the weekend.

A jewellery fest featuring selected stalls will fill the atrium, showing a range of one off beautiful jewellery designs by excellent makers – an ideal gift is in easy grasp. There is a market place of contemporary delights outside. With mulled wine, a BBQ, tea and cakes, and the added excitement of ping pong tournaments in the courtyard, there is something for everyone.

Christmas Open Studios is all round family entertainment. Come and get Christmas ideas, see art and design in the making and have a fun filled Winter Weekend.

The Studios Exhibition
Great Western Studios presents a range of work by studio holders

Friday 3rd December – Friday 6th January
Location: Gallery & Project Space

The diverse nature of the studios means that we are able to have a show including printmaking, photography, oil painting, and watercolour.

The mix of talent in the studios shows – a photograph of architectural work by Threefold, an interior by Affroditi Krassa but also a collection of fine art.

A moon by Charlie Barton shines out, a couple of boxers fight in a ring, painted by the children’s illustrator Bruce Ingman, Sophie Smallhorn shows one of her unique prints.

This exhibition gives an impression of what goes on in GWS.  It is a wide, happening creative community with artists, designers and creatives producing exciting new work.

Artists included are:

1. Studio 55 – Bruce Ingman ‘The Wrestlers’
2. Studio 23 – Katherine Pedersen ‘In the frame of it’
3. Studio 51 – Sophie Smallhorn ’89’
4. Studio 16 – Tommy Penton – Print
5. Studio 215 – Totality ‘The pinnacle city of London skyline’ 2014
6. Studio 109 – The Kavli Advertising ‘Hazem Sannib Seaside’
7. Studio 109 – Gloria Ceballos – Artist Proof
8. Studio 55 – Philip Vessey ‘Sauverterre’
9. Studio 112 – Two Times Elliot ‘Luck is the Residue of Design’
10. Studio 56 – Afroditi Krassa ‘Dishroom Bombay Cafe’
11. Studio 54 – Pip Hackett ‘Untitled’
12. Studio 49 – Emma Woollard ‘Untitled’
13. Studio 21 – Sarah Neale ‘You know I love you’
14. Studio 32 – Sophie Molins ‘Untitled’
15. Studio 31 – Sidonie Sandrine/Style by Definition
16. Studio 60 – Henrietta Molinaro ‘Untitled’
17. Studio 15 – Suky Best ‘The journey home’
18. Studio 104 – ilovegorgeous
19. Studio 33 – Anthony Buck ‘Untitled’
20. Studio 46 – Hilary Dunne ‘Lovers with red ribbons’
21. Studio 48 – Charlie Barton ‘Ganymede’
22. Studio 68 – Shiv ‘Untitled’
23. Studio 13 – Stuart Mackay ‘Baptism’
24. Studio 1 – Claire Coles ‘Tropical Garden’
25. Studio 203 – Threefold ‘Ladderstile House’
26. Studio 46 – Emily Marbach ‘Dog Walking’
27. Studio 17 – Joy Richardson 2007
28. Studio 69 – Liza Campbell ‘Dark box’
29. Studio 52 – Daniel Hopwood – Cushion
30. Studio 18 – Elvan Erdin 2011 ‘1/30’
31. Studio 57 – Tahnee Lonsdale ‘Untitled’
32. Studio 37 – Jimmy Turrell ‘Work and Play’
33. Studio 122 – Bash 2012