This March, we invite you to join us for a virtual studio tour with ceramist Frances Priest and a virtual tour of the solo show Waiting For The Sun by sculptor Sean Henry, as part of Cavaliero Finn and Osborne Samuel’s LAF EDIT Viewing Rooms.
We also recommend for you to take part in the following online webinars and free talks provided by friends of the Fair; Collect with Crafting The New Normal; Rediscovering Our Sculpture: An Art UK Symposium; and Messums Wiltshire presenting, Learn A Trade Or Die – How Craft Created A Civilisation.
LAF EDIT: VIEWING ROOMS
CAVALIERO FINN
A GLIMPSE INTO THE WORLD OF CERAMICIST, FRANCES PRIEST
Presented as part of LAF EDIT Viewing Rooms, Cavaliero Finn invites you to join ceramicist Frances Priest for a digital studio tour to gain insight to the patterns and motifs chosen to be inscribed on the ceramic canvas.
OSBORNE SAMUEL
WAITING FOR THE SUN, SEAN HENRY
Explore the sleeping, leaping and dancing figures with a digital guided walk through of the solo exhibition from sculptor, Sean Henry.
Through video commentary, with the artist himself, discover the dream state sculptures juxtaposed with energetic and active, both evoking life.
TALKS TAKING PLACE THIS MARCH
COLLECT
CRAFTING THE NEW NORMAL
MONDAY 1 MARCH, 2 - 3PM
Almost a year since the international art circuit went into lockdown, this talk reflects on a seismic year for the market and explores the impacted on craft, and considers what steps will be needed to help the sector recover, and what positive changes can we adapt for good.
Speakers include: Collect gallerist Angel Monzon, Vessel Gallery; Christopher Day, glass artist; Denis Shafranik, collector; and Anders Peterson, Art Tactic; chaired by Natalie Melton, creative director at the Crafts Council.
ART UK
REDISCOVERING OUR SCULPTURE: AN ART UK SYMPOSIUM
THURSDAY 11 MARCH, 9.30AM & FRIDAY 12 MARCH 6PM
In this webinar Art UK will celebrate the completion of a four-year digitisation project showcasing thousands of sculptures across the UK.
The talks will be presented by Art UK staff, sharing their approach to sculpture digitisation, providing learnings and new sculpture discoveries through Art Detective. Join the talk to gain best practice on photography of sculpture, running community engagement events and delivering innovative activities for schools.
MESSUMS WILTSHIRE
LEARN A TRADE OR DIE - HOW CRAFT CREATED A CIVILISATION
THURSDAY 24 MARCH, 6.30 - 7.30PM
Glenn Adamson Senior Scholar at the Yale Center for British Art and formerly Head of Research at the V&A and Director of the Museum of Arts in New York talks about his new book Craft; an American History.
The talk, will examine the role played by craftspeople; ‘the quiet heroes of the American story.’ Adamson will also discuss the influence of craftspeople from Britain who migrated across the Atlantic and reflect on how, as craft has become increasingly marginalised in modern Western economies, overall levels of social cohesion have also deteriorated and thus how important it is to this day.
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