Summer2012

Jewellery, ceramics, silvermithing, textiles, glass, enamels, cardsKnown for selecting contemporary craft of the highest quality and skills, the gallery has selected many of our makers at major events such as Collect, Art in Clay, Art in Action, Rising Stars and the Festival of Crafts. The Summer Craft Exhibition presents both established and emerging makers, and supports their practice by ensuring their work is visible to increasing numbers of craft collectors.

G A L L E R Y F U N D R A I S E R 11 M AY – 2 5 A U G U S T

Support us – we support artists and makers!

Summer Craft Exhibition For new and old collectors: Unique and handmade art objects that are environmentally friendly and sustainable

Left: Flora Gare

Front cover: Michael Peckitt

The New Ashgate Gallery is an educational charity that supports and brings together contemporary visual arts and crafts through a busy programme of changing exhibitions, creative learning events and free professional development and mentoring with artists and makers, delivered by the trust with a wide range of partnerships.

Unlike many other UK arts charities, the New Ashgate Gallery Trust receives no regular public funding. The economic downturn has affected sales over the last year. Whilst we are optimistic of a long term future, we are fundraising to ensure that we have the financial means to support the gallery through such a transition.

Visit www.newashgate.org.uk for information about our fundraising event or to purchase one of the fantastic artworks kindly donated by our artists and makers, available for viewing in the gallery.

Donate online: https://mydonate.bt.com/charities/newashgategallery

Phone: 01252 713208

Makers include: Phil Atrill; Judith Brown; Ruta Brown; Lucy Burley; Emma Calvert; Fliff Carr; Ali Cooper; Nicola De Cruz; Hazel Davison; Alison Dupernex; Michelle Freemantle; Rowena Gilbert; Laura Golborne; Charlotte Hannett; Emmeline Hastings; Akiko Hirai; Joanna Howells; Harriet Knightley; Bea Jareno; Debbie Joy; Zoe Larkins; Jacqueline Leighton-Boyce; Richard Miller; Jane Muir; Janine Partington; Michael Peckitt; Deryn Relph; Jessica Sherriff; Machi de Waard; Joanne Wombwell; Suet Yi Yip ... and many more.

May Maker in Focus:

Janine Partington

Fliff Carr Akiko Hirai Ruta Brown

Justin Cooke’s paintings sit within a tradition of British artists inspired by landscape in all its forms. Much like the best artists in this field, both contemporary and throughout history, Justin has developed an affinity with the landscape he knows well, and, working on the cusp of what is abstract and what is figurative, he reveals this relationship through a true understanding of his subject.

Justin Cooke

Justin Cooke

Justin’s paintings reveal themselves through a process of built up and scraped away layers. This often leads to a result which could be considered in almost abstract terms. However it is his painterly technique, his use of the brush, an individual thing that can only be honed from years of experience which makes his work distinctive and recognisable.

11 May – 9 June | Pavilion GalleryPrivate view: Friday 11 May, 6–8pm – all welcome Visit the 2012 Surrey Open Studios

9–24 June and 20–22 July

Stuart Stanley The Winner of the Baines Surrey Artist of the Year 2011

15 June – 14 JulyPavilion Gallery

Private view: Friday 15 June, 6–8pm – all welcome

In 2011, Stuart Stanley was voted Surrey Artist of the Year. The New Ashgate Gallery is delighted to present his solo exhibition with new work created for this exhibition. This includes landscapes that are inspired by the wonderful deep cut lanes leading to Friday Street in Surrey. Stuart presents the contrast in the dark banks and the beautiful patterns of the winter branches. The exhibition also shows landscapes from Stuart’s recent trip to Scotland, capturing the variety of textures and colours to be found in the Western Highlands.

The Surrey Artist of the Year is organised in partnership with the Surrey Open Studios and supported by the Baines Charitable Trust.

For 19 days, meet artists and makers and visit studios that are not normally open to the public, see the artists at work, browse completed works and see work in progress, trying your hand at something and meeting fellow enthusiasts on route.

The most voted artists and makers will be exhibiting at the New Ashgate Gallery in autumn 2012.

www.surreyopenstudios.org.uk/event/index.php

Collect art with OWN ART Own Art is the Arts Council’s interest free loan scheme for buying art and craft. Own Art application is made with the customer in the gallery, and complete in ten minutes.

At Play 2012

Shop online at: www.newashgate.org.uk

Commissions, Wedding Lists and Gift Vouchers P Commissions welcome: we will work to find out the best artist or maker for your needs.

P Individual & ethical Wedding Gift service.

P Gift Vouchers at an amount of your choice, for any occasion.

Rowena Gilbert

8 June – 14 JulyBalcony Gallery and Foyer

Private view: Friday 15 June, 6–8pm – all welcome

At Play presents fun and playful artworks such as collectable board games, artists’ books and sculptures in the year that the summer Olympics comes to Britain. The exhibition re-creates a sense of what it is like to be a child at play with games and sport references. As a participatory exhibition, it encourages us to remember, touch, explore … and play.

At Play also includes events and an artists’ professional support programme, supporting them to engage with their audiences. At Play 2012 is a project in partnership with the New Ashgate Gallery, Surrey, South Hill Park, Berkshire, and OVADA, Oxfordshire.

The New Ashgate Gallery presents work by AM Bruno, Linda Francis, Flora Gare, Este MacLeod, Kirsty E. Smith and Cally Trench.

At Play is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

At Play 2012 catalogue at: www.lulu.com

EventsPlayfulness: talks by artists and curators25 June, 6.30–8.30pm

At Play: Curatorial notes about playfulness, a presentation by Cally Trench and Outi Remes.

Kirsty E. Smith discusses participation that came as a result of her questionnaire into participation.

Este MacLeod discusses her journey of discovery through playing with disconnected and obsolete objects that once belonged, or had a purpose. Este also explored the stories of three South Africa Olympic athletes who participated in the Olympics between 1948 and 1960.

Family Activity BoxInteractive workshops with artist and educator Gemma Cumming, 23 June, 10.30am–12noon & 2–3.30pm.

Exploring Board Games 9 July, 4.30–7pm, £5 (minimum age 10)

Learn about the social history, design and conventions of board games with artist Cally Trench: try out some old favourites and unfamiliar games, and devise and design a board game of your own.

Crafts At PlaySandy Hill Community Centre, Farnham, 7 June

Artist Jane Tadrist works with lone parents and over 60s community groups to explore the ancient Olympics as a starting point for artwork that will be displayed as part of the At Play exhibition in the gallery. Supported by Farnham Town Council and Opportunities.

Cally Trench, Vegetable Thieves (2010)

Nicola De Cruz

The New Ashgate Gallery is an educational charity that promotes contemporary visual arts and crafts to as wide a public as possible, through a programme of changing exhibitions, projects with artists, makers, and projects of support and development delivered by the trust with local, regional, national and international partnerships and educational events.

New Ashgate GalleryWaggon Yard, Farnham, Surrey, GU9 7PS

gallery@newashgate.org.uk01252 713208

Angels and Patrons Friendship Scheme A Patron receives: invitations to previews of new exhibitions and complimentary drinks with artists and staff; priority invitations to special events and sales.

In addition, an Angel receives: 10% discount on purchases, excluding books, magazines and cards.

Angels and Patrons may also vote in Rising Stars, an annual competition to find the most promising up-and-coming artist with a top prize of an exhibition in the gallery. You can become a Patron for just £25 a year or an Angel for £60 per year.

We are situated on the edge of Waggon Yard, just off Downing Street.

By road: Farnham is 11 miles south-west of Guildford, Surrey, and is clearly signposted from the A3, A31, M3 and A287. There is a pay and display car park in front of the Gallery. The adjacent car park has four dedicated disabled parking spaces.

By rail: The Farnham Station is served by London Waterloo. The Gallery is a five-minute walk from the station.

By bus & coach: Buses run from Farnham to surrounding towns and villages, generally every hour. For enquiries contact Traveline on 0871 2002233 or visit traveline.info

Opening hoursTuesday–Saturday 10am–5pm.

Free admission and groups are welcomeAll exhibition rooms are accessible to wheelchair users. Guide dogs are welcome.

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