British craft show
Collect returns 11-14 May, when 31 galleries from 11 countries will take over London's Saatchi Gallery. This year will also see ten large-scale installations, commissioned specially for the show, as well as a preview of the Crafts Council's next touring exhibition, Raw Craft. WGSN-homebuildlife profiles some of the exhibitors to look out for.
Amsterdam-based ceramicist
Wouter Dam creates sculpted abstract compositions out of clay, and uses colour to great effect - often with a chalky midtone finish.
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| Propagation Project: Cactus (2011) by Junko Mori at Clare Beckat at Adrian Sassoon |
Renowned artist and maker
Junko Mori takes steel-forging out of its traditionally masculine territory and reinterprets the process with her distinctive use of form. Sculptures which are at once prickly, protective and cocooning are her signature.
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| Vessel W51 (2011) by Friedemann Buehler at Sarah Mysercough Fine Art |
Friedemann Buehler's bleached ashwood vessels both expose and celebrate the grain and flaws inherent to natural wood.
Proving once again that jewellery is a rich source of colour, form and material inspiration to the design industry,
Katy Hackney's assemblage brooches combine primary brights, geometric forms and a marked white base - a combination that would look equally effective applied to furniture, accessories or lighting.
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| Lynx lynx (2011) by Benedikt Fischer at Galerie Rob Koudijs |
Showing at
Galerie Rob Koudijs, Benedikt Fischer's plastic sculptures are notable for their combination of fluid, organic forms with artificial material and etched surface finishing.
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| Reflection Bowl (2011) by Adi Toch at Contemporary Applied Arts; photo by Simon B Armitt |
Designer
Adi Toch uses traditional silversmithing techniques to create curious pieces which raise questions about their function. Her work invites the observer to touch and explore her work; for Reflection Bowl, silver plated gilding metal has been allowed to develop a rich, natural patina.
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| Leuchtfüßig candlestick (2011) by Juliane Schölß at Galerie Rosemarie Jäger; photo by Eva Jünger |
Juliane Schölß was one of our exhibitor highlights from Collect 2011, and this year returns at
Galerie Rosemarie Jäger with a new collection of beguiling domestic objects that do not, at first glance, reveal their purpose.
Also sure to catch your eye are Antonino Spoto's contrast-colour bowls (above), matt-black, asymmetric slab-built porcelain by
Sara Flynn, and Kyoko Kumai's stainless steel filament sculptures (both below).
Subscribers can also read our reports from
Collect 2011 and its autumn sister show,
Origin.
