Graham Hay is coming
11/06/07 11:09
Graham
Hay will fly from Australia and join the symposium as
the fifth lecturer.
Graham Hay may attend
06/05/07 16:56
World
renowned Paperclay artist and lecturer,
Graham Hay from Perth,
Australia, may join the group of tutors and
lecturers. Whether or not he will be able to make
it, will be clear around 15th June.
art/works 2007 will take place!
29/04/07 17:22
It is
now official - the symposium will take place this
summer. A grant from Agder Research has made it
possible financially, and we have four
lecturers/tutors in place: Astrid
Heimer (N), Kim Jeoung-Ah (S), Malene Pedersen
(DK) and Leena Juvonen (SF).
Welcome to art/works
18/02/07 16:49
It
started, as it so often does, with an idea - an idea
to arrange a symposium/workshop for Nordic ceramists
and potters.
ArtFactory/Kulturfabrikken started 2006 an arts festival on the premises, "Art Etc." ("Kunst & Sånn") which consists of several buildings and open grounds (see Gallery).
We invited potters, metal workers, painters, graphic artists, textile artists, and so on, to participate in a three days long festival based on the principles of the English arts festival Art in Action.
To quote some of the aims of Art in Action, aims we also make ours: "To present artists and craftspeople actively creating their work so that people can gain real insight into the content, meaning and procedures used, to present high standards of skill and creative design to the public, to show, as widely as possible, the tremendous possibilities that exist in each artistic field, and to support the artist community with a high quality event that will encourage purchases and commissions."
We are arranging the festival again this summer, from the 27th to the 29th July.
This year we wanted something more. We wanted to extend the festival from just Norwegian artists to artists from the whole of Scandinavia. We also wanted to give artists the opportunity to learn something new about materials and techniques, and thus art/works was born.
art/works takes place the four days preceding the festival, and is an independent event aimed solely at potters, sculptors and other ceramists. We aim to show in lectures and in practical work, getting our hands real dirty, new ways in expressing ceramic art.
This year we have chosen paperclay, and have invited several renowned arists in the field to come to Mandal and demonstrate how this mixture of clay and paper or other combustible materials can be used. We have also invited renowned lecturers and scientists who will explain the benefits of paperclay to ordinary clay and also what really happens during the firing of paperclay.
The preparations to the symposium/workshop is still at a very preliminary stage, where we are working hard to get both artists and scientists to come, and to raise money to fund the event.
ArtFactory/Kulturfabrikken started 2006 an arts festival on the premises, "Art Etc." ("Kunst & Sånn") which consists of several buildings and open grounds (see Gallery).
We invited potters, metal workers, painters, graphic artists, textile artists, and so on, to participate in a three days long festival based on the principles of the English arts festival Art in Action.
To quote some of the aims of Art in Action, aims we also make ours: "To present artists and craftspeople actively creating their work so that people can gain real insight into the content, meaning and procedures used, to present high standards of skill and creative design to the public, to show, as widely as possible, the tremendous possibilities that exist in each artistic field, and to support the artist community with a high quality event that will encourage purchases and commissions."
We are arranging the festival again this summer, from the 27th to the 29th July.
This year we wanted something more. We wanted to extend the festival from just Norwegian artists to artists from the whole of Scandinavia. We also wanted to give artists the opportunity to learn something new about materials and techniques, and thus art/works was born.
art/works takes place the four days preceding the festival, and is an independent event aimed solely at potters, sculptors and other ceramists. We aim to show in lectures and in practical work, getting our hands real dirty, new ways in expressing ceramic art.
This year we have chosen paperclay, and have invited several renowned arists in the field to come to Mandal and demonstrate how this mixture of clay and paper or other combustible materials can be used. We have also invited renowned lecturers and scientists who will explain the benefits of paperclay to ordinary clay and also what really happens during the firing of paperclay.
The preparations to the symposium/workshop is still at a very preliminary stage, where we are working hard to get both artists and scientists to come, and to raise money to fund the event.