Tag: Basketry

Surface Matters 2019-2020

Nov 30, 2019

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Liz Cooper London

in Curation, Design & Crafts Council Ireland, National Design & Craft Gallery Kilkenny, Projects for Galleries and Event Organisers, Touring Exhibitions

Every second year The Design & Crafts Council of Ireland (DCCI) invite Irish-based and Irish-born makers now abroad to apply for their online Portfolio. Selection is made by an international panel of experts, one of whom will also go on to curate a touring exhibition of the best of these, known as the Critical Selection.…
Beauty is the First Test – Touring Exhibition 2012-2014

Oct 2, 2012

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Liz Cooper London

in 2012 – 2014 Beauty is the First Test, Curation, Exhibitions and Public Programmes, Touring Exhibitions

This exhibition explores how knowledge of either contemporary craft practice or mathematics may increase appreciation of both. The title is from a 1940 essay by accomplished mathematician G H Hardy who declared: ‘The mathematician’s patterns, like the painter’s or the poet’s, must be beautiful, the ideas, like the colours or the words, must fit together…