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It’s the last day of ‘IDEA, CONCEPT & FIRE’ Enamel, Glass, Pâte-de-verre - as Material Thought

At Makers Guild Wales
Craft in the Bay, Cardiff
The Flourish, Lloyd George Avenue
Cardiff CF10 4QH
@makerswales

Bringing together 13 artists who are exploring the many ways enamel and vitreous materials can be used to create work that engages with personal, political and environmental themes. Curated by @studio_carnac and @beate.gegenwart From delicate surfaces to striking forms, the exhibition explores ideas of transformation, fragility, permanence and risk, showing how heat can shape both the material and the meaning behind the work.

Open everyday until the 25th October 10am-5pm

Craft in the Bay, Cardiff

#kirstenhaydon @lianapattihis @davidrhys.jones @beate.gegenwart @coilin_o_dubhghaill @guymarshallbrown @joshuakerleymaker @janeshort_silver_enameller @annepetters @tracy.nicholls.glass @makerswales @christine_graf_enamel
#contemporycraftmanship #enamel#metalwork @glass

#IdeaConceptAndFire MakersGuildWales Enamel VitreousMaterials ContemporaryCraft

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Have you had a chance to visit the gallery yet? 📣

There’s still time to come and see the Idea, concept & fire exhibition at Makers Guild Wales!✨ On show until 25th October 2026!

Bringing together 13 artists, this exhibition explores the possibilities of enamel and vitreous materials through thought-provoking work inspired by personal, political and environmental themes. Curated by @studio_carnac and @beate.gegenwart, discover pieces that explore transformation, fragility, permanence and risk, bringing together a range of beautiful and unique pieces that are well worth seeing in person.

✨ FREE ADMISSION
🕰 Open daily, 10am–5pm

#IdeaConceptAndFire #enamelartist #decorativeart #craftsinuk

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Stitched in Time, 2026

Vitreous enamel on copper.

This work is about fragility and perhaps futility. I’ve been thinking a lot about working on something over and over to the point where it’s broken. Then trying to repair it, to make it better somehow and yet it still falls apart. And then in the end all you can do is patch it together, try to make it work in some small way. And in that, there seems to be hope’.

On show in Wake This Land, for one more week at Thorns Gallery, curated by @jacquelinereddymoore with artists @nicolatassieceramics @ken_eastman @davidgatesfurniture @_maxbainbridge_

#vitreousenamel #helencarnacenamel #helencarnac

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‘Wake This Land’ | Thorns Gallery | until 18 October

Featuring: Max Bainbridge, Helen Carnac, Ken Eastman, David Gates, Nicola Tassie.

‘Wake this Land’ engages directly with our complex and shifting relationship to place through material, inviting an imaginative and tactile response. Through their divergent perspectives and disciplines, from clay to wood, metal and textiles, the artists’ experimental investigations explore new and evolving notions of the land that surrounds us. Possessing a unique visual language, the works on view reflect the entanglement of nature and the human, with both traces and echoes of land use and lives lived. The exhibition presents narratives of journeys and encounters, rural environments and seasonal change exploring both our collective experience of the natural world, human presence and the artists’ intimate reflections on identity, home and belonging.

For further information about the exhibition, the artists or their works, please contact:
jacquelinemoore07@icloud.com
To visit the gallery by appointment, please contact:
info@thorns.gallery

#wakethisland #thornsgallery #yorkshiredales

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Helen Carnac | Meadownotes
Wake This Land | Thorns Gallery until 18 October.

‘The works in the series Meadownotes capture impressions of organic materials and are printed
using graphite which is applied through pressure. The range of marks and impressions that can be achieved through this process is surprising. Some prints are very graphic, almost photographic and others more abstract. The prints include many wildflowers - yellow rattle; lady’s bed straw; rough hawkbit; common knapweed; self heal; hogweed; sheep’s fescue; smooth stalk meadow grass; cut leafed cranesbill and many more. Also garden plants such as viburnum, salvia amistad, maple keys, aquilegia, clematis, allium, euphorbia and lavender.

When we moved from London to an old farm in rural west Somerset in late 2020 our intention was to try and make a more wildlife friendly environment on the 10 acre plot that we now inhabited. We have planted over 700 native trees and 3 meadows so far and have let the rest of our land and garden take on a more wild aspect. Finding plants that thrive in the climate here seems incredibly important, especially after this long, dry summer. Walking around the fields each day I have
become fascinated by everything growing around us and collect materials to bring back to the studio.
Learning to grow things has also led to my interest with using seeds as a print material, the prints reveal something of their structure, spreading, setting seed and growing qualities. I am very passionate about highlighting the delicate qualities of these plants which many consider to be weeds’. - Helen Carnac

‘Wake This Land’ features Max Bainbridge, Helen Carnac, Ken Eastman, David Gates, Nicola Tassie.

For further information about the exhibition, the artists or their works, please contact:
jacquelinemoore07@icloud.com

To visit the gallery by appointment, please contact:
info@thorns.gallery

#wakethisland #thornsgallery #yorkshiredales

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I’m looking forward to my pop up People Who Own My Ties exhibition/talk/film next Tuesday 22nd Sept from 1.30pm @museumofthehome To book a free ticket follow the link in my bio or from @selvedgemagazine Here are some photos from my tie portraits series. Thank you to all my friends for being fabulous models👌🌟🌟🤩 #selvedgemagazine #ltm2026 #selvedgelondontextilemonth #appliqué

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Lovely opening of Idea, Concept, Fire at Craft in the Bay, Cardiff yesterday.

Enamel, Glass, Pâte-de-verre - as Material Thought

Curated by artists Helen Carnac and Beate Gegenwart

‘The concept for the exhibition grew from a concern about the future of larger scale enamelling in the UK and beyond. Although Heritage Crafts currently classifies the technique as ‘alive, its use among makers is in decline, and opportunities to learn enamelling are diminishing as it disappears from many educational programmes...the exhibition highlights the visual, material, and chemical connections between these practices, revealing shared processes of transformation through heat’

Thanks to all you so much to all the artists involved and the gallery staff and volunteers.

#kirstenhaydon @lianapattihis @davidrhys.jones
@beate.gegenwart @coilin_o_dubhghaill
@guymarshallbrown @joshuakerleymaker @janeshort_silver_enameller @annepetters @tracy.nicholls.glass @makerswales @christine_graf_enamel @jackyolivermetalwork

Exhibition continues until 25th October 2026

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Lovely opening of Idea, Concept, Fire at Craft in the Bay, Cardiff yesterday.

Enamel, Glass, Pâte-de-verre - as Material Thought
Curated by artists Helen Carnac and Beate Gegenwart

‘The concept for the exhibition grew from a concern about the future of larger scale enamelling in the UK and beyond. Although Heritage Crafts currently classifies the technique as ‘alive, its use among makers is in decline, and opportunities to learn enamelling are diminishing as it disappears from many educational programmes...the exhibition highlights the visual, material, and chemical connections between these practices, revealing shared processes of transformation through heat’
Thanks to all you so much to all the artists involved and the gallery staff and volunteers.
#kirstenhaydon @lianapattihis @davidrhys.jones @beate.gegenwart @coilin_o_dubhghaill
@guymarshallbrown @joshuakerleymaker @janeshort_silver_enameller @annepetters @tracy.nicholls.glass @makerswales
@christine_graf_enamel @jackyolivermetalwork
@studio_carnac

Exhibition continues until 25th October 2026

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‘Wake this Land’ | Thorns Gallery
Featuring: Max Bainbridge, Helen Carnac, Ken Eastman, David Gates, Nicola Tassie.
Open until 18 October, by appointment.

Huge thank you to all the artists and to my most generous collaborators, @graemeblack72 and @jonathan_reed_yorkshire

‘Wake this Land’ engages directly with our complex and shifting relationship to place through material, inviting an imaginative and tactile response. Through their divergent perspectives and disciplines, from clay to wood, metal and mixed materials, the artists’ experimental investigations explore new and evolving notions of the land that surrounds us. Possessing a unique visual language, the works on view reflect the entanglement of nature and the human, with both traces and echoes of land use and lives lived. The exhibition presents narratives of journeys and
encounters, rural environments and seasonal change.

#thornsgallery #yorkshiredales #wakethisland

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WAKE THIS LAND
Thorns Gallery
5 September - 18 October
By appointment only

Featuring: Max Bainbridge, Helen Carnac, Ken Eastman, David Gates, Nicola Tassie and curated by Jacqueline Moore

Helen Carnac is an artist, maker and curator who lives and works in Somerset. She gathers source material and visual imagery from the surrounding landscapes and is drawn
to human interventions in the land – agricultural structures and infrastructure, and the folds and textures of worked land. Carnac’s work is grounded in observation, attuned to, and embedded places and topographies. She focuses on the micro detail of surface patination
— rust, corrosion and lichen. Setting up her studio in the early 1990‘s, Carnac develops projects using methodologies that are rooted in an acute awareness of physical location, place and working practices.

#wakethisland #helencarnac #ceramicart #sculpture #exhibition

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Helen Carnac’s work nearing completion for the upcoming exhibition, ‘Wake this Land’, which I’ve curated for Thorns Gallery, Raydale, Yorkshire Dales.
Opening Reception | Saturday 5 September, 11 am - 5 pm.
Continues until 18 October by appointment.
Artists include: Max Bainbridge, Helen Carnac, Ken Eastman, David Gates, Nicola Tassie.

#wakethisland #thornsgallery #Yorkshiredales #helencarnac @thorns.gallery

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