(with colour)
29th August 2024 – 29th September 2024
Gabriella Buckingham has always lived in the East of England in Essex, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, and Surrey, in that order! For the last 20 years near Cromer in North Norfolk with her husband, photographer Tony Buckingham and two children. She lives ten minutes from the sea and commutes to work across her untamed garden. After completing a BA(Hons) in Graphic Design at Kingston Polytechnic, as it was then, Gabriella worked for national magazines illustrating everything from broccoli to romantic fiction. For three years she worked as an in-house Christmas artist for International Greetings designing cards and wrapping paper, and subsequently became a product manager for another card company for two years before returning to freelancing. She has illustrated many children’s books and created a children’s gift brand called Moobaacluck which she ran for ten years.
Emily Stubbs is a contemporary British ceramicist based in York, North Yorkshire. A founding member of PICA Studios, an artist led studio collective of 23 artists, makers, writers and thinkers set within an 18th century printworks in the centre of historic York, Emily exhibits her contemporary ceramics in exhibitions, events and galleries around the UK. Expanding on collaged two dimensional works, the three dimensional vessel is deconstructed and rebuilt, adding exaggerated overhangs and angles, literally collaging the clay slabs back together to create fragmented vessels. Each vessel focuses on a colour, with intuitive brush stroked and mark making leading the eye around each piece.
Adele Howitt is a designer and ceramicist with a portfolio of architectural and public realm art. Her studio ceramics explore the wider concept of the living landscape; research into the genus of plants to reveal their pollen grains combined with sketches of meadows to distil the movement of nature, are developed into three-dimensional form. Adele’s methods of construction include slab work, throwing, hand-building, sprig and press moulds combined to create intricate sculptures. She explores and develops a restricted palette of glazes and applies these to red, black, or buff clay, to create a range of soft, matt hues. Since 2009, Adele has directed the Studio Eleven Gallery & Workshop, which she set up to provide a much-needed platform & fully furnished workspace for contemporary craft in the East Riding of Yorkshire.