Awash
29th August – 29th September 2024
Studio Eleven Gallery presents Awash.
Awash is a celebration of vibrancy, form and colour. In these times we need the positive effects of soothingly strong colourways as found in these exceptional artworks.
The Artists
Gabriella Buckingham is an established illustrator, having worked for national magazines illustrating everything from broccoli to romantic fiction. For three years, she cut her cloth she worked as an in-house Christmas artist for International Greetings, designing cards and wrapping paper; later becoming the product manager for a rival card company. Gabriella has illustrated many children’s books and created a children’s gift brand called Moobaacluck, which she produced for ten years. Since 2019 she has devoted her time to her fine art painting. Her paintings have been longlisted for the Jackson’s Art Prize and The Ashurst Prize. Other accolades include the Sir John Hurt Prize in Norfolk and exhibiting at the Royal Academy Summer – new work now features in the RA calendar for 2025. The Awash exhibition offers the opportunity to own an original painting forever!
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. A playful exploration of the relationship between form and surface decoration drives the work. Emily creates by building and collaging slabs of textured clay together, inspired by her colourful paper collages and sketchbooks.
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.
About
Studio Eleven is a gallery, studio and workshop space. We offer specialist studio space for ceramicists and a shared workshop for printmaking. Events include artists talks, performances, workshops, hire of the studio space and a rolling programme of exhibitions featuring contemporary ceramics and painting. The gallery at number 12 comprises of a main space for wall-based and plinth mounted work, and six display cases. The workshop space is situated on the first floor which also consists of a large, shared studio space with potters wheels and a large print press.
Studio Eleven was a Hull City of Culture 2017 partner. A strategic partner in developing the bid and the wider promotion of Hull as a Culture City with interventions exhibited in London and beyond by Adele Howitt. During 2017 we delivered a contemporary exhibition programme with events, workshops, and special performances by Hull Time Based Arts.
Since it was established in 2009, Studio Eleven has continually pioneered the cause of Hull’s cultural quarter in the Fruit Market area, particularly Humber Street. The gallery and workshop now resides at no; 12 on Humber Street since March 2017. Eleven is in a prime visitor location, close to Hull Marina, The Deep, Hull Museums and the newly refurbished Ferens Art Gallery. Eleven was the first creative business on Humber Street have recently been joined by the new Humber Street Gallery.
Studio Eleven workshop and gallery was established in 2009 by artists. Founder & Owner, Adele Howitt continues to direct the enterprise, enlisting the support of Clare Holdstock, and a voluntary team of artists and potters who use the studio space .
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