Rebecca Wilson Ceramics

Bye Bye!

2010-12-01T19:06:00.005Z

This will be my last blog post here, but don't be sad; my rambles will continue on my shiny new website - http://www.rebeccawilsonceramics.com/. The site now has an integrated blog and Iwill continue to tell you what I am up to and show you thing I like there.

Laters!

Light Spill; Order Now!

2010-11-16T16:34:00.012Z

I have one of each of the three finishes pictured (Strawberrys, Orchard Fruits, and Pearlescent Lustre) in stock and ready to go, so get one before they're gone! The Price is £260 including postage and packaging within the UK. (Please contact me for prices for shipping abroad). To place your order simply reply to this email stating which light you would like; either 'Strawberrys', 'Orchard Fruits', or 'Pearlescent'; and I will send you a Paypal invoice which will allow you to pay quickly and securely online by credit or debit card, even if you don't have a Paypal account. Or if you prefer you can request to pay by personal cheque and I will give you details of where to send the payment. All goods will be sent within one week of payments clearing.

Orchard Fruits;

Slip cast porcelain

Glazed interior with Strawberry enamel decals

Retro brass bayonet light fitting and silk braided flex in 'brass'.

Strawberries;
Slip cast porcelain

Glazed interior with Strawberry enamel decals

Retro brass bayonet light fitting and silk braided flex in 'brass'.

Pearlescent;
Slip cast porcelain

Glazed interior with Strawberry enamel decals

Retro brass bayonet light fitting and silk braided flex in 'brass'.

Peachy Keen

2010-11-13T18:56:00.005Z

These little ladies are from the Peachy Keen range, part of the Eat Me; Keep Me series. The Eat Me; Keep Me series focuses on the notion of self indulgence. In exploring the parallels between ‘valuable’ and ‘everyday’ I have drawn a symmetry of opposites between porcelain and confectionary items; both are similarly self indulgent, inspire desire and are coveted, but both are fundamentally frivolous. Advertising campaigns play to our vanity and suggestibility, and in the competition to see which brand can be the sexiest we don’t know any more whether we should be eating the chocolate pudding or pouring it all over ourselves! We are clearly enticed by the notion of food as a luxury, an indulgence, something a little bit naughty. And why not?

Light Spill

2010-10-24T17:27:00.002+01:00

Just another teaser for those of you waiting for the launch of Light Spill. This and three other colourways will be available to buy very soon, hopefully by the end of the week. The very talented Colin Usher is re-vamping my website so that these and several other products will be available to purchase directly online. In the meantime I'm taking orders by email on postmaster@rebeccawilsonceramics.com.

Light Spill
Porcelain with enamel decals
£250 + P&P

UKYA01 Derby, Pickfords House

2010-10-20T21:24:00.003+01:00

A lucky few of the tarts and floozies are settling into their new home for the next two months. Pickford's House is museum of Georgian life and houses period objects from Derby City's collection in their original context.
Today I have been nestling my naughty creations in the nooks and crannies between the austere crockery and fancy figurines. Let's hope they don't lead them too far astray!

"Eat Me; Keep Me" is at Pickford's House, 41 Friargate, Derby, until Fri 17th December 2010. Admission to the museum is free.

Light Spill Update!

2010-10-04T09:26:00.002+01:00

For all those who have shown an interest in 'Light Spill';
I am now back from Origin and back in the studio. This week I will be producing a new batch of lights which will be used to illustrate the variety of colourways/patterns available on my website. The online shop is still a way off, but you can email me to reserve one of the batch currently in production. The first 5 (yes only five!) will be ready for shipping at the end of next week, after which I will be taking orders by email with a four week lead time as lights will be made to order. You can buy them 'off the shelf' for £250 + p&p, but for a small additional cost I can create bespoke designs to your requests. Email me for more information, and keep an eye on http://www.rebeccawilsonceramics.com/ to see the new designs!

By popular demand ... Let there be light!

2010-09-28T16:56:00.004+01:00

So many people have been asking me this week at Origin about my new 'Light Spill' wall lamps that I thought I should put some images and info up about them. I'll be having them photographed professionaly and posting them on the main site on my return to Edinburgh from Origin and I'm aiming to add a shop to my website so I can sell these directly to you online! You can see the strawberry and the pearlescent versions above, but these can be customised to order with a wide range of patterns and surface finishes, and the retro silk braided flex comes in eight different colours to correspond. Feel free to email me at postmaster@rebeccawilsonceramics.com with any enquiries and to be notified when they are available to order online.

Origin

2010-09-27T13:11:00.001+01:00

Just a few snaps of my setup here at Origin. I'm here at Spittalfields Market until this Wednesday, 29th September, along with 200 other top notch craft makers. Come on down and have a look!

Julia Douglas, Close Knit

2010-08-18T08:54:00.002+01:00

Timespan Museum and Arts Centre

Helmsdale

Sutherland

21st August - 10th October 2010

My good buddy and sometimes collaborator Julia Douglas has been in residence in the far north of Scotland at Timespan. Shes been exploring the history of the area and the resulting exhibition opens on 20th August. It's a long way North but a beautiful part of the world so if your in the vague vicinity make a special trip to see it!

And if you really can't make it you can follow her progress on the Timespan Blog here; http://www.timespanartistflat.blogspot.com/.

Another Legendary Coburg House Open Studios!

2010-07-08T11:08:00.005+01:00

6th - 8th August, 11am - 6pm

Coburg house

15 Coburg Street

Leith

EH6 6ET

Roll up for another legendary Coburg House Open Studios event from Friday 6th to Sunday 8th August 2010, 11am – 6pm each day. With the studios having recently grown to encompass even more artists and an in-house gallery, this year’s event is the largest and most exciting one yet.
The studios are home to a combination of award winning local and international professionals in both fine and applied arts. This amazing hub of creativity houses upwards of seventy artists producing outstanding original work.

2010-07-06T09:41:00.004+01:00

Life Is Sweet
From 18th July
The Harley Gallery
Welbeck
Nr Worksop
Nottinghamshire

I have just sent a collection down to the Harley Gallery on the Wellbeck Estate in Worksop, Nottinghamshire to compliment the work of their artist in residence, Jane Wildgoose. Jane has created an installation of sugar flowers that explore the complicated 18th century conventions for serving dessert. Inspired by the 155-piece dessert service commissioned by Margaret Duchess of Portland, and a set of Chinese watercolours from the Collection that depict porcelain production, Jane reveals the curious story of how the discovery of the secret of porcelain manufacture in the West led to replacement of the intricate sugarwork on the dessert table by fine chinaware.

Bite Me!

2010-05-04T23:30:00.002+01:00

So tomorrow is D-Day, I have to deliver all my new work to the ladies at CraftScotland who will be taking it down to the Saatchi Gallery for Collect 2010. It's been quite a rush over the past few days, mostly because I came across some great 1950's calander girl pinups online and had to remake most of the pieces I had already made to incorporate these buxsome beauties! But I managed to squeeze in a quick photo session today to document the new work before it goes off on it's journey down south.
'Bite Me' Platter, 45cm x 30cm, £550

I Don't Give a Frock!

2010-04-18T15:17:00.004+01:00

A handful of new works from the new range currently under development. Still a few creases to iron out but the pressure's on now with both Collect and Flourishing Fantasies only a couple of weeks away!

craftscotland at Collect 2010

2010-04-15T10:54:00.000+01:00

Tartlets on Tour!

2010-03-14T10:32:00.004Z

'Blunede Fantasien/Flourishing Fantasies'

12th May - 16th July

craft2eu - Agency for European Craft and Design

Eppendorfer Weg 231

20251 Hamburg

Germany

www.craft2eu.com

I'm delighted that the Eat Me Keep me range is about to have it's first European adventure. From 12th May - 16th July the 'Tartlets and Floozies' and some of their friends will be taking a trip to Hamburg for an exhibition wich will explore the metamorphisis of the everyday entitled 'Blunede Fantasien/Flourishing Fantasies'.

Collect 2010

2010-01-13T16:25:00.004Z

Craft Scotland have once again selected my work to show in Collect 2010 at the Saatchi Gallery in May.

Relaunched at the Saatchi Gallery in May 2009, COLLECT has an enviable reputation as a premier, annual fair for contemporary craft. Through its presentation of work from the best international applied artists, COLLECT has become a prestigious event in the international cultural calendar gaining the respect and support of many private collectors, museum curators and galleries.

From 14 – 17 May 2010, Collect will occupy all three floors of the Saatchi Gallery (http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/).

The other artists represented by CraftScotland at Collect 2010 are;

Stacey Bentley - http://www.craftscotland.org/makers_search_results_by_ID.html.MakerID-1196.html
Leah Black - http://www.craftscotland.org/makers_search_results_by_ID.html.MakerID-1438.html
Jilli Blackwood - http://www.craftscotland.org/makers_search_results_by_ID.html.MakerID-228.html
Libby Day - http://www.craftscotland.org/makers_search_results_by_ID.html.MakerID-1218.html
Pauline Edie - http://www.craftscotland.org/makers_search_results_by_ID.html.MakerID-1442.html
Lorna Fraser - http://www.craftscotland.org/makers_search_results_by_ID.html.MakerID-659.html
Elin Isaksson - http://www.craftscotland.org/makers_search_results_by_ID.html.MakerID-422.html
Rebecca Wilson - http://www.craftscotland.org/makers_search_results_by_ID.html.MakerID-640.html
Misun Won - http://www.craftscotland.org/makers_search_results_by_ID.html.MakerID-1499.html

HOTPOT: Art, Food & People

2009-12-12T15:59:00.002Z

Ceramics by Rebecca Wilson at HOTPOT [art, food + people]
St Andrews Museum 23rd January 2010- 7th March 2010.

Have you recovered from the seasonal festivities? Then you should be ready to indulge yourself again in the calorie free ‘HOTPOT [art, food + people]’. Fife Contemporary Art & Craft in collaboration with SAC funded trainee curator Tonia Lu brings together a group of artists who present work which is inspired by the emotional relationship between food and people. Artists Ruth Archibald-Swaans, Gayle Chong Kwan, Alex Frost, Alex Wilde and Rebecca Wilson take part.

Ceramics by Rebecca Wilson explore the indulgent, frivolous even naughty nature of food cravings. The Eat Me; Keep Me series focuses on the notion of self indulgence. Titles of some works are borrowed from popular marketing slogans which are telling of the current attitude towards what we buy and eat. In today’s recession the supermarkets put the cross sections of the market firmly in their places with ‘best’ and ‘value’ ranges. Advertising campaigns play to our vanity and suggestibility, and in the competition to see which brand can be the sexiest we don’t know any more whether we should be eating the chocolate pudding or pouring it all over ourselves! We are clearly enticed by the notion of food as a luxury, an indulgence, something a little bit naughty, and equally so by Rebecca’s deliciously naughty ceramics.

http://www.axisweb.org/sneakpreview
http://www.fcac.co.uk/
Fife Contemporary Art and Craft
Town Hall
Queen's Gardens
St Andrews
Fife,
KY16 9TA
tel +44 (0) 1334-474610

Times Online - Artists Make Light of Domestic Routine

2009-11-08T21:47:00.004Z

The C-Word: Craft Scotland is celebrating its artisans. This week it’s Julia Douglas, Clare Waddle and Rebecca Wilson; aka A Wee Bit of Light Relief.

Read the article from this weeks Sunday Times at;
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/architecture_and_design/article6907756.ece

New Work for The Affordable Art Fair

2009-10-11T18:01:00.005+01:00

I've just finished a new round of works for the Affordable Art Fair (22nd - 25th October, Battersea Park). Here is a sneak preview for you of some of the new range of Tarts and Floozies. Enjoy! (Click the images to enlarge).

For those of you who won't make it to London, this body of work will be making it's way to Newcastle at The Biscuit Factory following the AAF.

Light Relief and The C Word

2009-10-06T13:40:00.004+01:00

Things are really starting to happen for 'A Wee Bit of Light Relief'. We were really well recieved at Homes and Interiors Scotland at the SECC, and have a few commissions in the pipeline from that. The large chandelier is also featured in Craft Scotlands C Word campaign which will screen on STV and in Scottish Cinemas in conjunction with Pearl and Dean.

So with everything being on the up we thought it was about time Light Relief deserved it's own blogspot, so here it is; http://aweebitoflightrelief.blogspot.com/. We'll keep you up to date with developments as they happen here. Watch this space for new works coming soon. Don't want to spoil any surprises but there is wallpaper in the pipeline among other things...

The Affordable Art Fair

2009-09-30T19:55:00.003+01:00

Thursday 22nd - Sunday 25th October 2009

Battersea Park, London

The Affordable Art Fair (AAF) is the place to discover and buy paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography and original prints – all priced between £50 and £3,000.
With 120 carefully selected galleries from across the UK and Europe exhibiting there is contemporary art on show to suit every taste and budget.

The Biscuit Factory are making the trip from Newcastle and are taking some of my new tasty treats from the Eat Me; Keep Me series with them.

Zelli Porcelain Prize Shortlist

2009-09-29T10:21:00.002+01:00

I've just heard that 'Many Hands Make Light Work' has been shortlisted for the prestigious Zelli Porcelain Prize. The competition will be judged on 22nd October by the legendary Sister Wendy Beckett, Dr.Jeffrey Jones and Igor Klimenkoff. The shortlisted works are on show at the gallery until the end of November.

Zelli Porcelain

55/57 Chiltern Street

London

W1U 6ND

020 7224 2114

Fight to save the Park Gallery!

2009-09-29T10:19:00.000+01:00

The Park Gallery, Falkirk's future is in doubt after a decision to relocate to Callendar House was approved in principle by councilors. I have an exhibition planned for there with Clare Waddle and Julia Douglas at the end of August, so am particularly worried about this!

Read more about it here:http://www.falkirkherald.co.uk/news/Fight-launched-to-save-Park.5674996.jp

Please help to save its current location by signing this partition:http://www.thepetitionsite.com/petition/218037971Thanks

A Tiny Wee Bit of Light Relief

2009-08-31T21:08:00.002+01:00

Here is the newest addition to the Light Relief family - 'A Tiny Wee Bit of Light Relief'. It was launched this weekend at Homes & Interiors and went down really quite well. We're really pleased with how the smaller scale pieces are working out - they're really very cute!

Homes and Interiors Exhibition

2009-08-27T09:22:00.003+01:00

We're off to the SECC today to install our range of chandeliers 'A Wee Bit of Light Relief' on the CraftScotland stand at the Homes and Interiors Scotland exhibition. The shows open Friday Saturday Sunday this week. This will be the first showcase of our new range of smaller lights to compliment the original design and make the product more accessible to more people. I'll post some pics of the new range in situe a bit later...

New Exhibition at the Morningside Gallery

2009-07-27T21:07:00.002+01:00

There is now a selection of my work on show at the Morningside Gallery in Edinburgh: http://www.morningsidegallery.co.uk/

Eat Me; Keep Me (Cherry Liquors) £495

Coburg House Open Studios Weekend

2009-07-13T18:14:00.001+01:00

2009-06-29T21:05:00.002+01:00

I've just come back from a holiday to the best news - TheScottish Arts Council have awarded me a professional development grant of over £9000 for research and development of new work for my collaborative exhibition at the Lighthouse in February 2010. And on that note ... things are developing nicely - Clare and Julia are getting quite expert at working in clay, while Clare has been teaching me how to cast paper forms and Julia is going to teach me to knit. More piccies of the work in progress coming soon...

Collect and Style Magazine

2009-05-10T11:52:00.005+01:00

Collect is not far away now. May 15th to 17th at the Saatchi Gallery. There is a snippet of whats on offer in The Sunday Times Style Magazine today which features an image of one of my works. They reckon Craft is the new Fine Art in terms of ethical buying and invesment in the art market. Lets hope they're right!

Image, Eat Me;Keep Me, £575.

Haptics

2009-05-09T18:43:00.003+01:00

Anne Marie Shilito is doing research at ECA's department of design and applied arts into a user centred haptic computing system for applied artists. This involves using a 3D haptics drawing machine, which is like a computer mouse that moves in three dimensions instead of two to allow you to draw forms in real space. The main application for this is to have the forms produced in a rapid prototyping machine as in the images above. The big difference in Ann Marie's work is that the software interface will be developed with makers and craftspeople in mind, to make it accesible to those who are not skilled in the ways of CAD. And thats where I come in. I'm going to be a guinnea pig for Ann Marie and her team to work on real live projects carried out as case studies so they can get direct feedback for development. Check it out here: http://www.anarkik3d.co.uk/, http://www.anarkikangels.co.uk/, www2.eca.ac.uk/tacitus.

Coburg House Gallery grand unveiling

2009-05-07T16:21:00.006+01:00

Coburg House has been home to a multitude of artists for many years now, but has recently undergone an expansion and redevelopment. As well as studio accomodation for around 25 additional artists (bringing the total numberof residents to over 60!) there is a stunning new gallery space. This Saturday, 9th May at 11am the gallery will be opened with a show of works by ALL of the artists and makers at Coburg. This includes, jewellery, ceramics, painting, mosaic, silversmithing, sculpture, product design and much more. See http://www.coburghousestudios.blogspot.com/ for more info.

Lighthouse 2010 with Julia Douglas and ClareWaddle

2009-04-12T21:02:00.004+01:00

I'm working towards a three man exhibition with fellow artists Julia Douglas and Clare Waddle which will preview at The Lighthouse in Glasgow in February 2010. Light Relief is the first of several collaborative works for the show - a chandelier of domestic objects cast in low relief in Bone China. The images shown are of A Wee Bit of Light Relief - the first attempt for us at making this piece, and also working together as a trio. Thankfully it was a great success on all fronts - it was well recieved at the VAS Annual Exhibition 2009 at the City Art Centre, and we're all still friends, so we have subsequently set to work on the second incarnation of Light Relief. Spanning 1m 20 accross it will be four times as big as the original, and will dominate the void above the main entrance of the Lighthouse Gallery.

Collect 2009 at the Saatchi Gallery

2009-04-12T18:11:00.008+01:00

Craftscotland will present work by eleven Scottish artists at Collect: the International Art Fair for Contemporary Artists, and I'll be amongst them. Its at the Saatchi Gallery, Duke of York HQ building on King's Road, Chelsea in London from 15 to 17 May 2009. Tickets are £10 in advance from the Crafts Council website, or £15 on the door. http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/collect/visiting/

Image: Please Don't Eat Me; Keep Me

2009-04-12T17:56:00.003+01:00

Welcome to my new Blog! Visit the website (http://www.rebeccawilsonceramics.com/) for images and more info.