JANUARY | FEBRUARY 2013 ISSUE 240
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Clockwise from above: Black Vessel, Boulder Shouting III, Gordon Baldwin, 2011 (detail); Wrapper (detail), Jacqueline Poncelet, 2012;
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Lure 13 (detail), Kate MccGwire; Nick Sharratt, painted limewood, Guy Reid. Cover: Avarice (detail), Barnaby Barford
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REGULARS
FEATURES
03 EDITORIAL
Why craft needs promotion not protection
05 FRONT
The Jerwood Makers Open shortlist; Craft Skills Awards launched; The New Craftsmen; Design Days Dubai previewed; Guy Reid; your six-month calendar; Formafantasma at Libby Sellers
25 OPINION
Robin Wood, chair of the Heritage Crafts Association, explains the importance of celebrating a living heritage
26 DESIGN DOCTOR
If you’ve got a problem, Patricia van den Akker will solve it
28 TALENT SPOT:
WORKING ON A KNIFE EDGE Teleri Lloyd-Jones meets Ben Edmonds
53 REVIEWS
Jewellery in London; Julian Stair on Michael Cardew; a history of knitting; Hollywood Fashion; Christie Brown meets Freud; Calligraphy Today; the V&A’s new furniture gallery
63 CRAFTS GUIDE
Comprehensive listing of UK galleries
75 BACK
Why ice gets a bad rap; Best of British: John Jones; Rosy Greenlees; Jim Partridge and Liz Walmsley on the stuff that inspires them; Tanya Harrod on Fixperts
32 ORIGINAL SIN
Barnaby Barford has forsaken the figurines that made him famous and is instead working on a series of mirrors inspired by the seven deadly sins. But, says Grant Gibson, he hasn’t lost satirical his edge
38 GOODBYE TO ALL THAT
The critic, academic and author Glenn Adamson explains why he has decided to bid craft a fond farewell
40 A BIRD IN THE HAND
Artist Kate MccGwire creates her sculptures from feathers. It might sound homespun, yet the results are both spectacular and ever so slightly unsettling. Teleri Lloyd-Jones explains
48 THAT WAS THEN THIS IS NOW
Jacqueline Poncelet’s Wrapper, recently unveiled on London’s Edgware Road, is yet another example of an artist working up in scale, reports Corinne Julius
‘I can make an interesting sculpture out of figurines. I can do it. It has lost its challenge’ BARNABY BARFORD, P.32
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