Showcase Artists at The Art Market at Huddersfield Art Gallery

Here is a selection of the Showcase Artists for this Friday's Art Market at Huddersfield Art Gallery. The Exhibition starts this Friday at 6pm and finishes on January 14th 2012

Alison Deegan
Amy Stubbs
Andrew Greenbank
Annie Peaker
Brendan Hesmondhalgh
Carine Brosse
Carly Petit Taylor
Cath Hill
Cathy Miles
Dave Cooke
David Ashby
David Howey
David Mayne
David Meridith
David Roberts
Dear Emma
Deb Price 
Dionne Swift
Emily Stubbs
Fiona Wilson
Gillian Lee Smith
Helaina Sharpley
Hilary Simms
James Green
James Oughtibridge
Jamie Frost
Jim Bond
Joanne Cooke
Julie Miles
Karen Howarth
Laura Creer
Martin Norman
Matthew Thompson
Mick Kirkby-Geddes
Nicola Cheers
Priscilla Jones
Rachel Boddington
Samantha Bryan
Victoria Ashworth.
Victoria McGarry
Victoria Robinson


Alison Deegan
"I took up painting as a creative outlet after my son was born and then quickly found a real passion for printmaking. Initially I set up a gallery-style website to test whether there was a market for my work but I soon realised I was reaching hardly anybody so started my Folksy shop just under 2 years ago."

Amy Stubbs
"I recently graduated from Falmouth University in Textile Design and have since been to London on placements. One placement was at Liberty working in the Art Fabrics studio in store. The second was in Ealing at Whiston and Wright working in their design studio where I designed 6 dress patterns that ended up going to Paris Fashion Week 2011.
In the future I hope to exhibit my work at more art markets, exhibitions and also gallery work. I also work to commission."

Andrew Greenbank
The marine environment has always been a very important part of my life, establishing happy memories. So it is no surprise sea life in its many diverse forms has become a dominating part of my portfolio.
Having done ceramic sculpture for more than a decade, I now mostly sculpt Humpback whales, Sperm Whales, Hermit Crabs, Penguins, Walrus, Angler Fish, Octopi, Tea Bowls and the unique Coral Pods.
From Hermit Crabs to Humpback Whales, texture and patterns play an integral part in my sculpture, both in the ceramic element and the other media’s often incorporated into my sculptures.
The Coral Pods Series came to fruition with my ceramic interpretation of an artwork by the Turner Prize winner Martin Creed, “Work No 126” ball of A4 paper. In a problematical process with individual paper moulds, I slip cast porcelain to produce the Coral Pods.

Tea Bowls portray the organic feel of the igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic coastal cliffs found around Great Britain.

Annie Peaker
My work seeks to capture the essence of human and animal behaviour and is a response to my fascination with the power of body language and movement.
Each piece of work is a unique composition with striking features and fluid lines. Surface texture plays an important part and l enjoy exploring the huge potential of the clay and the firing process to deliver new finishes.

Brendan Hesmondhalgh
Brendan Hesmondhalgh is co founder of The Art Market and has worked very hard curating this first Art Market Showcase.
Brendan Hesmondhalgh has always been inspired by the different form, movement and characteristics of nature. Large life-like sculptures, encapsulating real essence of his subjects as he sees through his own personal experiences. He work has been seen all over the world, including Sotheby's and at The Chelsea Flower Show.

Carine Brosse
Carine's work is about storytelling. Her inspiration comes from the bizarre and gruesome tales of the Grimm Brothers, Perrault, Herrault, Heinrich Hoffman and Hilaire Belloc. The work is very theatrical and playful to reference childhood. Carine is interested in explaining fairy tales as a symbolic language which across centuries speaks about family and morality, gender and the relationship between the sexes, violence, emancipation, growing up and growing old.

Carly Petit Taylor
"I find inspiration from everyday observations that other people often pass by, moss on the garden wall, UHT milk pots, and fungi growing on cheese. I am obsessed with multiples, and I am very much inspired by colour, flora and fauna, science and its order and structures. I always look for new materials, and different ways to manipulate them. My work is tactile and I encourage the wearer to change and manipulate the pieces, once handed over is out of my control. I like that the work keeps evolving without me"

Cath Hill
Inspired by landscapes and seascapes, natural objects and ancient jewellery, my work is about communicating my response to the world around me. I also want to evoke a sense of ancestry in something contemporary and wearable.
Alongside making I take photographs of all kinds of things that catch my eye... shapes, textures, patterns, elements of which often present themselves within my jewellery. No two pieces are ever exactly the same.
I work instinctively using basic techniques and processes and the versatile effects of the flame.

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