News
'Diamond Plated'
'From Table to Wall' Flow Gallery May 2nd-July 7th 2012
"Amy is both an illustrator and a ceramicist, her white plates serve as a backdrop to humorous and stylised drawings of stamps, thrones, carriages and Buckingham Palace, creating a warm-hearted story of celebration. Her illustrations always bring a smile to viewers’ faces, a beautiful way to commemorate the Queen’s Jubilee with a difference."
Guts for Garters
This month I am excited to be working with the Guts for Garters team in their collaborative show with Fox and Squirrel "Sex & Death". The show will explore the historically recurring relationships between the two universal concepts. I will be showing seven vases from several series of recent and past works, May 15th- June 5th 2012.
Private View 6-8pm May 15th, 20 Earlham Street, Seven Dials, WC2H 9LG rsvp sexanddeath@20earlhamstreet.co.uk
A Potter's Day
Find me in the latest issue of Ceramic Review magazine May/June issue in their feauture "A Potter's Day"
Guts for Garters!
I'm excited to be working with the Guts for Garters team on their next exhibition at a new Central London location, show details coming soon...
From the Table to the Wall
I've been busy making new artwork this week for a series of Jubilee inspired wall plates for the upcoming show at Flow Gallery "From Table to Wall" 2nd May- 7th July. Heres a sneaky peak...
AJH stocked in new Wolf & Badger concept store.
The Shop is the new Wolf & Badger flagship boutique on Dover Street in Mayfair, W1. "Explore the latest fashion trends from independent designers, browse unique jewellery and discover quirky homeware."
I'm excited to say that my tableware "A Wash with Couluer" and Nouveau Bleu wall platters will be available there. Opening April 2012.
Upcoming Pop-up show with flow gallery...
Hothouse 2012
I am delighted to have been asked to take part in Hothouse 2012 as a "buddy" with Nottingham based ceramicist Anna Hunt.
Hothouse is a unique programme of support from the Crafts Council for emerging makers, the buddy programme has been developed as a new framework of peer support. The Crafts Council and its partners match the participants with a relevant peer "buddy" from the sector to share experiences of when you were very first starting out and setting up a practice and offer support and advice. I am very much looking forward to working with Anna over the coming months.
Manifold feature in Crafts Magazine
Nine Lives, a lovely feature on our studio, by Teleri Lloyd-Jones in the January 2012 issue of Crafts magazine.
Egg-citing News!
I have been selected to go through to the public vote for the Wolf & Badger Big Egg Hunt Design Competition which will take place in London over Easter 2012! Over 200, 2" ft high eggs will be displayed in high profile areas around London, making it the largest interactive public art display to take place in the city.
To vote for my idea, click like on their facebook page
"Citizen artists and designers take a good hard look at our socio-economic reality"
I'm delighted to announce that I have been short listed for the Constance Fairness Foundation Prize, final judging and award ceremony will take place on Wednesday 14th December - fingers crossed!
The exhibition can be viewed by friends and the public on:
Thursday 15 December and Friday 16 December 2011
Opening hours from 12.00 - 17.00
Royal College of Art
Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
Kensington Gore
London SW7 2EU
We are one!
Please join us and celebrate our first Birthday on the evening of Thursday 1st December.
Great music, drinks and canapes from 6-9pm
Arch 33, Ermine Mews,
Laburnum Street,
London, E2 8BF
RSVP to mail@studiomanifold.org
CultureLabel
Find my new tableware range "A Wash with Couleur" now available online with Culture Label...
Check out our brand spanking new website!
Montpellier Exhibition
I am very excited to have been invited to exhibit at Musee Fabre in Montpellier next year in an exhibiton running alongside the Internation Festival of Clay and Glass. More details to follow...
New work at Designer's Guild
I'm delighted to announce that the Designers Guild, Kings Road store now has in stock my porcelain platters from my Nouveau Bleu series & pieces from my new "A Wash with Couleur Tableware" range, go have a look!
British Ceramics Biennial 2011
"Stick Up"
As part of the BCB, Manifold will be collaborating with studio artists from Stoke-on-Trent's AirSpace Gallery to make body of works within a restricted time period. Studio and Gallery Artists will pair off intending to instigate an element of risk for both the artists and curators, both sets being removed from their comfort zones, using different methods and mediums, working towards a challenging resolution.
The focus of the project is the exchange between two types of working methods, skill sets and knowledge. The outcome of these investigations is unpredictable and will develop organically over an intensive three-day period leading up to the opening of the exhibition, which explores a newfound relationship between Ceramics and Contemporary Art.
I am excited to be working with AirSpace Artist and RedNile Project founding member Janine Goldsworthy, watch this space for images of what we get upto or even better come and see us! 30 September-13 November.
FRESH
Also as part of the BCB, FRESH for 2011 presents the vitality and creative curiosity of those currently working with ceramics at secondary, HE and post-graduate research levels across the UK in 2010 and 2011. I will be exhibiting "Grus" from my Swedish Residency Collection and Winged Porcelain Vessel at the former Spode Factory, Stoke-on-Trent, 30th September - 13th November 2011.
Pop-Up Garden Installation
As part of the London Design Festival at the V&A last week I enjoyed assisting in a free workshop led by ceramicist Rosa Nguyen. Participants of all ages were encouraged through various technique to make their own unique clay flowers and vessels and add it to our garden installation taking shape over the two days. We had a fantastic garden at the end of it, a lot of fun was had by all! Thanks to those who were able to come along.
New Tableware and porcelain platters for Wolf & Badger Online.
I am very excited that my new tableware range "A Wash with Couleur"is now available online with Notting Hill fashion and lifestyle boutique Wolf and Badger; Handpainted dinner and side plates available in 4 colours..."Elegant and stylish, it will add a touch of class to your dinner table".
Images belong to Wolf & Badger
British Ceramics Biennial 2011.
I am very pleased to announce that I have been selected as one of the 40 FRESH exhibitors as part of the British Ceramics Biennial 2011. There will be an exhibition taking place at the former Spode factory site, Stoke on Trent, 30th September- 13th November. More details to follow..
"Talking in Clay"
Next month I will exhibiting at "Talking in Clay", Hereford Courtyard Arts Centre, 11th August- 18th September. Guest curated by ceramicist Jo Davies, Talking in Clay is an exhibition of artworks in clay by international, national and Herefordshire artists, from the abstract to the figurative, functional to installation, the show will reflect the activity in the contemporary ceramics world and the creative breadth that clay can cover.
I will also be running a workshop on decoration on Saturday 10th September as part of Hereford Art Week, tickets cost �15, book your space now.
New Tableware "A Wash with Couleur" for Wolf & Badger Online
This month Wolf & Badger will be showcasing my new tableware pieces "A Wash with Couleur" and some new thumb pressed platter designs, coming soon to their online shop watch this space....
Objets d'arts for HoH Launch
Specially commissioned for The House Of Hackney Dalston Rose Collection my new vase series has just been launched "handmade urns to die for with gold lustres hinting at the decadent and the extraordinary." Have a look....
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Images belong to House of Hackney
L'air du temps perdu
Journalist and freelance writer Cynthia Rose writes an article about me and my work for new website Franglaise "Tales of Two Cities"..
Blue
Next month I will be showing new work from my Nouveau Bleu Series, both large and small hand pressed platters and new Sketch Vases at flow gallery in their blue show, first showcased at Collect.
The colour blue has had a great importance throughout craft history, with particular significance to the textile and ceramic disciplines. The Blue show explores the different ways current artists use the colour blue within their practice. The use of the traditional blue and white, gives the works particular points of reference, the recognition of its roots and heritage in Europe as well as in the Far East. Other artists include, Paul Scott, Fiona Rutherford and Kaori Tatebayashi.
15th June- 3rd September
Private View-Wednesday 15th June 6-8pm
1-5Needham Road,
London, W11 2RP
flow at Collect
Saatchi gallery
6 May - 9 May 2011
flow will be exhibiting a sample of artists at Collect from the forthcoming 'Blue' show (15 June - 3 September.) The colour blue has had a great importance throughout craft history, with particular significance to the textile and ceramic disciplines. The Blue show explores the different ways current artists use the colour blue within their practice. The use of the traditional blue and white, gives the works particular points of reference, the recognition of its roots and heritage in Europe as well as in the Far East. I will be showing new work from my Nouveau Bleu Series, both large and small hand pressed platters and new Sketch Vases.
Please visit the stand, 1. 15 on the first floor.
www.flowgallery.co.uk
Pieces on display at The Designers Guild
Pieces from my New Vessel Series can be seen on display at The Designers Guild, Kings Road, London.
Studying in Stockholm
At present I am away studying in Stockholm... For several years the Anglo-Swedish Society have funded an exchange programme with the RCA for students from Ceramics & Glass to go and study at Konstfack, Sweden's largest art & design college. Last year I was pleased to be selected for the award, an educational exchange to experience making work in a different cultural environment for 12 weeks, I really looking forward to producing an exciting new body of work while I'm here- watch this space! "Fika" anyone?!
New Work 2011
I am very pleased to announce that I have some new works now on display.. New Vessel Series can be seen at the Designers Guild, Kings Road, London.
Also "Winged Vessel Series" is now being shown at the Marsden Woo Gallery, Great Sutton Street, London. Images are now in collections pages!
New additions to the Violet Majesteux Series are now on display at Mint, North Terrace, London.
I have also been working on an exciting new venture for the House of Hackney label launching at the end of Febraury...
Described as "Colefax and Fowler on acid" the House of Hackney label overhauls the concepts of traditional home wares and brings them bang up to date with their playful and irreverent prints.
Images of new work can now be seen on the new collections page ...
I am very excited to announce the official launch of our new studio.....
1st December 2010
18:30 - 21:30
Manifold Arch 33
Ermine Mews
Laburnum Street
London E2 8BF
R.S.V.P. mail@studiomanifold.org
Manifold is a group of nine artists and designers 2010 MA graduates from the Royal College of Art. Individually, Manifold's activities span sculpture, installation, digital art, process-driven product design, drawing, research, teaching, collaboration and progressive approaches to age-old crafts such as glass-blowing, hand-built ceramics and enamel painting. These diverse and often disparate practices have grown up alongside each other within the studios at the RCA. Shared knowledge and the power of the group are the pillars of Manifold's new HQ.
To celebrate the launch of our exciting venture we would love you to join us for a look around, food & drink and live music.
Waddesdon Manor Gift Shop
Following the huge success of the collaborative project with the Royal College of Art of the past two years, this month sees Waddesdon Manor, part of the National Trust and Rothschild Family launch its new exclusive gift shop collection, products designed by students, inspired by the House.
I am delighted to have my second edition to the collection now on sale.....
'A Taste for Something French'. A limited edition series of wine bottle stoppers adorned with hand modelled porcelain miniatures, inspired by the Baron's collection of Sevres. The perfect way to dress a bottle of fine vintage from the Waddesdon cellars.
Now available online at: www.waddesdononlineshop.org/categories/RCA-Collection-for-Waddesdon
Come and see me in London Design Week!
I will be exhibiting graduate work from my Violet Magestuex Series and some new Porcelain platters in my Nouveau Bleu Series at
-HomeWorks-, held at Mint Gallery during London Design Festival 18th September-30th September 2010.
Mint Gallery
2 North Terrace
London
SW3 2BA
I will also be exhibiting pieces from my Tresor Decouvert Series with Long & Ryle Gallery at:
The 20/21 British Art Fair
Royal College of Art,
Kensington Gore,
September 15th- 19th 2010,
Stand 49.
Big News! We have a fantastic new studio!!!
Eight of my RCA classmates and I have just signed for a fantastic new studio in Shoreditch, a newly converted railway arch just off Kingsland Road in E2. We are currently in the process of transforming it and moving in.....watch this space for more updates and images- we can't wait!
August Residency at the V & A...
This month I have been incredibly privileged to be enjoying a graduate residency in the 6th floor studio of the newly opened Ceramics Galleries of the Victoria & Albert Museum, South Kensington. I have been working alongside fellow RCA classmate Matthew Raw, and Alice Walton and Katie Spragg, recent graduates of Brighton University. Coinciding with the opening of the 'Phase Two' galleries, we have each been working with the collection in our own ways, drop-in sessions Monday- Friday 11.00-13.00 & 14.00-15.30- Come and see us!!!
New Designers 2010
Business Design Centre London N1 0QH
Part 1: 1-4 July 2010
Stand CG9
My fellow class graduates and I will be exhibiting selected works from our final MA Degree Show on The Royal College of Art Stand in the Ceramics & Glass Zone. New Designers is about vibrant content, celebration and reputation, an event for fresh thinking and aspiration- come and see us!
Exciting news just in-Stockholm here I come!
For several years the Anglo-Swedish Society have funded an exchange programme with the RCA for students from Ceramics &Glass to go and study at Konstfack, Sweden's largest art & design college in Stockholm. This year I've been luckily enough to be given the award, It is an educational exchange to experience making work in a different cultural environment for 10 weeks, starting at the end of January- I had better invest in some snow boots!
Show One
SHOW ONE: 28 May - 6 June, 11am-8pm daily, admission free
Ceramics & Glass in the Henry Moore Galleries, Royal College of Art, London.
"Amy Hughes re-working of French eighteenth century decorative wares from Sevres uses the hand of the maker to bring honesty and provenance to a genre of objects whose perfection, although revealing a mastery of technique, could be seen as cold and impenetrable. Her pieces, covered in obvious fingerprints, satirise the excess of the originals and provide a conduit to the discussion of taste and quality."
-Tim Parsons, Designer. Eighteen Proposals C&G Show Publication 2010.
Come and see the final MA show featuring work by students from the Applied Art School, Ceramics & Glass, Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork & Jewellery, along with the Fine Art courses of Photography and Printmaking. Visit www.rca.ac.uk for more info!
-A Taste for Something French-
Miniature Sevres Vase inspired wine bottle stoppers, selected for the Waddesdon Manor 2010 RCA Gift Shop Collection, launching October 2010, watch this space....