WOVEN in Kirklees
WOVEN is a biennial festival that began in 2019, with the next big events happening from 3rd June to 9th July 2023.
Our Craftanoon class decorated MKG giant metal head in our HAGG this year to celebrate!
It is initiated and funded by Kirklees Council, but is owned by everyone, including community groups, textile businesses, cultural and educational organisations, artists and heritage sites across the district.
WOVEN’s theme is generations of innovators, connecting a strong heritage with today’s innovative developments in industry, university research, a strong arts and crafts scene and the creative expression of the district’s rich and diverse communities.
Sunny Spells and Occasional Rain
Sunny Spells and Occasional Rain
Saturday 27th May - Saturday 24th June
Viewing during our regular studio opening times: MON – THUR 10AM – 3PM, and SATURDAY – 10AM – 2PM.
FREE for everyone
Sunny Spells and Occasional Rain by Pippa Ashworth explores the Yorkshire landscape through colour and textures using watercolour, acrylic paint and mixed media to create marks both accidental and deliberate.
As part of Pippa’s creative process she visually records the landscape whilst on walks in nature. Sketchbooks underpin all aspects of the journey, and provide the starting point for things to come.
We are delighted to present ‘Sunny Spells and Occasional Rain’ this Spring in our studio space. Pippa is a local artist who tutors here at Globe throughout the year, her painting and mixed media course and one off workshops sell out instantly!
“Born in Middlesex , I have spent most of my adult life in the North of England. I worked as a lecturer in Printmaking and on Foundation studies in a local Art College for 23 years and am now a full time painter.
An essential part of my work explores combinations of colour and textures using watercolour, acrylic paint and mixed media in order to create marks both accidental and deliberate. Walking, exploring and visually recording the landscape is very much a part of my creative process. I make sketches and take photographs while I am out and then use these to develop and complete work back in the studio.
I hope people looking at my paintings engage on an emotional and aesthetic level and become participants in the experience of being outside in the countryside throughout the seasons.
My work has sold throughout Yorkshire and more recently through Craft in Focus events including RHS Wisley, RHS Hyde Hall, Hever Castle and The Guildhall Winchester. Other exhibitions include Dean Clough Halifax, Huddersfield Art Gallery, ’Just Makers’ Ripley Castle, Helmsley Art Centre, BoothHouse Gallery, Holme Castle, Mytholmbridge Art Studio and UpCountry for Holmfirth Art Week .
I have also been Artist in residence at Laurance Batley Theatre in Huddersfield and given workshops and demonstrations in painting, printmaking and photography to Art Societies and Community Art groups.”
Textiles, Drawing & Making
This Spring we present Textiles, Drawing & Making by the talented Nicola Perren.
Nicola is a freelance designer, maker, artist and teacher with a studio-based practice here at Globe Art Studios in Slaithwaite, West Yorkshire.
Drawing is at the heart of Nicola Perren’s practice, often developing into and through textiles. Form, decoration, abstraction, colour, space and material are pushed and pulled through an experimental process to create unforeseen outcomes. Design, model making, art, sculpture, construction, fashion, quilt making, and craft inspire this creative practice which draws equally from the professional through to the amateur.
Textiles, Drawing & Making presents various works that nod to thoughts in progress, ideas that go nowhere and sparks of new directions.
Running Saturday 15th April – Saturday 20th May 2023 during our regular opening hours.
MEET THE ARTIST on our Print Day in May event where Nicola will be here with her work and a small demo! STD - 6/5/23