Press Release
28 | 09 | 21
Stargazing | Gregory Warren Wilson
4thDecember 2021 to 8thJanuary 2022
Four Minutes Thirty-three Seconds| Gregory Warren Wilson
For the very first time this December, New Craftsman Gallery welcomes artist and prize-winning poet Gregory Warren Wilson for a seasonal exhibition of sparkling colour. Gregory's innovative mosaics play with the translucent nature of coloured glass. His work is, in part, sculptural, and is conceived in multiple layers, sometimes as many as six, so that his designs allow light to interact with the exquisite colour and luxurious texture of the glass. Each tessera is hand-cut in Murano with great precision, so that individual pieces reflect and refract light in an extraordinary variety of ways, sparkling, scintillating, and shimmering as you move around the work.
Warren Wilson is also a prize-winning poet. He has published five collections and was awarded an Arts Council Grant for his writing in 2008. A number of his glass designs take as their starting point a fragment of poetry, resulting in a glasswork that exists in its own right while alluding to the original literary source.
As part of the opening preview ofStargazing, Joanna Bird of Joanna Bird Contemporary Collections, London, will be in conversation with Gregory Warren Wilson about the work in this exhibition, and later in the afternoon Gregory will read a fable from his latest bookTwenty-Five Fables, his first work in fiction, which was published in September this year.
Stargazingwill be on show from 4th December 2021 to 8th January 2022. For further information and to book your place at the preview contact New Craftsman Gallery, 24 Fore St, St Ives, Cornwall, TR26 1HE,info@newcraftsmanstives.com, www.newcraftsmanstives.com
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GREGORY WARREN WILSON Four Minutes Thirty Three Seconds
Editors Notes
New Craftsman St Ives
With an international reputation amongst art and craft collectors for its painting, sculpture and quality studio ceramics, the New Craftsman is regarded as one of the most important spaces for contemporary artists in St Ives. Founded in the mid-1960s by potter Janet Leach, it holds an unrivalled reputation as one of the country's leading art and craft venues. Today the gallery's annual programme of mixed and solo exhibitions continues to support the work of Cornwall's and the UK's very best painters and craftspeople.
New Craftsman Gallery, 24 Fore Street, St. Ives, Cornwall TR26 1HE | Tel: +44 (0)1736 795652 |info@newcraftsmanstives.com|www.newcraftsmanstives.com
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