Manor Oaks Studios
Manor Oaks Studios has been developed through a partnership between Yorkshire Artspace and Green Estate with funding from LEGI (local employment growth initiative). The complex is made up of four individual studio spaces to be occupied by a variety of artists working in different media . A series of events and open days will be arranged throughout the year at the studios
Artists
Annette Petch - Handmade Jewellery in silver and gold.
A skilled silversmith trained in Sheffield, Annette's passion is designing & making exquisitely detailed gold & silver jewellery as well as other personal & precious objects.Annette's inspiration is drawn principally from the natural world & you can see some of her most popular work in her gallery on her website.
www.annettepetchjewellery.co.uk
Finbarr Lucas- Designer and Maker.
Finkfurniture make beautiful, useful furniture for people who love good design and care about the environment.Finkfurniture's aim is to be a leading design and manufacturing business in the UK, committed to creating excellent furniture of all kinds. We're guided by the conviction that our work can benefit our environment and society as a whole. Find out more about finkfurniture on the website.
Susan Disley - Sculpter
The measured, repetitive process of making by hand, releases recollections of hidden thoughts and feelings, memories – irreversible lost time. My work references those contained emotions: anger, sadness, joy, creating a new space either open or enclosed, that is both independent and complete. Surfaces are a result of the making process, of human touch, and the limited colour palette heightens intensity and clarity. Find out more about Susan Disley on her website.
Joel Nield
My current body of work seeks to investigate the perceptible dialog formed between the interior and exterior space of architectonic objects.
For centuries, potters have heavily romanticised the vessel. Not only as a utilitarian object but conceptually as well. Containment; the idea of enclosed space and its human relativity are popular subject matters that encourage many potters to look towards architecture for inspiration.
Miles Gavin
Specialising in pieces imbued with a tongue-in-cheek approach to artistic narrative, Miles is a ceramicist currently working in Sheffield.
Heavily influenced by Victorian Neo-Gothic studio pottery, the aesthetic of the grotesque is a running theme.
www.facebook.com/milesgavonart
The studios are managed in connection with the YorkshireArtspace.
