Cuckoo Farm Studios

Statement

• My work explores some of the qualities of the ‘book’. These book structures and forms analyse the notion of repeat through the unity of paper and metal. I use paper and card to convey visual information rather than readable text. The metal enables this information to exist in three dimensions.

  I input creatively into commissions and projects undertaken by Base2 concept design make Ltd, a company run by fellow Cuckoo Farm artist, Peter Jones and myself. Recent commissions have included play equipment for Lowestoft High Street, public seating for Colchester Borough Council and exhibition interactives for firstsite, Colchester.

  Along side all of this, I also teach at Colchester School of Art and Design, Colchester Institute.

  
  
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Selected Images

Education

• 2003 PGCE (post compulsory education), Anglia Ruskin University
• 2002 MA Book Arts, Camberwell College of Arts
• 1990 BA (Hons) Crafts, Crewe + Alsager College of H.E.
• 1987 Art Foundation course, Nuneaton

Selected Exhibitions

• 2005 ‘Pulp Fantasy’ 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Lincolnshire
• ‘InPrint’ Benham Gallery, Colchester
• ‘Influence of Architecture’ Walford Mill Craft Centre, Dorset
• Pond Gallery, Snape Maltings, Suffolk
• 2004 Buckenham Gallery, Southwold
• Tenants show, Cuckoo Farm Studios
• 2003 Sprucing Up’, Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery
• Chelsea Crafts Fair
• ‘InPrint’ touring show, Norfolk
• Suffolk Crafts Society, Aldeburgh
• Hayletts Gallery, Maldon
• 2002 Chelsea Crafts Fair
• Artisan, Edinburgh
• 2001 ‘Elegance’, Brewery Arts, Cirencester
• ‘2001:Craft Odyssey’, Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery
• 2000 Natural Inspirations’, Colchester
• MODE, Business Design Centre
• 1999 DAZZLE London and Manchester
• ‘Art for sale’ firstsite, Colchester

• Buyers Guide to Contemporary British Metal, Crafts Council

• 2001 - Public Commission, Essex County Council, suspended artwork, County Hall, Chelmsford

Related Internet Links

• www.jayneknowles.co.uk