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Call for entries: ‘Get Fresh’ (for emerging designer-makers from the South West)

Saturday 17 January – Sunday 1 March 2008

  • Are you a recent Graduate?
  • Have you recently set up your own studio or received a setting up grant?
  • Are you self-taught and starting your career?
  • Are you resident in the South West?
  • Are you working in an area of craft (including photography, printmaking & sculpture) producing innovative, imaginative work coupled with a sensitive use of appropriate materials?
  • Can you demonstrate the potential to achieve the highest standards of workmanship and design, with a clear sense of personal direction?

Get Fresh is an opportunity to step beyond your graduate show, and to celebrate and expose the commitment, diversity and outstanding craftsmanship of emerging designer-makers from the South West (Bath, Bristol & Somerset, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire). Supported by the Devon Guild of Craftsmen’s Associate Membership Scheme, Get Fresh will:

  • Profile the South West’s exceptional emerging makers
  • Present a sponsorship award
  • Promote the Devon Guild’s Associate Membership Scheme
  • Award free Associate Membership for 1 year to selected exhibitors
  • Provide support & encouragement
  • Mount educational seminars

A panel of craftspeople, artists and designers will select exhibitors via image submissions. If you can positively contribute to this exhibition please submit an artist’s statement, CV, price list and up to 10 slides/digital images by 8 August 2008 to:

Get Fresh

Saffron Wynne, Exhibitions Officer

The Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Riverside Mill, Bovey Tracey, Devon TQ13 9AF

Or send digital submissions to saffron.wynne@crafts.org.uk

Visit www.crafts.org.uk