Unto This Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin

Unto This Last: Two Hundred
Years of John Ruskin
A complex and often contradictory figure, John Ruskin stands as one of the most
influential thinkers of the nineteenth century. A pioneering art critic and an
accomplished draftsman, he believed that art had the power to transform society
and that nature inspired the most meaningful art. Two centuries after his birth,
this exhibition, featuring works by J. M. W. Turner, John Everett Millais,
Edward Burne-Jones and other leading artists of the nineteenth century, examines
Ruskin’s legacy as a social reformer, ecological thinker, and educator.
Unto This Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin features paintings, drawings,
and manuscripts largely from collections at Yale University – the Yale Center
for British Art and Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library – together
representing one of the most important repositories of Ruskin’s work in the
United States, much of which is to be exhibited in the UK for the first time.

The exhibition has been curated by three PhD Candidates in Yale University’s
Department of the History of Art: Tara Contractor, Victoria Hepburn, and Judith
Stapleton; with Tim Barringer, Paul Mellon Centre Professor of the History of
Art at Yale; and Courtney Skipton Long, Acting Assistant Curator of Prints and
Drawings at the Yale Center for British Art.

Find out more about the exhibition with Unto This Last: Two Hundred Years of
John Ruskin – online.

To aid social distancing, advance booking for timed admission is essential.

Before visiting we advise that you read the information on our Admissions and
FAQ pages, so you know what to expect from your visit.

Jewellery Making Classes –
Tuesday Evening
Jewellery Classes – All Levels, with Jessica Noble
5 weeks
Tuesday PM, 7-9pm

Flexible Enrollment
Our classes run year round with no ‘term-time’ or ‘holidays’. Classes are booked
in sessions of 5 weeks.

About the Classes
Our well equipped workshop has everything you’ll need to learn the many skills
and techniques needed to be able to design and make your own jewellery, all with
the expert guidance of professional Jewellery and Silversmithing Designers.

You will be guided and supported through various projects and will learn how to

work in silver and other precious materials. During these classes you will learn
and practice Piercing (sawing), Forming, Soldering, Ring making, Stone setting,
Texturing, Etching, Roller milling, Finishing and Polishing, amongst a whole
host of other specialist techniques. As your confidence grows you will be able
to work on your own self set designs and will be guided through individual
designing and making techniques during the class.

And for those with more experience, our weekly classes offer a supported,
professional and inspiring space in which you are able, and encouraged to
develop your designs and skills by working on self led projects with technical
help and guidance from the tutor.

Class numbers are small (up to 5) so the atmosphere is friendly and relaxed, as
well as giving you lots of individual help and support from the tutor and good
access to tools and equipment.

Full use of the workshop facilities and use of consumable items such as
sandpaper, drill bits, saw blades, etc is included in the course fee. Silver and
other precious metals and materials will need to be purchased separately – you
will receive guidance from the tutor about how and where to buy your precious
materials from.

What will I need to bring?
With classes being in a professional workshop environment, things can get a
little bit messy so we suggest that you bring an apron, wear old clothes and
closed toe shoes. If you have long hair – bring a hairband! It might also help
to bring a notebook, pen/pencils and a container or small tool box to keep your
work in.

We look forward to seeing you there!

The Small Print
Please note that classes can be subject to minimum numbers and can be cancelled
if not reached. In this event, you will be contacted and refunded.

Due to the nature of workshop, we cannot permit any one under the age of 16 to
take part in the classes unless assessed and agreed in advance by the tutor.

We have step free access. If you have a disability, learning difficulty or need
extra support, pease let us know before attending and we can discuss your
specific requirements.

Jewellery Making Classes –
Thursday Afternoon
Jewellery Classes – All Levels, with Jessica Noble
5 weeks
Thursday Afternoon, 12.30 – 2.30pm

Flexible Enrolment
Our classes run year round with no ‘term-time’ or ‘holidays’. Classes are booked
in sessions of 5 weeks on a rolling calender.

About the Classes
Our well equipped workshop has all everything you’ll need to learn the many
skills and techniques needed to be able to design and make your own jewellery,
all with the expert guidance of professional Jewellery and Silversmithing
Designers.

You will be guided and supported through various projects and will learn how to
work in silver and other precious materials. During these classes you will learn
and practice Piercing (sawing), Forming, Soldering, Ring making, Stone setting,
Texturing, Etching, Roller milling, Finishing and Polishing, amongst a whole
host of other specialist techniques. As your confidence grows you will be able
to work on your own self set designs and will be guided through individual
designing and making techniques during the class.

And for those with more experience, our weekly classes offer a supported,
professional and inspiring space in which you are able, and encouraged to
develop your designs and skills by working on self led projects with technical
help and guidance from the tutor.

Class numbers are small (up to 5) so the atmosphere is friendly and relaxed, as
well as giving you lots of individual help and support from the tutor and good
access to tools and equipment.

Full use of the workshop facilities and use of consumable items such as
sandpaper, drill bits, saw blades, etc is included in the course fee. Silver and
other precious metals and materials will need to be purchased separately – you
will receive guidance from the tutor about how and where to buy your precious
materials from.

What will I need to bring?
With classes being in a professional workshop environment, things can get a
little bit messy so we suggest that you bring an apron, wear old clothes and
closed toe shoes. If you have long hair – bring a hairband! It might also help
to bring a notebook, pen/pencils and a container or small tool box to keep your
work in.

We look forward to seeing you there!

The Small Print
Please note that classes can be subject to minimum numbers and can be cancelled
if not reached. In this event, you will be contacted and refunded.

Due to the nature of workshop, we cannot permit any one under the age of 16 to
take part in the classes unless assessed and agreed in advance by the tutor.

We do have step free access but if you have a disability, learning difficulty or
need extra support, pease let us know before attending and we can discuss your
specific requirements.

Fiona Pearce: Painting Farnham
The lead artist of our Painting Farnham season is Fiona Pearce whose work in the
Foyer Gallery features her much loved Farnham landscapes, often depicting a
unique but recognisable view of the Bourne Woods.

Born in Guildford, Fiona studied Art at what was then known as the West Surrey
College of Art and Design here in Farnham. She works mainly in acrylic, applying
thick layers with credit cards, fingers and occasionally a brush from her studio
in Upper Farringdon.

Fiona’s work is inspired by the beautiful local countryside where she walks
daily with her dog. Her love of colours and use of space on the canvas is what
excites her the most about painting.

Fiona’s goal is to make her paintings come alive, using colours that bring her
energy on to the canvas. She sees the world in a geometric format, breaking down
images into shapes before translating that on to canvas.

Open 10.30am – 5pm Tuesday to Saturday.

www.newashgate.org.uk
gallery@newashgate.org.uk
01252 713208

Exhibition of Contemporary Art
and Craft
A pop-up exhibition of contemporary art and craft by a new selection of artists
and makers. All work is for sale and includes paintings, sculpture, ceramics,
jewellery, glass, textiles and more.
See the website for examples of the work on show and more details of opening
times etc.

Celebrating 45 years of the
Designer Jewellers’ Group

(rescheduled dates)
Traditional craftsmanship and cutting edge design at its best, the Designer
Jewellers’ Group will be celebrating their 45th anniversary at the New Ashgate
Gallery in September.

Featuring new collections from the fourteen members, various influences are
apparent in the diverse and exciting jewellery on show. From the Bauhaus
inspired designs of An Alleweireldt, Petra Bishai, and Emma Farquharson to the
naturalistic influences apparent in the work of Annie Ruthven-Taggart and
Christina Hirst. Etching and paper pressing feature in the patterned surfaces of
Jill Newbrook and Georgina Taylor and vibrant colour from Ute Sanne and Harriet
St Leger using rich gold, stones and enamel. Plastic as a precious material
inspires Shelby Fitzpatrick and Sarah Macrae with Ulli Kaiser, Bettina Starke
and Li-Chu Wu incorporating unusual materials such as antique beads, fur and
paper.

History of the Designer Jewellers’ Group

The Designer Jewellers’ Group started in 1976 between a small group of jewellers
eager to showcase and market original work and to promote the best of studio
jewellery to the public. Back then there were few outlets for contemporary
jewellery and the group were the first group to show at the Goldsmiths Fair in
1977. All members of the Group work for the mutual benefit of the whole, as well
as each member having an individual approach to design and their own original
creative ‘voice’.

Since the creation of the group exhibitions have taken place worldwide,
including at the Goldsmiths’ Centre, Liberty’s, Harvey Nichols, the Cecilia
Colman gallery and internationally in Japan, Dubai and the USA. Starting in
1984, a collaboration between the DJG and the Barbican Arts Centre developed
into a regular and very popular bi-annual event, continuing for 32 years until
2016. Recently the group can be found at Christmas at the home of the London
Livery Company, The Worshipful Company of Salters in London.

Open 10.30am – 5pm Tuesday to Saturday.

www.newashgate.org.uk
gallery@newashgate.org.uk
01252 713208

Harriett Grist & Chickpea
Textiles: The Festival of

Crafts 2019 Winner
Chickpea by Harriett Grist presents a range of handmade knitted products
including, cushions, purses, and home accessories. All her products are designed
and produced in the UK using high quality lambswool yarn for a soft and luxury
feel.

Harriett was selected as the New Ashgate Gallery winner in the Festival of
Crafts, the Farnham Maltings in October 2019 as a new star talent.

Open 10.30am – 5pm Tuesday to Saturday.

www.newashgate.org.uk
gallery@newashgate.org.uk
01252 713208

Craft Town Public Art
Commission: David Mayne: The
Farnham Sculpture
In October, we invite you to join us for the launch of the Farnham Sculpture,
the new public art commission in Waggon Yard that celebrates the Craft Town
Farnham.

Proposals were invited in 2019 for a public sculpture that is inspired by the
heritage and tradition of crafts in Farnham practised in the area during the
Roman period: the district was known as a pottery centre due to its supply of
gault clay, oak woodland for fuel and good communication links. Kilns dating as
far as AD 100 have been found in the area. Today, Farnham hosts a remarkable
number of craft institutions and makers. The sculpture aims to enhance the
public knowledge and understanding of the heritage while bringing pleasure to
the community and visitors alike.

In early 2020, the local community voted to choose from three shortlisted
proposals. David Mayne was awarded the Craft Town Public Art Commission. David’s
Farnham Sculpture received 58% of the public vote.

The Farnham Sculpture celebrates the oak tree – something which was abundant in
the area while also links to the history and heritage of Farnham. The sculptures
will be fabricated from steel, bronze and oak, after the bronze acorn is first
modelled in clay. Imagery refers to the oak forests that surrounded Farnham. The
project involves schools and the community in the design for a sense of shared
ownership with the local community in the final artwork.

David Mayne is a sculptor of national repute who produces work for galleries,
public spaces and the domestic environment. His artwork has been commissioned
throughout the country and can be found in town centres, rural locations, public

buildings and private homes and gardens. Over the past 30 years, David has
developed his work from raw assemblage with found objects to the much more
refined pieces he now creates.

David’s interior sculpture will be showcased for a simultaneous special
exhibition from 27 September to 7 November.

The gallery is open 10.30am – 5pm Tuesday to Saturday.

www.newashgate.org.uk
gallery@newashgate.org.uk
01252 713208

The Common Ground
Due to COVID-19 the Crafts Study Centre is constantly reviewing its policy on
welcoming visitors to the galleries. Please check the Crafts Study Centre
website for current opening times and booking information before making a
special trip. www.csc.uca.ac.uk/covid-19.

The Common Ground is curated by, and presents the paintings and drawings of,
Frances Hatch. Its starting point is her observation of the glaze test vessels
and notebooks of the potter Katharine Pleydell-Bouverie from the Crafts Study
Centre’s collections. These reflect what Hatch calls ‘her curiosity about the
specificity and particularity of materials local to her’. In these pieces I meet
an artist very much like myself – curious about her “common or garden ground”’.
Frances Hatch has selected a group of ceramics by contemporary makers who also
specifically connect to this notion of ground, surface and the specificity of
place: Adam Buick, Kyra Cane, Jack Doherty and Akiko Hirai. These works, along
with Hatch’s allow her ‘to adopt a wide field of vision to soften the gaze and
stand on a common ground where all artists meet’.

The radical landscape poet Elisabeth Bletsoe has written a poem for the
exhibition which is published in a catalogue available from the Crafts Study
Centre. The Common Ground is a selling exhibition and a full hand list of works
for sale with images can be viewed in the Shop section of our Website.

The Leach Pottery: 100 years on
from St Ives
Due to COVID-19 the Crafts Study Centre is constantly reviewing its policy on
welcoming visitors to the galleries. Please check the Crafts Study Centre
website for current opening times and booking information before making a

special trip. www.csc.uca.ac.uk/covid-19

The exhibition focuses on ceramics and archives by Bernard and Janet Leach
acquired since the Crafts Study Centre moved to UCA Farnham in the year 2000.
Ceramics include works by Bernard once displayed in the ‘Leach permanent
collection’ in the Leach Pottery, as well as significant examples of Janet’s
independent vessels, along with recent drawings, etchings and letters revealed
in public for the first time. The exhibition helps to celebrate the founding of
the Leach Pottery in St Ives in 2020.

Heathland Artworks
Surrey Hills Arts presents Heathland Artworks at RSPB Farnham Heath with an
inspirational trail of 12 installations. Craft, Fine Art, Textiles and Design
students from the University for the Creative Arts have been exploring the
wildlife, geology and history of the heath all year to develop these artworks
that will be on show throughout October.

The Big Draw: ‘A Climate of
Change’
Join FADEG [ Farnham Art & Design Education Group] and their guest artist Helen
Locke as they present their thirteenth year of this popular community draw and
explore this year’s national theme of ‘A Climate of Change’.
Helen will have a series of online videos showing techniques available on her
blog henkalullah.wordpress.com with the aim of looking at creatures and habitats
in local and global environments threatened by climate change. The national
festival features more inspiration and events at thebigdraw.com .
A totally free event.

Making Matters in Farnham
MAKING MATTERS consists of five craft makers who met in 2019 as Artists in
Residence at the University for the Creative Arts in Farnham. They have planned
together an art installation for Farnham Craft Month. It is intended to be a
visual and audio response to peoples’ experiences during the pandemic lockdown.
Local people from Farnham and surrounding parts will generously expressed their

sentiments of what the isolation period meant for them. These emotional
contributions will take form as text and sound that are to be seen in and around
Farnham during Farnham Craft month in October, which is to celebrate the
cultural heritage of Farnham as well as contemporary makers and designers and of
course the people who reside in it. This is a very special Craft month as it
launches the very first month that Farnham is a World Craft Town. This work is
to symbolise and acknowledge that not only what the residents of Farnham have
endured during these past few months of uncertainty, hardship and loss but all
over the world.
MAKING MATTERS recognises that this period of time during the pandemic across
the world , through adversity , has been what has mattered most. Staying
connected as possible brings a sense of coming together and it is this aim that
we want to achieve in our art installation, through expressing our experiences
as a global community using art as a meaningful vehicle.

THE WORK:

It is our collective intention that the work will consist of visual projections
onto various walls in Farnham, accompanied with immersive audio.
The visuals will consist of moving and static text and images that echo the
heartfelt responses from members of the public (that include as many people from
as many demographic groups as possible; age/ gender/ race/ nationality/
disability). This will form the visuals that will be projected at dusk for full
viewing .The peoples’ voices will be prerecorded and then layered into a
digitally composed soundscape to accompany the text.

From August – September MAKING MATTERS will collect the data from the
‘contributors’ that will be in turn expressed into the audio and visual
installation that will also be shown in and around Farnham at other places of
interest that the community would have visited were they to have been
accessible. For example the library, galleries, places of study, worship and
natural beauty etc.

Another Brick in the Wall
“Another Brick in the Wall” – brick installation led by artist Keppel Knowson in
collaboration with three other UCA Artists in Residence (AiRs) 2019-2020.

This is a whole community art installation, built from bricks designed and
created by the public. This is very much in keeping with the theme of this
year’s craft month ‘Community Coming Together through Craft’. We aim to directly
engage at least 300 members of the public of all ages through outdoor workshops
with different community groups. We hope to have 500 + bricks designed by
members of the public as well as bricks made by or sponsored by local
businesses. These will be fired at the potteries at Farnham Potteries and then
used to build a piece of public art. Keppel Knowson, one of the Artists in
Residence, with a background in Landscape Design and a BA in Interior
Architecture, will oversee the building of it. The idea is that this will be an

on-going piece of public art with sections being built in different parts of
Farnham. The project begins this year but Keppel’s vision is that it will
continue to build over many years to come.

In addition to workshops, we are hoping to be offered the opportunity to have a
pop-up exhibition in a centrally located empty units in Farnham. Here, we will
exhibit our finished pieces, as well as showing our processes and giving
Artists’ talks. We will generate additional interest through publicising the
event in advance over local radio as well as inviting local television and radio
to cover our events. Each of us will host workshops in agreed venues, such as
Farnham Potteries. It is envisaged that there would 10 -20 places at workshops
at any one time. People will join and leave at different times. All age groups
will benefit from being involved in making a piece of public art.

World Craft Town Trail
As part of October Craft Month, Surrey Artists’ Open Studios has created a World
Craft Town Trail of makers in studios both in and around Farnham and its
villages.
Visit makers in their studios and find out more about their work, lots of work
available to buy.

Potters Gate School Open Days
Come and join us for one of our socially distanced Open Days, and discover why
our school could be the right choice for your child. We are looking forward to
showing you our much loved school!
Bookings are essential, please contact the office on (01252) 715 619 (option 3)
to reserve your space on a tour.

St Andrews CofE Infant School
Open Days
Come and join us for our socially distanced Saturday Open Days, and find out why
our school could be the right one for your child. We are looking forward to
showing you around our much loved school!

Booking is essential. Please contact the office (01252) 716 305 (option 3) to

reserve your space.

Makers in Shop Windows
Surrey Artists’ Open Studios presents Makers in Shop Windows, these pop-up
exhibitions are located in shops in the town centre.