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THE Creative S P A C E
The Creative SPACE is the creative business of Laurie Bower. She’s bringing her beautiful handmade books to Design@HEART for the first time on 9th November. I create individual handmade books, blank ones with beautiful covers and creative ones with my poems or quotes in. Books are touchable art, and I enjoy making stand-alone pieces, which…
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TM Vintage Leeds
Brand new to Design@HEART, Tom Mitchell brings his eclectic mix of vintage upcycled lamps. We think you’ll like them! I started TMVintageLeeds back in 2016 from a love of old cameras, I am really a huge photography fan and it seems that a lot of old cameras become neglected and unused. I took this thought…
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Inkylinky by Liz Samways
After several years away, Liz Samways is back at Design@HEART this year, and we can’t wait to see her new jewellery and prints. I’m a Leeds-based jeweller and printmaker, working primarily in silver and copper which is etched & engraved using techniques commonly found in printmaking. My work is inspired by the landscape, as viewed…
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Carbon Art by Ceri Wood
Ceri is another newcomer to Design@HEART and we’re looking forward to seeing her drawings and maps. I am a Horsforth-based artist specialising in pencil-drawn bespoke maps and landscapes of the local area. I have always loved monochrome art and the striking effects that can be achieved from simple media such as pen and pencil. Pencil…
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Goss Bag by Annie Lawson
Over the next few weeks we’ll be featuring some of our artists and craftspeople for our next fair on Saturday 9th November. First up is Annie Lawson of Goss Bag: I am a cartoonist who has progressed into ‘cartooning in wool’. My knitted phone cases are flip-top design and are sturdy, being each one knitted…
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Applications are open for November 2019
You can now apply for a stall at our Design@HEART Fair on 9th November 2019. Apply Please make sure you read all the blurb and answer all the questions. We have a new application process this year, both in terms of rules and the tech. We’ve tested the tech and it all seems to be…
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Writing Your Artist’s Statement
Our new application process requires a bit more information than previously so here’s a guide of how to write your “artist’s statement”. It’s nothing to worry about, we promise. Applications open on the 1st April, so if you’ve never written an artist’s statement before, you can get a head start this coming week! Your Statement…
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New Application Process
The application process for Design@HEART has changed! We hope for the better, and we hope no more complicated than before. But there will be deadlines, so it will require some forward thinking! We know that stallholders like to know well in advance what fairs they are going to be doing in November and December, so…
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Happy New Year!
Image: Lindsay Thomas Ceramics.Go to Lindsay’s website for more information http://ltceramics.co.uk/ Events in 2019 Hi and Happy New Year to everyone! Just want to give you the heads up about fairs in 2019. Christmas Fair 2019 I’m moving the Christmas fair forward this year, to November 9th. We always used to have the fairs in…
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For the love of wood
Gavin Edwards is another newcomer to Design@HEART, bringing his interesting and original wood work. He has had many careers, and his current one draws on all the others, as he tells us in this latest blog. Working with wood is my latest career choice, having previously worked as a Cartographer, Field Archaeologist, Archaeological Curator and…
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