I Am A Maker - Meet the Makers

Amelia is a multidisciplinary Artist based in the East Midlands who works with craft-based mediums. Wright’s practice aspires to both inherit and preserve the ‘every day’ eternally—being done in consideration with the experience of memory loss due to coeliac disease and a genetic predisposition to dementia.  

Working primarily with wood, glass and textiles, each medium was ‘inherited’ from close family members— maintaining their memory through continuous practice. Each art form holds great tactility and nostalgia, encouraging audience interaction and exploration of the artwork. Examining both medium and imagery, Wright hopes to permanently ingrain the easily forgotten childhood period into both her and their audience’s memory; keeping those snapshots of memory lasting eternal. 

Due to learning these processes from close family, Wright holds a particular interest in participatory art. By enabling others to experience her practiced art forms, she passes on the knowledge she ‘inherited’; preserving the memory of the art form’s origin through its succession.  She currently freelances as an art facilitator at several institutions, aiding others in experiencing the arts and helping to create long lasting memories.

Social Media: 

Instagram:  @melia_rts

Bailey is an interdisciplinary artist working mainly across sculpture, printmaking and textiles. She works freelance as an artist and workshop leader and part-time on a community arts programme. She has experience working in education and loves meeting people from all walks of life. She tends to cycle through her interests - recently it's been jewellery making, ceramics and printmaking, but she comes from a metalwork and textile background, making things with 3D felt, or sewing. 

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Bailey Revill - Young artist - Sculpture - Nottingham

Chris is an artist and sculptor who specialises in creating innovative and challenging artworks and installations for private and public spaces.

His primary medium is steel but he also works with a variety of media including timber, glass, stone, plastic and paint. Chris has an in depth understanding of the capabilities of the materials that he works with which has been gained through practical experience and personal research.

He is a firm advocate of engaging with people and communities through art encouraging them to participate and actively contribute to changing and enhancing their immediate environment.

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Chris Campbell Designs

Clare is an Artist Educator based in the East Midlands. As a lifelong multi disciplinary maker and educator, materials exploration is at the heart of her practice. Clare has a joyful and playful mixed media approach to working with people that is materials based and nature inspired. Clare’s workshops are experimental in approach, boosting children’s confidence and transforming the ways that children engage with materials. 

Websites: 

Bus and Bird -  an overview of Clare’s community arts work 

Curious Clare Designs - an overview of Clare’s work as a visual artist 

Social Media:

Instagram: @curiousclaredeisgns

Facebook: @CuriousClare

Loree has worked for over 40 years as a designer goldsmith and workshop leader. She specialises in heritage repurposing. This involves reimagining existing jewellery, often family heirlooms, into new more wearable designs. Through this process she has come to realise jewellery holds family history, stories, emotion and sentiment. 

Website:

Loree Bologna | Heritage and Repurposed Jewellery

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