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Ceramic plate and mug designs for the Bloomsbury Festival.
With the backing of The Friends of
UCLH, who fund many of the art workshops that take place at UCLH and the National Hospital for Neurology & Neuro surgery, we are participating in this year's
Bloomsbury
Festival, which will take place on the weekend of 22 - 23 October.
The Bloomsbury Festival is a cross-cultural event organised by Hidden Cities and supported by the Wellcome Trust, UCL, the School of Advanced Study, Camden Council, Bloomsbury Colleges, Arts Council England and The British Museum that seeks to highlight the richness and diversity of the Bloomsbury community.
Our tent at the festival is intended to show-case the work we produce in the art workshops, to draw attention to our role in the life of Bloomsbury and to raise awareness of the groups that fund us.
As part of our input into the event (and as a fun exercise in the workshops) we
approached Cosmo China,
who are a collective of artists who have been hand-decorating bone china in the heart of
Bloomsbury for over twenty years, and they very kindly donated a number of
blank plates and mugs.
Patients then created their designs which have been hand painted onto the
blanks and then fired.
We are taking as inspiration the work of the artists known as the Bloomsbury Group and the
Omega Workshop who worked in the area almost 100 years ago and whose ethos was to decorate objects used in daily life with the creative visions of an artist rather than a designer.
If you come along to see us at the festival make sure you visit Cosmo China
when you are there.
