The EY Exhibition: Impressionists in London, French Artists in Exile (1870-1904)

100 beautiful works by Monet, Tissot, Pissarro and others in the first large-scale exhibition to chart the stories of French artists who sought refuge in Britain during the Franco-Prussian War. The EY Exhibition: Impressionists in London, French Artists in Exile (1870-1904) maps the artistic networks they built in Britain, considers the aesthetic impact London had on the artists’ work, and presents instantly recognisable views of the city as seen through French eyes.
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Always lovely to see the work from my locality.

 

 

Institute of Making: Cutlery Design Challenge

The art, craft and science of what we eat and how we eat it has engaged civilisations across the ages. Rituals, routines, manners and methods have been developed to ensure that the way we eat and the tools we use to eat with perform a huge range of functions; from preventing us contaminating our food with unwashed hands, to marking us out as from a particular social class.

In recent years, part of our research at the Institute of Making has involved investigating what materials themselves taste like, and how the materials from which cutlery is and could be made, affect our perception of food. Out of this research came a set of tasting spoons that have influenced designers, chefs, material scientists and psychologists alike. We have celebrated the potential of the objects we use to eat with to be something that can bring joy, delight, functionality and tastiness to a meal. For us, the spoon is just the beginning.

In order to explore this potential, we teamed up with the Worshipful Company of Cutlers, to celebrate their 600th anniversary, and run a competition to design and make a new implement, tool or device for eating. An exhibition will showcase some of the extraordinary, thought-provoking and beautiful things that were submitted.

 

http://www.instituteofmaking.org.uk/blog/2016/09/competition-results-of-the-cutlery-design-challenge

 

 

 

Institute of Making: Cutlery Design Challenge – The Last Morsel…

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Julie Mellor  |  THE LAST MORSEL 

Witnessing intelligent animals such as chimps and crows using twigs to access hard to reach food, inspired these utensils as imagined early hominid tools. Hand forged and mono-cast in shapes from nature, carefully selected to reach the elusive corners of jars.

 

http://www.instituteofmaking.org.uk/blog/2016/09/competition-results-of-the-cutlery-design-challenge