artcraftdesign

2011-12-14T13:14:00.003Z

Some nice people from Vintage Brighton saw my stall at Art Junky and contacted me about having one of my items in their Xmas Advent Calender. My item, due to feature on the 13th (should I worry?) has come and gone now, but in their Twit-pic gallery one can still link to my Vintage Biker Couple Framed Ad. Here's the website gallery: Here's their Twit-pic gallery. Check them

2011-11-26T21:34:00.001Z

A Sweet little film made about the last Handmade and Bound at St. Bride's Nov 20: Handmade & Bound from James Devereaux-Ward on Vimeo. (I am in it for a millisecond)

Time And Space exhibition at the Bowery Gallery in Leeds, June 2008

2011-10-20T11:42:00.001+01:00

Time And Space exhibition at the Bowery Gallery in Leeds, a set on Flickr.Revisiting Artists Book collective early projects, curated by Louise Atkinson.

Markets and Fairs Gone and Coming Up - A Bit of a Story

2011-10-16T23:00:00.000+01:00

It's mid-October and I've ended up taking a short break, for a couple of weeks, from markets and fairs. Goodness knows I've got enough happening over the weeks to come. I dabbled with the idea of doing one of those big traveling vintage fairs on the 15th, but got scared off by the high rates for tables, plus the huge quantity of the sellers packed into a huge hall. Do people really sell enough

2011-09-19T14:47:00.001+01:00

Related to the Bookmarks lX, Infiltrating the Library system, there is a wonderful review of a random selection of them by Laine Farley on the Biblio Buffet blog. I was included, which is wonderful, and you can read the full review here. Read more on my blog here: BOOKMARKS lX, A project with the University of West England's Centre for Fine Print Research (CFPR)

Something new for the Caterham Vintage & Art Fair tomorrow

2011-09-16T10:08:00.000+01:00

Usually, I design a whole table arrangement in my front room for each market or fair I do, but space and energy are in short supply, so I'm just rounding everything up in tune with a colour scheme I've chosen. I'm also sourcing lots of stuff from my recently acquired booty brought all the way home from the USA in August. Here is a little example of something I will have on my table: 2 vintage

French Made: Dandy Lion market No 4

2011-09-15T13:53:00.000+01:00

Fantastic blog post by French Made: Dandy Lion market No 4: "Last Saturday, I brought my delectables to The Dandy Lion market at The Boogaloo , hosted by the lovely Leslie from Leslieworks . My ...

BOOKMARKS lX, A project with the University of West England's Centre for Fine Print Research (CFPR)

2011-09-02T17:31:00.000+01:00

100 Years: A collection of people at each age from 1 to 100. 100 Bookmarks demarking 100 years of a human life span. The series is about repetition and finality, but also of hope. As an ongoing fascination, obsession even, with aging and death, I though it would be a revealing exercise finding and documenting human beings at each stage in life, at each age. Youth is so shortlived. Out

A New Concept in Craft Fairs

2011-05-08T20:30:00.005+01:00

No sooner have I finished one project when a new one dangles itself before my eyes. An opportunity to organise a craft fair under the banner of a monthly market I've been doing for nearly a year now, Can't Buy Me Love. Jet was asked by the manager of the Boogaloo, the main venue for her market, if she wanted to cover all the Saturday market spots, so she asked me if I wanted to do a craft

BABE: The best one yet.

2011-05-02T14:53:00.002+01:00

I did the return journey by train from London to Bristol on Saturday and Sunday, which was a novel thing for me! I also experienced a big learning curve organising my first shared table at the event, with the Facebook group, Artist Book Collective. I expected a good 20-30 people out of a possible 480 to take part, but in the end it was just the 8 of us. But, what a wonderful group of

Introducing my new etsy shop

2011-04-06T14:27:00.000+01:00

new EtsyNameSpace.Mini(14309452, 'shop','thumbnail',1,4).renderIframe(); I finally managed to open a second etsy shop, which is no mean feat, considering you have to open a new email account. Once opened you have to sign in and out of 4 accounts if you want to catch up on activity in the 2 shops, plus any communication associated with the 2 shops, namely 2 email accounts. My word. I thought I

Lots of new applique hoops in my etsy shop

2011-03-31T20:24:00.000+01:00

Having made and listed a few new applique hoops, namely the new silhouette ones, I got inspired to also add some more that I hadn't got around to listing. It's mad making art, making crafts, collecting vintage and designing a new table arrangement for every market. Not to mention all the photographing, blogging, networking and marketing, etc. I hope it will all stand me

New Rock & Roll Boy Girl Hoops and a great day at Can't Buy Me Love market

2011-03-26T22:16:00.001Z

Just had a brilliant day at the Can't Buy Me Love market today. It was featured in Time Out and, for me, that proved to have a very positive effect. I sold 3 of my hoops, 2 of which were brand new! I've now listed my other 2 on etsy. The woman who bought my 3 hoops has a shop and if you read this, I didn't get your name, or the name of your shop, and sure wish I did! So, please let me know how

Home From Home exhibition alongside Leeds Artist Book Fair

2011-03-10T21:26:00.001Z

I made a series of embroidered hoops called Stitched Up a couple months ago, and was really pleased when this call out for art came along, and Louise Atkinson (curator on behalf of ABC) wanted to include it, as well as a new piece I proposed specially for the show. This is some info from the facebook page: Preview: Fri 11th March 6 - 8pm Refreshments provided but feel free to BYOB too!

Crazy Weekend

2011-03-09T11:02:00.000Z

Whew! Just about recovered from doing 2 different markets at the weekend. Challenging, but fun. Had 2 great days and have some nice photos to share! Find more photos like this on Creative Cafe These are from the Saturday at Art Junky. This market is responsible for inspiring me to start collecting vintage and to sell it alongside my art and crafts. The original art, handmade and vintage

Craft Guerilla Love Easy Valentine Fair

2011-01-31T10:26:00.004Z

I will be selling my crafty wares at this illustrious event coming up, taking place just a few days before Valentine's Day. Come along and say hi, and take in the delights of gorgeous craftiness as well as the wonderful works of William Morris, housed in this newly renovated gallery, the only one of it's kind dedicated to his work. The event will be Art Deco themed so, dress up if you fancy!

My Sketchbook for the Art House Co-op in Brooklyn, NY

2011-01-16T13:25:00.001Z

I received my moleskin for this Art House Co-op project months ago. As it is with things one have gads of time to do, I left it till the last minute to start it. So, what should have been something meant to be filled in day by day, week by week, like a sketchbook usually works, I had to create something in a couple of weeks. Thus, my `Lost & Found treasure box sketchbook was born. You can

Institute of Kentish Town archiving and art event Dec 14-18 2010

2010-12-15T13:07:00.002Z

I participated in an archiving/art event in Queen's Cresent last night. Most of my 5 years of found objects, hitherto stored in a large sweet jar, are beautifully displayed, a la Tony Cragg, on the gallery walls. I brought along some of my junk and other arty books and gave a little talk. Claire, Sophie and Jo, the curators, did a marvelous job. They also put up huge interactive mapping exercises

New Xmas cards

2010-12-11T14:58:00.002Z

Thought I'd put up my new cards for Xmas this year. I just used materials I had in a drawer. I had already made some new mail art cards using the sewing machine, so I just carried on in that form for my cards. I think their kinda sweet. Quite different to what I normally produce. Find more photos like this on Creative Cafe

THE MOMENT OF PRIVACY HAS PASSED

2010-12-02T09:02:00.004Z

My sketchbook has been included in this exhibition in Lincoln. HOLD ME! TOUCH ME! FEEL ME! Visitors to the Usher Gallery in Lincoln will be able to select, take off the shelf and browse through over 200 sketchbooks on loan from contemporary artists, architects, designers and makers. These sketchbooks are included in the Library zone of ‘The Moment of Privacy Has Passed’ an innovative and

Family day in London Fields with Erik Rutterford playing

2010-11-24T18:27:00.000Z

Art Junky at Phoenix Brighton this Sunday 21st Nov

2010-11-17T13:38:00.001Z

If you're in the East Sussex area this Sunday, 21st Nov, 11am-5pm, why not pop in to Art Junky at the Phoenix Brighton galleries for some early Festive Season gift shopping! My chaps will be hosting my leslieworks micro boutique for me (I have to do Handmade & Bound in London) selling my handmade art & crafts, and my cherry-picked vintage collectibles. Check out my new unique vintage tie

Craft and Vintage at the Garston Manor Winter Fair

2010-11-08T11:46:00.001Z

If you're in the Watford area this Sat, Nov 13th come in to this newly refurbished Manor House Winter Fair being featured as part of a Country House Rescue tv program. Lots of early Festive Season handmade and vintage goodies to buy, for yourself or as gifts! "The Fair is going to be the perfect place to shop for Christmas in a relaxed stress-free environment. Our intention is to support

Stuffed Shirts and other cushions

2010-09-17T17:12:00.000+01:00

I'm always on the look out for new ways to reuse, recycle, upcycle, repurpose, whatever you want to call it stuff I find at charity shops and jumble sales. I particularly like fabric and other textiles, as well as small receptacles. I recently got inspired to make cushion covers from men's shirts, entitling the series 'Stuffed Shirts', as city gents are sometimes that, and the cushions are also

I'm a member now of the International Union of Mail Artists

2010-08-16T14:21:00.000+01:00

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