Deviants

A Crafts Council Touring Exhibition

6 June to 13 September 2009
Free admission

Irreverence in Contemporary Craft

Deviants challenges the current popular opinion of craft as merely decorative or functional and presents objects from the Crafts Council Collection that shatter that notion.

The ‘deviant’ artists featured make objects that depart from the norm and challenge the imagination. They include teapots with multiple legs, an unfurling jug and a glove with 25 fingers. 

The maverick makers featured are Felicity Aylieff, Jill Crowley, Gillian Lowndes, Carol McNicoll, Henry Pim, Freddie Robins, Richard Slee, Hans Stofer, Angus Suttie and Christopher Williams.

Artist and writer The Lonely Piper provides a unique gallery guide to reflect this alternative and subversive face of craft and bring out the ‘skew-whiff beauty of the peculiar’.

Special opening event

Wrapping the Jaipur Gate

Saturday 6 June, 10.30am-3.30pm

Artist Lucy Brown wraps part of the Jaipur Gate at Hove Museum in colourful fabric, questioning the form and function of this historic structure. The wrapped Jaipur Gate will be accessible to the public until 28 June.

Events for adults

To book telephone 03000 290902

Saturday 13 June
Playing with Function
2– 4pm £5
Exhibitor Carol McNicoll talks about her work with ceramics.

Saturday 27 June
Go Wild with Collage
10.30am-3.30pm £20
Artist Maria Rivans uses the exhibition to inspire an experimental approach to collage with vintage materials and magazines. Please bring a variety of images – photos, magazines, postcards, stamps.

Saturday 11 July
Potty Digressions
10.30am-3.30pm £30
Ceramist Penny Green helps you make your own pot with additional quirky features.

Saturday 18 July
Book as Art Object
10.30am-12.30pm £7.50
Artist Sue Edwards uses folding and pleating techniques to help you make a unique art object. Please bring two or three unwanted paperbacks.

Saturday 1 August
Bizarre Baskets
10.30am-3.30pm £30
Create your own 'out of the ordinary' basket using cane, cable, ties and a selection of unusual materials as embellishment, in this workshop with Mary Crabb.

Saturday 15 August
Building with Stitch
10.30am-3.30pm £20
Embroiderer Gavin Fry shows you how to create a cast of 3D objects using stitch.
Please bring sharp scissors and a small plastic hollow object.

Events for children

To book telephone 03000 290902
Advance booking recommended
All events for ages 8+ (except Wonky Teapots)

Saturday 25 July
Wonky Teapots
2-4pm £7 Book in advance only
Local potter Matt Smith helps you make crazy and unusual teasets.
Age 5-8 years, children must be accompanied by an adult.

Sunday 2 August
Quirky Bags
2.30-4.30pm £7
Make fabulous, unusual bags, in response to the exhibition.

Saturday 8 August
Pop-Up Books
10.30am-12.30pm £7
Using simple methods and materials Sue Edwards will help you make a unique and quirky pop-up book.

Wednesday 12 August
Magic Mosaics
1.30-3.30pm £7
Make fantastic, but ever-so-slightly eccentric, mosaic with the help of Anna Tilson.

Saturday 15 August
Crazy Clothing
12.30-4.40pm £10
Bring in a piece of clothing to customise with hands, fingers. feet and toes.

Saturday 29 August
Customise Cutlery
2-4pm £7
Be inspired by the exhibition to make fantasy cutlery.

Sunday 30 August
Body Part Pots!
2.30-4.30pm £7
Be inspired by the Pot with Ears in the exhibition to create your own weird and wonderful pot.