Goldmark 35, 2024/5

A New Year brings with it fresh projects and new collaborations, and already 2025 is booking up fast here at the gallery. We’re particularly excited to be working with the wonderful Mercer Art Gallery in Harrogate from January. We’ll be lending a significant number of works to Look, Look Again!, an exciting showcase of 20th century British art. Concurrent with that exhibition, gallery artist Chris Wood will be returning to the Mercer after his last major retrospective there some 25 years ago, with an exceptional series of works inspired by the tales of the Brothers Grimm. Our ceramics calendar, for the first time in the gallery’s history, is scheduled for four major Japanese exhibitions in 2025, while the art side hopes to bring some much-needed colour to the winter months with an eclectic Raoul Dufy show. I look forward to welcoming you back to the gallery for another magnificent year of art. Mike Goldmark

CONTRIBUTORS

Stephen Anderton has written on gardens in the Times for over 33 years. A degree in Classics and Drama led to a career as a professional gardener, concluding as National Gardens Manager for English Heritage. His cabaret songs about gardening were described in the Times as ‘to gardens, what Private Eye is to politics.’ His many books include a biography of Christopher Lloyd. He now lectures worldwide. His own garden in the Black Mountains is visited by specialist tours. Ceramics have been a fascination for over thirty years.

Isabella Smith is a freelance arts journalist and editor with a focus on craft. She is the author of Lucie Rie (Eiderdown Books, 2022). A former senior editor of Apollo magazine, she has written about artists and craftspeople for publications including Crafts, Frieze, The Guardian, and World of Interiors.

Ian Duhig FRSL worked with homeless people for fifteen years before becoming a writer, although he still works on projects with socially-marginalised groups as well as with artists, musicians and filmmakers. He has won the Forward Best Poem Prize once, the National Poetry Competition twice, his New and Selected Poems received the 2022 Hawthornden Prize for Literature and An Arbitrary Light Bulb is the Poetry Book Society 2024 Winter Choice.

Janne Greasley is a Finnish potter, currently based in the Lake District in Cumbria. An MA graduate from the University of Central Lancashire in 2023, in the same year he was recipient of the Potclays Graduate Award at part of the Educlaytion Programme. He has worked with and assisted numerous potters in the UK, in particular as a firing crew member for Nic Collins.

Veta Gorner is a multidisciplinary artist and a Fellow of the Society of Painter-Printmakers. She is passionate about print and specializes in etching and lithography. In her practice, she combines traditional methods with contemporary technology and materials, continuously advocating for printmaking as a vibrant and independent artistic medium. She works from her studio near Stamford, in Easton on the Hill.