Oxmarket are excited to host The Modern Makers Exhibition. This is a showcase of Design Led Contemporary Craft in Sussex and the surrounding area. The exhibition highlights the strong platform of the craft tradition in our area, with a diverse range of work in categories including ceramics, glass, wood, print, metal, textiles and basket weaving. It is curated by Gael Emmett, herself a local multi disciplinary designer maker, with a long standing relationship with the gallery. The carefully selected work features design led crafts from makers with a strong basis in the traditions of craft brought into a contemporary context.

Oxmarket Contemporary is committed to supporting and promoting crafts and makers, and this exhibition is testament to this philosophy. Each of the artists featured bring a unique perspective and style to their work. The techniques used to create their work, derived from long standing traditional methods, are seen here in new and exciting contemporary works in the Applied Arts.

Whilst exploring the wealth of local talent to bring this exhibition together, it was exciting to discover designers and makers that were new to us. We hope to build on these relationships and this event in the future.

It is the techniques and materials used by all these makers and their vast knowledge and skills that are the platform for this exhibition. The process of basket weaving will also include the growing and harvesting of the materials used. Printmaking processes and photography print processes, such as silver gelatin, use technical  skills that are a craft in themselves. The exhibitors workshop spaces are places of collaborative creative energy with beautiful materials, such as willow, clay, timber, leather, glass & metal all around to inspire their design and making process.

There are over twenty exhibitors and so many different  hand made pieces of work by extraordinarily talented designer makers, that it truly is a great showcase for Craft in our local area.