CUMBRIA
CERAMICA
FIRE FESTIVAL


Programme:
The Fire Festival site is on land adjacent to Upfront Gallery, Unthank near Penrith, Cumbria. Free Parking available. Vegetarian restaurant at the Gallery. See Map.
Artists will be working daily from 10am on the projects listed below from Monday July 28th to Sunday August 3rd. The main spectacle will be the mass firing of all the projects on Saturday night (August 2nd)

CLAYOPOLIS

Five invited artists will build large scale ceramic structures throughout the week to be fired using various methods over the weekend. These will be left in situ to form the basis of a sculpture park to be added to in subsequent years.
Artists:

Bernard Thiran - Belgium
Catherine Delbruyere - Belgium
Barbora Slivova - Austria
Mike Beecher - UK
Tom Barnett - UK
Artists:

Kevin O'Connor - UK
Geoff Cox - UK

STRAW DOGS

A chance to work alongside artists making life size, semi abstract, canine constructions using straw, wood and clay. These to be fired over the weekend. (Aug 2nd & 3rd)

PORTRAIT HEADS

Two x 2 day workshops with a professional sculptor, using a coarse clay to make larger than life portrait heads.
Monday & Tuesday, July 28th & 29th
Thursday & Friday, July 31st & Aug 1st

Maximum numbers 10 per session
COST - £60 for 2 days.
Please book this workshop by emailing us or phone : 017684 83820

Artist:

Ifor Freeman - UK
Artists:

Martin Lungley - UK
Ray Pearson -UK
KILN CONSTRUCTION

Two ceramic artists working through the week building a wood fired kiln. This to be loaded with pots on Friday Aug 1st, fired Saturday, unloaded Sunday.
THEATRE IN FIRE Artists:

Dave Wilson -UK
John Parkinson - UK
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