Visit City & Guilds of London Art School during London Craft Week 2018 and learn about the ancient practices of stone and wood carving, making paints from natural pigments and gilding. Observe demonstrations, talks and live carving competitions, and try your hand at stone carving and other activities.
Carving and Historic Crafts Open House on Friday 11 May 10am-7pm and Saturday 12 May 10am-5pm
Free and open to all
Glimpse behind-the-scenes of a real art school and learn about the ancient skills of historic wood and stone carving.
Carving Competition
Open Studios
Gilding and Pigment-Making Demonstrations
‘Have a Go’ at Stone Carving
Freshly-Prepared Food and Bar
City & Guilds of London Art School, 124 Kennington Park Road, London SE11 4DJ
PROGRAMME
Exhibitions: Material Matters: Pigment, Second Year Transcription Project in the atrium as well as the work of the young people from The Creative Dimension Trust and the premier film screening of ‘The Making of The Uppark Table’ a film about Peter Thuring.
FRIDAY 11 MAY, 10am – 7pm
10am – 5.30pm Carving Competition
10am – 6pm Woodcarving Open Studios
10am – 5pm Gilding & Pigment Demonstration Room with Rian Kanduth, Tuesday Riddell, Catalina Christensen & Jane de Sausmarez
1pm – 2pm Stone carving ‘Have a Go’ led by Tim Crawley, Head of Historic Carving
5pm – 7pm Bar Open
SATURDAY 12 MAY, 10am – 5pm
10am – 3pm Carving Competition
10am – 3.30pm Woodcarving Open Studios
10am – 4pm Gilding & Pigment Demonstration Room with Rian Kanduth, Tuesday Riddell, Catalina Christensen & Jane de Sausmarez
1pm – 2pm Stone carving ‘Have a Go’ led by Tim Crawley, Head of Historic Carving
2.30pm – 5pm Carving Alumni reunion
3pm – 5pm Bar Open
3.30pm – 4pm Carving Competition Vote
4.30pm Remarks and Prize Giving
Refreshments available on each day, with Café at Jamyang providing delicious, freshly-prepared food on Saturday.
Special thanks to: Amarestone for donations of stone for the Carving Competition. Berkshire based Amarestone are a supplier of the highest quality natural stone. Specialising in French limestone and other European CE marked limestone and marble.
Thanks to: the Worshipful Company of Masons for supporting the Carving Competition prize; to Dick Onians for judging the Carving Competition; to the London Craft Week organisers; and to the students, staff and alumni of City & Guilds of London Art School who have made the event possible.
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Historic Stone Carving – A Talk by Tim Crawley at Southwark Cathedral
Thursday 10 May at 7.00pm
FREE (Registration Required)
Tim Crawley, Head of Historic Carving at the City & Guilds London School of Art will be talking about the great tradition of architectural stone carving that goes back millennia and the place it has in today’s world for contemporary and historic buildings where there is tremendous potential for figurative, foliate or abstract ornamentation.
This talk is free but you must book your attendance here