Last night I was a guest at the final in Reading of the Youth and Philanthropy Initiative. I had not heard about the programme until we were approached by a set of yr 10 students: Jordan, Ketan, Louie and Orlando who wanted to bid for support for jelly through the YPI programme. The programme awards [...]
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Aunt Elsie’s Spring Fling
We are delighted to be able to invite you to Aunt Elsie’s Spring Fling. Friday 3rd May, Saturday 4th May 10am-6pm, Aunt Elsie’s Marquee, Market Place, Reading Following on from the success of Aunt Elsie’s Christmas Do last year, we are once again putting up the marquee, bringing out the bunting, laying the tables with [...]
jelly artist at RCAF – Lisa-Marie Gibbs
Introducing one of our favourite artists – Lisa-Marie Gibbs I am inspired by the mundane, insane, gossip, beauty, love, life and all of the other stuff that surrounds us. I have been for the last year working on a series of drawings exploring dialogues between the woman and the bird and am delighted to be [...]
jelly artist at RACF – Sally Castle
We are delighted that Sally Castle is exhibiting with us, Sally exhibited in our very first gallery back in the early 90′s and it is wonderful to be working her again. When Sally Castle designed her first book for Two Rivers Press, she could not have imagined that fifteen years after Rimbaud’s The Drunken Boat [...]
jelly artist at RCAF – Salvo Toscano
Introducing another of the jelly artists going with us to Reading Contemporary Art Fair, Salvo Toscano. As well as being seen shooting people at our events regularly, Salvo is also resident in the jelly studios and will also be welcoming visitors to his studio (jelly studios, 42 Market Place) for Open Studios 2013 (http://www.open-studios.org.uk/). Salvo [...]
jelly artist at RCAF – Jo Quinn
Jo Quinn was one of the original jelly crew, she still runs most of the workshop activity as well as being an artist and teaching too. You can see her work both at Reading Contemporary Art Fair and Aunt Elsie’s Spring Fling. Jo will be exhibiting simple etchings, all hand printed onto old ephemera [...]
jelly artist at RCAF – Anne Wilson
Anne Wilson has been part of the jelly team and one of our favourite artists for may years now, you can see some of her work now again locally in Picnic as well as the forthcoming Whiteknights Studio Trail. Welcoming back Anne Wilson: Much of my work is inspired by everyday life, pattern, colour and [...]
Meet the Artist: Michael Thomas, Aunt Elsie’s Spring Fling 3-4 May
Pipal Press A new publisher of high quality books and black and white photographs by Michael Thomas about unusual places and people in India. Michael Thomas has made many trips to India over the last 25 years and always armed with black and white film. After a full career in architecture, which included the [...]
jelly artist at RCAF – Paul Kessling and Kate Kessling
Introducing two artists who have been exhibiting with us for a very long time, Paul Kessling and Kate Kessling. Normally we would talk about them individually but this year they have collaborated on a major piece for the Reading Contemporary Art Fair. Kessling/Kessling Dot Matrix 77/1 ALL IS NUMBER Concrete, resin 140cm x 98 cm [...]
jelly artist at RCAF – Fletcher Prentice
It’s nearly time for us to be at the Reading Contemporary Art Fair (27-28 April) and we will be unveiling some of the artists who will be exhibiting with us, first up is the work of Fletcher Prentice. Although not a Reading based artist we met him through one of the jelly favourite artists Charlotte [...]
