Art Workers' Guild

The Art Workers’ Guild is a body of more than 350 artists, craftspeople & architects working at the highest levels of excellence in their professions.

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Monica Grose-Hodge is holding a new exhibition - 'The Rag-Garden Stories' - this winter at the Guild. You can view the exhibition by appointment - contact [email protected] to arrange a visit.

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A big thank you to our Creative Connections cohort of 2023-24! Across the last year this group of emerging makers, and the dedicated Guild members who make up the steering group, have built a wonderful support network and made the first year of this initiative a big success!

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Need to book a last minute festive gathering?

We’ve had a couple of cancellations which mean we now have room availability in December.

Email [email protected] to find out more!

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We were lucky enough to have Jazmine Miles-Long talk at the Guild recently! Through revealing the skilled processes involved in creating taxidermy, Jazmine showed how this misunderstood craft is not only useful for science, but that it can show the beauty of living things.

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Tickets for Master Rob Ryan's The Salon of Doubt are now available - book here https://t.co/zgHkkr0TS5

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On Thursday 31 October the Guild will be hosting a private view for The Art of Brahma: Stencils.

To make an appointment to view the exhibition from Friday 1 to Thursday 7 November. contact [email protected]

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We are open to the public from 11am - 4pm on Saturday 26 October for the final day of our Creative Connections exhibition!

Do pop along to 6 Queen Square to explore the specialist skills involved in furniture design, millinery, wood carving, textiles, ceramics and much more.⠀

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The next @salonofdoubt will be held at the Guild on Tuesday 12 November from 6.30pm.
More details to follow, including how to book tickets.

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Visit us for the final day of our Creative Connections exhibition
Open to the public Saturday 26 October
11am - 4pm

The Art Workers' Guild, 6 Queen Square

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Last week, Jiro Osuga visited the Guild to give a talk to our members. Jiro paints anything that he experiences, from airport terminals to snails. He is often the protagonist in his own work, acting out with gentle self-deprecation the tragicomedy of an artist’s life.

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The Art Workers' Guild Table Top Museum is back for 2024!

This inventive celebration of the madness and the individual and extraordinary rules of those who collect will take place on Saturday 12 October, 11am - 5pm. Entry is free.

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We very much enjoyed having @anncarringtonart at the Guild for our first talk after the summer break!

Ann sculpts fantastical metal sculptures from found and discarded objects. Her pieces often take the form of bouquets, vases, and oversized busts.

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Visit us on Saturday 21 September for the Creative Connections Exhibition as part of Open House Festival 2024. We are open from 11am - 5pm so do come along to meet our exhibitors and see them demonstrating their making processes!

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On Saturday 21 September, from 11am - 5pm we will be open to the public for the Creative Connections Exhibition as part of Open House 2024! Come along and meet our exhibitors who will be demonstrating their artistic processes and showing their tools.

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We hope to see you at the Creative Connections Exhibition, on Saturday 21 September and Saturday 26 October from 11am - 5pm.

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Creative Connections participant Emma Sheridan is a sculptor and painter. In her early career she exhibited work at Frieze, Flat Time House and Years Gallery, before undertaking an apprenticeship as a stonemason and a subsequent training in historic architectural carving.

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Creative Connections participant, Francesca Miotti, is a London-based artist who has embraced hand-weaving as her main medium, being drawn by its connection to women’s domesticity and notions of self-sufficiency.

See Francesca's work at our exhibition on Saturday 21 September.

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Join us for the Creative Connections Exhibition, open to the public on Saturday 21 September and Saturday 26 October from 11am - 5pm.

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Last week Guild members attended the first Master's Outing of the year - a tour of murals and stained glass. We visited the Chagall stained glass at All Saint's, John Ward's murals at Challock Church, the Edward Ardizzone Mural at St Jude's Shrine and the Evelyn Dunbar Murals.

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We are very happy to announce that the Art Workers' Guild Table Top Museum is back for 2024. It will take place on Saturday 12 October, 11am - 5pm. We are now calling for submissions from anyone who would like to exhibit their own table top museum.Visit our website for details!