Ruthin Craft Centre is in a curious place: not in the centre of the small market town, but in an industrial park on the outskirts. No matter. It shows crafts of the highest quality, better than Collect, with an exhibition of Welsh crafts which we missed at Collect and a very priginal, beautiful exhibition of jewellery in non-precious metals by makers from all over the world, mainly Scandinavia and Japan.
This is a view of the courtyard:-
We particularly liked the work of Eunmi Chun, a Korean based in Munich, who makes work from intestines:-
And the ravishing paper objects, so fragile, by Michihiro Sato from Osaka:-
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We’ve seen some good things at Ruthin. It’s close enough to family in Shrewsbury to pop over when we are visiting them. Have to say that one of its delights – apart from the quality of the work exhibited – is the very friendly cafe.
Revisited the summer exhibition this week as one of my teens who couldn’t come on our first trip wanted to see it (having seen the BBC Kirsty Wark fronted programme). It makes an enormous difference to family finances that under 16s visit RA exhibitions free. I am now awaiting demands to paint her bedroom a Craig-Martin pink and tape it à la Jim Lambie.
Joan
Dear Charles
A personal, rather than a Blog comment ….
Thank you so much for Ruthin and Mostyn, of neither of which was I aware.
Gill has been in Overton for nearly 50 years but, bizarrely, has explored very little of North Wales .:William, her husband of 41years, was born and brought up there but he and she only went there for weekends to see his parents and she never explored – we went to Anglesay for the first time together this spring, mainly because of your Blog, and a curious art project organised by Wilf (Macdonald Brown) (Gill’s son in law) ’s sister, Sarah, who owns a London gallery, the Thackeray, just off Kensington Square. We are woefully ignorant both of the countryside and of places like Mold, Ruthin etc
Have you been to Gladstone’s Library at Hawarden ? Not very special architecturally, but an interesting place. Loyd Grossman was Chairman of it until quite recently, and got us to go.
Fond regards, and thanks
Mark
Must try Hawarden. A new one for me. Charles