Folk Art and Shelf Appeal

Since writing about Julie Arkell last month, I have received a number of emails from other admirers of her work, telling me about exhibitions that she is currently involved with.

The Oriel Davies Gallery in Newtown, Powys is currently running a touring exhibition called Folk Art and Fairy Tales, which examines the crossover between craft and other art forms. Work by Julie, Lucy Casson and Cathy Miles amongst other innovative artists, will be showing at various towns and cities across the UK. The show is currently being held at the Harley Gallery, Worksop, Nottinghamshire. Click to find the touring dates and venues.

Jane Audas, the author of the article in Embroidery magazine where I first saw Julie’s work, also got in touch to let me know that you can usually find Julie’s work at the Contemporary Applied Arts shop. Writer and museum curator Jane, also keeps a blog called Shelf Appeal, ‘A blog about things, anything you can put on a shelf’. It’s a fantastic design journal, where Jane documents really interesting observations and quirky finds, where and when she is inspired to do so.