Jerwood Contemporary Makers is at the Naughton Gallery, Belfast from Wednesday. It’s short notice but tomorrow exhibitors in Taking Time, David Gates and Dawn Youll will talking about their work.

The Naughton Gallery /Canada Room, Queens University Belfast | 6-7pm

Tuesday, 3 August | Free Admission | Advance booking required at info@craftni.org / 028 9032 3059

Reflecting on craft practice and the themes of the Slow Movement,

writer Eleanor Flegg talks to craft practitioners – Dawn Youll and David

Gates. Works by both David and Dawn are part of Taking Time and Jerwood

Makers exhibitions.

  • �Ceramicist Dawn Youll focuses on the exploration of

    personal landscape; exploring the rituals of everyday life and their

    significance. www.dawnyoull.co.uk>

  • �Furniture maker David Gates has an interest in the user

    experience of pieces. Predominately working on open-ended

    interdisciplinary research, his practice focussed on concepts of

    communication and ‘making’ www.davidgatesfurniture.co.uk>

� Eleanor Flegg is a doctoral researcher in contemporary craft

history at the University of Ulster. She has been the design columnist

for the Irish Arts Review since 2003, interior design columnist for the

Sunday Times, 2005-2009 and editor of Room magazine, 2005-2007.

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