IC:Innovative Craft Blog

Getting to know you and the Jerwood Contemporary Makers…

Posted Tuesday 18 August 2009, 02:25pm

Having started at IC:Innovative Craft all of 10 working days ago it is with great pleasure that I am able to write my first blog entry.  Just to quickly introduce myself, I am Nick Duxbury the new IC administrator, I have previously worked in Birmingham and Oxfordshire, I have spent the past 8 months living and working as an abstract landscape artist, examples of which can be seen through Facebook here, and I am a Dartington College of Arts Writing (Contemporary Practices) graduate.

The last few weeks have been an immersion into life at IC and Dovecot and a blur of exhibition openings and events.  It was an honour to be present at the opening of the Jerwood Contemporary Makers 2009 exhibition and a privilege to communicate with and meet some of the artists/designers that have created the work.  There is still plenty of learning to be done, however it was great to be able to sit down with the Dovecot weavers and Alastair Salvesen after the exhibition opening and absorb information and stories about the building, studios and the future of it all. 

I look forward to being able to say hello to you all in person when you visit the exhibitions and future IC events.

Have a good festival if you are visiting or in the city,
Nick, Administrator, IC