Enjoy Easter at The Harley Gallery

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Enjoy Easter at The Harley Gallery

[Right: Helen Lang, LOVE print, Love Letters display]

Visit The Harley Gallery near Worksop this Easter for your last chance to see three eggciting displays.

Looking forward to your Easter lunch? Visit Dinner for a Duke and find out about food and dining at Welbeck Abbey, for both the aristocracy and their servants. There's plenty to whet your appetite, from elaborate silverware to a beer dispenser, and centuries old recipes - including one for curry!

Learn about lovely lettering with our eggstra special show Signs for Sounds. See work made in traditional ways, with stone cutting and calligraphy, alongside work made with new technologies. Use our touch screen to re-shape digital poetry, watch a film all about graffiti and find out about font design. Inspired? Visit our creative space with the kids and have a go at our typetastic activities.

The Harley Shop's special collection, Love Letters, is a great chance to take home some arty alphabets. Browse lovely, hand made things for you and your home, from £13 onwards.

Plus, if you're looking for some springtime family treats, bring the kids along to our nature themed workshops on 3, 10 and 11 April. Have a go at felt making and pigment painting, or try your hand at making a book (to fill with your own lettering designs!).

Relax and enjoy Easter with The Harley Gallery. Dinner with a Duke, Signs for Sounds and Love Letters are on show until 9 April.

The Harley Gallery is on the A60 between Mansfield and Worksop, is free to enter and also has free parking. Closed Easter Sunday.

Opportunity: Join the Harley Studios

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Opportunity: Join the Harley Studios

A studio is now available to rent at The Harley Foundation Studios, and applications are welcomed from artists and makers.

The Harley Studios are a community of 24 workspaces, nestled into the countryside of the historic Welbeck Estate.

The available studio is one of our 'East Workshops' designed by John Outram, well suited to groups or those using large scale machinery. The Welbeck Estate is approximately an hour drive from Nottingham and Sheffield, conveniently situated close to both the M1 and A1.

Studio artists benefit from private surroundings within a thriving creative community, in an idyllic and unusual working environment.

The Harley Foundation was set up in 1977 by Ivy, Duchess of Portland, to 'encourage creativity in all of us' and in working towards this aim provides subsidised studio spaces and runs the Harley Gallery.

For further information, please visit our website or contact:

Lisa Gee
Director, The Harley Foundation and Gallery,
Welbeck, Worksop, Nottinghamshire S80 3LW
lgee@harleygallery.co.uk 01909 501 700 www.harleygallery.co.uk

Baskets, Badgers and Bandicoots at The Harley Gallery

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Baskets, Badgers and Bandicoots at The Harley Gallery

20 June - 12 August 2012

[right] Basket by Lois Walpole


Visit the Harley Gallery, Worksop, this summer to enjoy a double whammy of craft exhibitions.

From 20 June to 12 August, the Gallery will be filled with Susan O'Byrne's Menagerie of quirky animals, and Lois Walpole's beautiful baskets made from unusual materials.

Susan O'Byrne's ceramic creatures are migrating to the Harley Gallery this summer, after being on show in France and Germany. The animals are made from delicate paper clay, built up layer by layer to create whimsical, loveable sculptures.

Inspired by Victorian menageries, medieval bestiaries and childhood collections of toy animals, Susan presents her animals boxed, labelled and mounted, ready to examine. With amazing attention to detail, this is a great exhibition for any animal lover - visit and see a huge variety of birds and animals, from a Pygmy Platypus to a Rabbit Eared Bandicoot.

Lois Walpole's baskets are sure to surprise you. Basketry is a craft that is over 10,000 years old - you may be familiar with handmade baskets woven from grasses, reeds or rushes. Lois crafts her brightly coloured, curiously textured structures from natural and recycled materials. The exhibition shows over 30 pieces from Lois' international career. Bottle tops, tin cans, plastics, all are reimagined in her playful work.

Visit the Harley Gallery from 20 June - 12 August and enjoy a summer full of baskets, badgers and unabashed relaxation.

The Harley Gallery is on the A60 between Mansfield and Worksop, is free to enter and also has free parking.

Lois Walpole - Urban Baskets: Tradition Recycled is touring from Walford Mill Crafts.