Folk Art
I began looking for local folk art with a fixed mental image of what ‘folk’ looks like: hand-carved and highly coloured wooden items with mystic values, sometimes used as ritual objects. I found it a little more complicated.
Sussex Wheels: Ceramic Art
When Grayson Perry won the Turner Prize in 2003, the shock value was not that he was a cross-dresser with an alter ego, but that a ceramicist could take the award.
Outdoor Sculpture
Outdoor sculpture is bang on trend at the moment. More and more people, it appears, are investing in it, and enjoying its benefits.
Textile and Craft-based Art
There’s been a huge surge of interest in textile and craft-based art in recent years. Art/craft hierarchies have been dismantled, and craft’s ‘promotion’ from the traditionally feminine sphere of the domestic into the historically masculine fine art world appears to be complete.