Artist statement
New Exhibit: Emmy Palmer combines knitting and glass creating quirky and colourful blown glass forms to the highest standard.
Mathias creates slab-built ceramics, colourfully decorated and inspired by early modernist and mid-century designs.
45 Southside Gallery has been showing contemporary South West artists for more than 15 years.
Extended Bio
Emmy Palmer moved to Plymouth in 2004 to attend The Plymouth College of Art, where she graduated with an BA in Applied Arts, specialising in glass. She instantly fell in love with Plymouth and its surroundings, the sea and the moors being her inspiration.
It was during her degree that she started to combine knitting with glass in different ways. She became enthused about combining knitted metals with blown glass and has been refining the technique ever since.
Emmy loves to knit and it is a skill that has been passed down through her family for generations. To combine knitting and hot glass seemed like a natural form of self expression for her.
Mathias Landwehr's interest in ceramics started to take shape once he moved to the South West from his home city Hamburg in Germany. Opening a gallery selling mainly ceramics he gradually became more interested in processes and techniques. Visiting evening classes at the Plymouth College of Art (now Arts University Plymouth) sent him on a whole new journey.
He makes stoneware pieces mainly slab- or hand-built, decorated with abstract, minimalistic but colourful designs. Contrasting colours and straight lines are a recurring theme softened by the organic fluidity of high firing glazes.
Group Members
EMMY PALMER GLASS: www.emmypalmerglass.com, email:
[email protected], facebook: emmypalmerglass, Instagram: emmypalmerglass
MATHIAS LANDWEHR CERAMICS: www.45southside.co.uk/shop, email:
[email protected], facebook: mathiaslandwehr, Instagram: mathias.landwehr
