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County card competition winners unwrapped!
Call for applicants to a new Nottinghamshire creative scheme
Earth and Fire 2009

County card competition winners unwrapped!

Earlier this year we asked you to design a seasonal greetings card for Nottinghamshire County Council to use to send seasonal greetings across the county. A selection of entries along with the winning card designs will be displayed at the 'Rufford Unwrapped' exhibition from 15 November 2008 to 4 January 2009.

Nottinghamshire County Councillors had the difficult task of choosing the winning designs from a huge postbag of entries from across the county.

The designers of the winning cards will be presented with their prizes by the Chairman of the County Council The Hon Joan Taylor at the opening of 'Rufford Unwrapped' on Saturday 15 November at 1.00pm at the Craft Centre Gallery, Rufford Abbey Country Park.

Cards will be on sale on the day. All the proceeds from sales go to the Chairman’s Charity which this year is The Child Migrants Trust.

See the winning designs

Winners

Age 10 and under (three winners)

12 Angels composite design; Mapplewells Primary & Nursery School, Sutton-in-Ashfield (3 and 4 year olds)

Snowman; James Walker, Boughton, Nr Newark (Aged 8)

Snowman; Laura Herrod, Abbey Gates Primary, Ravenshead (Aged 9)

Age 11-18

Robins; Imogen Rose Cotterill, Jacksdale (Aged 14)

Age over 18

Winter landscape; Michael Scott, Newark

Composite Card, entrants participated in silk painting and printmaking workshops at Rufford Craft Centre

Amy Bowns and her mum, Worksop, Notts; Hilary Brock, Southwell, Notts; Celeste Burns, Huddersfield; Mollie Ann Challender, Newark, Notts; Adele Glaser, Southwell, Notts; Daniel Harding and Rebecca Harding, Hucknall, Notts; Sophie Hilditch, Worksop, Notts; Shirley Hingley, Carlton, Nottingham; Pamela Morton and India Freya Morton, Sutton on Trent, Notts; Joshua Newbold, Sheffield; Ceirwen Roberts, Ranby, Notts; Caylie Smith, Lincs; Katy Whitehead-Knight, Nottingham and not forgetting Councillor Steve Carroll and Councillor Joyce Bosnjak and workshop leader Andrew Wynne.

Call for applicants to a new Nottinghamshire creative scheme

Are you an artist/maker who....?

• is a Nottinghamshire resident producing quality contemporary craft
• is just starting out or has been in business for less than three years
• would benefit from support to help you and your creative business thrive
• would relish the opportunity to be part of a group
• is prepared to work towards staging a group selling exhibition at Rufford Gallery.

The Nottinghamshire creative scheme will seek to explore and develop bespoke training including; peer learning and mentoring opportunities, applied business skills and improving and extending curatorial expertise. Successful applicants will work towards a group exhibition at Rufford Craft Centre Gallery in May 2009.

Further details and application forms will be available from Nottinghamshire County Council Arts Service in December.

Please e-mail: artsadmin@nottscc.gov.uk or tel: 0115 977 4589.
Closing date for applications is Friday 23 January 2009.

Earth and Fire 2009

The 15th international ceramics fair will take place in the grounds of Rufford County Park on 26, 27 and 28 June 2009. More information and an exhibitors application form can be downloaded below.

Earth and Fire information [PDF 2.6MB]
Exhibitors application form [PDF 1.8MB]
Exhibitors application form [WORD 57KB]