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hidden craft

December 4, 2015by carys davies Leave a comment

I love finding hidden pockets of making. Like the delicate skill of fly-tying, which has 107,000 hits on YouTube alone, with 440,000 views for just the top clip. But then […]

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gold mended plate

kintsugi – precious mending

January 17, 2014by carys davies 9 Comments

I’m really looking forward to the Kintsugi lecture at the Ashmolean on the 24th Jan – I think places are still available. I’ve been mending work using resin (araldite, in […]

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Lightbox Space Woking

the art of wellbeing

July 5, 2013by carys davies Leave a comment

I went to a really interesting conference at The Lightbox in Woking on the 28th which looked at how art affects health – more specifically, wellbeing. We shared Prof Paul […]

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craft and social change

June 14, 2013by carys davies Leave a comment

I’ve just booked onto the Landscape of the Mind conference at the Lightbox in Woking (places still available). It’s going to look at the world of the arts and mental […]

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work in progress

thanks for coming – now it’s back to work for me

May 24, 2013by carys davies Leave a comment

Many thanks to everyone who came to the open studio! We had great weather so the mews looked very cheerful. I’m back to making now, the ubiquitous volcanic oysters and […]

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craft for kids at the Big Bang

March 22, 2013by carys davies 1 Comment

I’m still thinking hard about craft and innovation during my Internship at Nesta, but I helped out at the Big Bang Fair last weekend, which reminded me that all craft […]

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try something new

February 24, 2013by carys davies 1 Comment

I’m currently spending three months as an intern at Nesta , the innovation foundation. I’m working in the Public Services Lab, of which more later, but they help and fund […]

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drawings of china

making drawings of pots, not pots

February 15, 2013by carys davies 2 Comments

I’ve been thinking about drawings of pots this week, as I put together a research proposal for the British Craft Biennial inspired by the Spode Museum Trust which now owns […]

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detail of fair isle knitted hat

how knitting soothes

January 11, 2013by carys davies 4 Comments

Happy New Year to you all, thank you for reading all this time! I’m not really ready for 2013, so the blog & I have taken a break from pots […]

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Edward Thomas poem Out in the Dark written by carys davies

new work on paper

September 14, 2012by carys davies Leave a comment

I’ve been making work on paper this week, for the commission I mentioned earlier. It’s really great to break out of making pots sometimes, much as I love them. This […]

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