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Description: Visual arts and material culture
Visual arts and material culture
At the Oxmarket Gallery in Chichester, the Society of Designer Craftsmen has its 2023 summer exhibition until Sunday 10 September. Oxmarket Contemporary Gallery, St Andrew’s Court, off East Street, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 1YH. Entrance free. Opening Times: 10am to 4pm Tue-Sat / 12pm to 4pm Sundays. My introduction to the exhibition catalogue.
In 1900 Britain led the world in design and craftsmanship. In 1887 our Society, then called the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, was formed by a group of artists, designers and architects, including Walter Crane, William de Morgan, W. R. Lethaby and Lewis Foreman Day, who saw the need for a body that would exhibit the best in decorative art, raise standards of workmanship and improve the lot of artisans. They believed the decorative arts to be as important as easel-painting and sculpture, but they had ne
HAND EYE FOOT BRAIN