2010 | Manchester

Manchester Dazzle

The Dazzle Exhibition at Manchester Town Hall will run from 21st November until 2nd January 2011. The exhibition will open 7days a week and all work will be for sale. Opening hours will be 10am to 6pm Monday - Wednesday, 10am to 6.30pm Thursday and Friday, 9.30am to 6.30pm Saturday and 11am to 5pm on Sundays.

Provisional Private View dates are 19th and 20th November. There will be some late night openings before Christmas. Dates to be announced.

Designer News

We are really excited this year to welcome a record number of new designers to the Manchester Dazzle.Aazar Azirani, Antonia Chiappe, Tania Clarke Hall, Bea Jareno, Katherine Richmond, Emily Thatcher and Victoria Walker all are exhibiting with Dazzle for the first time and we are sure we will be exhibiting their work in many future shows. We are also welcoming as first time Manchester exhibitors Erin Daly, Beth Essex, Diana Greenwood and Yoko Izawa.

More images by the above designers can be viewed by clicking on their name in the list of exhibitors on the right.

Designers
	JANE ADAM Jane Adam is one of Britain's leading studio jewellers. Graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1985, she has taken part in hundreds of group and solo exhibitions in Britain and abroad. In many major public and private collections, including those of the Crafts Council, London; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery; Cooper Hewitt Museum of Design, New York, USA; and Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA.
	JULIE ALLISON Edinburgh. Figurative work in precious metals. Featured in The Herald & Sunday Herald 2004. Outlets include Kalo, Glasgow, Rosie Brown & Velvet Boutique, Edinburgh.
	ALAN ARDIFF Dublin. Silver and gold. Major international name. Commissions include for "Riverdance"; Eurovision Song Contest & Dublin Regional Authority. In the collection of Billy Connolly, the Danish Embassy & Arthur Anderson. Exhibitions and outlets include Electrum, London and Rubicon Gallery, Dublin. Exhibited in Jewellery Moves, National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh.
	AAZAR AZIRANI Aazar Azirani is a contemporary jewellery designer who uses art and organic forms to inspire her breathtaking hand-made designs. Her childhood in Persia, and exposure to its enthralling cultural history, has made her sensitive to different cultural values and gives her work an extra facet.
	NICOLA BECCI My work is really an exploration of decoration using many sources of inspiration, the main ones being the rich symbolism of the Catholic Church, the trappings of royalty, playing cards and chess, calligraphy and the language of symbolism. Food and confectionary are the source for some of my most recent pieces.
	JESSICA BRIGGS Sheffield. Silver with 18 and23.5 carat golds. Inthe collection of the Cohn Foundation, USA. Work bought by Will Young, James Nesbitt and Michael Stipe.
	NINA BUKVIC London based. Works in gold, oxidized silver, rough diamonds, pearls. Outlets include Electrum, CAA - London. Design Yard - Dublin Scottish Gallery - Edinburgh, Alternatives - Rome, Barneys - USA.
	LILIAN BUSCH Scotland. Danish-born, works in silver & gold using pearls from the Orient, with emphasis on surface treatment. Won the prestigious Tahitian Pearl Trophy in 2005, in all three categories. Outlets include Robert Feather, York; JAM, Eton & Electrum, London & Williamson Brown, Newcastle upon Tyne.
	SELINA CAMPBELL Selina Campbell is a Jeweller/Silversmith who creates and designs contemporary jewellery to decorative silverware. All pieces are limited and small batch production, making each piece unique and original.
	KATHERINE CAMPBELL-LEGG Birmingham. Silver jewellery with rolled pattern & texture & 18-ct gold applied. Outlets include Tomfoolery, London; Nancy Smillie, Glasgow & Eton Applied Arts, Windsor.