2014 I London

Dazzle@Oxo

We are returning to gallery@oxo, Oxo Tower Wharf for our London Dazzle exhibition. This will be our second year at this new venue and we are looking forward to putting on a lively and original exhibition at this stunning riverside venue. This year we will be showing handmade leather bags by Steven Harkin and Wolfram Lohr and handwoven scarves by Japanese design group Nuno.

Dates - 9 November to 11 January 2015.Opening times Monday-Saturday 10-7,Thursdays late opening 10-8, Sunday 11-6. We are closed 25,26 December & 1 January. Telephone during opening hours 07472 105423.

Christmas opening - Wednesday 24 December closing at 4pm, closed 25,26 December. New Years Eve 31 December closing at 4pm, closed 1 January

Image- Cara Tonkin Vesper range

Steven Harkin

Steven Harkin has been designing and making his stylish leather bags in Italy, London and now Folkestone for many years. Originally from Australia, Steven taught at London College of Fashion before launching his own business, selling bags in outlets all over the world. Now based in the Creative Quarter in Folkestone, Steven is spending his time restyling vintage furniture and making beautifully designed bags in Italian leather in vibrant colours.

Wolfram Lohr

Wolfram, born in Germany, came to England in 1996 to become a shoemaker. Now in partnership with Sarah Gardner the range has been expanded to include accessories and a ladies' range. Their inspiration is bringing old and new together. They have a passion for old craftsmanship and design which feeds directly into their new designs, aiming to create a balance between modern functionality and fashionable flare. Their workshop is based in Hove near Brighton on the South Coast.

Nuno

Reiko Sudo is the Artistic Director and inspiration behind Nuno, the textile studio based in Tokyo, Japan. Nuno textiles are at the forefront of innovative international design practice and the combination of complex technologies, traditional techniques and new finishing processes has revolutionised textiles for interiors, fashion and art. We will be showing a selection of exquisite, elegant and wearable scarves which combine colour, texture and technique in a very original way.

New to Dazzle@Oxo

We are lucky this year to be showing an amazing crop of new talent fresh from degree shows at Edinburgh College of Art, Glasgow School of Art and Birmingham School of Art. There will be a huge variety of materials from titanium, recyled leather, wood, paper and found objects as well as more traditional precious metals. The new designers are- Terri Campbell, Lyndsay Cheyne, Han-Chieh Chuang, Karen Elizabeth Donovan, Lindsay Hill, Prudence Horrocks, Harriet Rose Knight, Agne Visniauskaite and Ya Wen.

We will also be introducing some designers who will be new to Dazzle@Oxo. Emma Calvert, Suzanne Claire, Justin Duance, Caroline Finlay , Mirka Janeckova, Stephanie Johnson, Brian Podschies and Cara Tonkin They will all add greatly to the variety of work on show, in what will be, the largest ever London Dazzle.

Image - Karen Elizabeth Donovan

Designers
	JANE ADAM For more than 30 years Jane Adam has built an international reputation as a jewellery designer-maker. She has been exhibiting with Dazzle since graduating from The Royal College of Art in 1985. Her pioneering work in anodised aluminium inspired a new jewellery movement in Britain and abroad. Her work in precious metal and stones builds on this experience to create original and sensuous forms in silver and gold. Her work is in more than 20 public collections including The V&A, Goldsmiths Company and The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.dia, Taiwan, Hong Kong and USA.
	MARIANNE ANDERSON Glasgow. Precious metals including precious and semi-precious stones specialising in rings. Worked with top textile designer Tomoko Hayashi. Outlets include : Aaron Faber, New York; Design Yard, Dublin; Electrum, London; The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh; Flow Gallery, London; Mobilia Gallery, Massachusetts and Orro, Glasgow.
	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.
	DONNA BARRY Welsh born. Trained and based in Edinburgh. Donna works with precious metals, mainly silver, and semi precious stones. Outlets include Byard Gallery, Cambridge, Mobilia Gallery, Boston, Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales, Bircham Gallery, Dundee Contemporary Arts and SH Jewellery, Edinburgh.
	HANNAH BEDFORD Hannah Bedford designs and makes a wide range of women’s jewellery, in silvers and golds. Each piece is handcrafted from her studio at Cockpit Arts Deptford, in the hub of south London’s creative community.
	ROSINA BEECH Rosina finds beauty and colour in unusual functional industrial materials and components. In her Luna collection she combines Sterling Silver with Architectural Aluminium to create unique statement pieces of contemporary jewellery.
	STACEY BENTLEY Stacey is an Edinburgh based jeweller. Her work experiments with vitreous enamel combined with iron, steel, semi-precious stones and precious metals. She explores new possibilities that enamel can bring to contemporary jewellery challenging its initial preconceptions.
	CHRIS BOLAND Chris Boland is an artist-jeweller and metalworker, based in Sheffield, England. Strong, bold shapes are used to stress the unique qualities of the natural inclusions of the gemstones he uses.
	CLARA BREEN Clara Breen works with precious metals and gems, combined with fragments of leaflets, train tickets, maps or colourful paper. Clara's work plays with the notion of a contemporary keepsake. As featured on Radio 4 Woman's Hour.
	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. Outlets include Kath Libbert - Bradford, @ work and Gill Wing - London, The Craft Centre and Design Gallery - Leeds, Bluecoat Display Centre - Liverpool, The Biscuit Factory - Newcastle, Ruthin Craft Centre - Wales, Number Five - Cuper.