Many thanks to the Crafts Council for featuring me as Maker of the Week in the lead up to Collect Open!
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Our Maker of the Week is mosaic maker @joannakessel who has been selected to exhibit at this year’s #CollectOpen, where she’ll be presenting architectural scale, wall based work and sculptural objects. ‘I am interested in mosaic as a contemporary craft rooted in history: the jewel-like qualities of hand-cut mosaic tesserae; the time it takes to create an exquisitely crafted object; the play of light on matt and reflective surfaces and the dialogue between the ordinary and the precious. Creating a mosaic is an immersive process; there is a rhythm to the cutting and laying of the tesserae which I find absorbing, almost meditative, particularly when creating large scale work.’
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Many thanks to the Craftscouncil for featuring me as MotW. It has been an intense yet really rewarding journey from application, through selection to designing and making the work. I imagined how the new work would look but it was only when we carried out the test installation early February that I saw the architectural pieces in their entirety, and the sculptural objects out of the chaos of a working studio. I’m delighted with the development of the work.