Applied Arts To Host 'Showtime'

Applied Arts in London are hosting its inaugural show at the Hoxton Arches from the 2 to 7 June 2015.

Bob Saunders, who runs the company, and who has been working as a maker for the last 40 years, is planning to show some of the firm's work from recent years, along with personal work of those that are currently working with him.

Mr Saunders said: "The idea of the show is to celebrate our work and also to identify and define our role. One of the great pleasures of working within the theatre is meeting with people of great vision and also being part of the collective intelligence that creates great work.

"I've come to realise that our relationship with designers is akin to that of actors and playwrights, while they create characters from a script, in a more modest way we create objects from designs.

"The process has become more collaborative in recent times, as the brief becomes less proscribed and more conceptual. This gives us more freedom to contribute creatively to the process. I also want to give us a platform to show work of our own that we do within the arts and crafts."

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(JP)