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I, 2013


machine knitted wool, glass beads, coral, antique earring, polished agate and lace, 130 × 210 × 50 mm

Freddie Robins is showing a new body of work, Out on a Limb, in the Project Space on the second floor of COLLECT: The International Art Fair for Contemporary Objects, 10 – 13 May 2013

Robins is taking part in the Project Space Panel Discussion alongside Laura Ellen Bacon and Paulo Goldstein, chaired by Grant Gibson, Editor of Crafts Magazine, Events Space, Monday 13 May 2.00 – 3.00pm

COLLECT is presented by the Crafts Council at the Saatchi Gallery, Duke of York’s HQ, King’s Road, London SW3 4RY

COLLECT brings together an international selection of galleries representing exceptional work by over 400 artists. Launched by the Crafts Council at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London in 2004, COLLECT has since established itself as the leading international fair for museum-quality contemporary craft. Over ten years, the fair has showcased work from over 1,500 artists through 106 galleries from 19 countries across the globe.

Eleven artists will showcase concept-led work made specifically for the Project Space. The other artists are Mika Aoki, Laura Ellen Bacon, Paulo Goldstein, Evelie Mouila, Hormazd Narielwalla, Soung Cheoul Park, Pelicano and Saltamontes, John Rainey, Lindsay Taylor and Daniel Widrig.

www.collect2013.org.uk

www.artscouncil.org.uk

Limb, 2013

machine and hand knitted wool, crochet wool, expanding foam. glass beads, lace, dress pins, sequins and antique faux pearl necklace, 640 × 200 × 140 mm

A celebration of works by Martha Fiennes, Freddie Robins and Alice Cicolini at Spring Studios, curated by Andrée Cooke

Art and design pieces by Troika, Karen Ryan, Gisela Stiegler
(courtesy Marion Friedman Gallery), Marcus Tomlinson and
Petros Christostomou will also be on display throughout the building

VIP evening on 14 May 2013
6.00 – 10.00pm
Spring Studios, Spring House, 
10 Spring Place, London NW5 3BH


RSVP to Andree.Cooke@springstudios.com



Freddie Robins’s work can also be seen in the following:


40:40 forty objects for forty years

Online exhibition celebrating forty years of the Crafts Council Collection
www.4040.org.uk

http://onviewonline.craftscouncil.org.uk/4040/object/T165





Out on a Limb

Saatchi Gallery, London
10 – 13 May 2013

I, 2013
machine knitted wool, glass beads, coral, antique earring, polished agate and lace, 130 × 210 × 50 mm. In Government Art Collection.

Limb, 2013
machine and hand knitted wool, crochet wool, expanding foam. glass beads, lace, dress pins, sequins and antique faux pearl necklace, 140 × 200 × 640 mm

i, 2013
machine knitted wool, hand crocheted wool, nails, beads, antique glass jewellery, polished agate on maple wood plaque, 180 × 200 × 50 mm. Private Collection

Bad Mother, 2013
machine knitted wool, machine knitted lurex, expanding foam, knitting needles, glass beads, sequins, dress pins, crystal beads on maple wood shelf, 780 × 160 × 160 mm. In the Private Collection of Rosalind Davis and Justin Hibbs.

Still Breathing, 2013
machine knitted wool, hand embroidered wool, hand crocheted lurex, coppered nails, sequins, beads, antique faux pearl necklaces, antique crystal necklace on maple wood plaque, 820 × 1000 × 80 mm

One Letter Apart, 2013
machine and hand knitted wool, hand crocheted wool, expanding foam, ball of sisal, second-hand hand knitted wool glove, antique glass bead necklace, flints, sequins, glitter, mohair yarn, dress pins on oak base, approx 1700 × 550 × 430 mm

A Perfectly Good Marriage, 2013
machine knitted wool, expanding foam, hawthorn log with horse shoe embedded in it, flints, sequins, dress pins on oak, cherry and spruce wood stand, 360 × 440 × 1640 mm

Hacked, 2013
machine knitted wool, expanding foam, second-hand hand knitted wool glove, mohair yarn, beads, sea bamboo beads, balls of wool on hacked steel and wool IKEA stool (designed by Carmel McElroy and Graeme Findlay), 440 × 360 × 980 mm

Out on a Limb – samples and surpluses, things donated and inherited and found, domestic craft, mass manufacture, exquisite craftsmanship, embellished and encrusted, excess, needless, disembodied, immense violence, fear, loss, death, pain, pins and needles, and wool.

Portrait: Sophie Mutevelian
Installation photography: Ben Coode-Adams
Studio photography: Douglas Atfield

www.artscouncil.org.uk