Pavilion Gardens are truly Versatile
PRESS RELEASE: For immediate release September 28th 2009
The Pavilion Gardens have become the proud home of the successful 2009 Festival Fringe 30 Art project Vers@Tile.
Following an extended exhibition at Derbyshire County Council's prestigious Buxton Museum and Art Gallery running throughout this summer's festival season, the award winning multi-media artwork can now be viewed every day at the newly refurbished Art Café in the Pavilion Gardens here in Buxton.
Pavilion Gardens General Manager Terry Crawford said: "I have agreed that we will be the new home for this community exhibition, which has been a great success at the Buxton Museum. The work is a credit to those involved and will be a solid addition to the Pavilion Art Café and a good link with the artists and the Festival Fringe".
The Festival Fringe celebrated its 30th Anniversary this year and with funding from Awards For All & The Big Lottery Fund, The Bingham Trust, The Satterthwaite Bequest and Derbyshire County Council was delighted to commission five leading artists from 'Peak District Products' to work on Vers@Tile, a large-scale public project with over 150 people from Peak Forest, Earl Sterndale, Hollinsclough, Harpur Hill, Fairfield and Buxton.
Ceramic Artist and project co-ordinator Caroline Chouler-Tissier worked closely with Buxton Museum and Art Gallery who provided space for the artists to run their 15 specialist workshop sessions, and the 11 schools, 2 rural Arts groups and 2 Surestart groups produced original and individual artwork using printmaking, metal, pastels and ceramics.
Derbyshire County Council leader and cabinet member for culture Councillor Andrew Lewer said: "We were delighted to be involved with the Vers@Tile project which brought new visitors into the museum and art gallery. "It is just the kind of work we want to be part of and is another link in the creative chain Buxton can be proud of."
Stephanie Billen chair of the Fringe commented: "We're so pleased that the Art Café is displaying this wonderful work. This special project has already enabled many people to find out more about the Fringe both through actively participating in workshops and through seeing the finished work at the museum during the summer. Now even more people can admire the tiled triptych in its new permanent home."
The Festival Fringe and the Pavilion Gardens have been at the hub of the creative scene this summer with the Fringe boasting its largest number of entrants ever with audiences to match and the Pavilion Gardens providing performance and exhibition space for music and the Entente Art Florale, as well as hosting the Fringe Desk at the entrance to the Gardens.
The "Gallery in the Gardens" home of the High Peak Artists & Craftworkers Association and organizers of the Entente Art Florale exhibition, are proud to share space with the Vers@Tile project. The five Vers@Tile artists, Caroline Chouler-Tissier, Sandra Orme, Jill Kerr, Adele Kime, and Ingrid Karlsson-Kemp, are also members of the group and exhibit work at the permanent gallery in the new Tourist Information Centre in the Gardens.
Caroline said the artists felt the project had been a great success "It was a great opportunity for people to explore the theme of the Buxton Festival Fringe in so many different materials and directions. Each of us had a different approach and specialism. The results are really worth a second look! Especially as it's in the Art Café now and you can have a coffee at the same time!"
PRESS: For further information contact Caroline Chouler-Tissier on 07906678393