A striking exhibition ofmetal work created by second and third year students studying Artist Blacksmithing and Contemporary Applied Arts at Hereford College of Arts.

Visitors to the exhibition will be amazed at the skill and design work of these young artists. From large forged iron sculptures to delicate silver jewellery, the standard of design and making is exceptionally high.

The Rural Craft Centre has joined forces with Hereford College to develop a specialist Artist Blacksmithing course that attracts students from all over the world. Validated by the University of Wales, the course provides a fantastic opportunity for students to explore and develop the range of design, production and entrepreneurial skills necessary to become a practising, contemporary Artist Blacksmith.

Many of the pieces being exhibited at Craft in the Bay have been created with specific urban or rural locations in mind - these young designers have been encouraged to design site-specific pieces that stretch their technical and creative skills.

A unique opportunity to see the wonderful ceramic sculpture by Claire Curneen. Her first solo exhibition in Cardiff - Claire has created a new body of work - a development in her research into the human condition and spirituality.

'Passage' explores the journeys people make through space and time. The figurative pieces often refer to images of Christian Iconography, quoting narratives of sacrifice and devotion.

Figures encompass elements of human experiences: love, loss, suffering and compassion. But the work always embody hope. Figures bleed gold, trees sprout gold buds and heads are overcome by flowers.



Photo credit: Dewi Tannant Lloyd

An insight into the innovative applications of paper into contemporary appied art in the UK. Seven artists have been invited to exhibit in From Pulp...

Carol Farrow/Shellie Holden/Sasha Kingston/Hannah Lobley/Sabrina Meyns/Gill Willson/Sarah Kelly

Each has selected unique methods of working with paper in some form - whether it is the organic plant matter to create paper fibres in the sculpture of Gill Wilson or in the amalgamation of recycled maps with stitch in the wall structures by Shellie Holden.

An exhibition celebrating the artist in schools projects that we have been running during 2009/10. This project has been funded by the Prince's Foundation for Children & the Arts.

Alice Kettle's recent embroidery combines sensitivity with scale. Allegory, reflects an abiding interest in the way that narrative can be expressed through the medium of machine-worked embroidery, both in large wall hangings and in a series of private symbolic three-dimensional works, using a restrained monochrome palette as well as more vibrant colours.

A touring exhibition from the Crafts Study Centre, Farnham.

A teapot is not unusual but some teapots are unusual; we are surrounded by them in all their various forms and guises throughout our lives and wherever we travel. Most people own a teapot or two, if they use one of them it is often a cheap utlilitarian object that will stand the rigours of every day use. The other more 'special teapots' are often elevated to glass case status and handed down through families as cherished heirlooms.

Geoffrey Swindell has curated an exhibition of high quality, well designed and superbly executed teapots by the ten most prominent 'special teapot' makers in Britain today. None of these potters make well-worked traditional forms; their works are witty and innovative, pushing boundaries and notions of accepted functional design in ceramics.

Visitors to the exhibition will get an insight into how and why the pots have been made with photographs of working processes and written statements by the potters about their source of inspiration, techniques and why they chose to work in ceramics.