AHDS Visual Arts and the Crafts Study Centre are pleased to announce the launch of two new online collections, including the recent gifts of works to the Centre by the calligrapher Ann Hechle and the potter Marianne de Trey.
This material has been digitised as part of a short-term research project, funded by the independent charity the Headley Trust. The project builds on the work of a three-year digitisation project already carried out at the Centre, which made a significant proportion of the CSC collections available over the Internet.
Ann Hechle is a British calligrapher of considerable reputation who has been working since the 1960s. In many ways her career bridges the Arts and Crafts revival at the end of the 19th century and the contemporary craft informed by art and graphic design. In 2004 she gave a wide range of her work to the Centre. Marianne de Trey has been potting on the Dartington Estate in Devon since 1948 and ran a successful production pottery for 3 decades before she retired to make more personal work. In 2005 she donated a selection of pots to the CSC from throughout her career, along with some early work from her studies in printed textiles.
The Headley Trust Project has been exceptional in documenting additional items that relate to and illuminate the donated work but which remain in the maker's own possession. Items such as drafts, sketches and technical trials by Hechle have now been virtually brought into the CSC's remit, and these items enrich our understanding of the context and creation of the finished works physically held at the Centre.
This improved access to the objects is enhanced by two new illustrated Web essays on Hechle and de Trey by Sophie Heath, providing an overview of their careers and a guide to the works in the collection. To access the essays and a number of other AHDS Visual Arts' learning resources, log on to the Learning Index at: http://visualarts.ahds.ac.uk/learning/
For more information about the Crafts Study Centre collections see:
http://www.vads.ahds.ac.uk/collections/CSC.html
Search the Crafts Study Centre collections and the entire AHDS Visual Arts image catalogue at:
www.visualarts.ahds.ac.uk
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