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What's New
Added 26 May 2009: Newlyn Copper
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A new book Newlyn Copper: Arts and Crafts Copper Work in Newlyn by Daryl Bennett and Colin Pill is a comprehensive account of how the Newyn Industrial Class was established and how it developed. Fully illustrated in colour, the book is available on request, at 25 GBP plus postage. Please contact us for details.
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| Newlyn Copper Exhibition at Geffrye Museum from 9th June 2009. The exhibition has been well attended and much appreciated at several venues: Cannon Hall, South Yorkshire; Penlee House, Penzance, Cornwall; and Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum. It will be at the Geffrye Museum in London from 9th June. From the Penlee House catalogue:
The exhibition is a tribute to the work of J.D.Mackenzie for his designs and his leadership of the Class but it is also, most importantly, an appreciation of the skill of the craftsmen. We know so little of the men themselves, Phillip Hodder master craftsmen in the early years, who created the Newlyn Art Gallery Plaques is thought to have died of verdergris poisoning at the age of 40 years. Obed Nicholls, confined to a wheelchair since childhood became one of the most creative and skilled workers of the Class and like Hodder he inscribed some of his work. However, many pieces of Newlyn are unmarked and most unattributable to any individual craftsman. Together however the craftsmen created an important cultural heritage, their work easily recognised in construction and design and now greatly respected as part of the legacy of the British Arts and Crafts movement.
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| Talk on Newlyn Copper, 20th June 2009. Daryl Bennett will give a talk on Newlyn Copper to the Mackintosh Society on 20th June at the Geffrye Museum.
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An article in Antique Collector by Daryl Bennett was published in May 2009. Newlyn Copper is featured in the BBC Home and Antiques magazine April 2009.
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| Two new websistes. One http://www.newlyncopper.co.uk celebrates Newlyn Copper, the other
http://www.artsandcraftsmetalwork.co.uk covers Arts and Crafts metalwork more widely.
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Added 28 Oct 2007
Added 28 April 2007
| The Newlyn Copper Project Newsletter (Issue 1). A project to research and to celebrate the history of the Newlyn Industrial Class is being developed, and this is the first newsletter of the project. Anyone interested in joining a special interest group is invited to contact us. | | Newsletter Issue 1 (PDF) | |
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Added 26 Dec 2006
| A feature on about recent lottery funded Shapland and Petter exhibitions at Barnstable and Cannon Hall, Barnsley. | | S & P Heritage Project | |
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| An expanded feature on the "groundbreaking" book accompanying the exhibitions.
| | S & P Book | |
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| More information about collecting Shapland and Petter furniture.
| | S & P Collecting | |
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| Our illustrated list of Newlyn pieces is working properly again (the images went missing for a while).
| | Newlyn Illustrations | |
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Added 23 July 2005
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A feature on the book about Shapland and Petter by Daryl Bennet.
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Added 1st March 2003
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Shapland and Petter. A history of the company and its importance in the Arts and Crafts Movement (part 1).
| | Shapland and Petter | |
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Added 1st Jan 2003
| Pictures of Newlyn work. Featuring important images which have not been seen before: invaluable to anyone wishing to
become more acquainted with Newlyn copper. | | Newlyn Illustrations | |
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| Influences on Newlyn. Tracing some of the sources of the imagery in Newlyn copper. | | Newlyn Influences | |
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| Newlyn Today. Places to visit in and around Newlyn in Cornwall, England. | | Visiting Newlyn | |
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| Newlyn Methods. Extract from Newlyn Copper with kind permission of the author John Laity. | | Copper-Craft Methods | |
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