---

---

Rugby’s Artists and Makers Network Pop Up

December 2021 – January 2022.

Thank you for all of your support during the Pop Up. It was quite an adventure for our group. We were very pleased with the positive feedback that we got from our visitors, and our Network participants particularly enjoyed the opportunity to meet up with each other and the public.

This page will stay as a record of the event and so that you can revisit any of our artists and makers that you saw during the Pop Up, but please do also explore the rest of our site and consider following us on Instagram at @rugbyartistsandmakers where we re-post lots of our local artists and makers.

Showing -Selling – Networking – Learning – Doing

Pop Up part 2 was in a different format from our pre-Christmas Pop Up part 1. Read on to find out about the full schedule between 6th and 13th January.

Come and visit us in Rugby Central shopping centre (CV21 2JR), near to the entrance from the marketplace, in the old Thorntons unit, between Grape Tree and Claire’s, opposite The Works.

Thursday 6th January, 10am – 4pm – Weaving studio

I love how different techniques have their own technology and language – come and learn your warp from your weft, and your heddle from your raddle. Find out how to change the shed with one foot! If you’ve never met a saori loom, a Kromski rigid heddle loom, Lervad 4 shaft countermarch, a band loom or an Ashford Joy, this is your chance!

Friday 7th & Saturday 8th, 10am – 4pm – Buy from the artist / maker

On Friday 7th and Saturday 8th we will have artists and makers in the Pop Up showing and selling their work.

Friday 7th: Blue Coppice, Magdalena Edwards, Gemma Whitford and Ditherella’s Workshop.

Saturday 8th, Blue Coppice, Magdalena Edwards, Sarais Crawshaw, Tamsen Flack & Barn, Yarn, & Farm.

Sunday 9th, 11am – 4pm – Rugby Jewellers Pop Up

Note the later, Sunday lie-in, start time.

Makers of jewellery and wearable art from the Rugby Artists and Makers Network will be showing their work, and how they make it, and will have pieces available to buy.

Taking part are Blackberry Hare Jewellery, Black Cat Silver, Ceramics & Silks, De Terra, and Ditherella’s Workshop. See jewellery and wearable art made in sterling and fine silver, resin, porcelain, silk, and paper and plaster.

Monday 10th and Tuesday 11th – Rugby Artists and Makers Networking (Network members only, not open to the public)

Our Network is all about getting creative people together to share knowledge, skills and experience, and to share and create opportunities. This is what we will be focusing on for these two days.

Wednesday 12th, 10am – 2pm – Mindful Drawing with Gemma Whitford (Drop in, no need to book)

Thursday 13th, 4pm & 5pm – Little Painter Children’s Painting workshops with Rebecca Jane Art (Booking Essential)

Postponed to a different location and date.

We reluctantly reached the decision that our Pop Up venue, although lovely for a shop & gallery, wasn’t suitable in size or facilities to provide the best workshop experience for the children and their parents, so the workshops are to be rescheduled to a different venue at a later date.

A great opportunity to allow your children’s creative juices to flow.
See the joy on your child’s face as they have some fun!

Exhibiting artist Rebecca Jane Rebecca has recently worked with almost 700 school pupils creating masterpieces to take home. During her workshops she works on a piece with the children to take home in step by step stages.

Pop Up part 1 – read on to see what we did

Gallery – Demonstrations – Artists & makers selling

Rugby Central, 4th – 17th December

All participants are members of the RA&M network.

About the Pop Up

We had a gallery on the walls of the unit throughout the Pop Up dates, and demonstrations on the opening day and on the morning and afternoon of each weekday. On each day we had a changing selection of artists and makers showing and selling their work.

It was a great opportunity for members of our Network group to get to know each other better and to meet lots of people who came to visit, and commented how lovely it was to have such a Pop Up appear in the town centre.

Demonstrators

Read more about our demonstrators here. (Note the schedule did change a little along the way).

Gallery

Our gallery exhibited works by Brian Dickinson, Clare Pentlow, Dee Luntley, Gemma Whitford, Glynis Haywood-Bradley, Jane Archer, Jenny Ball, Jennie Fletcher, Nicky Luntley, Rebecca Caulton, Sarais Crawshaw, Steve Davies, Tamsen Flack, who are listed below in our Pop Up Schedule, and also works by:

Artists & makers in our Pop Up schedule

The following artists were unable to attend as scheduled but all made a significant contribution to making the Pop Up happen.

Please do look up our artists and makers online.

Note also that some local artists and makers can also be found in The Nest, Hatty Bakewell’s Cafe, Rugby Unwrapped and Fosse House Gallery.

This pop up has been made possible by Rugby Borough Council with the support from the European Regional Development Fund.