Corn Craft

23 - 27 September 2009



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Artists

Faye Toogood
Raw Edges
Nacho Carbonell
Rowan Mersh
Max Lamb
Gemma Holt

    Corn Craft marks the first creative collaboration between Gallery FUMI and Studio Toogood. Taking inspiration from crafts found in traditional folk culture, these two visionary houses of art and design are staging a contemporary installation based around the sustainable and natural material - corn. Under the creative direction of interior stylist Faye Toogood, the harvest festival will include unique and one-off pieces by Nacho Carbonell and Raw Edges Design Studio as well as an installation by textile sculptor Rowan Mersh. Gallery FUMI have opened their private residence in Hoxton Square to showcase this event.

    Rowan Mersh shows a site specific installation that encapsulates the spirit of rural England's rolling hills. Over 40 000 individual pieces of corn, strung onto mono-filament line, were utilised in the creation of this three dimensional landscape.

    Raw-Edges Design Studio created a domesticated indoor field which made of dry wheat planted squarely inside overlapping wooden frames. White ceramics dished are put on the wheat as if they were floating.

    Nacho Carbonell's collection named Crop, intends to simulate a space inside a corn field, a space you need to find. For that we created an installation that consists of several pieces inspired by the colors, movement and lushness of the corn. The pieces were built using the materials found in the field, which dictated their final textures and colours. Each of them is then placed together, creating an intimate space.

    Max Lamb and Gemma Holt collaborated on a citrin Alpha glass mouth-blown by Lobmeyr craftsmen. A tiny stone wheel carefully sharpened to a shallow mitre.The gentle but skillful act of a nudge upon the glass? surface creates a barley shaped engraving, the grain of the stone like fibres of the barley husk.

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  • Raw Edges | Wheat Table | 2009, Dry wheat, wood, pegboard | Unique | UK
    Raw Edges | Wheat Table | 2009

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    Dry wheat, wood, pegboard | Unique | UK
  • Raw Edges | Wheat Table (detail) | 2009, Dry wheat, wood, pegboard | Unique | UK
    Raw Edges | Wheat Table (detail) | 2009

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    Dry wheat, wood, pegboard | Unique | UK
  • Nacho Carbonell | Crop | 2009, Corn resin, corn juice, ground corn, ground barley, wheat, oats, cornflakes, steel rod reinforcements | Unique | the Netherlands
    Nacho Carbonell | Crop | 2009

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    Corn resin, corn juice, ground corn, ground barley, wheat, oats, cornflakes, steel rod reinforcements | Unique | the Netherlands
  • Nacho Carbonell | Crop (samples) | 2009, Corn resin, corn juice, ground corn, ground barley, wheat, oats, cornflakes | Unique | the Netherlands
    Nacho Carbonell | Crop (samples) | 2009

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    Corn resin, corn juice, ground corn, ground barley, wheat, oats, cornflakes | Unique | the Netherlands
  • Rowan Mersh | Untitled Installation | 2009, Bearded wheat, wheat, barley, oats, mono-filament line | Unique | UK
    Rowan Mersh | Untitled Installation | 2009

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    Bearded wheat, wheat, barley, oats, mono-filament line | Unique | UK
  • Rowan Mersh | Untitled Installation | 2009, Bearded wheat, wheat, barley, oats, mono-filament line | Unique | UK
    Rowan Mersh | Untitled Installation | 2009

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    Bearded wheat, wheat, barley, oats, mono-filament line | Unique | UK
  • Gemma Holt and Max Lamb | Alpha glass | 2009, Lobmeyr crystal | UK
    Gemma Holt and Max Lamb | Alpha glass | 2009

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    Lobmeyr crystal | UK
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    Corn Craft | 2009

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    Corn Craft | 2009

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  • Dry wheat, wood, pegboard | Unique | UK
  • Dry wheat, wood, pegboard | Unique | UK
  • Corn resin, corn juice, ground corn, ground barley, wheat, oats, cornflakes, steel rod reinforcements | Unique | the Netherlands
  • Corn resin, corn juice, ground corn, ground barley, wheat, oats, cornflakes | Unique | the Netherlands
  • Bearded wheat, wheat, barley, oats, mono-filament line | Unique | UK
  • Bearded wheat, wheat, barley, oats, mono-filament line | Unique | UK
  • Lobmeyr crystal | UK
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