The Shropshire Guild of Contemporary Craft are celebrating this weekend, after their 4th extremely successful annual selling exhibition, aptly entitled ‘Gorgeous’.
The exhibition ran over the weekend of November 29th and 30th and was held at Enginuity, Ironbridge.
Chairman of the Guild and Coalport potter, Ralph Jandrell said “it was a fantastic show for all of our members, we had well over 500 people attend the selling exhibition each day”.
For the first time, ‘Gorgeous’ also included local fine food producers who are also members of the Heart of England Fine Foods (HEFF) which included local wine, meat, cheeses and cakes.
Ralph continued “the first day was great, people were actually queuing up to get in to the event, which was quite unexpected”.
Visitors to the show included Selina Cook from Bishops Castle who said “we come every year to ‘Gorgeous’, and it gets better and better. The standard of work on show is just so high”.
Asked if she’s bought anything, Selina replied “yes, I adore the range of glass on show, so I have bought some large glass balls to decorate my windows for Christmas from Kinki Glass who are based in Fusion, Jackfield.” Another visitor to Gorgeous was Martin Austin from Cleobury Mortimer. Martin said “it is always a great event, and I do most of my Christmas shopping here each year.”
Ralph said “2008 has been a really exciting year for the Guild, we have just re-designed and launched our new website, and due to the economic climate we were expecting a slow ‘Gorgeous’, but for some of our members sales are significantly up on last year.”
The Shropshire Guild of Contemporary Craft have over 35 designer-maker members, and were joined at Gorgeous by designer-makers from across the region.
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