Bungeroosh in Brighton's Arty Magazine

Winter Issue 2010

With three weekends of Christmas Artists' Open Houses to look forward to, there's really no excuse not to wrap up your gift buying with some affordable art. And if you are not sure where to start looking, turn to p7 which previews a few of the best and most interesting Open Houses in Brighton this Christmas!

The Bungeroosh Gallery
Check out this popular and atmospheric Open House by the sea, showcasing 18 local artists' work, for inspired art and gifts for Christmas.

Little Wing Shakes a tail feather!

The birth of Little Wing Accessories

Pippa trained in Ceramics and Visual Research at the University of Brighton 2002. After PGCE training she went on to work teaching Ceramics and Art at various schools, colleges and community projects around Brighton.

In the summer of 2009 Pippa Forester travelled to Australia. In a village in the hills of New South Wales she found some beautiful, delicate emu feathers and a local craftsman helped her to turn them into earrings. On her return to England she began to think how the same idea might work with our native bird feathers. Sourcing striking iridescent duck and pheasant feathers from a Hampshire company and using the same technique she used in Australia, Pippa began making earrings, working with the natural beauty of the feathers, complementing and enhancing their colours and shapes with glass, bone and metal beads. Inspired by traditional Morris dancing costume, the pheasant tail headdress was the first headdress she made but was quickly followed by other designs using a huge range of different feathers and Indian braid.

Her first exhibition of this work,  as part of the First Avenue Collective at an open house in Brighton Christmas 2009,  was great success. She began selling her work at Handmade, a contemporary craft and art fair in early 2010. In the summer of 2010, the organisers of Handmade, together with local artists and craftspeople, opened a cooperative shop in Kemp Town in Brighton. 

The Autumn/Winter of 2010 sees her work on sale at Pearl and Queenie, a beautiful jewellery boutique in Hastings Old Town. Pippa will also be exhibiting at the Bungeroosh Gallery, a bold and exciting Open House running at weekends throughout December at 25 Marine Square, Brighton. She will also be selling work at Brighton's Second Hand & amp: Craft Bazaar and Handmade Christmas Market both at Komedia on the 5th and 12th  of December respectively.

Charlie High is Made 2010!

Charlie High is still in the thick of it trying to get gallery

orders out. She currently supplies other galleries in Brighton including

IO in Sydney St and Julian Stephens in Gloucester Rd.

http://www.julianstephens.com/

She is also doing Made '10 next week:

http://www.made10.co.uk/

19th-21st November, Corn Exchange, Brighton

MADE 10 returns to the beautiful Corn Exchange in the heart of Brighton offering the public the opportunity to buy original and exceptional design and craft from the best local and national makers. It also provides space for the designer / makers to sell direct to the public and to build a relationship with buyers, potential buyers, galleries and craft suppliers.

Charlie's acorn pieces continue to be very popular along with the new

geometric range. She also have some beautiful semi-precious beads which she

shall be incorporating into bold and flamboyant necklaces for Bungeroosh Gallery,

christmas open house!