Made in Ross is a co-operative of local arts and crafts producers living
within 20 miles of the beautiful market town of Ross-on-Wye
FREE Admission to the Historic Market House Building and all Made in Ross Gallery exhibitions.
The unique work created by these artists and makers is on display to view (and buy!) upstairs in the historic
Ross-on-Wye Market House. Come and see the wide range of affordable hand-made arts and crafts on offer and meet the individual artists and makers behind these original works.
within 20 miles of the beautiful market town of Ross-on-Wye
FREE Admission to the Historic Market House Building and all Made in Ross Gallery exhibitions.
The unique work created by these artists and makers is on display to view (and buy!) upstairs in the historic
Ross-on-Wye Market House. Come and see the wide range of affordable hand-made arts and crafts on offer and meet the individual artists and makers behind these original works.
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In order to keep our visitors and ourselves safe we are also pleased to advise that the gallery has received its certificate to show that we are following government and industry COVID-19 guidelines, and are ensuring processes are in place to maintain cleanliness and aid social/physical distancing.
Opening Hours are 10.00am til 4.00pm
7 days per week. |
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Shopping local brings good things for everyone involved. Come and see what our artists have been making, bringing summer to the gallery...
Waste not......Want not..... Some of our members use recycled materials or left overs to make entire pieces of work or as a contribution to projects they are working on. Examples of the materials used range from coloured glass bottles, wool, fabric scraps, wood from unwanted furniture, broken crockery and upcyclable fabric to select leaves from trees or plants and skins from vegetables. These materials are often seen as scrap but with some ingenious creative ideas from some of the artists at Made in Ross they are being cleverly made into some of the following....
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Guest Artists...Made in Ross is open to applications for Guest Artists. Should you be interested in displaying your work in the gallery for a month please click the application link below. Guest Artist Applications Featured Artist...  3 legged 18th century chair
Eleanor Kercher found time to get creative with her Greenwoodwork...she found a silver lining during lockdown... Had we not been suffering a global pandemic, Made in Ross members would have been preparing feverishly for an exhibition at Goodrich Castle as part of the Gilpin 2020 festival. However, with the postponement, we have been given much more time to prepare some stunning work for next year....every cloud. I have been working on modern versions of Welsh stick chairs. These are solid-seated chairs which would have been made by the ordinary folk around Goodrich way back to the 12th century. They were not made by specialist chair makers: a few hand tools and basic carpentry skills were all that was needed. There would have been no turning or steam bending – techniques frequently now used in the modern stick chair and its refined successor, the Windsor chair.
I've tried to keep some of the features of traditional stick chairs, particularly the width and plainness of the seat and the legs being set further into the seat and at a steeper angle. Other than that, I’ve used the wood I had to hand and my imagination. They are both copies of existing chairs I have found online: a three-legged 18th century chair:
For a good introduction to Welsh Stick chairs see: https://overthewireless.com/2018/04/29/a-beginners-guide-to-welsh-stick-chairs/ |
