Long Playing Record, Ruthin Craft Centre, 18 January – 30 March 2025

Long Playing Record

A reflection on 33 years at Ruthin Craft Centre

18 January – 30 March 2025

Thirty-three years has seen many changes at Ruthin Craft Centre, during this time Philip Hughes has supported the careers of hundreds of makers and promoted Contemporary Craft in Wales, as well as nationally and internationally. To mark his retirement in 2025, this exhibition brings together the work of a selected group of practitioners, who have exhibited at Ruthin over this period. ‘Long Playing Record’ includes pieces by some of the finest artist makers in ceramic, metal, textile, wood, glass and jewellery, from the late twentieth and early twenty first centuries.

Exhibitors: Jane Adam / Julie Arkell / Gordon Baldwin / Michael Brennand-Wood / Adam Buick / Simon Caroll / Lucy Casson / Mick Casson / Primmy Chorley / Kevin Coates / Mandy Coates / Emmanuel Cooper / Claire Curneen / Patia Davis / David and Margaret Frith / Julia Griffiths Jones / Rhian Hâf / Rozanne Hawksley / Catrin Howell / Nigel Hurlstone / Walter Keeler / Claire Langdown / Richard La Trobe-Bateman / Claudia Lis / Andrew Logan / Eleri Mills / Alison Morton / David Nash / Gregory Parsons / Jim Partridge & Liz Walmsley / Wendy Ramshaw / Pamela Rawnsley / Micki Schloessingk / Reiko Sudo / Laura Thomas / Audrey Walker / David Watkins / Yusuke Yamamoto / Helen Yardley

I feel extraordinarily honoured to have been invited to contribute some work to this show. Philip has been utterly fundamental to the development of my reputation as a textile artist, and has been so supportive right from my first exhibition at Ruthin Craft Centre in 2006. I owe such a debt of gratitude to him….. he will leave big shoes to fill, but I look forward to spending time with him as a friend post retirement.