Archive: Peak District Artisans held the Great Dome Art and Design Fair at Buxton’s Devonshire Dome on 19–21 July 2024.
The group’s retrospective says 50 members exhibited and the fair won the Buxton Festival Fringe award for best visual arts event. At the end of 2024 the group learned that the Dome would no longer be available to it as an events venue; it said the 2024 fair appeared to be the last there for the foreseeable future. See Peak District Artisans for its current events.
The photographs on this page show an art fair in the Dome and a selection of small artworks. Their dates are not confirmed.
Artists, demonstrations and collaboration
The 2024 fair brought together work in ceramics, photography, jewellery, textiles, fine art and other media. Artists also demonstrated their techniques, and an exhibition of collaborations combined disciplines including ceramics and calligraphy, textiles and photography, and fine art and weaving.
Explore Buxton’s original preview listed the following planned collaborations:
- Kathryn Watson and Sue Nichols
- Vivienne Sillar and Elizabeth Forrest
- Liz Wellby and Ruth Gray
- Jill Ray and Emily Murch
- Sue Prince, Rachel Evans and Vivienne Sillar
- Ian Daisley and Jo Allen
- Louise Edwards and Amanda Graham
- Alison Wake and Natasha Braithwaite
- Tim Rose and Cath Dunn
- Joanna Allen and Ian Daisley
Postcard raffle
Exhibiting artists supplied small original works for a charity postcard raffle. The organisers say the 2024 raffle raised more than £1,000 for Blythe House Hospice.
Opening and admission in 2024
The fair began with a Friday evening preview and continued on Saturday and Sunday. A contemporary organiser announcement said that people could obtain complimentary preview tickets from members or pay on the door. The advertised single admission was £3, with children free. Published accounts differ on the Friday and Saturday closing times.
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