Family Workshop: Patterns and Prints with Ella Doran at YSP

Ella Doran @ Haworth’s scouring plant - Bradford photograph credit Paul Wyatt.

Family Workshop: Patterns and Prints with Ella Doran

£40

27–28 Jul 2019 (two-day event) / 11.00–16.00

Hayloft

Join Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) for a unique weekend workshop led by award-winning designer Ella Doran. Design and create your own lino print, taking inspiration from Ella's exhibition Sheep to Seat, Fleece to Floor. Collect patterns through drawing and photography, share your creative ideas and receive one-to-one insight from Ella’s creative design expertise.

This is a great opportunity to achieve your Arts Award Explore while making art together.

Further details

– Tickets are non-refundable

– Suitable for ages 8+

– Free parking included

– Limited capacity for wheelchair users. Please check before booking.

– Please bring your own camera (smartphone cameras are suitable)

to make a booking visit YSP’s website here

Design Ventura

Design Ventura is the Design Museum’s flagship design and enterprise competition for secondary school students in years 9, 10 and 11. Over 13,000 students from 265 across the UK and beyond are registered to take part in 2018, the ninth year of the competition.

The young people are challenged to work in teams design a new product for the Design Museum Shop, responding to a detailed brief. The winning team will work with creative professionals to develop and manufacture their idea and will see it on sale in the Design Museum Shop, with all profits donated to a charity of their choice.

Ella has been invited to help choose the top ten Student teams for Design Ventura this year. The shortlisting involves choosing the top ten ideas from submitted entries and these teams will then be invited to pitch their ideas to a panel of expert judges at the Design Museum in December.

The project is supported by industry experts from the creative industries and business and offers students the chance to develop creative, design thinking, enterprise and transferrable employability skills.

Here’s this year’s brief for the Students given by the lovely Donna Wilson.

Visit the Ventura website

Email ventura@designmuseum.org

from sheep to seat, fleece to floor at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park

From Sheep to Seat, Fleece to Floor follows the journey of sheep wool, from shearing to scouring, design to spinning, to create an exhibition of beautiful bespoke furniture, furnishings and photographic prints, all of which are available to buy. An homage to local products, suppliers and processes, the exhibition highlights the importance of the circular economy in reducing waste and sustaining livelihoods and traditions.

Following a residency at the Park in 2016, which culminated in new product ranges for YSP Shop, Doran worked with the Park’s neighbouring farmer to amass wool from the sheep that reside in the Country Park. After scouring by Haworth Scouring, the wool was transformed by British manufacturers, Camira and Alternative Flooring, and features Doran’s Waterlake design, a distinctive and colourful pattern which mirrors the movement of the lakes and plant life at YSP. The exhibition is accompanied by a short film by Paul Wyatt.

Both British Wool and Campaign for Wool are our project sponsors, along side Camira Fabrics and Alternative Flooring, follow Ella’s journey on instagram @elladorandesigner, as she develops the work, and visit this website for updates and information for the exhibition opening 15th June 2019.

You can watch a short trailer here!

100% Forward - 100% Design September 19th -22nd

Curated by Barbara Chandler, design editor of Homes & Property at the London Evening Standard

Ella Doran is one of the established designers that forms part of 100% Forward at 100% Design, which will highlight UK emerging design talents, each championed by an established designer who launched their career at 100% Design.

Says Barbara Chandler: “Since 100% Design started in 1995, our stellar UK designers have created a world-famous design industry, and continue to do so. But all industries need new talent. Who better to spot it than the successful design entrepreneurs who launched their careers in the ‘90s at 100% Design? Seven of them have each chosen an emerging UK designer. I have chosen an eighth and added a display of ceramics.

The creativity of these new designers embraces furniture, lighting, printed/woven textiles and ceramics…not to mention origami and illuminated wallpaper. Some designers have just graduated; others are already making their way. They will be given a platform at 100% Design to show their work and engage with visitors. Their stories will inform, intrigue, inspire and impress.”

The portrait of Ella above was taken by Barbara Chandler©. you can see the rest of them here

Ella has nominated Kyla McCullum, of Foldability

Ella Doran says:

“I first met Kyla at Design Junction in 2013. I was struck by her display of folded and pleated papers, which seemed to echo in 3D form a similar source of inspiration to my own ‘Geo’ design. I have watched her develop and progress over the past few years, pushing the boundaries of her craft to great effect. 

Her hallmark is that wow factor.”

www.foldability.co.uk

Back to School with Ella Doran in collaboration with Urban Upholstery

Ella Doran and Urban Upholstery are joining forces for the London Design Festival 2018 with a collaborative, week-long events programme and exhibition to be held at The Old Bank Vault 283, Hackney Road, London, E2 8NA from Saturday 15th September – Sunday 23rd September 2018.

In celebration of the circular economy, along with material re-use and re-design, the ‘live’ installation will demonstrate how design, material use, value and sustainability are all intertwined. Ella Doran will re-design a reclaimed chair using her own fabric designs, whilst Urban Upholstery will provide expert skills and craftsmanship and will showcase their expert approach to sustainable furniture.

There will be a make your own cushion workshop as part of the event (see Eventbrite), live upholstery demonstrations and a chance for visitors to commission a new piece of furniture or bring in a piece for discussion and review. If you would like to attend the private view on the 18th September, in conjunction with Shoreditch Triangle 2018, please sign up for FREE via Eventbrite.If you would like to attend the live demonstration day please sign up for free here!

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OPENING TIMES

15th September 2018 11:00 am - 6:00 pm

16th September 2018 10:30 am - 6:00 pm Make your own cushion workshop!

17th September 2018 11:00 am - 6:00 pm

18th September 2018 11:00 am - 9:00 pm 'Late Night' in conjunction with Shoreditch Triangle

19th September 2018 11:00 am - 6:00 pm

20th September 2018 11:00 am - 6:00 pm

21st September 2018 11:00 am - 6:00 pm

22nd September 2018 11:00 am - 6:00 pm

23rd September 2018 11:00 am - 4:30 pm

Webinar DesignTrust

Patricia van den Akker from The Design Trust streamed a live webinar with Ella last month where she talked the viewers through the last two decades of her design career. For those that could not catch it, the webinar was recorded and can be watched along with a host of other inspirational podcasts and online interviews if you join the Business Club at the Design Trust.

If you are a business owner, or sole trader in the Creative Industries, we highly recommend you take a look. You can visit her site here, and look at the wealth of one to one mentoring, business advice, and inspirational podcasts she offers. You can also visit Patricia's website for further information - http://www.thedesigntrust.co.uk

Camira CDW18 showcase Ella's Waterlake woven fabric

Textile preview with Camira at CDW18

May 15, 2018   Ella Doran 

Leading textile company Camira previewed Ella Doran's exciting new ‘Waterlake’ fabric design at Clerkenwell Design Week 2018. Ella created the design for her client the Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP). Due to launch in 2019, ‘Waterlake’ will feature as part of Ella Doran’s YSP exhibition ‘From Sheep to Seat’ and will be used to upholster a piece of furniture created entirely from materials sourced at the Park. The chair’s wooden elements will originate from YSP’s trees, whilst the wool used to create the fabric is taken from the sheep that live at the Park. Camira will be weaving the fabric at their local Yorkshire facilities for the exhibition and the first sample jacquard textile was on display during Clerkenwell Design Week CDW18!

Second Sitters panel discussion. Upholster...

Hosted by design journalist Katie Treggiden the panel consisted of makers and industry professionals discussing the issues around design, upholstery, sustainability and the circular economy. Panel: Tim Cox, Ella Doran, Alex Law, Corrine Webb Location: The Geffrye Museum Date: Thursday 18 May 2017

YSP collection 2017

Ella Doran is delighted to announce that the Yorkshire Sculpture Park has commissioned two major homewares collections to celebrate the iconic Park’s 40th anniversary of ‘Art without Walls’. Ella visited YSP throughout the seasons, documenting every aspect through sketched impressions and photography to create two unique ranges inspired by the Park’s 500-acre landscape. ’Through the Camera Lens’ includes photographs of the 18th-century historic landscape – including a canopy of leaves and tactile tree bark – applied to a tea towel, tote bag, apron, cushion, trays and mugs, whilst ‘Brushstrokes’ is a distinctive textile design, mirroring the movement of the lakes and plant life growth at YSP. The ‘Brushstrokes’ palette is inspired by the colours of YSP, including Stone Wall Chapel, Autumn Leaf and Maple Leaf with Sunlight.