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Mount Edgcumbe exhibition dates extended for 3D Design Crafts students

Second-year students from our BA (Hons) 3D Design Crafts programme are currently exhibiting large-scale site-specific work in the Formal Garden at Mount Edgcumbe, and the closing date for the exhibition has now been extended until the end of September.
<h5>Second-year students from our <a href="https://www.aup.ac.uk/courses/undergraduate/ba-hons-craft-material-practices">BA (Hons) 3D Design Crafts </a>programme are currently exhibiting large-scale site-specific work in the Formal Garden at Mount Edgcumbe.</h5>
<p>Originally intended to run from 10 May - 12 June 2019, the exhibition was such a success with visitors to <a href="https://www.mountedgcumbe.gov.uk/">Mount Edgcumbe</a> that the decision was made to extend it until 30 September 2019.</p> <p>In creating the work, students were given a brief by the team at Mount Edgcumbe, and were asked to respond to narratives connected to the house and grounds of the Grade 1 listed historic site.</p>
"We know the visiting public have been both surprised and delighted by their work"
David Marshall, Mount Edgcumbe Business Development Manager
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<p>David Marshall, Mount Edgcumbe Business Development Manager said, “I have been really impressed by the quality of imagination, ambition, ingenuity, practicality and sense of place shown by all the second-year Plymouth College of Art students involved in this year’s Mount Edgcumbe show. Their interpretations and the process of making their ideas a reality has been wonderful to experience – and we know the visiting public have been both surprised and delighted by their work.”</p>
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<p>Students researched the popular country park from a variety of perspectives, before presenting their initial ideas and developing them further into the pieces you can see dotted around the gardens.</p> <p>The work resulted in numerous individual responses to the brief, with sculptures made in a variety of media located around the Formal Garden including a stacked porcelain sculpture by student Gail Stubbs that references the significant advances that William Cookworthy made to the refinement of porcelain production in the UK. William Cookworthy (1705-1780) independently discovered the Chinese method of making hard-paste porcelain, and his work is known as “Plymouth Porcelain.”</p>
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<p>You can also find a giant blown glass flower with a black bee nestling in the pollen by Charlotte Scurlock, created in response to the apiary at Mount Edgcumbe that aims to preserve and protect the native black bee.</p> <p>We'd like to thank David Marshall and the gardeners at Mount Edgcumbe for this opportunity and for extending the exhibition.</p> <p><strong>What:</strong> Art @ Edgcumbe​ — Exhibition<br /><strong>When:</strong> Until 30 September - opening times <a href="http://www.mountedgcumbe.gov.uk/visit/opening-hours-and-facilities/">here</a>.<br /><strong>Where: </strong><a href="https://goo.gl/maps/AE6mfaeVoYpeRKQh8">Mount Edgcumbe</a></p>