Crumbleholme
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Pottery,
Workshops, Nurdling and much more to scroll down through!
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This
is page is set up by Bill Crumbleholme from Upwey, Weymouth, Dorset, England
Last revised: 4th August 2008.
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Bill
is in business, follow
this link to see what Alacrify Ltd is all about.
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Find
out about Nurdling here - including
details about a nurdling tourney filmed by the BBC and our own on-line video
production!
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Bill
works as a studio potter.
This is his potter's mark, found on all his work. It is made using his grandfather's
sealing wax seal - William Crumbleholme.
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One of Bill's Raku fired globes, featuring a high copper glaze.
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Bill has run several very successful Group Tasters, including a
couple for Hen Parties!
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Bill is involved with this Group. The group's website has just been
set up under its own domain name at www.dorsetpotterygroup.co.uk
The next exhibition is at Bridport Art Centre in October 2008. See details
of activities, exhibitions and the Bridport Millennium Ammonite Project
Upwey Village Hall is Bill's second home! He is the current Chairman
of the Charitable Management Trust and also the Designated Premises Supervisor
under the Licensing Act - now the Hall is a 24 hour binge drinking venue
(or maybe not!)
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Upwey
is striding into the 21st Century with a new IT Strategy (compiled mainly
by Bill), this includes a Yahoo! Group for Upwey Villagers (& supporters)
- which is open to invited people, please use the box below to request a
subscription. You will have to wait until someone from the Upwey group acknowledges
your request before it will work.
Bill is the current Chairman of the South West Open Studios Community
Interest Company.
Visit the website
to see what excellent work is being done!
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This mosiac was made by Bill as a copy of one in the Dorset County Museum.
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Much
of Bill's recent output has been inspired by prehistoric pottery, to
the extent that he now occassionally dresses up as a Bronze Age potter
and lurks about firing handmade urns in bonfires at "Historic Events"!
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Visit
webpages about Beaker Folk - based on Bill's research
into Bronze Age artifacts and his experimental archaeology.
www.beakerfolk.co.uk
Bill
took part in the 2007 Inside Out Festival, appearing at Hambledon Hill -
see here
for what was involved.
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Take
a look at this
link to see a video of a bonfire firing of some replicas of Bronze Age
Beakers belonging to the Amesbury Archer.
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Bill, his family
and friends have appeared at English Heritage's Festivals of History
in 2005, 2006 and 2007 featuring a Bronze Age Encampment. Here is Bill
modelling both a beaker pot and what the well-dressed Bronze Age man
might have worn!
Read all about
these activities and see more images
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Bill
attended a couple of events at Durrington Walls, near Stonehenge,
organised by the people known as "Age
Of Bronze".
Over the late August Bank Holiday weekend and 8th-9th September
2007 he demonstrated his beaker and urn making, also making "Grooved
Ware" which the site is famous for, in the context of feasting and
ritual activity.
Click to join ageofbronze
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Bill appeared lurking in the background of a Team Team episode in 1999
and has been making repilicas of Celtic Dorset Iron Age Black Burnished
Ware
Bill's 2003 project was at Bestwall near Wareham in
Dorset. He rebuilt one of the actual Roman kilns uncovered
by archeologists digging ahead of gravel extractors.
Follow this link to see some more images.
Bill is carrying out research into the production of Black
Burnished Ware, Follow this link for more
information.
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Bill's "Fusion Ware" combining several cultures
Bronze Age Beakers shapes and herring-bone decoration
Chinese Tenmoku glaze inside
Soda Fired "Raw" for the outside sheen.
Follow this link to see more
images.
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"Could've
Fooled Me" and "Could've Fooled Me Too"
were exhibitions featuring contemporary art works, staged at the the Upwey
Old School in early April 2007 and at the Monkton Gallery in early April
2006.
See some of Bill's and other artists catalogued work here.
Including a multi-media investigation of communication breakdown entitled
ironically "Artspeak"
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Bill and his fellow RAFT artists staged "Artyfacts"
- a major project with the Dorset County Museum during 2004,
in which artists created their responses to articles on display. Bill
made Bronze Age Beakers and Bucket Urns
follow this link to see how
they were made & fired.
Competition
- Win a Neolithic Eggcup!
It is simple, just send an email saying what is happening to Bill's
beakers:
The first 5 correct
(or sufficiently humourous) email
responses will be sent a special momento Neolithic Egg-cup like
this :-
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Bill was involved with
making a labyrinth at Monkton Wyld Court,
he made Bronze Age style pots to be incorporated into the labyrinth goals.
Follow this
link for the story
This is one of Bill's most famous pots! The local BBC TV filmed it being
made during the Dorset Art Weeks in 2004.
Upwey History Group http://www.upweyhistorygroup.freeserve.co.uk
Visit the website of the local history group. Currently somewhat fallow!
Albert The Tall's Wonderful World of Nurdling
This site is devoted to the joys of Nurdling.
A video about nurdling is now available on-line.
The site also proudly includes a copy of the Rules & Regulations of
Ye Ancient Tourney of Nurdle {Abridged Modern Version}
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Copyright
All text and images on this site are copyrighted by Bill Crumbleholme,
unless otherwise stated. Extracts may only be used with permission. Links to
and from this site are welcome.
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