Craftspace

The Tittesworth Reservoir residency has been developed as a partnership with Severn Trent Water, who manage this large reservoir at Meerbrook, near Leek, in Staffordshire Moorlands. Tittesworth was built in 1858 to provide water for Leek’s textile mills, and then extended over a century later to provide drinking water to Stoke and North Staffordshire, and is now a popular recreation area.

Artist Residency

Local glass designer makers Sheldon Cooney, the partnership of Elaine Sheldon and Dominic Cooney were selected for the project. They created a large installation of different coloured glass beakers which were installed in the Fisherman’s Lodge at Tittesworth reservoir.

The Great Glass Giveaway

Great Glass Giveaway: Easter Weekend – the 8th and 9th April 2007

Members of the public were  invited to walk (or drive if disabled) along to the lodge and enter a comment into the visitors book – in exchange for a comment the artists gave the person a glass beaker.

Graduate Residency

Elaine and Dominic are supporting Jonathon Hand, a Stafford graduate who creates pewter vessels that suggest the forms of flowing water. Jonathon has been exploring the dam structures at the reservoir and was at Fisherman’s Lodge at the Easter weekend.

Arts Development Officer at Staffordshire Moorlands, Deb Nicklin, has been working with local walking groups to publicise the event and with the local authority’s Healthy Living Officer, to encourage local people to get out and about.

'Great to see a traditional craft thriving in the Moorlands.'

Visitor to Great Glass Giveaway.

Artists

Elaine Sheldon and Dominic Cooney, working as Sheldon Cooney, glassmakers from Staffordshire.
www.sheldoncooney.com

Jonathon Hand, Stafforshire graduate working in pewter.