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Highlights
Flavour of the Seventies 1978. Alan Peters invited Jeremy Broun to exhibit alongside himself, John Makepeace, George Sneed and Richard La Trobe Bateman at Southampton Civic Centre.
Sotheby's First Sale of Contemporary British Crafts 1980. Jeremy Broun was invited by the UK Crafts Council alongside Alan Peters, John Makepeace, Ashley Cartwight, Desmond Ryan, Martin Grierson and Rupert Williamson.
After the Storm 1991. Five British makers were given trees blown down at Kew Gardens in the Great Storm of 1987. John Makepeace, Fred Baier, Rupert Williamson, Jeremy Broun and Richard
La Trobe Bateman made pieces for an exhibition at Kew Gardens in 1991.
Royal Family Viewing 1985.
What was Charles' reaction when sitting on my chair? He remarked to a Crafts Council agent: "I didn't realize this kind of thing was going on in the country." Historically, royalty had always patronised the avant-garde. Occurring when the designer-maker revolution was at its zenith, his comment laid bare just how much the royal establishment was disconnected from ordinary people.
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