Listen in at Roche Court

Join us ‘in conversation’ with Fred Baier, following his recent exhibition ‘Form Swallows Function’ at the New Art Centre (Jan – May 2021). Featuring conversation with Timothy Revell from the ARTiculation initiative and ‘A’ Level students from Dauntsey’s School.The exhibition showcasedpieces made by the artist throughout the course of his long career, articulating Baier's lifelong approach to furniture-making, exploring the relationships between geometry and function, making and concept, and marrying technical innovation with a conceptual approach to production.

A self-described ‘furniture artist’, Baier was amongst the first furniture designers to recognise the potential of computers and digital rendering programs as tools to assist and advance the practice of three-dimensional design but has recently returned to early works in order to question our increasing reliance on digital technology.

We discuss and explore these ideas, as well as considering what makes furniture, managing sales and commissions as well as reviewing his own education and learning journey.

With his defiant, anti-modernist credo – form swallows function – he has made a continuous stream of one-off inventions, each full of wit, imagination and wizard engineering. Emma Crichton-Miller, Design Edit, February 2021 (from New Art Centre catalogue – Form Swallows Function) The Roche Court Educational Trust welcomes over 11,000 children, young people and specialist groups annually, both to the Sculpture Park and galleries at Roche Court, and as part of our national public speaking initiative ARTiculation. We encourage an exploration of modern and contemporary art through our looking, thinking & speaking approach.

As an independent charity, we rely on donations to deliver our program. For further details of how to support our work, please visit our website at:
https://rochecourteducationaltrust.co.uk/support-us/

For more information about ARTiculation, Roche Court Educational Trust’s Public Speaking initiative, please visit: https://rochecourteducationaltrust.co.uk/articulation/

More information about the exhibition programme at the New Art Centre can be found here: https://www.sculpture.uk.com/current For more information about Fred Baiers work, please visit: http://www.fredbaier.com/

Thanks to: Dan Coggins for recording and editing the podcast, and Zach James for his support in post-production. Also Antonia Beard from the New Art Centre

Funded by the RSA Catalyst Seed Award.

Image credit: Fred Baier 'Tool (to place you in the) Here and Now'

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