Ashley Cartwright
 

 
Date of Birth:    1949
 
Associations: RCA,FRSA
 
Awards:
1995 Elected Fellow-Royal Society of Arts
1987 Design Directory – registered member Design Council
1986 Export design advisor for Commowealth Secretariat in St Lucia
1986 Invited to become Member of Crafts Council Board
1986 CNAA Panel Member for 3 Dimensional Design
1983-86 Crafts Council Grants & Loans & Purchasing Committee
1982 National competition winner-St Hilda’s College Oxford, committee table
1982 Design Council Award for batch production furniture
1981 Designer/Craftsman in residence at University of Tasmania
1978 Awarded East Midlands Arts Bursary
1977 Invited onto Crafts Council Index
1977 Awarded Crafts Council grant
1973 Overall winner, Observer/Woudhuysen Design Awards
 
Commissions:
2003 Dorchester Abbey Altar(current)
2001 Yorkshire Artspace, Sheffield-Reception desk in new Fielden Clegg building
2001 Furniture for new Sustrans cycle track, Milton Keynes
2000 Seating and signage prototypes-Isle of Wight cycle routes
2000 Devon and Exeter Healthcare Trust-seating at oncology ward
1999 New British Embassy, Moscow-exterior seating
1999 Earth Centre, Yorkshire - exterior seating
1998 City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, reception desk
1996 Tyrebagger Forest Aberdeen, - bridge. Competition winner
1996 Bilston Black Country Route – seating. Public Arts Commissions Agency
1995 Norbury Park – seating & fencing prototypes
1994 Sudbury (new) Primary School – outdoor seating
1994 Southampton Civic Centre - boardroom tables and chairs
1992 Kew Gardens – 18’ long dining table. Timber from grounds
1990 All Souls College, Oxford – T.E.Lawrence display cabinets
1990 Templeton College, Oxford – courtyard seating
1985 Nottingham – Centenary D.H.Lawrence – landscape trail furniture and fences
1983 St Hilda’s College, Oxford – committee table and 35 chairs
1983 Chest of drawers – English Fine Craft Gallery, Washington USA
1981 Launceston Museum,Tasmania – Desk
1981 National Trust, Grey’s Court, Henley – exterior furniture
 
Education:
1970 – 73 MA Furniture Design, Royal College of Art
1966 – 70 BA 3 Dimensional Design, 1st Class Hons, Kingston
 
Group Exhibitions:
2002 Furniture from AC’s studio –Sulgrave Manor
2001 Elegance – Brewery Arts Centre, Cirencester
1999 New work at the British Embassy, Moscow
1999 Still Life – Contemporary Applied Arts Gallery, London
1998 The Banqueting Table – CAA London
1997 Above the earth, beneath the sky – Chapel Row Contemporary Art, Bath
1996 Phillips Bi-Centenary Exhibition at the Edinburgh Festival
1996 Design Resolutions – Royal Festival Hall
1995 Arcadia Designs for Norbury Park, Thorndike Theatre, Leatherhead & Royal Geographical Society, London
1995 Chairs – Bromham Mill, Bedfordshire
1995 Interiors – Rufford Gallery, Nottinghamshire
1995 Contemporary Furniture – Crafts Council, London then touring for 1 year
1994 British Studio Furniture – Cork Street Gallery, London
1992 Central Business Exchange – Milton Keynes
1992-96 Decorative Arts at Bonhams - London
1992 Living Room – Oxford Gallery
1992 Arts and Crafts to Avant Garde – Royal Festival Hall, London
1991 Sheehan Gallery – Washington, USA
1991 Bonhams 20th Century Furniture - London
1989 Contemporary Crafts – Phillips, Oxford
1989 The Cultivated Garden - Oxford
1988 Decorative Arts , Sotheby’s – London & Japan
1987 Design It Again, Design Council - London
1985 D.H.Lawrence Centenary Landscape Project, Eastwood
1984 Oxford Table – John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
1984 A New View in the Garden, Highwall – Oxford Gallery
1984 Designer Makers Today – Camden Arts Centre
1983 Designers in Furniture, Central Library – Milton Keynes
1982 Prescote at the Bluecoat Gallery – Liverpool
1982 Multiples – Design Council, London
1981 Chelsea Flower Show – BBC TV
1980 Contemporary British Crafts – Sotheby’s, London and Munich
1980 Craftsman-In-Action, Fermoy Centre – Kings Lynn
1980 Prescote Gallery at The Edinburgh Festival
1979 Modern Master Works – Warwick Arts Trust, London
1978 New Faces, British Crafts Centre - London
1977 Furniture Designs for Export – The Old British Residency, Srinagar, India
1976 Craftsman Designers – Royal College of Art Gallery
1973 SEIBU Exhibition - Japan
1973 Observer/Woudhuysen Design Award – Carlton House, London
1970 Here Tomorrow – Design Centre, London