2021 Green and Whitegold Stalls

Bill Jones
26^th June 10am – 4pm
Aylmer Square, St Austell town centre

From Rock Cottage Pottery Bill throws earthenware pots in the traditional way on the wheel and decorates them with coloured slips and oxides under lead-free glazes. Bill throws large garden pots which he will demonstrate during the day.

Bleujyowa
26^th June 10am – 4pm
Fore Street, St Austell town centre

Quality home grown plants in small quantities propagated in our own Carlyon Bay garden. We focus on more unusual plants and grow many southern hemisphere plants including a number originating from South Africa.

A Cornish Banquet
26th June 10am – 12noon and 2 – 4pm
Fore Street, St Austell town centre

Community artist and Whitegold International Ceramic Prize winner 2020 Francesca Anfossi of Rochester Square London, has worked together with Cornwall Neighbourhoods for Change to create ‘A Cornish Banquet’.

Participants have engaged with Francesca online to share recipes, images of food and create brightly coloured ceramic plates. On Festival day she’ll be sharing information about the project in Fore Street. The info stand will be closed during lunch, when the project participants will come together for a picnic eating homemade pasties off their plates and sitting on bespoke picnic rugs made by Francesca.

Climate Action St Austell
26^th June 10am – 4pm
Chandos Place, St Austell town centre

A recently formed group of climate-concerned people, our aim is to inform the public about the climate emergency and the many ways we can all make a difference in reducing the threat to our planet.

Cornwall College St Austell
26^th June 10am – 4pm
Chandos Place, St Austell town centre

At Cornwall College St Austell our specialist courses will give you the right environment to explore, discover and progress, offering

one of the widest ranges of vocational courses from Acting to Visual Art to Catering and Construction.

Demelza Whitley
26^th June 10am – 4pm
Aylmer Square, St Austell town centre

Demelza works in a Cornish stoneware, quarried locally at St Agnes. She then process this clay into paperclay, which is great for handbuilding and copes well with the stresses of Raku firing. Her work is influenced by folk stories, myths and her everyday life.

Eden Project
26^th June 10am – 4pm
Fore Street, St Austell town centre

We are really excited to give you a sneak peak of what is happening at the Eden Project this season. It will be a summer of vibrant celebration: incorporating people, plants and performance with the spirt of a carnival. Visit us on our stand to find out more.

Edible St Austell
26^th June 10am – 4pm
Fore Street

Edible St Austell is a local group using community spaces and sharing skills to grow healthy and delicious food for all residents to share and enjoy. They’ll be bringing edible plants with them to dress their pitch as a ‘garden’,and will be sharing their new Tree Trail & Community Garden leaflet as well as interactive activities. Edible St Austell has been working over the past year with Whitegold International Ceramics Prize 2020 winners Portland Inn Project and Clayground Collective. Find out more from community members.

Friends of Menacuddle Well
26^th June 10am – 4pm
Chandos Place, St Austell town centre

Friends of Menacuddle Well is a community group set up to preserve and protect the Holy Well which lies just to the north of St Austell.

Heligan
26^th June 10am – 4pm
Aylmer Square, St Austell town centre

Explore a selection of the finest handpicked pollinator friendly plants from the Heligan Plant Centre. You’re also invited to enter a prize draw to be in with the chance of winning a £100 voucher to spend in the Heligan Plant Centre to turn your garden into a haven for pollinators.

Karen Needham
26^th June 10am – 4pm
Aylmer Square, St Austell town centre

White and black stoneware clay pottery, surface decoration along with lava glazes and standard glaze application. Depicting our Cornish coastline and landscapes.

Lucy Joines
26^th June 10am – 4pm
Aylmer Square, St Austell town centre

Wheel-thrown ceramics made on the North Coast of Cornwall. I use local stoneware and porcelain clay to make everything from earrings to stoneware teapots and vases, decorated with inspiration taken from the beauty and magic of the natural world around me. I finish off all my pieces with a touch of gold lustre sparkle.

Lucy Owen
26^th June 10am – 4pm
Aylmer Square, St Austell town centre

I’m a ceramicist from St Austell and have found working with clay as a form of therapy for my chronic health condition. I mostly hand build and I’m inspired by nature. I love to explore different textures in clay using plants and fabrics.

National Wildflower centre at the Eden Project
26^th June 10am – 4pm
Chandos Place, St Austell town centre

The National Wildflower Centre at the Eden Project is establishing creative conservation projects in urban and rural areas across the country and using wildflowers as a conduit for new cultural ecology projects. The NWC’s conservation work also connects with rare plant conservation in the South West of England, and ‘flowerhouse energies’ through projects and seed production North and South.

We will be displaying images of the work we do, giving away seed packets, recruiting volunteers, answering questions about wildflowers and generally talking about ways people can get involved with us.

St Austell Town Heritage Initiative
26^th June 10am – 4pm
Fore Street, St Austell town centre

Hear about plans towards the restoration of traditional facades including the decorative ceramic detailing on historic buildings, shop fronts and signage in St Austell. Learn more about the launch of the Discover St Austell Heritage Trail app, unlocking the secrets of St Austell’s past.

Sarah Sullivan
26^th June 10am – 4pm
Fore Street, St Austell town centre

Calm, meditative sculpture based on on the theme of ‘serenity’ and sea swimming particularly and beautifully tactile carved functional pots, perfect for a posy of flowers.

Studio Hotmess
26^th June 10am – 4pm
Fore Street

Edible Hinterlands is an ongoing project with Studio HOTmess, a collaboration between two designers based in London. For the Green and Whitegold Festival 2021 they will be exhibiting their work-in-progress designing a tiled façade for Café Tengo. It draws on historic tiling practices, landscapes and colours of the china clay region, making them contemporary by developing tiles that are hollowed out in order to support plant life.

St Austell Healthcare
26^th June 10am – 4pm
Old Vicarage Place

Learn more about your community connectors and social prescribing St Austell.

Poltair Residents Association
26^th June 10am – 4pm
Old Vicarage Place

Plants and seeds for sale on behalf of Poltair Residents Association

Trillium House Plants
26^th June 10am – 4pm
Chandos Place

Trillium House Plants is a small local business, dedicated to growing and supplying a wonderful assortment of plants to customers and providing them the best plant care advice.

This business was created by Emma Gunn, after 22 years at the Eden Project. Emma is also an expert forager, garden designer and all round plantswoman.

Wheal Martyn Clay Works
26^th June 10am – 4pm
Fore Street, St Austell town centre

Discover more about the lives of those who live and worked in the shadows of the famous ‘White Pyramids’ at the UK’s only museum deducted to the heritage of china clay.