Just incase you don't know what we are about...

Designers Marketplace is a creative event organisation which now supports and helps to promote over 80 northern based creative businesses. Some of our events include:

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS // POP-UP SHOPS // PORTFOLIO SELL OFFS // LIVE ART & DESIGN COLLABORATIONS // INDUSTRIAL SEMINARS //

A REGULAR SPECIALISED ART & DESIGN MARKET

Showcasing some of the best raw talent from both emerging and established artists and designers in the north of England. The diverse collection of high quality and contemporary merchandise we showcase range from:

FASHION // ACCESSORIES // ART // PRINTS // TEXTILES // PHOTOGRAPHY // CERAMICS // HOME INTERIOR PRODUCTS & VINTAGE.

All products are bespoke hand-crafted pieces providing the perfect opportunity for the buyer to find that something different they are always looking for. Our regular market is currently held 3-4 times a year in Middlesbrough and attracts a large following from all over the country. Many of our clients now supply to boutiques and galleries in the region through making trade contacts at the events. Our regular market is a step up from your more commonly found 'craft and vintage' fair, and provides the oppourtunity for the higher end designer maker and artist to retail and promote their wares.


PLEASE EMAIL: info@designersmarketplace.org.uk
TO BE PLACED ON OUR MAILING LIST OR IF YOU WOULD LIKE INFO ON:

•  SELLING AT ONE OF OUR MARKETS
•  EVENT OR PROJECT COLLABORATIONS
•  CONSULTANCY & ART DIRECTION ON PRIVATE EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS, PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT, BRAND & COLLECTION LAUNCHES
  

// BACKGROUND INFO //

Founder Helen Stevens formed the organisation to help build on the idea of an open support network and creative hub for regional artists and designers, independent of gallery and studio based groups and memberships.


Our events provide the opportunity to buy directly from the artists and designers themselves supporting local talent, it also allows creative people to network and build new relationships within the creative community.


Local art groups, societies and galleries are also invited along. The first hour of the event acts as a trade show where the vendors, press and regional businesses are offered the opportunity to network and view the fully stocked showcase of talent.

Just a few from our stop off at Middlesbrough Fashion Week...

DM at Middlesbrough Fashion Week this coming Saturday...

Just another quick reminder that Designers Marketplace will be picthing up this Saturday 1st May and playing centre host to the Middlesbrough Fashion Week event. We will be showing a limited collection of 10 stalls selling fashion, art, accessories, and other designer maker products. Trading from 9.30am until 4pm...don't forget to come and have a browse!! Location: Pedestrianised area of Corporation Road, outside BHS.

A R T O F F - A mass art collaboration!

As a bid farewell to our pop-up shop, Designers Marketplace decided to go out with a bit of a bang and celebrate the occasion by inviting everyone down for a huge art collaboration.

For one night and one day only we teamed up with an exciting bunch of creative geniuses such as THE WEDNESDAY PROJECT, SURFACE//PHILIA, THE CLOUD COMMISSION, MALARKY, AUDREY NEWHOUSE, TUBBYPHUNK and a bunch of others for an evening of AWESOME music aand free-style drawing.

What a fun night we all had...and we're thinking there will be many more where that one came from!

FAREWELL POP-UP SHOP!

Designers Marketplace Pop-Up Shop is bidding farewell to its stay in the Albert Road unit after 6 weeks of representing and flogging glorious wares from artist and designers around the region. To celebrate the occasion we have decided to have a bit of a do and go out with a bang!

For one night and one day only we are teaming up with an exciting bunch of creative geniuses for one massive art workshop.

THE WEDNESDAY PROJECT, CHICKADEE, THE CLOUD COMMISSION, MALARKY, MR.OWL, AUDREY NEWHOUSE, NIALL GRIEVES, TUBBYPHUNK and a bunch of others will be collaborating on a mass scale, getting their creative juices flowing and offering the chance for you to get invloved!

Large scale drawing and painting galore!...with a little bit of badge making on the side (would be rude not too). We'll also have wine, tea, coffee, maybe a biscuit or two and some tasteful tunes.

We just require a smile at the door, a drawing tool in your hand and for you to leave your mark in our visitors book! All work produced may be developed into some sort of young hip publication so we'll keep you posted!

Workshop times:
Monday 19th April. 4pm until late.
Tuesday 20th April. 11am - 4pm.

See all you cools there.

Designers Marketplace Open Air Market in association with Middlesbrough Fashion Week

// DESIGNERS MARKETPLACE in association with MIDDLESBROUGH FASHION WEEK //

This month we will be seeing the arrival of Middlesbrough's first ever fashion week. Launching on Thursday 29th April for one week there will various events, shows and special shopping offers taking place all over the town centre.

Designers Marketplace has been offered the chance to take centre stage with an open air market in the town centre itself on Saturday 1st May from 9.30am onwards. The full timetable of events will be heavily advertised across regional publications and media and we'll be expecting a high volume of visitors.

Designers Marketplace will be presenting 12 stalls selling one off designer maker products such as fashion, accessories, ceramics, lifestyle gifts and photography.

If you would like to make a booking for one of our limited stall spaces please email: reservations@designersmarketplace.org.uk

For further information on Middlesbrough Fashion Week and its listed timetable of events go to:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Middlesbrough-Fashion-Week/341705824235?v=wall

Shop Update & Event Timetable...may be the longest post in the world?!

Designers Marketplace Pop-Up Shop has now been open for two weeks and is proving to be just a wee bit of a success for the yokils and all that have been involved thus far! New stock is arriving weekly and we are packed to the rafters with wonderful products, there is even talk of an extension on our stay in the empty space. Running alongside the shop we also have an exciting exhibition space which is continuously changing hands throughout the months of March and April. We thought you may be interested in knowing about what’s going down so we have kindly put together a time table of current and future events until the end of April.

SHOP & EXHIBITION SPACE OPENING TIMES:

Mon 12-5pm, Tues-Sat 10-5pm, Sun Closed

ADDRESS: 95-97 Albert Road, Middlesbrough. TS1 2PA.

Opposite the town hall and the fountains at MIMA.

/// EVENT TIMETABLE ///

Tuesday 9th March - Saturday 24th April
PORTFOLIO SELL OFF!

Is your portfolio sat getting dusty under your bed, behind your wardrobe, in the loft...the garage!?! Well dust it down and bring in any of the following and we'll sell it for you! PAINTINGS // DRAWINGS // SCREEN PRINTS // ILLUSTRATIONS // EMBROIDERIES // FABRIC SAMPLES // TEXTILES // PHOTOGRAPHY // SKETCHES // DOODLES

Thurs 4th March - Sat 20th March.

JAMES ADAIR. Two week artist in residence.

An exhibition of new works by emerging artist James Adair.The artist’s current work can be described as a visual splendor, loosely derived from flora and fauna. His vibrant and bold use of colour and patterns create work that is as much playful and free as it is organized and rhythmic. James has been our artist in residence here at pop up shop from Thurs 4th March and will be finishing this Saturday 22nd March with an art sale of his work which includes the series of new pieces. Painting directly on to original 60s/70s floral wallpaper and a series of beautifully painted canvases are just some of the works that will be on show.

Monday 22nd March - Saturday 27th March.

AJ GARRETT'S BAD ART REVOLUTION: The Bad Art Academy

An interactive exhibition for all from Operation: Bad Art - an ongoing project with the target of perishing all neurotic concepts associated with drawing. Drawings from Operation Bad Art workshops will be on show. Using only marker pens, white paper and cheap crayons under conditions that don't allow for fine technique or thinking too much, everyone is equal. Pictures emerge that are fun, unique, interesting, sometimes strange but always vibrant and personal. Here's your chance to take part in the Bad Art revolution - dare you do your worst?

Monday 29th March - Saturday 3rd April

SAMANTHA RAMSAY. Static exhibition.
Samantha Ramsay is a fine artist whose work is initially inspired by cities, architectural structures and building plans. With an aim to create works to excite and stimulate rather than painting from literal observations. Some pieces border between painting and sculpture; with angles of jutting out wood, reworked layers of oils, gloss and fabrics, experimentation with the physicality of paint. Then de-constructing areas back to reveal raw canvas beneath the complex surface - a process of construction and de-construction.

Monday 4th April - Saturday 17th April.
ADAM CLARKE. Two week artist in residence. Since graduating in 2006 from a BA Fine Art, Adam has continued to investigate a number of strands within his practice; namely painting, drawing and critical theory. Formally trained as a painter, of late his studio practice has focused heavily upon drawing. It is belief that his emerging interest in ‘time’ and its bearing upon work has led him to drawing. Adam will be working on a large scale practicing formal exercises such as line, form and colour.

Monday 19th April - Tuesday 20th April
LIVE PRINT WORKSHOP. NICOLA PARKIN of The Wednesday Project collaborating with THE CLOUD COMMISSION (And no doubt a few others!) Two day printing workshop, view their exhibition of prints and watch the team practice their skills in different forms of printing.


Please see our facebook group or fan page for further info on each separate event;
Group: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/group.php?gid=52653224552
Fan page: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Designers-Marketplace/155076417549?ref=nf

DM Pop-Up Shop PORTFOLIO SELL OFF!

WE'RE HAVING A PORTFOLIO SELL OFF!

From Tues 9th March - Sat 24th April

Is your portfolio sat getting dusty under your bed, behind your wardrobe, in the loft...the garage!?! Well dust it down and bring in any of the following and we'll sell it for you!

PAINTINGS // DRAWINGS // SCREEN PRINTS // ILLUSTRATIONS // EMBROIDERIES // FABRIC SAMPLES // TEXTILES // PHOTOGRAPHY // SKETCHES // DOODLES

Please make sure artwork is mounted (not framed) securely on card/ticket card, and labelled correctly on the back with your name and the price of the piece. It has to be A2 and under in size to fit on our stands.

20% commission will be taken on sold items, you will be contacted if and when your piece sells. You can drop off your work and pull out at any point throughout the 7 week period we will be running the 'Portfolio Sell Off' project. Each piece can be photographed, priced and shown on FB to get those punters in!

Designers Marketplace Pop-Up Shop OPENING TIMES:

Monday 12-5pm, Tues - Saturday 10-5pm, Sunday Closed.

Address: 95-97 Albert Road, Middlesbrough. TS1 2PA. (opposite the Town Hall and fountains at MIMA)

JAMES ADAIR. Two week artist in residence at DM Pop-Up Shop.

DM Pop-Up Shop is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by emerging artist James Adair.The artist’s current work can be described as a visual splendour, loosely derived from flora and fauna. His vibrant and bold use of colour and patterns create work that is as much playful and free as it is organised and rhythmic.

James will be artist in residence here at pop up shop from Thurs 4th March until Saturday 22nd March in our exhibition space. There you will be able to meet and see James at work creating a series of new pieces. Painting directly on to original 60s/70s floral wallpaper and a series of beautifully painted canvases are just some of the works that will be on show.

For a limited time only these new works will be on sale here at DM Pop-Up Shop with an art sale on Saturday 20th March at super affordable prices.

Pop-Up Shop Opening with The Cloud Commission, Malarky and Mr.Owl

Ok, so!...Designers Marketplace Pop-Up Shop opened its doors yesterday and wants to thank all who made it down! It was a great day with lots of sales and happy customers! And a MASSIVE HUGE THANKS to The Cloud Commission, Malarky and Mr.Owl for working their magic on our windows...pure awesomeness! Not forgetting a big thanks to Mamma Dots for the much loved cupcakes too!

Designers Marketplace Pop-Up Shop will be open for the next two months and is at 95-97 Albert Road, Middlesbrough, TS1 2PA. Opening times: Monday 12-5, Tues-Sat 10-5, closed Sundays.

Don't forget to join our facebook group for regular updates on events taking place throughout the two months and the artsists and designers being represented in store.