{"id":2415,"date":"2017-05-25T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T09:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/?p=2415"},"modified":"2017-05-19T09:37:21","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T09:37:21","slug":"2415","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/2017\/05\/25\/2415\/","title":{"rendered":"Polly Macpherson featured on BBC Radio Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1872\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1872\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1872\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2017\/01\/Polly_MacPherson-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2017\/01\/Polly_MacPherson-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2017\/01\/Polly_MacPherson-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2017\/01\/Polly_MacPherson-560x560.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2017\/01\/Polly_MacPherson-260x260.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2017\/01\/Polly_MacPherson-160x160.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2017\/01\/Polly_MacPherson.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1872\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Polly Macpherson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plymouth.ac.uk\/staff\/polly-macpherson\">Polly Macpherson<\/a>, Associate Professor in 3D Design, has appeared on BBC Radio 4\u2019s Woman\u2019s Hour to discuss the \u2018other\u2019 category of show\u2019s upcoming craft prize. Polly is one of the category\u2019s judges and describes the diverse range of entries received, including mosaic, paper, basketry, leather and various new materials.<\/p>\n<p>The Woman\u2019s Hour Craft Prize 2017 aims to find and celebrate the most innovative and exciting craft practitioner or designer-maker resident in the UK today in the most comprehensive prize of its kind. \u00a0The prize will be judged by experts in the craft field, with twelve finalists exhibiting their work at the Victoria and Albert Museum and in a planned touring exhibition of the shortlisted work.<\/p>\n<p>An overall winner will be chosen from the twelve exhibiting finalists and awarded a prize of \u00a310,000 at a ceremony in November 2017. The prize will reward originality and excellence in concept, design and process and will seek to recognise an outstanding craft practitioner or designer-maker with a track record of public display or showcasing of their work, and who has demonstrably contributed to craft practice in the last five years.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to Polly comments on Woman&#8217;s Hour <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b08p5lfw?utm_source=Staff+bulletin+recipients&amp;utm_campaign=ff0cb5baa0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_05_17&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_9712f86811-ff0cb5baa0-120627937\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polly Macpherson, Associate Professor in 3D Design, has appeared on BBC Radio 4\u2019s Woman\u2019s Hour to discuss the \u2018other\u2019 category of show\u2019s upcoming craft prize. Polly is one of the category\u2019s judges and describes the diverse range of entries received, including mosaic, paper, basketry, leather and various new materials. The Woman\u2019s Hour Craft Prize 2017&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/2017\/05\/25\/2415\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Polly Macpherson featured on BBC Radio Four<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":1872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,138],"tags":[92,231,627,206,447,790],"class_list":["post-2415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-transdisciplinary-creative-practices","tag-3d-design","tag-bbc","tag-craft","tag-polly-macpherson","tag-radio-4","tag-womens-hour","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2415"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2417,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415\/revisions\/2417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}