Ingenuity, imagination and skill shine from the jewellery, textiles and fashion created by the 2010 Highland graduates from the Scottish art colleges.

These are a selection of images from the Made It! Exhibition which took place at Inverness Museum and Art Gallery during the summer of 2010.

This July 2010, we talk to Suzanne Shearer who runs (with her partner Mark Sinclair) North Rock Gallery in Lerwick on the Shetland Isles. Suzanne talks about her experiences of opening the gallery and shop last year, her online presence and how she selects work for the business. Tell us a little about your background: […]

JONATHAN MACLEOD takes to the high seas on a voyage with fellow artists from Finland

Sian Jamieson (Audience Development Coordinator at HI-Arts) talks about the HI-Arts Making Progress Crafts Mentoring Scheme and the Made It! exhibition at Inverness Museum and Art Gallery which features work by Highland Makers and from the Crafts Council collection. Intellectual, physical, unique, challenging, beautiful, useful, tactile, extraordinary, cutting-edge, innovative, aesthetic, visual, thought provoking, handmade, multi-disciplined, […]

Keeping the Burners Lit is an exhibition of the diverse work of 13 Scottish Ceramicists from the North of Scotland which took place from 3 – 25 July 2010 at an talla solais in Ullapool.

MANDY HAGGITH investigates potter Fergus Stewart’s views on arts, economics and community in the Scottish highlands

ALEXANDER SMITH investigates the current relevance of Concrete Art with the founders of HICA

MHAIRI KILLIN and PAMELA CONACHER report on the experiences of the Highlands & Islands contingent at the Stroud International Textile Festival

MELANIE MUIR gets a first hand look at how they do things in rather different Craft world of the USA.