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Pamela Conacher wrote a new post, HI-Arts Reflections: Gilly Langton, on the site Northings 12 years, 4 months ago
Pamela Conacher explains how jewellery designer Gilly Langton made her move to the Highlands & Islands.
GILLY LANGTON is a highly regarded international contemporary jewellery designer living and working in […] -
Pamela Conacher wrote a new post, From Lochaber to Manhattan, on the site Northings 12 years, 9 months ago
After all the preparation and planning we have finally arrived in New York after an early start, straightforward flight and taxi to the hotel. ‘We’ are a group of twelve Craft curators/officers who are […]
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Pamela Conacher wrote a new post, First we take Manhattan!, on the site Northings 12 years, 9 months ago
Before I went on my travels, my son took it upon himself to organise my MP3 player – alphabetically, by genre and with a special section of music for New York! The one song that keeps playing through my […]
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Pamela Conacher wrote a new post, Craft overload?, on the site Northings 12 years, 9 months ago
September has been so jam packed with events, I felt it best to chart them from the beginning and work my way through!From Skye to London via Inverness, I have seen work that has ranged from community knitting […]
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Pamela Conacher wrote a new post, Travels through the Highlands (and beyond!), on the site Northings 12 years, 9 months ago
One of the many great plus points about my job as Craft Development Coordinator for the HI-Arts is that I get out and about throughout the Highlands and Islands to meet many inspiring and positive people. On […]
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Pamela Conacher wrote a new post, I think I am having a dream!, on the site Northings 12 years, 9 months ago
After being overwhelmed by SOFA on Wednesday evening it was great to return yesterday and actually meet some of the makers and talk to people involved. We still came to the conclusion that the European and […]
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Pamela Conacher wrote a new post, The Highlands in NYC, on the site Northings 12 years, 9 months ago
When I was a girl growing up in Arisaig, a friend of my mothers came to stay. Norma Morgan was an artist from NYC who was on a sabbatical to the UK as she was fascinated by moors and mountains and wanted to […]
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Pamela Conacher wrote a new post, HI-Arts invasion of Mull, on the site Northings 12 years, 9 months ago
In the depth of winter, we planned a Makers Day with An Tobar on Mull.
May would be lovely we agreed, as we battled against snow and gales and thought of spring, sunshine and calm seas! Little did we know […]
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Pamela Conacher wrote a new post, Collect at the Saatchi Gallery, on the site Northings 12 years, 9 months ago
I always look forward to visiting Collect – ‘the international art fair for contemporary objects’- in London. For the past 5 years it has been held at the V&A and at the beginning of the year, around the end of […]
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laura west wrote a new post, Finally, I know how to BLOG!, on the site Northings 12 years, 9 months ago
Wheweee! I now know that I wasn’t stupid about the blogging, just BLIND.
The menu bar is right at the top of my screen, which being a Mac, all the tab lines and catagories are on a grey bar which is EXACTLY the […]
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laura west wrote a new post, Making PROGRESS, on the site Northings 12 years, 9 months ago
Today I am going to try to add a picture to my blog. This will be a challenge for me, but I do have a friend visiting (I hope) who will help me through this. But just on the off chance that she can’t make it, here goes! -
Pamela Conacher wrote a new post, Taking Time, on the site Northings 12 years, 9 months ago
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laura west wrote a new post, Making Progress, Making Tools!, on the site Northings 12 years, 9 months ago
Producing new work is demanding. It requires investment in time, money, focus, inspiration, invention and hard work. The first two of these things, ‘time and money’ are usually in short supply. It is easy enough […]
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Pamela Conacher wrote a new post, Travelling Makers, on the site Northings 12 years, 9 months ago
Travelling Makers
From Shetland, Westray, Iona, Lochaber and Inverness, we arrived by trains, ferries, buses, taxis, planes and in some cases, all five!
Organising Highland invasions like this seems to be an […]
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Pamela Conacher wrote a new post, Collect, on the site Northings 12 years, 9 months ago
Collect
Our group visit last week was for makers who aspire to participate at Collect in the future. It was good to have a group who, once more spent time together catching up, discussing their own practice […]
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Pamela Conacher wrote a new post, Making Progress, on the site Northings 12 years, 9 months ago
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Pamela Conacher wrote a new post, Assemble, on the site Northings 12 years, 9 months ago
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Pamela Conacher wrote a new post, Time Out, on the site Northings 12 years, 9 months ago
Time Out
This is the time of year when many of us try to take a break and escape from our usual routine by relaxing with family and friends, hoping to return refreshed and inspired.
How many of us devote […]
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Pamela Conacher wrote a new post, Crafting Together, on the site Northings 12 years, 9 months ago
Crafting Together
Many of our projects address the need for our makers to get together; sometimes in a formal way through events such as Makers Days and at other times it just happens that the people involved […]
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Pamela Conacher wrote a new post, We need Exhibitions!, on the site Northings 12 years, 9 months ago
On Wednesday I spent the day in Edinburgh with a group of colleagues discussing, amongst other issues, curating craft exhibitions.Amongst all the doom and gloom of funding cuts and the difficulties of making […]
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