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 […] ]]>
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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!
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Taking Time
Taking the West Highland train home from Edinburgh takes around 6 hours compared to 3 ½ hours in the car. It is a spectacular journey in daylight and one I have done numerous times since […]
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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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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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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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Eileen Gatt, beaker
On the 4th June we had our afternoon event to Celebrate Craft and our Mentoring Project, Making Progress. It also saw the opening of our exhibitions, Made It! and Laura West’s Spotlight.
As […]
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Assemble
On Tuesday I was in a very hot London for the Craft Council Conference, Assemble. Set in the lovely surroundings of LSO St Lukes, I had high expectations for the day, hoping to come home inspired and […]
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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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Crafting TogetherMany 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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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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On the first hot and sunny day for several weeks makers came from far and wide to listen to inspirational speakers for our summer event in Inverness.
‘Selling the Sizzle’ was Tina Rose’s suggestion for a […]
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MHAIRI KILLIN and PAMELA CONACHER report on the experiences of the Highlands & Islands contingent at the Stroud International Textile Festival FIVE MAKERS from Shetland, Orkney, Iona and Lochaber, together with Hazel Hughson from Shetland Arts, and Pamela Conacher and Avril Souter from HI-Arts attended the opening of the Stroud International…[Read more]
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]]>Hello Lucy, it was lovely to see you last week. I hope the plan we discussed comes together, we can discuss at the exhibitions workshop next week!
]]>So my designs are finalised and exposed onto screens for re-upholstering the balloon back chairs. I am now cutting the fabric to size and have done sample prints with my colours. Figers crossed everything works out on the fabric now!
]]>Hello Laura, I’m looking forward to meeting you properly at next weeks exhibition workshop. I hope you’re getting on well with everything.I’ve got the cold and seem to be losing my voice, not very handy with two young children! I’m preparing fabric to print to re-upholster some chairs, fingers crossed all…
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]]>Well, it’s confirmed I’m not a natural at filling in SAC forms, but who is?? Unfortunately I didn’t get the award I was applying for but C’est la vie! So I have decided to change my brief for my exhibition in July.I will use as much recycled material as I can in my new work, […]