Northings

  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 that same attention to our working practice and take time away  to consider the direction we [...]

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 informed! The Craft Council used the conference to launch research papers as well as the giving us opportunity [...]

Eileen Gatt, beaker On the 4 th 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 promised, the sun shone, tasty food, refreshing fizz and good conversation was in order! As part of the mentoring project [...]

  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 and wonderful to see them realise that their work is on a level with much that is on show. Collect [...]

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 integral part of my job and one I relish. By the very nature of our location, we usually work in isolation and although this [...]

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 childhood but more often I drive because taking 6 hours out of my life somehow seems wasteful. But [...]

Pamela Conacher, Crafts Development Officer wrote a new blog post: A Proper Job

Orkney has always been a place I hold dear and when we were planning a Makers’ Day that would bring together craftspeople from different areas of the Highlands and Islands I could think of nowhere better to hold it.

With the wonderful Pier Art [...]

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Pamela Conacher, Crafts Development Officer wrote a new blog post: A Proper Job

Orkney has always been a place I hold dear and when we were planning a Makers’ Day that would bring together craftspeople from different areas of the Highlands and Islands I could think of nowhere better to hold it.

With the wonderful Pier Art Centre in Stromness, the range of craft studios, trails and shops as [...]

  10 months ago · View

Pamela Conacher, Crafts Development Officer wrote a new blog post: A Proper Job

Orkney has always been a place I hold dear and when we were planning a Makers’ Day that would bring together craftspeople from different areas of the Highlands and Islands I could think of nowhere better to hold it.

With the wonderful Pier Art Centre in Stromness, the range of craft studios, trails and shops as [...]

  10 months ago · View

Pamela Conacher, Crafts Development Officer wrote a new blog post: Stitching Together

At the beginning of August I travelled to Stroud on the edge of the Cotswolds to meet with the Director of the highly regarded Stroud International Textile Festival, Lizzi Walton as well as members of several groups in the area.

The landscape is very different from the Highlands but we have a lot in common including [...]

  11 months, 4 weeks ago · View

Pamela Conacher, Crafts Development Officer wrote a new blog post: Stitching Together

At the beginning of August I travelled to Stroud on the edge of the Cotswolds to meet with the Director of the highly regarded Stroud International Textile Festival, Lizzi Walton as well as members of several groups in the area.

The landscape is very different from the Highlands but we have a lot in common including [...]

  11 months, 4 weeks ago · View

Pamela Conacher, Crafts Development Officer wrote a new blog post: Stitching Together

At the beginning of August I travelled to Stroud on the edge of the Cotswolds to meet with the Director of the highly regarded Stroud International Textile Festival, Lizzi Walton as well as members of several groups in the area.

The landscape is very different from [...]

  11 months, 4 weeks ago · View

Pamela Conacher, Crafts Development Officer wrote a new blog post: Collect at the Saatchi Gallery

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 January.
There were many positives to [...]

  1 year, 2 months ago · View