After 10 years of publication, 'Northings' (the monthly arts e-magazine for the Highlands & Islands) closed down in 2013 and is archived here. High Life Highland is pleased to enable this extensive body of work to remain accessible to the public. Please note, though, that material will not be updated or added.

Articles tagged ‘Crafts’

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Sense of Place Inspires Highland Design Graduates

5 Sep 2011 in Features, Showcase, Visual Arts & Crafts

Dress by Katie Barr

TINA ROSE discovers a sense of place in the work of recent art school graduates.

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Review by Mandy Haggith

Lochinver Craft Fair

12 Dec 2010 in Highland, Reviews, Visual Arts & Crafts

Purple wool by Helen Lockhart

Lochinver Village Hall, Assynt, 10-11 December 2010.

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Review by Georgina Coburn

Castle Gallery Mixed Christmas Exhibition

3 Dec 2010 in Highland, Reviews, Showcase, Visual Arts & Crafts

Karolina Larusdottir's etching Rok Ap

Castle Gallery, Castle Street, Inverness, until 24 December 2010.

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Helen Lockhart – Maker of Rainbows

22 Oct 2010 in Features, Highland, Visual Arts & Crafts

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MANDY HAGGITH enjoys a good yarn with wool dyer Helen Lockhart.

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Craft Feature: Highland Graduates (August 2010)

30 Aug 2010 in Features, Highland, Visual Arts & Crafts

Work by Emma Cowie

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

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Craft Gallery: Made It! Exhibition (July 2010)

30 Jul 2010 in Features, Highland, Visual Arts & Crafts

Work from the Crafts Council Collection - Photos by Ewen Weatherspoon

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.

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This is it! This is Craft!

30 Jun 2010 in Features, Highland, Visual Arts & Crafts

Cushion by Jenny Deschenes

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, […]

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Craft Feature: Keeping the Burners Lit

30 Jun 2010 in Features, Highland, Visual Arts & Crafts

Work by Veronica Newman

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.

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Melanie Muir: A View Across The Pond

1 Apr 2010 in Features, Visual Arts & Crafts

Sue Eggen and her work (Photo by Melanie Muir)

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

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Let’s Talk About Crafts

1 Oct 2009 in Audience Development Blog, Blogs

All we could do was look on and giggle nervously as the Pentland Ferry drew in closer to Gill’s Bay, on what was a wild and windy lunchtime in September. The ferry had been delayed earlier due to the weather, and I couldn’t help but wonder whether it was still safe to travel across the […]

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