New work, an upcoming solo exhibition at a British glass museum and an illustrated description of lost wax casting with rubber moulds.

Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, Inverness, until 10 September 2011.

Inverness Museum & Art Gallery, Inverness, until 6 August 2011

Turned and Twisted, an exhibition of work from the Crafts Council collection.

Only a few more days in the workshop until the chairs are finished so I thought I would post a sneak peak of what exactly I have been up to over the last few months. The initial chairs or aboriginal chairs as  like the call them were finished some time in early February, and since then the have been cut in […]

Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, Inverness, until 2 July 2011.

Ok, so stupidly this will be a photoless blog entry. I got so carried away with the moving pictures I completely forgot to get any not moving ones. Lesson officially learned. Although this is very much in keeping with the rest of the entry as it was a day of learning lessons all round. For example, […]

My third visit was to Caroline Dear, in Fangan which is a wee collection of houses a few miles on the other side of Portree if you come from the direction I did. The run to Skye from Fort William was as beautiful as my drive to Caithness and reminded me again that there is […]

Last Friday I made my way to Aberdeen to meet with Nick Ross and chat about his maker’s video. He’s currently the artist in residence and a tutor in Gray’s School of Art and, having only graduated in 2008, I was impressed before I had even arrived at how he had become so established in […]

I’m Jen Cantwell, I’m on the Hi-Arts Making Progress programme, I’m a mid career maker with my practice Sporran Nation, I also work across mediums in a more experimental way and for the making progress programme I’m working with knit and sound technology, with a virtual element added in. Aided + abetted by my partner, […]