DOVECOT STUDIOS
UNTIL FEBRUARY 27
Contemporary Silver Making from Bishopsland
David McIntyre, Disease Detective, 2009
This display explores the development of contemporary silver over the last 30 years. Outstanding pieces of silversmithing and jewellery will be on show by renowned makers, including: Rod Kelly, the master of flat chasing; the enamellist Jane Short; Jacqueline Mina, goldsmith and winner of the Jerwood Prize; Professor Hiroshi Suzuki; and the distinguished engraver Malcolm Appleby.
The artists selected have all worked with the
Bishopsland Fellowship, a training workshop in
South Oxfordshire where graduates spend a
cloistered year learning their trade and
acquiring the skills of professional practice.
Hardly known outside the craft of silver,
Bishopsland nurtures young talent and provides
a bridge between college education and an
artistic career in silversmithing.
www.bishopsland.org.uk
UNTIL MARCH 10
Taking Time: Craft and the Slow Revolution
Pause on the Landing,
(sample), 2005, designed by
Patrick Caulfield, woven by
Naomi Robertson, Dovecot
Studios
Nineteen international contemporary makers and artists reflect on a ‘slow revolution,’ considering ideas around time and process, material and value, site and locality, relationships to community and the changing nature of production and consumption.
The exhibition explores the issues emerging from the Slow Movement, which developed as a response to our increasingly fast lifestyles and our unsustainable consumer culture. Slowness is associated with craft skills, which are acquired over time and cannot be rushed and are intuitively learned.
Many makers are developing critical positions in
response to our consumer behaviour, questioning
new modes of production through processes,
examining issues of stewardship and sustainability
as well as collective making and reworking
everyday objects.
www.takingtime.org
Touring exhibition from Craftspace curated by Helen
Carnac.
FEBRUARY16–MARCH 13
Tapestry Revealed Part One: Patrick Caulfield
This detailed look in detail at a number of Dovecot’s projects examines the weaving technique employed, the origins of the design and the artistic collaboration between designer and weaver. The exhibitions also aim to encourage audiences to view tapestries in the same analytical way as they would any other artwork, giving context to both the weaving and the process.
The series will begin with Patrick Caulfield’s
tapestry design Pause on the Landing, woven by
Dovecot Studios in 2005. Using the sample
tapestry and transparency of the design as its
basis, the exhibition will explore the complex
process of translating a painting into tapestry and
the dialogue which developed between Caulfield
and Dovecot’s Master Weavers.
www.dovecotstudios.com
MARCH 9-27
Enlightenment – The Art of Science by David McIntyre
Photographer David McIntyre has developed an
exhibition interpreting scientific research being
conducted at six of Scotland’s top research
institutes in forming the Knowledge Scotland
Partnership. Based in Alloa, David is a
professional freelance photographer who
currently lectures in Photography and Digital
Imaging at Edinburgh’s Telford College. He has
had exclusive access to meet and work with
scientists and has developed his own
interpretation of their work through creating
abstract and striking images. The exhibition
launches at Dovecot before going on tour
around Scotland.
www.knowledgescotland.org
Dovecot Studios
10 Infirmary St.
Edinburgh
Edinburgh
0131 315 3054
July: Tues-Sat 11a-5p, Aug: Mon-Sat 11a-5pm (Wed -7p)
www.dovecotstudios.com
