NATIONAL MUSEUM OF SCOTLAND
UNTIL MARCH 14
Meet Your Maker
Stacey Bentley, Textured
Enamel Series #6, Brooch
In this first ever ‘living exhibition’ by National Museums Scotland, nine of the country’s best craftspeople come together to showcase the techniques and traditions which make Scotland a leader in craft practice.
Visitors to Meet Your Maker will be able to witness the creative and technical ability of craftspeople as they work. The nine makers work in a range of crafts, including jewellery-making, silversmithing, metal design, ceramics and glass. A selection of the makers’ work will be available for sale.
Originally from Sweden, Elin Isaksson came to Edinburgh in 2001. She creates bespoke, handcrafted sculptural, lighting and architectural glass for individual and corporate clients.
The craft of jewellery design is represented by five makers, including Glasgow College of Art graduate Pauline Edie, who creates an eclectic range of jewellery inspired by childhood stories and illustrations.
Glasgow-based Alison MacLeod graduated from Edinburgh College of Art with a degree in Jewellery and Silversmithing. Her work has been exhibited all over the country and as far afield as Krakow, New York, Japan and Australia. Alison’s jewellery is inspired by her own photographs and abstract drawings of Edinburgh’s junk shops.
Fellow Glaswegian Leah Black creates jewellery and artefacts which highlight the relationship between object and memory. She is particularly interested in the decay, destruction, removal or neglect of artefacts which assist the retention of memory.
Libby Day, Lit square route (Photo: Stuart Johnstone)
Jeweller and silversmith Stacey Bentley graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2008. Her work explores the new possibilities that industrial liquid enamel can bring to contemporary jewellery.
Ebba Redman’s jewellery designs combine domestic craft skills handed down from generation to generation. For over a year she has been transforming hand-crocheted cotton and lace designs into pieces of silver jewellery, using a process called electroforming, which preserves them for ever.
Libby Day is an Aberdeen-based maker who graduated from Grays School of Art in 2008. She uses a mix of traditional craftsmanship and computer technology to create elegant, sculptural fruit bowls inspired by photographs of trees.
Edinburgh-based ceramic artist Fran Priest’s ‘Gifts & Occupations’ collection was inspired by her travels to Japan, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia and developed further for Meet Your Maker.
Jilli Blackwood is an internationally renowned textile designer and artist. Since graduating from Glasgow School of Art in 1985 her work has been exhibited extensively around the world. Jilli is known for her embroidery techniques and for combining different fabrics such as silk, leather and linen to create colourful and sensual threedimensional surfaces.
In partnership with craftscotland
National Museum Of Scotland
Chambers St.
Edinburgh
Edinburgh
0131 225 7324
Daily 10a-5p
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