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Flyers for an upcoming show I’m taking part in ‘Ardent Form’ by Resonate Collective…I’ll post more info soon

Resonate Collective

Just collected our brand new flyers for the Ardent Form exhibition featuring the beautiful work of Natalie Reid.

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Organic Sequence Bowl

Nicola Turnbull’s ‘Organic Sequence Bowl’.

A great piece of silversmithing currently on show at Visual Arts Scotland (VAS) exhibition in the Royal Scottish Academy Building in Edinburgh.

I share a studio with Nicola & she was commissioned to make this bowl for British Silver Week. I’m also currently working at the VAS exhibition & enjoying talking with visitors about Nicola’s work. There’s been a great deal of positive response to the bowl & she won the Inches Carr Prize. Well deserved in my opinion. (Not that I’m biased in the slightest!)

Open Studios at Art’s Complex

The Art’s Complex is opening it’s doors once again this weekend! Come, come, come…

We have a new addition at 6:15 in the form of visual artist Amy Cameron! This is the first time Amy has opened her studio space to the public. She works in mixed media creating layered paintings that consider memory, personal history, storytelling and identity.

Artist jewellers Nicola Turnbull & Fiona Hermse will also have their spaces open.
Nicola’s been busy making new articulating jewellery with beautifully coloured enamel sections alongside prints and drawings.
Fiona’s extensive collection of jewellery influenced by a recent trip to Peru are also worth checking out. She uses intricate and delicate details of lace & knitted wire in her designs.

I will be showing some recent photographic & moving image work too. Including an animation in development that Fiona and I are working on called Limbic Space.

70 artists in the building will have their studios open to visitors so plenty to come and check out, including the members exhibition at the Art’s Complex Gallery on floor 3.

Resonate – an exhibition at Coburg House Gallery

I’ve been a little quiet on the blog front lately and mostly because I’ve been manically making work for a new exhibition…

Resonate is collective exhibition in print, moving image and jewellery by five Edinburgh based artists and jewellers.

Each of the artists are exhibiting work that responds to the theme of resonance.  We’ve been keeping a website & blog with info about the show, our thoughts & works in progress, check it out: resonatecollective@wordpress.com

The exhibition preview is this Friday 5th October, 6pm to 9pm (all welcome).  I’ll be exhibiting new work in moving image, including a collaborative animation with Fiona Hermse.

The exhibition runs from 6th to 17th October at Coburg House Gallery, Edinburgh.

Better get back to the manic art making…..

Art’s Complex Open Studios

My studio buddies & I are opening our studio to the public for the first time this Sunday.  If you’re in or around Edinburgh, come along and see what we’re up to.  Lots of other artists will have their doors open too, so there will be lots to nosey at!  More info below.

Please click on the links & check out the work of my lovely artist friends.

On Sunday 22nd April the Art’s Complex Studio 6.15 will open its doors to the public for the first time.  Shared by 5 vibrant and varying Artist/Makers…

Emma Macleod is a Visual Artist, her interests lie in film, theatre & the dramatisation of space.  Open Studios is an opportunity to see her new drawings, photography, moving image & sound works currently in development. www.emmamacleod.co.uk

Sarah Connolly is a Visual Artist/Printmaker who explores a broad spectrum of subject matter, including; landscapes, architecture, interiors, objects, concepts and processes, where her output is often housed in print, photography, collage, watercolour and drawing. www.sarahconnolly.co.uk

Kirsten McAlister is a Painter, currently focusing on work which she’s making from revisited research, gathered in Naples, from her RSA John Kinross Scholarship to Italy in 2007.

Nicola Turnbull is a Jeweller, Designer and Silversmith. She creates delicate, dynamic and articulating jewellery in sterling silver.  Her intricate designs are informed by geometric diagrams found in organic sciences, such as the linear drawings made by a pendulum. www.nicolaturnbull.co.uk

Fiona Hermse is an Artist Jeweller particularly fascinated by spiritual belief, superstition and myth in nature. This is an opportunity to view new work inspired by urban imagery and derived from composition and delicate aesthetic contrasts. www.fionahermse.co.uk

“The exterior of St Margaret’s House conserves the drab office block charm of its, no doubt, remarkably unimaginative youth. Venture inside, however, and discover the creative hoards of painters, jewellers, ceramists, web designers, printmakers, sculptors, illustrators, textiles designers, costume makers, writers, photographers, filmmakers, butchers, bakers, and musical instrument makers that now line the corridors of this monument to building reuse.”

– www.artscomplex.org

For Directions and more information, click on the link above to visit the Art’s Complex website.

Hope to see you there!