Edinburgh & Lothians
Considered Forms and Delicate Edges
1-31 May 2011
Free
A range of ceramics by Lara Scobie will be on showcased at this Broughton Street shop as part of their ongoing Maker of the Month exhibitions. Her work is both decorative and functional, and includes a range of jewellery, small vessels, tall jugs and bowls, with prices ranging from £25 to £160. Her work is predominantly concerned with the dynamic interplay between form and pattern. Through observing the surface patterns and colour in botanical life she explores her love of colour and abstract pattern making, integrating drawing, surface mark making and volume.
Concrete Wardrobe
50a Broughton Street, Edinburgh EH1 3SA
Open Mon – Sat 10am – 6pm Sun 12 – 4pm
Telephone: 0131 558 7130
Edinburgh College of Art Fashion Show
4 - 6 May 2011
£15
One of key events in the capital’s culture calendar, this year the final collections of work by graduating students will be shown in salon style, with models walking at the level of the audience, allowing for the intimate atmosphere and up close insight most closely associated with the shows of the Paris couture houses. Audiences can choose from three distinct show programmes: Fashion, Performance Costume and a Mixed Show that includes work from both Fashion and Performance Costume. Alongside the final collections of 20 graduating students will be designs for three new labels devised by the Year 3 students, the All Walks on the Catwalk project which celebrates diversity and promotes ‘emotionally considerate design’ and a collaboration with the National Museums of Scotland and their archive of insects that sees textiles and fashion students explore entomology in a dazzling display of dresses.
Edinburgh College of Art, Main Building, entrance from Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh EH3 9DF
Tickets available at Hub Tickets www.hubtickets.co.uk A fee of £1.50 will be charged for each transaction.
4 May 6.30pm: Fashion
4 May 8.30pm: Performance Costume
5 May 8.30pm: Mixed Show (Fashion & Performance Costume)
6 May 7pm: Performance Costume
6 May 9pm: Fashion
A Shared Palette
Sara Keith, Alison McConachie
4 – 31 May 2011
Free
A Shared Palette brings together glass artist Alison McConachie and textile artist Sara Keith.
Alison, who studied glass at Edinburgh College of Art and the Royal College of Art, has developed a series of simple blown glass forms enriched with colour, gold and silver leaf and textured through the glue chip process. Her work is held in the public collections of the National Museums of Scotland, Glasgow Museums and Victoria & Albert Museum.
Sara recently completed a practice led PhD at Duncan of Jordanstone College, University of Dundee entitled “Silver as Dye; The Organic Idiom of Shibori and Electrodeposition”. During this she brought together the traditional Japanese handcraft of shaped resist dyeing with the mechanistic process of silver electrodeposition. She creates layers with stitched cloth and silver, rubbing back the surface to reveal hidden stratum. Natural dye provides depth of colour and a contrast to details of burnished silver. Textile and silver fragments are collaged with stitch, a moment caught in time, part of a perpetual journey of exploration. A boxed frame provides containment for these mixed media artefacts and in some cases the work is designed to be temporarily removed and worn.
The Scottish Gallery,
16 Dundas Street, Edinburgh EH3 6HZ
Open Mon – Fri 10am – 6pm, Sat 10am – 4pm
Telephone: 0131 558 1200
Roger Bennett, wood
13 – 31 May 2011
Free
Award-winning wood turner of fine sycamore bowls and vessels, using woodstains and inlaid with precious metals.
Open Eye Gallery,
34 Abercrombie Place, Edinburgh EH3 6QE
Open Mon – Fri 10am – 6pm, Sat 10am – 4pm
Telephone: 0131 557 1020
Sarah Thirlwell, wood
13 May - 21 June 2011
Free
Combining the processes of traditional wood-turning within a simple aesthetic, Sarah produces her jewellery range using recycled and reclaimed materials and plywood.
Open Eye Gallery,
34 Abercrombie Place, Edinburgh EH3 6QE
Open Mon – Fri 10am – 6pm, Sat 10am – 4pm
Telephone: 0131 557 1020
A Passion for Glass
20 May - 11 Sept 2011
Free
A dazzling selection of 140 objects by over 100 glassmakers spanning more than four decades, from the 1960s up to 2009 and showing the changes in styles and techniques over that time. The exhibition also uses a number of the objects on show to explain many of the processes involved in studio glass-making, from pâte de verre and blown glass to engraved and cast glass. The works are part of a collection of modern glass recently gifted to National Museums Scotland by Alan J Poole and the late Dan Klein, world authorities in the field of 20th century studio glass, who were instrumental in setting up North Lands Creative Glass – an internationally recognised centre of excellence established in Lybster, near Caithness to stimulate a growing interest in the possibilities of glass as an art form.
National Museum of Scotland,
Chambers Street, Edinburgh
Open daily 10am – 5pm
Image Copyright (top to bottom): Titled bowls, Lara Scobie - Concrete Wardrobe, Untitled, Bob Crooks - National Museum of Scotland, Silver Smoke Opalschwarz 1, 2007, Alison McConachie - The Scottish Gallery, Silver Tracery, Sara Keith - The Scottish Gallery, Sycamore and silver bowl, Roger Bennett - Open Eye Gallery, Ebony and sycamore silver brooch pins, Sarah Thirlwell - Open Eye Gallery, Tilted bowls, Lara Scobie - Concrete Wardrobe, Edinburgh College of Art Fashion Show
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