Craft and Art Residency, Kilbowie 2010

I'm just home after a great week with some fantastic students from around North Lanarkshire, who all took part in a week of intensive art and design training. I was focussed on the screen-printing and what an amazing selection of work we had by the end of it, everyone really got stuck in and got their hands dirty (quite literally)! Check out the heat changing t-shirts we managed to squish in between some more serious work.

The beautiful sunset on the longest day of the year.

Managed to get the students painting onto the screen, as well as the opportunity to draw down by the harbour and collect objects on the first couple of days. Everyone worked from the early hours till late at night and really got a lot of the experience, teacher and student alike I reckon.

I really liked going exploring when I had a couple of minutes to spare, I just love the sea!

There wasn't just screen-printing either, other opportunities included jewellery with Suilven Plazalska which looked absolutely amazing in the next room as well as Music, Digital Imagery, Fine Art and Film/Documentery Making.

Concrete Wardrobe

GraceInk hand screen-printed purses and greetings cards have been dropped off this morning at the Concrete Wardrobe in Edinburgh for the masses to enjoy...check out the shop at www.concretewardrobe.co.uk. They stock amazing art and design by a whole host of wonderful British based artisans which now includes me!

Kilbowie 2010

I've just been asked to run a series of workshops over on the west coast of Scotland towards the end of this month at an event for school-leavers wanting to head into the art and design field at College or Uni. Very excited about taking part and in a part of Scotland I haven't had a chance to visit yet, so double excitement!

T-shirt to your left is one I whipped up yesterday while organising what I would need for such an adventure with the fantastic Tony. I had a great time showing it off to all and sundry yesterday afternoon and now it's even been fixed so I can wear it out in the rain...whooo! (lets hope for none of that while I'm on the west coast)

Hopefully I'll have some more exciting photos to show from the actual event in a couple of weeks time.

Contemporary Threads Update

The show might be over at The Wee Gallery, but I thought I'd just pop in a mention received in the Southern Reporter (with names!!) from last week.

And remember theres still plenty going on throughout June too, including what should be an amazing exhibition and catwalk show taking place at the Dovecot Studio in Edinburgh featuring work by Heriot-Watt Textile and Fashion Students and curated by Mark Eley (Eley Kishimoto). Check out www.tex.hw.ac.uk or www.dundee.ac.uk/djcad/cfs/ for more info on what other exciting events are planned throughout Scotland.