Scotland: Craft & Design Brochure

Welcome The Scotland: Craft & Design pavilion champions the energy, innovation and talent in the Scottish craft sector. Scottish makers are creating exceptional pieces of craft by embracing new digital technologies alongside traditional methods.

Working in partnership, Craft Scotland and Emergents have created this pavilion to present the very best in contemporary Scottish craft and design. Twenty-two emerging and established designer/makers from across Scotland were selected by an industry panel to take part in the Scotland: Craft & Design pavilion. Each maker’s exceptional work covers a broad range of techniques and processes, and demonstrates the breadth and quality of the sector. Visitors can discover a curated collection of furniture, ceramics, lighting, glass, textiles and more.

Drawing from its rich heritage, Scotland cultivates a pioneering spirit within its creative industries and encourages each maker to develop a strong unique voice.

Cover: ceramics by Lara Scobie and image by Shannon Tofts

Craft Scotland is the national agency for craft.

We work to unite, inspire and champion craft through creating opportunities for makers and audiences.

We lobby for craft as an essential part of our cultural, economic and social life and work in partnership with other like-minded agencies to achieve this. We are a charity supported by Creative Scotland.

www.craftscotland.org hello@craftscotland.org +44 (0)131 466 3870

Emergents is a community interest company that aims to support the development of creative careers, enterprise and the economy in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland and beyond. We aim to achieve this by nurturing creative talent and creative businesses through general and specific support including mentoring, training, advice and networking. Emergents is funded by Creative Scotland and Highlands & Islands Enterprise through ERDF European funding. www.emergents.co.uk info@emergents.co.uk +44 (0)786 797 0889

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Kirsteen Stewart Orkney, Highlands & Islands

Kirsteen Stewart brings creativity and colour into our everyday lives. Her playful collections of womenswear and accessories are led by vibrant print designs, combining bold graphics with a vivid spectrum of colour. Designing her prints by hand and digitally, Kirsteen develops her inspirations with signature flair; playing with scale, texture and motion. Her pieces are designed for life; with simple shapes in high-quality and practical fabrics.

www.kirsteenstewart.com kirsteenstewart@hotmail.co.uk +44 (0)185 687 5008

Image credit: What Kristen Saw

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Jennifer Gray Glasgow

Jennifer Gray’s work generally develops through a predominantly site-responsive process, or as a reaction to a particular story, personality or object. Her techniques move in and out of the handmade and the digital, leaving the viewer uncertain as to each work’s production. She uses digital modelling to emulate traditional silversmith carving and lost wax casting methods, in order to retain the important handmade quality.

www.jennifergray.co.uk hello@jennifergray.co.uk +44 (0)785 486 0791

Image credit: Jennifer Gray

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Lara Scobie Edinburgh

Lara Scobie creates large-scale sculptural ceramics that balance composition and form. By integrating drawing, surface mark-making and volume Lara plays with space and pattern. Lara has exhibited internationally and received multiple awards, including Honourable Mention at Mino Ceramics, Japan. For over 20 years, she taught ceramics and design at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee.

www.larascobie-ceramics.com larascobie@gmail.com +44 (0)772 247 9238

Image credit: Shannon Tofts

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Catherine MacGruer Inverness, Highlands & Islands

Catherine MacGruer is a knitwear designer who creates statement knitted interior products in the Highlands of Scotland. Catherine’s colourful geometric products are knitted using the finest quality Merino wool, they are made to last and be treasured. Her work is stocked by the prestigious homeware store Heal’s, and she is the winner of the New Design Britain Award 2015.

www.catherinemacgruer.com hi@catherinemacgruer.com +44 (0)751 742 3800

Image credit: Catherine MacGruer

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The Store Hus Glasgow

The Store Hus is a growing family business with a love of print and pattern. Time spent in Scandinavia cultivated an appreciation for a pared-down approach to design, strong use of colour and careful consideration for materials and production methods. The Store Hus design practical decorative items for the home. Smallscale traditional production methods are used and where possible materials are sourced within the UK.

www.thestorehus.co.uk hello@thestorehus.co.uk +44 (0)798 056 5791

Image credit: Susan Castillo

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Hilary Grant Orkney, Highlands & Islands

Hilary Grant runs her eponymous luxury Scottish knitwear label and creates staple winter accessories with craftsmanship, style and distinct personality. She believes everyday items should be beautifully made.

Each piece is designed, knitted and hand-finished in Scotland. Hilary is interested in knitting traditions from Iceland, Scotland and Scandinavia but instead of re-appropriating existing motifs, she strives to make the language of this pattern-making contemporary. www.hilarygrant.co.uk info@hilarygrant.co.uk +44 (0)186 581 1404

Image credit: Caro Weiss

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Melanie Muir Nairn, Highlands & Islands

Melanie Muir creates unique jewellery and decorative pieces entirely by hand. She invented her own process involving veneers of polymer and several stages of ‘firing’ after being inspired by the Japanese metalworking technique mokume gane. Melanie is constantly inspired by the colours, shapes and patterns that surround her in the Highland landscape.

www.melaniemuir.com info@melaniemuir.com +44 (0)166 725 8097

Image credit: Ewen Wetherspoon

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David Watson Port Glasgow, Inverclyde

David Watson is a designer and maker of fine furniture.

From his workshop in Inverclyde, David and his team of skilled craftsmen manufacture furniture and furnishings.

David draws inspiration from the Inverclyde area and its rich history of pioneering industrial manufacturing.

He is also fascinated with the way timber has been incorporated throughout the years in precision engineering.

www.davidwatsoncabinetmaker.com david@davidwatsoncabinetmaker.com +44 (0)147 574 4745

Image credit: David Watson

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Kate Colin Glasgow

Growing up, Kate Colin’s mathematician father filled her home with handmade polyhedra models.

Her appreciation for the beauty and variety of threedimensional forms informs her unique lighting designs.

Based in Glasgow, Kate handcrafts sculptural lighting using her own technique of hand scoring and folding paper. Through her work she explores how light, colour and geometry interact.

www.katecolindesign.com kate_colin@hotmail.com +44 (0)780 173 1737

Image credit: Jenni Browne Photography

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Thomas Hopkins-Gibson Cumnock, East Ayrshire

Thomas Hopkins-Gibson’s fascination for timber and woodworking has informed his work all of his life. He took up ceramics much later but was enthralled by the way the two disciplines could work together. Thomas has developed a unique process that allows him to convey the form and texture of wood but changes the ephemeral nature of timber into almost fossilised ceramic form.

www.tom-hopkins-gibson.co.uk tom-hopkins-gibson@hotmail.co.uk +44 (0)772 212 3380

Image credit: Craft Scotland

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Choi Keeryong Edinburgh

Choi Keeryong’s artistic practice has been heavily influenced and inspired by his personal cross-cultural experience of being in a state of in-betweenness as a South Korean living in Edinburgh. Choi has developed an inlaid colouring hot glass making technique inspired by the ancient Korean ‘Saggam’ pottery, which allows him to explore the state of ambiguity in the viewer’s visual experience.

kalga26@hotmail.com +44 (0)778 854 4088

Image credit: Choi Keeryong

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Jode Pankhurst Edinburgh

Jode Pankhurst is a designer/maker with a background in illustration. She makes playful graphic homeware and wearable ceramics. She predominantly works in porcelain and enjoys adorning her wares with a freehand pattern to retain a sense of immediacy. Embracing naivety, rather than fearing it, enables Jode to create confident and unapologetic three-dimensional pieces in her illustrative style.

www.jodepankhurst.co.uk jodepankhurst@gmail.com +44 (0)775 614 5485

Image credit: Jode Pankhurst

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Naomi Mcintosh Ballater, Aberdeenshire

Naomi Mcintosh is a designer and maker with an architectural background. She is interested in how objects relate to the body. She manipulates surfaces to create sculptural objects. She thinks of the pieces as works that are ‘Wearable Drawings’ and uses planes and lines to suggest forms and capture volumes, transforming 2D surfaces into 3D objects. With precise geometry her pieces investigate how volumes, patterns, planes and forms are seen. www.naomimcintosh.com naomi@naomimcintosh.com +44 (0)787 200 4053

Image credit: Naomi Mcintosh

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Morag Macpherson Kirkcudbright, Dumfries & Galloway

Morag Macpherson creates unique surface patterns for limited-edition fabric, wallpaper, cushions and accessories. Her influences come from art history, different cultures, lines and natural and urban shapes.

Her patterns are digitally printed and this allows her complete freedom of colour expression with no limitations, which is incredibly liberating. The making and patch working process is the final part of her creative journey and she enjoys the patience it teaches her. www.moragmacpherson.com info@moragmacpherson.com +44 (0)773 442 1029

Image credit: Kim Ayres

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Joanna Kessel Edinburgh

Joanna Kessel’s mosaic artwork ranges from colourful, interior wall surface treatments to large scale, exterior, architectural mosaics. She employs a range of mosaic materials; industrially produced porcelain, glass, locally sourced stone, marble, Venetian glass smalti, gold leaf mosaic, and cast and polished concrete. Joanna works intuitively, exploring juxtapositions and visual qualities of light, materials and colour, often inspired by natural and manmade environments. www.joannakessel.co.uk joannakessel@gmail.com +44 (0)797 481 0621

Image credit: Michael Wolchover

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Diggory Brown Isle of Lewis, Highlands & Islands

Annette Sopata’s design label Diggory Brown specialises in applying traditional, hand tailoring techniques to create unique pieces for women and men. She uses locally woven Harris Tweed, Breanish Tweed and Scalpay Linen.

Inspired by the circular economy, Annette is developing her own range of Hebridean Tweeds using yarn sourced from sheep reared on her family croft.

www.diggorybrown.com thetailorshouse@gmail.com +44 (0)788 127 3966

Image credit: Fiona Rennie

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Kevin Gauld Orkney, Highlands & Islands

As a strict craftsman Kevin Gauld uses only the best quality materials for his furniture, even growing his own oats for the straw backs of his renowned Orkney Chairs.

In 2015, Kevin collaborated with furniture designer/maker Gareth Neal for The New Craftsmen, showcasing the traditional straw work technique to stunning effect.

www.orkneyfurniture.co.uk enquiries@orkneyfurniture.co.uk +44 (0)185 687 1314

Image credit: Kevin Gauld

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Lizzie Farey Castle Douglas, Dumfries & Galloway

Lizzie Farey’s work is an internal journey. She responds to the events in her life by working with her hands. She uses ash or willow as a medium for drawing in air, creating light, aerial pieces. The abstract forms she creates are attempts to express the complex in as simple a way as possible, and to find order and a sense of calm in chaos.

www.lizziefarey.co.uk lizziefarey@gmail.com +44 (0)782 162 9234

Image credit: Shannon Tofts

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Yellow Broom Moray, Highlands & Islands

Yellow Broom is a collaboration between David Robson and Clare Waddle. They carefully co-design and handmake a range of well-crafted, aesthetically pleasing, utilitarian wooden lighting. Yellow Broom place strong value on quality materials, simplicity and good craftsmanship. Where possible their timber is locally sourced and can be traced back to its original location.

Yellow Broom are proud to create products with a zero waste approach to production. www.yellowbroomproduct.co.uk product@yellowbroomproduct.co.uk +44 (0)781 350 0603

Image credit: Ewen Wetherspoon

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Eileen Gatt Munlochy, Highland & Islands

Eileen Gatt’s silverware has a strong narrative element, inspired by the polar wilderness, Inuit culture, Scottish folklore, and the small fishing communities found along Scotland’s East Coast. She has been involved with a number of collaborations with storytellers from as far afield as Alaska. Eileen has been designing and handcrafting silverware and jewellery for over 20 years.

www.eileengatt.co.uk eileengatt@btinternet.com +44 (0)795 816 2806

Image credit: Shannon Tofts

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Juli Bolaños-Durman Edinburgh

“That’s the challenge: to create something beautiful from things that people are about to discard.” Originally from Costa Rica, designer Juli Bolaños-Durman creates unique sculptures by combining blown glass with found materials and engraving techniques. Her creative process explores how intuitive play can jumpstart new ideas.

Winner of the Elle Decoration British Design Awards 2015: Eco Design Category.

www.julibd.com julibd@gmail.com +44 (0)774 214 4894

Image credit: Shannon Tofts

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Julia Smith Ardersier, Highlands & Islands

Subtle colours, organic textures and inspiration from nature are reflected in Julia Smith’s range of earthenware ceramics. The clean forms of mid-century tableware, children’s book illustrations and the Japanese wabi-sabi aesthetic are recurring inspirations that are evident in her pots. In her glazes she aims to capture moments within the ever-changing light on the water and the dramatic weather.

www.juliasmithceramics.com info@juliasmithceramics.com +44 (0)166 746 2742

Image credit: Shannon Tofts

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Thank You Special thanks to the Scotland: Craft & Design pavilion partners, sponsors and supporters.

Industry Selection Panel • Jimmy MacDonald: Founder & Director, London Design Fair (Tent London & Super Brands London) • Natalie Melton: Co-Founder & Managing

Director, The New Craftsmen • Jo Scott: Project Manager, Craft Scotland • Pamela Conacher: Director, Emergents Pavilion design concept GRAS – a Scottish architecture and design studio Scotland: Craft & Design branding Graphical House Pavilion Seating David Watson Cabinetmakers Private View complimentary drinks Rock Rose gin

Courtyard Installation Craft Scotland & Edinburgh College of Art

The Courtyard installation at London Design Fair is a compelling showcase of how craft materials can be used to explore new boundaries.

Students from the Material Practice programme at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, have created a roof-like structure and wooden furniture for The Courtyard.

Inspired by the work of German Fritz Zollinger who used timber lamellae and later Hugo Junkers who used folded steel elements, the students have created a structure that investigates the complexity of reciprocal systems, whilst maintaining its simplicity in form and production used.

The installation as well as the other exhibited artefacts aim to highlight the potential of the application of computational design tools and traditional manufacturing techniques. The MSc in Material Practice is an exceptional one-year programme that takes an innovative, crossdisciplinary approach to understanding the qualities and potentials of different material systems.

Craft Scotland is delighted to be involved in this innovative joint project with Edinburgh College of Art. Material Practice (MSc) Students: • Katerina Alkiviadou • Agustin Dieste • Lewis Lilburn

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