The exhibition, The Cutting Edge: Scotland’s contemporary crafts, has opened at The Dick in Kilmarnock.

This touring exhibition shows innovative work created using cutting tools by thirty makers from across Scotland working in wood, glass, ceramics, silver, textiles, resin and willow.

Ruth Chalmers, who is based in Dundee, is inspired by the ideas of childhood games, the comical antics of animals and movement.  These influences can be clearly seen in the unusual automata rabbit she created for the exhibition.  In her work she uses silver wire and sheet, enamels, found objects and wood. She likes to add a moveable element to her work, and this rabbit can be wound up.

The other makers taking part in the exhibition are silversmiths Malcolm Appleby, Adrian Hope, Michael Lloyd and Grant McCaig, jewellers Peter Chang, Jack Cunningham, Dorothy Hogg MBE, Andrew Lamb, Helen McPherson, Ann Little, Sarah Keay, Stooshie Design and Roger Morris, textile artists Jilli Blackwood, Gillian Cooper, Sara Keith, Laura Murray and Sarah Taylor, willow weaver Lizzie Farey, glass artists Ray Flavell, Alison Kinnaird MBE, Keiko Mukaide, Mai Ørsted and Stephen Richard, furniture designers Mark Devlin and Jan Milne, paper artist Rachel Hazell, and ceramicists Sarah-Jane Selwood and Simon Ward.

The exhibition is on at the Dick Institute in Kilmarnock from 26 May to 20 June 2007 at the Dick Institute, Elmbank Avenue, Kilmarnock KA1 3BU.  Opening hours 11am to 5pm Tuesday to Saturday.  Closed Monday and Sunday.  Admission free. 

Read our craftscotland exhibition review.

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