Scottish Craft News

The giant overmantel The Garden of Hesperides by Alexander Fisher , one fo the most important pieces by the Arts and Crafts Movement, is now on display at the National Museum of Scotland after its recent acquisition.

Aberdeen Art Gallery has acquired a necklace by Jaqueline Ryan for their collection after winning part of the Art Fund Collect award.

Scottish ceramicist Simon Ward has won a special award for his work "there's still life" at the 5th World Ceramic Biennale 2009 in Korea.

Object as Muse, which presents six different artists' responses to the Asentamiento Dress by textile artist Julie Cook, is on at Kirkcaldy Museum & Art Gallery from 9 May to 21 June 2009.

The seventh Spring Fling open studios event takes place in Dumfries & Galloway from 23 to 25 May 2009.

Artists and galleries in the north of Scotland open their doors for Highland Open Studios 2009 from 30 May to 7 June 2009.