October 2007
Latest news, events, opportunities and training for the Scottish crafts community.
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Featured Maker
This month we are featuring textile artist Sarah Taylor who combines optical fibres with different yarns to create innovative and unconventional textiles. This installation can be seen in The Cutting Edge exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow until 25 November 2007. Read more »
Latest News
Scissors Paper Stone, an exhibition of newly commissioned craft inspired by the city of Edinburgh, opens this week at the City Art Centre. Read more »
Twenty three makers from Scotland are exhibiting this year at Origin: the London Craft Fair in London. Read more »
An exhibition of new work responding to Gaelic culture, Tales from the Museum, has opened at An Tobar in Tobermory. Read more »
Deadlines to remember in October:
Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust Applications - 15 October 2007
Writer Required - 16 October 2007
North Lands Creative Glass - Hot Glass Residency - 26 October 2007
Bombay Sapphire Prize Applications - 26 October 2007
Cultural Enterprise Office - advisors in the Highlands & others - 31 October 2007
Treasure - Xmas Exhibition - Submissions deadline - 31 October 2007
Making Spaces Residencies - Fife - 2 November 2007
Craft Audit & Study Brief for Aberdeenshire - 2 November 2007
View a full list of opportunities and training.
craftscotland Review & Future Plans
Find out what craftscotland has achieved in year three of the project and learn what we will be doing over the next six months in this report from the craftscotland AGM which was held in Inverness in October. Read more »
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