An exhibition of new jewellery and silversmithing from Scotland shares centre stage with a display of international glass art at the Scottish Gallery during the Edinburgh Festival.

The exhibition, Northern Light, celebrates ten years of North Lands Creative Glass in Lybster and has been curated by Dan Klein, founder and director of the internationally renowned centre for glass. 

The show includes work by Mieke Groot, Dante Marioni, Richard Marquis, Bertil Vallien and Paul Stankard, who are former tutors on the North Lands Master Class programme, Jane Bruce, Tessa Clegg and Liz Swinbourne, who are former artistic directors and Brian Glassar, Alison Kinnaird and Keiko Mukaide, who are participants from Scotland. 

Find out more about North Lands Creative Glass as founding director Dan Klein discusses its history and creative spirit.

The exhibition alongside this, 100% Proof, shows work by twenty two Scottish jewellers and ten Scottish silversmiths. The exhibition was curated by Dorothy Hogg, head of jewellery at Edinburgh College of Art, and is a successor to the first 100% Proof held in 2001.  It opened at the Mobilia Gallery in Massachusetts a year ago, then travelled to San Francisco, London and Carmarthen before finishing its tour in Edinburgh.

The majority of the exhibitors are 30 and under and the show combines established makers with makers in mid-career and new young designers. 

The jewellers exhibiting are Marianne Anderson, Donna Barry, Amy Chan, Susan Cross, Jenny Deans, Emma Gale, Grace Girvan, David Goodwin, Anna Gordon, Katy Hackney, Dorothy Hogg, Chiaki Kamikawa, Susan Kerr, Andrew Lamb, Beth Legg, Ann Little, Grainne Morton, Lynne Kirstin Murray, Yoshiko Nishina, Angela O’Kelly, Adam Paxon, Kaz Robertson, Joanne Thompson.  Silversmithing is represented by John Creed, Adrian Hope, Sarah Hutchinson, Marion Kane, William Kirk, Grant McCaig, Roger Millar, Michael Lloyd, Coilin Ó Dughghaill and Linda Robertson.

These exhibitions are both at on the Scottish Gallery, 16 Dundas Street, Edinburgh EH3 6HZ tel: 0131 558 1200 from 4 August to 6 September 2006.  Admission free.

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