Grant’s work often celebrates the forms shaped for sea travel, or the way in which the sea shapes or colours all things involved with it. He is inspired by nature or nature's effect on man made objects.

His silver leaf tray was inspired by the forest floor.  He wanted to capture a loose, spontaneous feeling with the silver leaves.

The majority of his work is in silver; however he occasionally gets the urge to include some colour which he achieves by using formica.

After graduating from Glasgow School of Art in 1998 he spent time working with Scottish silversmiths Adrian Hope and John Creed. Since then he has worked in Edinburgh as a silversmith and lectures at Edinburgh College of Art. In 2002 he was a visiting lecturer at the Academy of Arts in San Francisco, USA.

In 2000 he was commissioned to make a fruit bowl for the Bute House Millenium Silver Collection which was presented to Scotland’s First Minister - find out more about the collection in our news story.

He also created the Millennium Link for Edinburgh Lord Provost’s Chain of Office.

He has work in galleries in Britain and abroad, and several public and private collections, and was selected to take part in Chelsea Crafts Fair in 2004. 

He is holding an exhibition of new work at the Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh from 2 to 25 April 2007 and is exhibiting in The Cutting Edge currently on at the Museum of Scotland.  His work is also included in the Silver of the Stars exhibition which is touring internationally before opening in Scotland in 2008.

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