Imbrication, in collaboration with digital artist Sam Healy. Co-commissioned by Aberdeen Performing Arts and New Media Scotland’s Alt-w Fund with investment from Creative Scotland. “Motifs from the realm of decorative art and design dance and evolve on screen, tracing a journey from the ancient, analogue and physical, to the modern, digital and abstract. Craft techniques […]
QEST Scholarship
I am thrilled to share news that I have been awarded a QEST Scholarship to undertake a period of training and research with heritage tile manufactures Craven Dunnill Jackfield. Work will commence on this project in January 2021 – www.qest.org.uk “The Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust (QEST) funds the education of talented and aspiring craftspeople through traditional college courses, apprenticeships or one-to-one training with master […]
Patterns of Flora Colouring Book
I am very pleased to be working with Atlas Arts to make available an A4 printer friendly version of the Patterns of Flora Colouring Book, free to download from the Atlas Arts website until the the end of May. We are also delighted to be teaming up with The Kindness Wave to include copies of […]
Artisan Edinburgh
I am very pleased to be included in Artisan Edinburgh by Catherine Aitken. The book features beautiful colour photographs and in depth interviews with 24 artists, designers and makers from across the City of Edinburgh. Published by The History Press and available in all good bookstores, you can also purchase a copy from www.catherineaitken.com
The Tiled Corridor
The Tiled Corridor is an Edinburgh Lothian Health Foundation commission for The Royal Edinburgh Hospital, an NHS hospital specialising in mental health. I have designed and created the work in collaboration with tile manufacturers Craven Dunnill Jackfield. The concept for the commission recalls a golden era in decorative tile use, responding to historical research into two […]
Patterns of Flora
Patterns of Flora | Mapping Seven Raasay Habitats An Atlas Arts Commission by Frances Priest in Collaboration with botanist Stephen Bungard Launch Weekend 5th – 7th June at Raasay House on the Isle of Raasay Patterns of Flora | Mapping Seven Raasay Habitats is an ATLAS Arts commission by Frances Priest in collaboration with […]
A Method For Creative Design
Work made in response to an invitation from visual artist Abraham Cruzvillegas to contribute work to Autoconstrucción a collaborative performance project for the gallery Kurimanzutto Mexico City, 20th May 2010. The objects depict a set of seven symbols devised by Adolfo Best Maugard for his book A Method for Creative Design published in 1927. The […]