A Craftscotland project in partnership with the National Museums of Scotland, curated by Rose Watban. Meet Your Maker at NMS was an exhibition, event and workshop programme featuring work by 9 makers from across Scotland. For the exhibition I produced an expanded version of Gifts & Occupations, a piece of work first presented in the […]
Creative Connections was devised by Cerin Richardson, Principal Officer for Arts and Learning at Edinburgh City Council in association with Amanda Gizzi, Lecturer in Art & Design at Edinburgh University Moray House School of Education. Alongside Theatre Practitioner Tim Licata and Visual Artist Alice Betts we devised a program of workshops for 4th Year BEd […]
Solo exhibition for the Scottish Gallery in May 2009. An essay by Ellie Herring commissioned to accompany the exhibition can be downloaded from the Essay page. Photography: Shannon Tofts
These boxes were first made for a group exhibition called International Boxes at the Scottish Gallery in January 2008. I continue to make new variations on the form, experimenting with glaze colour and pattern. The compositions envelop the boxes allowing them to act as deep containers or shallow trays. The origin of the forms are […]
Drawings produced during the Regents International School residency 05/06. Exhibited as part of The Drawing Room exhibition at the National Galleries of Scotland showcasing work from the Drawing Room project.
A commission from South Lanarkshire Council to devise a two day workshop for St Charles Primary in Cambuslang celebrating Scottish Homecoming. Each year group in the school made drawings in response to stories and images about different Scottish inventions which included: Marmalade, Mackintosh Coats, The Bank of England, Telephones, The Postage Stamp, and Penicillin. Drawings […]
Co-ordinated by Sharon Quigley for the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art The drawing room is a regular drop in workshop where invited artists are asked to choose a section of the gallery display from which to develop a drawing workshop that relates to their own practice. Images depict workshops held in response to work […]
A focus exhibition for Contemporary Applied Arts held in June 2008. Work is related to the solo exhibition Surface & Shape Photography: Shannon Tofts
Co-ordinated by Joanna van den Berg for North Edinburgh Arts Centre in collaboration with drama worker Suzi Morris. Run as weekly after school workshops we combined visual art and drama to devise performance pieces in response to classic plays and books. Performances were inspired by: A Midsummer Nights Dream, Macbeth, Kidnapped and The Strange Case […]
The Big Draw ’07 at The National Museum of Scotland. A drop in collaborative drawing project designed to highlight work from the museums decorative arts collection. Museum visitors were invited to make their own or use ready prepared stencils of decorative motifs gathered from the collection to create large wall drawings using overhead projectors, collage […]