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 collection of vinyl wall panels, designed in response to a residency at Yorkhill Children’s Hospital in 2013, have now been installed in the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Children’s Department. This work forms part of a wider scheme of commissions lead by Ginkgo. A conference to mark the completion of the project will be held […]
I am pleased to present a commission for the recently refurbished Western General Hospital Breast Unit Outpatient Waiting Room. The work has been conceived in response to a collection of prints by Elizabeth Blackadder which will also hang in the waiting room. A reception to celebrate the completion of the work is being held on […]
For the Covepark Artists in Schools Residency 2013 I was invited to work with artist Deirdre Nelson at Parklands Special Needs School in Helensburgh. We were asked to develop a response which would contribute toward the schools efforts to win an Eco Schools Flag and also create a visually stimulating feature within the playground. Working […]
A commission from Artlink Edinburgh & The Lothians to contribute to a collaborative project involving artists and visually impaired participants. The project combined poetry, sound and objects to create and present an audio description of the gallery spaces at the Talbot Rice Gallery in Edinburgh. Participants worked with poet Ken Cockburn to develop the descriptive […]
A residency for Artlink Edinburgh & The Lothians at St Johns Hospital in Livingston, working with patients and staff to generate work that would in some way alter and enliven specific spaces around the hospital. These included, The Mcmillan Daycare Centre, The Gym in Ward 17, The Psychology Department Meeting Room, The St Johns Gallery, […]
New Manor Ware is a bespoke table setting designed especially for the Banqueting Room of the Manor Lodge Turret House developed in response to the Yorkshire Artspace Ceramic Residency program based at their Manor Oaks Ceramic Studio and on site at Sheffield Manor Lodge. During the 17th century, local potter John Fox set up a […]
Ein Tag am Strand Galerie Handwerk 22nd June – 23rd July A celebration of summers at the beach featuring work by: Helen Beard, David Bielander, Marian Bijlenga, Helen Britton, Annemie De Corte, Katrin Eisenblatter & Astrid Triska, Hans Fisher, Neville French, Anne-Marie Gaspar, Sebastian Andreas Heger, Emmanuel Heringer, Mirjam Hiller, Charlotte Houman, Francoise Joris, Kilary […]
Fife Contemporary Art & Craft invited me to take up one of three residencies exploring the Fife coastal path supported by Celebrating Fife 2010. Based at Buckhaven Community Centre I worked with users of the Buckhaven Community Pottery and CLEAR to make contemporary versions of ceramic carpet bowls, also known as ‘Piggies’, which were traditionally […]
An Artlink Edinburgh project working at St Johns Hospital with residential patients in Pentland Court. Over a period of 13 weeks residents worked on pre made clay tiles exploring pattern and mark making using ceramic printing and imprinting processes to create a permanent wall panel for Pentland Court.