Archive for August, 2009

Upcoming at Bonhoga, 10 Oct – 15 Nov 09

Posted by on August 18th, 2009 No Comments

Chloe Garrick is a young visual artist from Shetland. Since recently completing her BA(Hons) in Visual Communications from Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen, Chloe has found her interests lie predominately in the field of photography.
Chloe’s use of diverse styles and processes has given her the ability to undertake commissions from the likes of

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A Great Gravit, a Plinth and a Hubbard

Posted by on August 15th, 2009 No Comments

London had a very special treat today as Shetland’s famous Great Gravit was taken to dizzy heights accompanied Stuart Hubbard for his 1 hour stint on the Plinth in Trafalgar Square. The Gravit and Stuart took part in Antony Gormley’s One & Other… in which Gormley invited the people of the UK to occupy the

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Opportunity to feed into a craft standards survey

Posted by on August 13th, 2009 No Comments

This is for all craftmakers in Shetland, do you remember last year’s visit from Jenna from Creative & Cultural Skills ?  We met with a group of Shetland makers here at Shetland Arts to review the draft Craft Blueprint and many of you provided online feedback.
The Craft Blueprint is a workforce plan for Craft…

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Bold, boisterous and bawdy

Posted by on August 12th, 2009 No Comments

Rehearsals are well underway for the shetland youth theatre summer production – Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.  30 participants delving into the bawdy mindset of 14th century literature.  A few raised eyebrows at some of the content but the ‘carry on canterbury’ approach seems to be working.  makes a change for the company to be doing a…

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Contemporary Shetland craft in Hometrader at Bonhoga

Posted by on August 11th, 2009 No Comments

There’s a nice group of work by eleven Shetland craftmakers and applied artists in  Hometrader, an exhibition of contemporary craft in the Cafe at  Bonhoga Gallery.  Angela Irvine’s woven panels look precious, they were inspired by personal treasures brought home from family members who were in the merchant navy and travelled around the world. If…

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