The current exhibition at Shetland Arts’ Bonhoga Gallery is “Portage: textiles, extremes of scale.“ The exhibition is about contemporary textiles- we are all experts in textiles. From birth we have slept in them, worn them, sat on them and at this time of year we draw them together over windows to banish the cold and dark…
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International Textile Exhibition at Bonhoga
Posted by Hazel Hughson on October 1st, 2010 No CommentsOpportunity to feed into a craft standards survey
Posted by Hazel Hughson on August 13th, 2009 No CommentsThis 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…
Contemporary Shetland craft in Hometrader at Bonhoga
Posted by Hazel Hughson on August 11th, 2009 No CommentsThere’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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Posted by Hazel Hughson on May 29th, 2009 1 CommentThe first craft news posting…… at last ….. this is going to be so useful, there’s so much to say about design and craft and applied arts in Shetland and our projects.
I hope the 13 craftmakers who encouraged me ages ago to make a craft blog will be pleased to see this and I’m looking…