Posts Tagged ‘Portage’

Bedtime Stories in The Street

Posted by on November 23rd, 2010 No Comments

For the next four weeks a calm and beautiful digital artwork can be seen from dusk until the early hours in central Lerwick, cladding an eight metre wall on the Fish Bowl shop opposite Architect Richard Gibson’s office near the Market Cross.
Bedtime Stories is a digital textile architectural covering, created for the site by…

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International Textile Exhibition at Bonhoga

Posted by on October 1st, 2010 No Comments

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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Lilypad Arduino Project

Posted by on August 25th, 2010 No Comments

Shetland Arts has funding to commission three full or part-time craft makers working in textiles to create a small work each using Lilypad Arduino technology as part of the Portage: Extremes of Scale exhibition at Bonhoga in October 2010. Go to the Opportunities… page on our website for more information. Closing date for submissions is 3rd September 2010.

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Shetland Arts First Online Exhibition now on the Web

Posted by on August 6th, 2010 2 Comments

To accompany the Finger Symbols exhibition which opens tonight – 6 August 7.30 pm at Bonhoga Gallery – a film to represent an online exhibition has been created by Jono Sandilands and can be viewed below. For more information on the exhibition, jewellery workshops and an artists’ talk by Glasgow based jeweller Alison Macleod visit…

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New exhibition for August – Portage: Finger Symbols

Posted by on August 2nd, 2010 No Comments

Portage: Finger Symbols from Shetland Arts on Vimeo…. Film by Jono Sandilands
7 August – 5 September 2010, incorporating the following talks and workshops with jeweller Alison Macleod:

Binding Memories Workshop – 14 August
Laminating Jewellery Workshop – 15 August
My Work and Influences: Artist Talk – 17 August

Shetland Arts’ Bonhoga Gallery is

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