Hag. Knowledge, Power & Alchemy Through Craft
Provocatively titled but thoughtfully curated, Hag. brings together the work of 13 of Scotland鈥檚 most inventive, creative and impactful women craft artists, including Lise Bech, Judith Davies, Caroline Dear, Claire Heminsley, Fiona Hutchison, Ruth Elizabeth Jones, Gilly Langton, Jo McDonald, Susie Redman, Patricia Shone, Carol Sinclair, Amanda Simmons and Emma Louise Wilson. Celebrating the knowledge, power and alchemy mediated by their work, the exhibition celebrates craft skills and approaches to practice developed by these significant women over decades of work and personal endeavour.
The mastery of their own craft skills is what unites these 13 women. Visitors to this exhibition will see pieces brought together from around Scotland. They can expect to see contemporary approaches to constructing forms through tapestry, basket weaving, and work in paper and textile, as well as work formed through transformative material processes such as kiln-firing glass, hand forming clay, or enamelling and silversmithing. The relationship between artist and their close surroundings is also a theme, either as a source of inspiration, or more directly as a source for the materials themselves.
The exhibition also features 13 newly commissioned portraits of the artists in their studios by Scottish photographer, Lydia Smith. Through her thoughtful and personal photographic style, she brings us closer to an understanding of the artists and their practice; making the processes, and the women behind them, visible and better known.
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Provocatively titled but thoughtfully curated, Hag. brings together the work of 13 of Scotland鈥檚 most inventive, creative and impactful women craft artists, including Lise Bech, Judith Davies, Caroline Dear, Claire Heminsley, Fiona Hutchison, Ruth Elizabeth Jones, Gilly Langton, Jo McDonald, Susie Redman, Patricia Shone, Carol Sinclair, Amanda Simmons and Emma Louise Wilson. Celebrating the knowledge, power and alchemy mediated by their work, the exhibition celebrates craft skills and approaches to practice developed by these significant women over decades of work and personal endeavour.
The mastery of their own craft skills is what unites these 13 women. Visitors to this exhibition will see pieces brought together from around Scotland. They can expect to see contemporary approaches to constructing forms through tapestry, basket weaving, and work in paper and textile, as well as work formed through transformative material processes such as kiln-firing glass, hand forming clay, or enamelling and silversmithing. The relationship between artist and their close surroundings is also a theme, either as a source of inspiration, or more directly as a source for the materials themselves.
The exhibition also features 13 newly commissioned portraits of the artists in their studios by Scottish photographer, Lydia Smith. Through her thoughtful and personal photographic style, she brings us closer to an understanding of the artists and their practice; making the processes, and the women behind them, visible and better known.
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