International Collaborating Makers

International Collaborating Makers’
residencies & practice

a strand of
‘Identity, Collaboration, Sustainability:
an online, international festival of craft’

Applied Arts Scotland hosted an international craft exchange project comprised of three international residencies which brought together makers from Mexico, Canada, Thailand and Scotland. All residencies explored the themes of identity, sustainability and collaboration, and investigated the strengths of craft as cultural production. Makers collaborated to explore one another’s identity, environment, skills, materials and techniques through discussion, mentorship and experimentation.

Makers’ insights into their residency experiences, including exploration of the themes and the work they created during and since, some of which is exhibited at Meet Make Collaborate, are provided per residency project and were expanded upon in the Identity, Collaboration, Sustainability: an online, international festival of craft, which took place Monday 27 – Thursday 30 September 2021.

Watch Makers’ Discussions and Studio Visits / Demonstrations presented in the festival programme on the Craft Festival 2021 Vimeo channel.

Residencies

A group of 5 females from Scotland and Mexico in a walled garden looking at and picking plants.

Crafting Futures Mexico

  • Designer Dalila Cruz (Oaxaca), weaver Soledad Ruiz Mendoza, Bii Dauu Collective (Oaxaca) & textile artist Fiona Hall, Camban Studio (Aberdeen)
  • Knitwear designer Kate Davies, KDD & Co (west Scotland) & multidisciplinary designer Pilar Obeso Sánchez (Mexico City)
  • Designer Dalila Cruz (Oaxaca), Bii Dau Collective (Oaxaca) & weaver Lynne Hocking-Mennie (Aberdeen)
Two people crossing a wooden suspension footbridge in a landscape of grass, ferns and trees that have shed their leaves.

Crafting Futures Thailand

  • Interdisciplinary designer Kawisara Anansaringkarn, Coth Studio (Thailand) & jeweller Stefanie Cheong (Glasgow)
  • Designer Prach Niyomkar, Mann Craft (Sakon Nakhon) & weaver Lynne Hocking-Mennie (Aberdeen)

SHIFT Canada

  • Visual artist Andrea Tsang Jackson, 3rd Story Workshop (Halifax, Nova Scotia) & weaver Cally Booker (Dundee)
  • Jeweller Kiersten Holden-Ada, Fervour’s Own (Halifax, Nova Scotia) & artist Louise Barrington (Orkney)
  • Jeweller Mengnan Qu (Halifax, Nova Scotia) & ceramicist Susan O’Byrne (Glasgow)
  • Weaver Jennifer Green (Halifax, Nova Scotia) & basketmaker Sarah Paramor (Applecross)
  • Jeweller Rebecca Hannon (Nova Scotia) & ceramic artist Carol Sinclair (Angus)

An insight into the experiences of the participating and exhibiting makers and the inspiration behind their new works can be found in a series of blogs written by the Scottish makers:

The project was a partnership with the British Council Crafting Futures programme, including the British Council Mexico and British Council Thailand, Edinburgh College of Art and Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. It was funded by Creative Scotland and Highlands and Islands Enterprise

On Twitter

REMINDER: 11/12/2023 is the d/line to apply for @the_bsr Awards, inc. the 'Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Research Residency 2024-5', exclusively for #artists resident in #Scotland & the 'Bridget Riley Fellowship 2024-5'.

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