Round 1: MakerAlison Macleod
Based in Dumfries, Alison Macleod takes inspiration from antique treasures and the stories they tell. Her Catkin Collection draws on a pattern glimpsed long ago on an antique ring. Alison developed a unique technique of layering, sometimes hundreds of tiny disks, to make a pattern reminiscent of the spring catkin flower. Her work is stocked in numerous galleries and boutiques in the UK, including The Scottish Gallery.
Supported through COMPASS: Established Maker Programme 2019/20 Round 1 to receive mentoring to develop her craft business and grow her audience nationally and internationally.
Round 1: MakerBryony Knox
Bryony Knox’s work is based on a love of storytelling, movement and colour. From elegant vessels to boxes, each piece is fashioned using the ancient silversmithing technique of Repousse and Chasing, working the metal in pine pitch with a myriad of small steel punches. In 2018, Bryony explored these techniques whilst living as a Victorian silversmith for a month for BBC2’s hit television show Victorian House of Arts & Crafts.
Supported through COMPASS: Established Maker Programme 2019/20 Round 1 to receive business mentoring and learn specific skills with master silversmiths.
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Round 1: MakerHannah Louise Lamb
Hannah Louise Lamb’s jewellery is steeped in the familiar ideas of place. For Hannah, home means the coast – her idyllic childhood in Cornwall, growing up on the beach, and now, her coastal home in Scotland. A graduate of The Royal College of Art and the Glasgow School of Art, Hannah has designed her Coastline Collection to allow people to tell their own stories and capture their memories.
Supported through COMPASS: Established Maker Programme 2019/20 Round 1 to research, study and develop new sculptural pieces using wax carving techniques. Support includes tuition, materials, tools and childcare support.
Round 1: MakerKate Ive
Kate Ive creates work on a monumental and minute scale with an eye for intricacy and fine detail in a range of materials including metal, jesmonite, wax and ceramics. Kate pays close attention to technical processes used in producing her pieces including, engraving, scrimshaw, casting, metal plating and ornamental engine-turning. Kate has artworks in public and private collections around the world, including the British Museum.
Supported through COMPASS: Established Maker Programme 2019/20 Round 1 to begin researching and developing an innovative new technique using a Rose Engine lathe. Support includes travel, mentoring and tools.
Round 1: MakerKathryn Hinton
Kathryn Hinton's work is based on the idea of uniting hand techniques and tooling with computer aided design and digital processes. Using new technology to design and make has shaped the style of her work. Her faceted silverware is realised using 3D printing with casting and CNC milling with press forming. She uses precious metals and hardwoods to highlight the forms and surfaces within her work.
Supported through COMPASS: Established Maker Programme 2019/20 Round 1 to develop her skills and understanding of advanced stone setting techniques.
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Round 1: MakerRebecca Wilson
Drawing inspiration from the confectionary industry, Rebecca Wilson’s collection glamorises the simple pleasures in life. The full spectrum of sweet treats are distilled down to their simplest forms and matched with a sickly sweet colour palette. Rebecca combines her training in ceramics with her jewellery. She has exhibited extensively in the UK and abroad, most notably at Collect (London) and at JOYA (Barcelona).
Supported through COMPASS: Established Maker Programme 2019/20 Round 1 to receive mentoring from a Press and PR professional. Support includes travel and childcare support.
Round 2: MakerAgnes Jones
Based in Glasgow, Agnes Jones is an artist blacksmith who draws in steel, scaling up line drawings into larger-scale metalwork. Her material is often associated with structural work. She has created a range of work from large public art to smaller homeware. Notable commissions include sculptures for the National Trust's Unravelling the Trust at Uppark in South Harting, West Sussex.
Supported through COMPASS: Established Maker Programme 2019/20 Round 2 to receive mentoring to develop her creative practice and explore new business models.
Round 2: MakerAnna Liebmann
Nature and history pass through Anna Leibmann’s hands as she weaves using willow she grows, cuts, sorts and prepares herself. Based in Edinburgh, basketmaker Anna works with organic materials due to their zero-carbon footprint. She is passionate about traditional and historical basketmaking and keeping these skills alive through her popular workshop series.
Supported through COMPASS: Established Maker Programme 2019/20 Round 2 to research, study and develop new specialist willow weaving courses and receive mentoring to develop her business model.
Round 2: MakerJenny McHardy
Nervous Stitch is the creation of Royal College of Art graduate, Jenny McHardy. Passionate about knitting and textiles, Jenny is keen to keep these traditional skills alive, whilst keeping her designs relevant and contemporary. Based in Strathmiglo, Jenny’s pieces are knitted using the finest quality lambswool in bright and bold colour combinations which have a playful, nostalgic and illustrative look.
Supported through COMPASS: Established Maker Programme 2019/20 Round 2 to receive mentoring to research, prototype and relaunch her collection.
Round 2: MakerLynne MacLachlan
Based in Glasgow, Lynne MacLachlan's designs play with light, space and colour, intending to create visual delight for wearer and viewer, leading the use of 3D printing technology and colour in design. She takes an experimental approach with digital tools, exploring and pushing the capabilities of these, using bespoke software tools and 3D printing to materialise complex forms. Lynne has exhibited in UK, Europe and USA including the V&A and the National Centre for Craft and Design.
Supported through COMPASS: Established Maker Programme 2019/20 Round 2 to develop fine jewellery pieces that explore algorithmic pattern making.
Round 2: MakerMorag Macpherson
Based in Kirkcudbright, Morag Macpherson’s practice combines her surface pattern expertise and textiles practice creating colourful wearable art. Morag’s influences come from art history, different cultures, and nature. Morag has worked on large projects with international clients including; Hyatt Hotels in New York, Liberty London, Le Bon Marche in Paris. She is a founder of an artists and makers co-operative now with three shops and 45 members in Dumfries & Galloway.
Supported through COMPASS: Established Maker Programme 2019/20 Round 2 to research, study and prototype a new body of work that incorporates natural printing and sustainable dyeing processes.
Round 2: MakerSusan O'Byrne
Susan O’Byrne specialises in the making of ceramic narrative animal forms and highly detailed collaged porcelain surfaces. Her work acknowledges the extraordinary role occupied by the animal in the imagination - populating myth, children’s stories and cultural traditions throughout history. Susan also explores the ability of the metaphorical animal to embody, distil and reflect aspects of our own humanity. Susan’s is based in Glasgow and she exhibits throughout the UK and internationally.
Supported through COMPASS: Established Maker Programme 2019/20 Round 2 to receive mentoring in international audience development and business skills development. Support includes: travel and accommodation.
Round 2: MakerVicky Higginson
Vicky Higginson is a glass artist and designer, based in Edinburgh. Her work combines hot glass and cold-working, with glass forms handblown and worked into using cutting, carving and engraving techniques to create vessels and sculptural forms that use colour, texture and form to explore a variety of ideas. Vicky has exhibited internationally and undertaken residencies at North Lands Creative, Caithness and Cesty Skla, Czech Republic.
Supported through COMPASS: Established Maker Programme 2019/20 Round 2 to attend the Glass Art Society (GAS) Conference 2020 in Småland, Sweden. Support includes: travel and accommodation.
