RESIDENCIES
North Lands are pleased to inform you that the residencies for next year have been decided, follow the link to find out more.
TENTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS AT NORTH LANDS CREATIVE GLASS
North Lands has just completed it's summer programme for this year of Master Classes and also its Annual Conference. Images of our Master Classes can be found in our Gallery link or for a further report please follow the link.
REFLECTIONS: A DECADE OF NORTH LANDS CREATIVE GLASS
In conjunction with the Exhibition of the same name, NLCG have had an Exhibition Catalogue produced to show the 60 works created by different artists especially for NLCG. For more information follow the link.
EXHIBITIONS OF NORTH LANDS GLASS
To celebrate North Lands 10th anniversary there are currently two exhibitions running in Edinburgh:
Reflections; A decade of North Lands Creative Glass :
This is a collection of over 60 works created specially for NLCG, they are currently being exhibited at The National Museum of Scotland until January 2007. For further details follow the
link.
Northern Light :
The Scottish Gallery are hosting an exhibition of international glass art to celebrate NLCG's 10th Anniversary. One of its founders, Dan Klein, an internationally acknowledged and published expert on contemporary glass art has invitedartists who have either taught, directed or studied at North Lands in the past decade ro contribute work to this anniversary show. The resulting exhibition is a rare opportunity to see an intrnational gathering of glass art of the highest quality. Perhaps find further details by following the
link.
FaceNorth Visual Arts Residency :
"FaceNorth" visual arts residency is jointly run by Northlands Creative Glass and Lyth arts Centre. Funded by the Scottish arts Council and Caithness and Sutherland Enterprise agency it is one of the biggest visual and community artist residencies of its kind.
The residency artists who spend 50% of their time on their own work and 50 % of their time developing relationships with communities through outreach art workshops. The project gives community groups with little or no arts experience the chance to engage with the professional artists creating artworks with a shared sense of ownership and local identity. Areas chosen for the artists to work in are Wick, Thurso and Lybster & Dunbeath. The residency started on 6th Febuary and culminates with an exhibition of works, both own and community, at Lyth arts centre on 3rd July.
Artists :
Kate Williams from London works in glass. Her focus will be to develop glass works that reflects the industrial processes of the Dounreay nuclear facility, whilst drawing on experiences of her time in Caithness.
Shelagh Swanson is a local artist from Bower who makes artwork assemblages from found objects and images that are relevant to place, past and present and people that occupied the said time.
Janis Mackay from Edinburgh, Scotland is a poet, writer, storyteller and voice teacher. She has an MA in Creative Writing and Personal Development and is currently working on her first collection of poetry, inspired by the land and a sense of place. During the residency in Caithness Janis hopes to find inspiration in the land and seascapes of the far north and to produce a small collection of poetry from and for Caithness. She also hopes to support people in the area with their own creative writing and to put together a collection of poetry where the many different voices of people in Caithness can find expression
Current Events :
Over the past several weeks they have been doing outreach art workshops with young people, ladies groups and after school groups in Wick, developing partnerships with community programmes like the Pultneytown Peoples Project and Wick Youth Club facilitated through Highland Councils Learning & Leisure Dept. The emphasis has been to encourage learning through fun practical activities. One young peoples group at Wick Youth Club has been working on a 'Scrap Heap Challenge' project; taking apart old televisions and transforming them into contemporary sculptures to examine the way we perceive television and its influence on modern society.
All the Wick groups have visited the excellent Northlands Glass studios in Lybster and sampled the delights of making etched and fused glass . Kate William's explained "The technique of making fused glass involves combining metal foils, wire and coloured glass pieces sandwiched between sheets of clear glass which are then kiln fired ". The culmination of the work produced in Wick can be seen at an exhibition at Lyth Arts centre starting on the 3rd July.
Future Events :
The artists will soon be turning their attentions to working in Thurso in partnership with Ormlie Community Association and Key Housing. They will be working in the Ormlie centre building on the Ormlie estate between 1st April until 13th April. Lorna Simpson of Ormlie Community Association said "We are really excited in Ormlie at the prospect of the three dynamic artists planned series of workshops, particularly as the ethos of the project is an attempt to bring together all age groups and create a shared ownership in the finished artwork." The artwork sessions are open to all age groups in the Thurso area. Interested parties can contact Isabel at the Ormlie Community Association Office for more details on times and specific dates on 01847 891789.
2006 AUTUMN RESIDENCY
16 OCTOBER- 8 DECEMBER 2006
North Lands Creative Glass is offering four eight-week residencies for talented glass artists from the UK. The Alastair Pilkington Studio enables the artists-in-residence to benefit from a wide range of facilities. Further information can be found on the residencies page of the web
site.
Enquiries
North Lands Creative Glass
Quatre Bras, Lybster
Caithness,
KW3 6BN
SCOTLAND
Accommodation, bookings and general information:
Lorna MacMillan:
Telephone: +44 (0)1593 721 229
and Fax: +44 (0)1593 721580
e-mail: info@northlandsglass.com
