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Robert Foster, Devil in a teapot, 2008.
IC:Innovative Craft - Directors
Lead Director: Amanda Game
Image: Carol Gordon
I am fascinated in finding different ways of developing the links in the chain between the artist/maker and the wider audience in ways which are interesting and valuable to all. IC:Innovative Craft exists to stimulate creative ambition, ensure that objects of international quality are presented and interpreted imaginatively and to develop the understanding and appreciation of work in all its rich and varied forms. It is important within the field that critical debate is stimulated and maintained and that the quality of that debate reaches out to a wide audience. There are many outstanding makers working in the UK and internationally today producing work that is extraordinary, thought-provoking and ambitious. IC aims to work closely with others to give this work and the debates it provokes maximum visibility.
Amanda joined The Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh in 1986, to establish a regular programme of contemporary craft exhibitions, with a particular focus on jewellery, metalwork, ceramics and glass. Under her guidance, The Scottish Gallery became a leading venue for modern craft in the UK, with an international programme of more than 200 exhibitions from 1986-2007. In 2008 she left The Scottish Gallery to pursue a freelance career in the field as a curator and writer. In 2008 she is acting as Lead Director for IC:Innovative Craft, with a particular focus on the important and developing relationship with the Dovecot Studios and their new Infirmary Street building.
Other career highlights include:
- 2007 | Appointed Liveryman to the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, London.
- 1997/98 | Sabbatical to co-curate Jewellery Moves, a major international exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland (NMS).
- 1998- | Research Associate at NMS, plus further projects such as a contemporary enamel exhibition and the Japan/Scotland craft project (Meeting Points 2001).
- 1993-99 | Adviser to Craft Committee, Scottish Arts Council.
- Active promoter of silversmithing in the UK via work on Young Silversmiths Award (Goldsmiths Hall, London) and on Contemporary Silver Panel (Incorporation of Goldsmiths, Edinburgh).
- Advisor to Inches Carr Trust.
- Contributor to many catalogues and publications, including Silver, Made in Scotland (for NMS, 2007).