IC:Innovative Craft Blog

Autumn/Winter season up and running

Posted Tuesday 2 December 2008, 02:25pm

Amanda Game writes:

The IC/Dovecot autumn season is under way. Installation of Jerwood Contemporary Makers was achieved through a brilliant scratch combination of C’Art, Julia Ravenscroft from Jerwood, IC Directors and Joel Kaplan, our newly arrived Guggenheim-trained technician. Slightly too much time up 12-foot ladders but I think I have cracked the rather grand ERCO lighting system – only one exploding bulb so far.

Press for the shows has included a slot on BBC Scotland Radio Café with Mark Crossan and a four-star review from Duncan MacMillan in The Scotsman. There’s been a good mix of visitors, including a group of eight- and nine-year olds from Queensferry Primary School, whose beautiful coloured drawings of the Nick Rena and Deirdre Nelson exhibits are inspiring and confirm the value of the show for all ages.

IC has been joined for a few months by a new administrator Jenny Findlay and the IC office is suddenly showing signs of moving from chaotic adolescence to calm, filed, adult order. 

‘Thinking through Craft’, our new programme of talks and events for December/January, supported by the SAC, launches with Sara Brennan this Thursday and rolls through a lively season finishing with a grand finale of Matt Hulse’s FilmCraft weekend. See our Events page for details, or download a ‘Thinking through Craft’ leaflet.

Scottish Opera singers and leading Scottish cellist Will Conway have been testing the acoustics. Anita Feldman gives a guided tour of Henry Moore Textiles this Friday and Dovecot, once again, is showing its colours as a great, creative melting pot for contemporary culture. 

Come and join in!