artroot map 2013
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Map of participating artists in Artroot 2013 Open StudiosTRANSCRIPT
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Rebott Glassware Venue 19GLASS
Rebott re-made glassware is collaboration between glass makers Nicola Cairns and Richard Gregory. We make contempo-rary glassware, tableware and panels. We will be demonstrating glassblowing outdoors (see more details under Workshops & Events - overleaf)www.rebott.co [email protected]
Moira Dempster Venue 18ILLUSTRATION
Graphic artist, illustrator and freelance designer.
www.moiradempster.com
Anita Pate and Andrea Sutton Venue 12GLASS
A working glass studio set in beautiful Smeaton Gardens. We produce stained, sandblasted and fused glass for private and public commissions. Contemporary and restoration projects on show at the studio. There will be demonstrations and the opportunity to book onto a workshop.www.anitapate.com [email protected]
Lilac Millie Venue 2CERAMICS
Handmade Sea Glass Jewellery From Scotland.
www.lilacmillie.co.uk www.facebook.com/lilacmillie
Humanbehaviour Art Venue 8PERFORMANCE
Milk-Ultra: Interactive multimedia show about mind control and hidden agendas based on the true story of the secret CIA experiments of the 50s - 60s. Devised by Delia Porras, performed by Minja Hynynen. Ticket 5 (see more booking details under Workshops & Events - overleaf). www.humanbehaviourart.com
Kate Henderson Venue 13GLASS / PAINTING
Kate Hendersons glass pieces have featured in major glass shows in Britain including the British glass biennale. She has had a number of notable public stained glass commissions including panels for Edinburgh City Council and St Andrews University. www.bsmgp.org.uk [email protected]
Tantallon Studios Venue 15CERAMICS
Tantallon Studios is a working arts & crafts studio. Home to the ceramic artists Dave Cohen, Ronnie Fulton and Esther recently opened her Studio to teach workshops. Our shop is open daily and we welcome visitors all year round. See more under Workshops & Events - overleaf.www.tantallonstudios.com [email protected]
Philip Revell Venue 1CERAMICS
Philip Revell makes functional, woodfired, stoneware pottery. Made on the wheel and fired over several days in a wood fired kiln.
www.dunbar-pottery.co.uk [email protected]
Lesleymay Miller Venue 3ARTISTS BOOKS
Works in sound, poetry, artist-books, sculpture, painting, photography and printmaking. She is excited by the search which leads her to capture truths in nature. Each process and technique brings new energy to this search.
www.lesleymaymiller.co.uk [email protected]
Judith Rowan Venue 4PAINTING / PHOTOGRAPHY
Judith is a Professional Member of the Society of Scottish Artists. She will show small abstract paintings and lo-fi photography. Using film and photographic paper, she uses simple cameras, including pinhole.
Aileen Bannatyne Venue 4PAINTING / MIXED MEDIA
Aileens intriguing landscapes offer us atmospheres that reflect the mysteriousness and serenity of places she journeyed through. Her paintings and drawings are inspired by glimpses of places bathed in great light and contrasting darkness that create an everlasting [email protected]
James Page Venue 5PAINTING / MIXED MEDIA
Welcome to Church of Gloss (C.o.G). Please feel free to explore. This journey will begin with a step in the right direction, leading to Reality, and perhaps a new understanding of the potential of household paint.
www.jamescraigpage.co.uk
Ross Combe Venue 6INSTALLATION / SCULPTURE
A sculptor and arts educator who works in a variety of media linking to a broadly environmental theme. His playful work explores weighty concepts of human mortality and geological process.
www.rosscombe.com [email protected]
Anna Davis Venue 6PRINTMAKING
Anna Davis is a painter and printmaker who brings her poetry and images together in booklets and handmade artist books.Prints and books are available to buy through Edinburgh Printmakers.
www.annadavisart.co.uk [email protected]
Polarcap Venue 6ARTS COLLECTIVE
Polarcap is an organization founded by artists Graeme Todd and Liz Adamson. Its aim is to bring high quality contemporary art to as wide an audience as possible. We represent emerging, local, national and international artists, produce publications and provide a platform for artists discussion and creative exchange.www.polarcap.org.uk
Susan Mowatt Venue 6PAINTING / MIXED MEDIA
A length of yarn has two ends: a beginning and an end, or vice versa. Im interested in the relevance of weaving in todays world and the significance it could have as an action on an individual, group, social, even political level. See more under Workshops & Events - [email protected]
Joel Baker Venue 8MOSAIC
Joel Baker makes pebble mosaics and stone mosaics and runs mosaic workshops. He is dedicated to the revival of this lost art form, using ancient techniques to create modern de-signs. See more under Workshops & Events - [email protected]
Eileen Hall Venue 4PAINTING
Originally from Ecuador, having lived in Scotland for 17 years, Eileen Hallswork explores various aspects of death and traumathrough surreal symbolism. Her paintings are inspired by nature, the cosmos and our subconscious.
www.eileen-hall.com
Spiral Tide Pottery Venue 2CERAMICS
Spiral Tide Pottery hand made by Avesha DeWolfe. Using stone ware clay, treasured beach finds and long established hand building techniques, Avesha works to bring her pots and sculpture into the world by marrying traditional function and interpretive sculptural form.www.aveshadewolfe.com
Helen Spalding Venue 2TEXTILES
Combining a love of colour and texture I work using recycled jumpers, felting and embroidery, creating original pieces including tea cosies, purses and hats. [email protected]
Jacquelyn Rixon Venue 6INSTALLATION / SCULPTURE
My work is inspired by the bits and pieces I find around me - the overlooked detritus of daily life; clothing, hair,blood, dead flowers andsoap. Ipaint, stitch andassembleimages that tell somethingof my stories, stories of alived female experience. www.jacquelynrixon.org.uk [email protected]
Petra Perde Venue 2MIXED MEDIA
Inspired by my environment and the love of working with natural materials living and dead interwoven with superstition and compassion.
Rachel Girling Venue 9FILM / PHOTOGRAPHY
Observations of signs and statements found dotted around the world which may or may not be applicable to life and the human condition.
Vicente Ridaura-Harvey Venue 2WOOD / FURNITURE
Im making contemporary bespoke furniture combining wood and fused glass at the cutting edge of furniture design. My furniture is unique encompassing comfort, functionality with striking design.
www.supertachefurniture.com [email protected]
Elizabeth Lewis Venue 11PAINTING
My paintings are mainly in oils, usually large figures, nude and draped. I love using bright, vibrant colours and often use collage. Some are other worldly, featuring angels and others more cubist and abstract.
Patti Yuill, Alan Connell & Chris Burgess Venue 14PAINTING / PHOTOGRAPHY
Three artists, Patti Yuill, Alan Connell and Chris Burgess, one studio, photography and painting. Carefree days.
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North Light Arts Venue 16ORGANISATION
We are delighted to be part of the Art Root programme this year. Well be showing work created over the summer as part of our Walking a Line programme, supported by Year of Natural Scotland 2013. More under Workshops & Events - overleaf.www.northlightarts.co.uk
Ettie Spencer Venue 17INSTALLATION / SCULPTURE
Ettie Spencer is an environmental installation artist. Ettie will be creating an installation on Pressmennan Lake. Films and images tell the stories.
www.crossingtheline.org
Aliki Sapountzi Venue 17FILM / PHOTOGRAPHY
I have worked professionally since the 70s focusing mainly on socio-documentary and travel photography. In the 90s I had the urge and the opportunity to branch out into film-making. I am now in transition... Photographs in Pressmen-nan Woods.www.aliki.co.uk [email protected]
Brian Baker Venue 4PRINTMAKING / PHOTOGRAPHY
I enjoy photographing the environments where I have lived and travelled, reacting spontaneously to what I see around me. I am inspired by the rich history of street photography and I am influenced by architecture, interior design and simple, everyday objects. www.brianbakerstudio.com
Susan Kemp Venue 10CERAMICS
After experimenting with a range of clays, Kemp has settled on porcelain as her medium of choice. Having used transfer patterns in the past, she has recently moved into hand painted designs, inspired by the green-blue colours and floral patterns of early Islamic ceramics. www.knowesfarmstudio.com
The Found Gallery Venue 20GALLERY
Curated selection of the best of local and national arts and crafts. Run by Simon Glover & Amy Christie, the gallery reflects their tastes with a focus on originality, texture and the use of natural, and recycled materials. Amy also makes fused glass jewellery and fused photographic glass artworks in the gallery.www.thefoundgallery.co.uk
Doone Courtenay Venue 7PAINTING / MIXED MEDIA
Works in oils, making strong reference to the power and movement of water across land or sea. Paint is energetically layered, built, scraped and blended, capturing moments of light, contrast and mood.
Lucy Dunce Venue 2CERAMICS
Lucy Dunce makes hump-moulded and slab built earthenwareceramics. Over the weekend Lucy will demonstrate the masking, printing and hand painting techniques that are the focus of her earthenware ceramics. See more details under Workshops & Events - overleaf.www.lucydunce.co.uk [email protected]
Susan Nuttgens Venue 3CERAMICS
Abstract sculpture, large conkers, figurative work, tiles, lettering, etc. The work is built with materials directly from the Earth; clay of many colours and textures, formed by hand with skill and fire. Exploring in bold dynamic forms ideas of balance and decline in human life and culture. www.susan-nuttgens.co.uk [email protected]
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EDINBURGH40 mins by carA1
DUNBAR
NORTH SEA
NORTH BERWICK
BASS ROCK
PRESSMENNANWOODS
EAST FORTUNE
STENTON
TYNINGHAME HIG
H S
THARBOUR
WEST BARNS
GOLF COURSE
BELHAVEN ROA
D
A1087 QUEENS RD
THE SHED (ROPE BASE)
A1087
A199KNOWES FARM
A199
A198
UNDER PASS
TANTALLONSTUDIOS & PITCLAY GALLERY
SPO
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D
A199 HADDINGTON(PETER POTTER GALLERY) A1
A198
SMEATONTEA ROOMS
EAST LINTON
BELHAVEN BAY
WEST BARNS STUDIOS
WEST BARNS HALL
McARTHURS STORE
B1347
B1347
B1347
B1347
ATHELSTANESFORD
B637
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A198 EDINBURGH
WORKSHOPS & EVENTS Tynningehame Hall Venue 2Over the Moon kids crafts will once again be encouraging kids of all ages to create bees, butterflies and curious creatures from recycled and natural materials.Saturday 21st Sept from 11am till 4pm. FREELucy Dunce will be demonstrating ceramic techniques throughout both days. FREE
West Barns Hall, Edinburgh Road, West Barns Venue 4Colin Wills well known local writer and publisher will hold a walking Renga workshop from West Barns Hall to Belhaven beach weather per-miting; otherwise it will take place in West Barns Hall on Saturday. From 1 - 4pm. Booking recomended. FREE.
West Barns Studios, School Brae, West Barns Venue 6Drop by and create a strong, geometric, colourful work with card using a basic weaving technique with Susan Mowatt. From 11am till 4pm both days. FREELiz Adamson will be available to discuss her research on the witch per-secution trials in East Lothian during the 17th Century in relation to her current exhibition at The Peter Potter Gallery. From 2- 4pm both days.
The Shed, (Rope Base) Beltonford, West Barns Venue 8Milk-Ultra, performance by Humanbehaviour Art will run on the hour from 12am - 5pm both days. Tickets 5. Booking Strongly Advised: 4 spaces per show. Promenade Show. Unsuitable for children. Reservations [email protected] / 077 2910 2926 Joel Baker mosaic artist will be on site to demonstrate the techniques of mosaic making. FREERita Bradd at the Yurt will be offering poetry and music activities throughout the weekend. FREE
Tantallon Studios Venue 15Demonstrations by Dave Cohen - throwing pots on the wheel - FREERonnie Fulton - hand building in clay - FREEEsther Cohen - drop in workshop in ceramics. FREE. Suitable for all but children must be accompanied by an adult. (Fee charged if request piece to be fired).Workshops run on the hour from 10am - 4pm both days
Dunbar Harbour Venue 16CIRCELS (Crafting In rural communities East Lothian Scotland). Yarn bomb your harbour. Come and try out a variety of wool crafts from crochet to knitting and weaving to felting. Added together they create an explosion of colour around your harbour. CIRCELS will be beside the Beach Hut at Dunbar Harbour. All wellcome: Drop in! From 11am - 4pm both days. FREE
Aldhame Farm/Seacliff Venue 19Rebott Glass Blowing will be demonstrating glassblowing outdoors in an idyllic location overlooking the Bass Rock and Tantallon Castle in their beautiful mobile glass gallery. FREE
McArthurs Store, The Granary, Dunbar Venue 21North Light Arts will hold a Filmpoem Workshop for 6 children, aged between 7 and 12 on Sunday from 10am until 12pm, with a return visit in the late afternoon to watch their finished film on the big screen. Booking recommended. FREE
Peter Potter Gallery Venue 22The Peter Potter Gallery in Haddington is undertaking an exciting exhibition and engagement programme. Current exhibition featuring the work of Liz Adamson and Alexa Hare focuses on the witch persecution trials in East Lothian during the 17th Century. Until 2nd of November.Come to our witches workshop. Saturday 11am -4pm . FREE www.peterpottergallery.org 01620 822080
OPENING HOURS / OTHER INFOAll venues will be open during the hours 10am-5pm unless otherwise stated. Please check individual venue listings. Please remember our venues are predominantly working environments, artists cannot be responsible for the safety of visitor while on their premises.
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Venue 1, 3, 5,16, 18, 20
Venue 16, 21
Venue 22
Venue17
Venue 2
Venue 8, 4, 6
Venue 7Venue 9
Venue 10
Venue 13, 11
Venue 12
Venue 14
Venue 15
Venue 19
For more info visit www.artroot.co.ukOr contact Anna 07968679585
27 High Street, Dunbar, EH42 1EN
Tyninghame Hall, Main Street Tyninghame EH42 1XL
The Basement Studio, 15A Church Street, Dunbar EH42 1HA
West Barns Hall, Edinburgh Road, West Barns EH42 1UR
18e Church Street, Dunbar, EH42 1HA
West Barns Studio, School Brae, West Barns, EH42 1UD
1 Elder Street, Belhaven, EH42 1QA
The Shed, (Rope Base) Beltonford, Edinburgh Road, West Barns, EH42 1UW
Lauderdale Park, The Garden Path Cafe, Bayswell Rd, Dunbar EH42 1AB
Knowes Farm, By East Linton, Dunbar, East Lothian EH42 1XJ
The Garden Studio, Toftfield, 5 Preston Road, East Linton, EH40 3DR
The North Range, Smeaton Farm Steading, East Linton, EH40 3DT
10 Orchard court, East Linton, EH40 3EG
Studio D, Gilmerton Industrial Estate, Gilmerton, EH39 5LQ
Tantallon Studios, Halfland Barns Schoolhouse, EH39 5PW
Beach Hut, Dunbar Victory Harbour, Dunbar EH42 1HS
Pressmennan Wood, Stenton
67d High Street, Dunbar
Auldhame Farm at the entrance to Seacliff Beach, North Berwick EH39 5PW
84 High Street, Dunbar
McArthurs Store, The Granary, Dunbar Harbour, Dunbar.
Peter Potter Gallery, 10 The Sands, Haddinginton, EH41 3EY
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