December 2020

 
Scottish Sculpture Subscription offering world-class art & craft for the home 

The world’s first subscription scheme bringing specially commissioned sculpture by leading artists into members’ own homes has launched this month.  

Sculpture Placement Group (SPG) has designed the club to be exclusive but affordable, and membership is restricted to 35 subscribers. Each member will pay just £45 a month to receive two limited edition works a year. 

The first piece has been commissioned from artist Andy Holden, whose work includes sculpture, large installations, painting, music, performance, animation and is part of the Tate’s permanent collection.  

The second will be from Holly Hendry who is currently preparing a solo show and large-scale outdoor commission at the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea, UK. she creates site-responsive sculptures and installations are concerned with what lives beneath the surface. 

The number of pieces in each edition will be limited to 39, with four donated to a charity chosen by SPG.  

The full package of subscriber benefits includes two limited-edition sculptures a year delivered directly to your door, artist profiles and information about and how each work was made, behind-the-scenes access to the making of each sculpture, live artist talks and events and advice on how to care for and display your sculptures. All the works will be conceived and created to be displayed in people’s homes.  

Work will begin on the first piece in early 2021 so subscribers can follow the artist’s entire process ahead of its delivery in the early summer.  

SPG Club is supported by the Henry Moore Foundation and Creative Scotland. 

Image: Francesa Rea / Image the artist

Scottish Graduates selected for the Klimt02.net Emerging Talent JPLUS Award 

Graduates Ran Luo (from Edinburgh College of Art) and Alaitz MM. Gavilán (from The Glasgow School of Art) were shortlisted for the Klimt02.net Emerging Talent JPLUS Award. 
 
Ran Luo constructs sensual and elegant three-dimensional spatial structures which are inspired by the compound eye of insects. Their showcased collection, Strange Beauty, reflects the delicate details surrounding us in the natural world.  
 
Alaitz MM. Gavilán’s Protest Jewellery is part of a broader personal project to expand silversmithing and jewellery designs and bring these closer to a wider spectrum of people, from different social classes, a goal of many previous generations of craft-activists. To create an aesthetic of resistance, of a type of distressed materiality, the jewellery pieces have been damaged, putting the enamel under the pressure of a press form, for example, and creating a crackled texture. 

Klimt02 also awarded Hannah Oatman (from Rhode Island School of Design, USA) the Klimt02 JPlus Emerging Talent Award 2020 and Avneri Inbar (from Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art, Israel) received the Klimt02 JPlus Audience Award 2020. 

Hannah Oatman received a one-year free jeweller’s membership including a personal jeweller’s profile & an exhibition of the selected graduate works at Hannah Gallery in Barcelona, Spain. 
 

 Image: Collective Matter x KMAdotcom/ Photography by Tom Nolan​

Collective Matter x KMAdotcom collaboration 

Collective Matter and KMAdotcom have teamed up together to create a new collection celebrating the shared energy and commitment to nurturing individual and collaborative creativity found within the KMAdotcom artist studio. 

Collective Matter creates space for considering new ways of working for artists, and rethinking what a product collection could be. For this long-term collaboration, Collective Matter spent time getting to know the practices of the fourteen artists that make up KMAdotcom, to create new products that are truly reflective of their lively studio community. 

KMAdotcom is an artist studio based in Mayfield, Midlothian supported by Artlink Edinburgh. In this collaborative space, artists produce artwork together inspired by their diverse interests and practices. Their individuality is reflected through this unique product collection for Collective Matter, the result of the group working together and drawing inspiration from trips to Collective’s site and regular studio visits. 

The collection consists of four 100% silk square scarves made in the UK, brass pendants of various sizes, cast in Scotland, three ceramic vessels and three ornamental creature keepsakes made with Scottish maker Manifesto, plus, a selection of souvenirs; including a set of digitally printed postcards inspired by the collection. 
 
View the collection at http://bit.ly/38p6qCf 
 

Learn more about craft this month: 

Read Shedding the Shackles: Women’s Empowerment through Craft by Lynne Stein  
The Times: The best Christmas gifts made in Scotland 
The National: Scots Urged to Buy Local this Christmas 
The Courier: Scottish designer Vixy Rae weaves fascinating story of tweed 
The Times: Inspired underground pottery and adventurous calendars 
The National: Stunning Unicorn sculpture erected in Kelpies park 

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