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Jaquetta Dott by Jilli Blackwood. Photo by Ken Mellin.

Meet Your Maker

Discover the creative minds behind Scotland’s most exciting crafts.

Spanning many disciplines, Meet Your Maker took visitors behind the scenes of the Scottish contemporary crafts scene to see work by the best emerging and existing makers and glimpse what happens in their workshops.

Meet the makers...

Stacey Bentley

Stacey's distinctive enamel jewellery transforms industrial techniques and structures into elegant, wearable forms.

Leah Black

Leah's stylish jewellery combines forgotten icons of a bygone age with a distinctive, modern approach.

Jilli Blackwood

Textile artist and designer Jilli Blackwood creates fabulous, sensual walking works of art.

Libby Day

Meet a maker whose sculptural work incorporates a dynamic blend of natural elements and modern structures.

Pauline Edie

Meet a jewellery maker whose charming designs are inspired by childhood stories and illustrations.

Elin Isaksson

Elin's work brings glass to life, combining contemporary designs with traditional glass blowing methods.

Alison Macleod

Discover a jewellery maker whose original, playful work combines precious metals with junk shop chic.

Frances Priest

Meet an artist whose colourful ceramic collection is designed to be handled, examined, grouped, compared.

Ebba Redman

Ebba’s jewellery combines domestic crafts skills that have been handed down from generation to generation and modern jewellery-making techniques.


A partnership exhibition by National Museums Scotland and craftscotland.

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Fran Priest: Gifts and Occupations. Photo by Shannon Tofts.  Elin Isaksson: Lamp. Photo by Shannon Tofts. Leah Black: Albert brooch. Photo by Pamela Cuthill. Pauline Edie: Rapunzel necklace Ebba Redman: Crochet rings. Photo by Jack Waddington. Alison Macleod: Fragment necklace. Photo by Shannon Tofts. Elin Isaksson: oil lamps for sale in the selling area

Meet Your Maker

Opens: Fri 29 Jan - Sun 14 March 2010
Cost: Free
Venue: Special exhibition gallery, Level 3

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