Participants and Programme
Lab director Susan Benn, founder director of PAL (Performing Arts Labs)


Key Lab participants
Norma Anderson – textile artist (link to lab story)
Christine Arnold – designer and lecturer in Design History, Gray’s School of Art (link to lab story)
Gordon Burnett - product designer researcher and Reader in Craft, Gray's School of Art (link to lab story)
Heather Delday – artist and research student to On the Edge research (link to lab story)
Frankie Geesin - textile artist and researcher at the London College of Fashion
Carole Gray – artist, Research Professor and co-ordinator, On the Edge research (link to lab story)
Margaret Hamilton – designer knitter and business woman (link to lab story)
Hazel Hughson – designer knitter and Indigenous Craft Development Officer for Shetland (link to lab story)
Freddie Robins - textile artist (link to lab story)
Mary Thomson - designer knitter (link to lab story)
Stephanie Tristam – textile artist and lecturer, Department of Textiles and Design, Shetland College (link to lab story)

Participants (Burrastow House)
Mary Blance – storyteller and journalist
Kathleen Anderson - lace knitter
Ann Eunson - lace knitter
Mary Kay - lace knitter
Bertha Reid - lace knitter
Zena Thomson - lace knitter

Lab Sponsors
Arts and Humanities Research Board through the On the Edge Research project www.ontheedgeresearch.org
Shetland Development Department
The Shetland Local Enterprise Company
National Lottery - Access and Participation Scheme, Scottish Arts Council
Shell Expro Social Investment Fund
Sustainable Creative Practice Research Cluster, Gray's School of Art, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen

Maakin Lab Programme

Friday 16th May, 2003 – Sunday 18th May, 2003
Burrastow House

Introductions, exchange of experiences, ideas generation, demonstrations by lace knitters and Frankie Geesin, an artist researcher using new materials in textiles

Monday 19th – Thursday 22nd May, 2003
Shetland College Department of Design and Textiles

Ideas generation, the formation of collaborations, reflection and analysis, idea development

Friday 23rd May, 2003
An ‘Allies’ day to test the output of the Lab on invited individuals from the small business sector, the industry, the enterprise and development sector and the educational sector


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