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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