Posts by Patricia de Vries
SHC x Secret Collection
Sculpture House artists Nick Evans, Laura Aldridge, and James Rigler have been working closely with the Paisley Museum’s Secret Collection, an incredible open-access storage facility located on Paisley High Street. This hidden treasure trove houses the museum’s diverse and nationally significant collections, and Sculpture House has been focusing on the museum’s rich collection of 20th-century…
Read MoreWe rolled it with leaves, it’s clay!
Lawnmower
Laura Aldridge: Jupiter Artland, 11th May to 29th September 2024 Laura was invited to create an exhibition and an outdoor installation for Jupiter Artland’s Summer ’24 programme. Her outdoor installation included a water fountain, produced in collaboration with Paisley-based fabricators Michael Smiths Fabrications. They designed a metal support structure to hold Laura’s ceramic pieces, ensuring…
Read MoreMichael Fullarton
Michael is a painter who often uses portrait painting as a foil to other materials, including sculpture, screen print and photography. Combining aesthetic and political concerns he has previously painted portraits of Lady Cosgrove, Scotland’s first female judge and the wrongly convicted Paddy Joe Hill, of the Birmingham six.
Read MoreMorven Mulgrew
Morven Mulgrew is an interdisciplinary artist based in Glasgow. Working across performance, sculpture, costume and design she makes live work, costume and artefact concerned with the body. Her pottery reflects her interests in the homemade, the hand made, DIY and shonkiness as well as precision, shape and form. She is a professional amateur, making it up as…
Read MoreKate V Robertson
Reflecting on the complicated relationship between the digital record and the real thing Kate V. Robertson has cast digital cameras and pc processors in concrete and aluminium, and collaged mobile phone parts into strange sculptural mosaics. Co Founder of Sculpture Placement Group Kate is equally concerned with the obsolecence of many sculptural works, seeking long…
Read MoreCeramics For All
We have been collaborating with the Disability Resource Centre, a supportive day centre for adults, to design and deliver a tailored programme of ceramics workshops. The focus of these sessions has been to explore and develop accessible techniques that allow participants with diverse abilities to engage meaningfully with ceramic arts. When developing this programme, we…
Read MoreCreativity and Care
For this series of workshops, we had the privilege of working with care-experienced young people from Renfrewshire. Through the medium of ceramics, we collaborated with them to create household objects and small sculptures that were inspired by their individual interests and personalities. Each participant brought their own ideas and creativity to the table, and we…
Read MoreSummer Social 2023
Our first Summer Social took place in June 2023 and set the tone for what has become a much-loved part of our annual calendar. Open to everyone, the Socials are designed as a welcoming space to meet the artists of Sculpture House, take a guided tour of the building, and get involved in creative activities.…
Read MoreDye Garden Socials 2023
The First Series of Dye Garden Socials took place over six months in 2023 as part of our pilot year for the Dye Garden project, curated by Textile Artist and Designer in Residence, Laura Spring. This series of free monthly events combined talks, discussions, and hands-on workshops, all designed to inspire, educate, and inform audiences…
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