'Narrating Process’ with James Maskrey
The main aim of this workshop is to cultivate skills and develop narrative for participants’ work. Using our technical abilities, sourced objects, images, or text we will search for meanings in our pieces. These could be imagined, they could be factual, but at the heart of the process will be making and story-telling.
We will concentrate on material, process and idea. Using and developing traditional glass-blowing skills, compiled materials and our combined imaginations we will celebrate these artefacts to spin tales of personal experience, historical fact or elaborate hoax.
We will aim to push ourselves through enriching our glass techniques and developing original ideas to produce pieces of work embracing both skill and narrative.
During the 9 days, there will be an opportunity to experience expert guidance for cold working glass through a mutual student swap with the concurrently running master class led by Angela Thwaites. There will also be one day midway through when you will be able to make arrangements for further exploring the locality.
 
Extreme Glass Conference -a focus on material and process
4 - 7 September
The Conference will feature inspiring talks from Dr Zoe Laughlin, Jeroen Maes, Angela Thwaites, Tord Boontje, Jerome Harrington and James Maskrey, an exhibition in the North Lands Gallery space, guided trips to nearby sites, demonstrations and hands on sessions.
 
This year our Conference begins on Friday 4th September at 2pm with something new - an Object Seminar.  Delegates are invited in advance to give a short presentation of 3-5 minutes on an object they have made or own. Objects should be within a hand held scale with the intention that they can be handled.  After the presentation the objects will be on display over the course of the Conference weekend.
 
As another new feature in our programme we would like to illustrate the quality and diversity of contemporary glass art and craft in Scotland.  To do this we would like to invite Scottish and Scottish based artists to submit 1 - 3 images of their work together with a short statement in the form of a Haiku style poem describing their ideas, their work and/or their motivation. The successful entries will then be formed into a slide show which will be on display during the course of our Conference.
 
If you would like to submit works for either of these events, please contact Grace for further information:
info@northlandsglass.com
+44 (0) 1593721229
 
Conference Fee: £250
Reduced Fee for Master Class participants: £200
Reduced Fee for Students: £190
10% Discount for CGS and SGS members
Early Bird Discount of 15% available until 30 May 2015
 
North Lands Creative Glass
Quatre Bras
Lybster, Caithness KW3 6BN
United Kingdom
+44 1593 721229
northlandsglass.com