“Show Your Hand”

Artists are invited to submit work for the exhibition “Show Your Hand” to be held by BBAF in Macduff Town Hall, during the Banff and Macduff COAST festival of 25th-27th May 2012.

The exhibition will focus on the issue of the risk we face of the loss of artisanal skills.  This is not dissimilar in some ways to the loss of biodiversity in both the natural environment and among our domesticated plants and animals in that it carries the same potential threat of reduced capacity for adaptation in changing circumstances.  In addition it is a cultural loss that diminishes us all.

All the pieces submitted exhibit one or more artisanal craft skills.

Works by the invited artists and works from the juried open submission will be offered for sale by silent auction many will have a buy it now price for those who hate uncertainty.

Makers to be represented in the exhibition include: Dalziel +Scullion, Helen Denerley, Rachel Hazell, Jonathan Rose, Mary Bourne, Tim Hobrough and many others.

Ha.ri.er Tweed,
by Dalziel +Scullion, Tweed woven by Breanish Tweed in The Outer Hebrides.

 

Grandad and Me by Mags Gray,
Found (Tunbridge ware) marquetry box with three porcelain bowls on top featuring the same pattern in their interior.

 

An exhibition of artworks featuring artisanal skills.
Macduff Town Hall