2009 | Edinburgh

Edinburgh Festival Fringe exhibition at the Traverse Theatre in Cambridge Street. Exhibition dates 7th-31st August 2009 inclusive. Opening times 10am to Midnight 7 days a week. All work is for sale and can be taken away. Entry is free

We are getting closer to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for this year and an exciting prospect it is.

Dazzle exhibitions have been part of the Fringe since 1983 when the Assembly Rooms – arguably the largest and most influential venue of all – invited us to show in the Music Hall bar.

Now we are well ensconced at the beautiful Traverse Theatre Atrium. It is a favourite venue of ours. It is very lively, as the space is a thoroughfare for the many hundreds who work in the offices above and an overflow for those visiting the Traverse Theatre to attend shows, eat in the restaurant and café or buy tickets at the busy box office. Overlooking us as we exhibit, is the fashionable Blue Bar Café www.bluescotland.co.uk and the wonderful up market Atrium Restaurant www.atriumrestaurant.co.uk ,which has won many awards and plaudits for its chef owner Andrew Radford. Many Festival personalities can be seen eating there, followed by a visit to Dazzle.

The Traverse Theatre www.traverse.co.uk. our host is in the very hub of things. Next door is the Usher Hall and then the Lyceum both the cornerstones of the Official Festival. Opposite is the Filmhouse and next to it the Sheraton Hotel. Just behind the venue is Castle Street car park which is the biggest in Edinburgh overlooked by the Castle.

For this years festival exhibition we have brought in a host of brand new makers.

Exciting designers who will be very popular we are sure and allied with the return of many regulars, we think that we have one of the best shows for many years.

JAHYUN RITA BAEK, ADELE BRERETON, SHIVANI PATEL, KATE SMITH, MISUN WON and YEN are all making their Dazzle debuts. CHARLOTTE VERITY is also new to Edinburgh.

They all offer highly stylised intriguing work that should make a big mark on the jewellery world over the next few years.

Designers
	JANE ADAM Jane Adam is one of Britain's leading studio jewellers. Graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1985, she has taken part in hundreds of group and solo exhibitions in Britain and abroad. In many major public and private collections, including those of the Crafts Council, London; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery; Cooper Hewitt Museum of Design, New York, USA; and Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA.
	JULIE ALLISON Edinburgh. Figurative work in precious metals. Featured in The Herald & Sunday Herald 2004. Outlets include Kalo, Glasgow, Rosie Brown & Velvet Boutique, Edinburgh.
	JAHYUN RITA BAEK A recent Graduate from Royal College of Art, Jewellery designer and maker Rita Baek makes contemporary jewellery using plastics and polymer combine with precious metal. Light and movement of the pieces are emphasized when the jewellery is worn.
	DONNA BARRY Edinburgh. Precious metals mainly silver. Outlets include Diana Porter, Bristol, Ruthin Craft Centre, Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen, Lesley Craze, London & Edinburgh Printmakers Gallery.
	NICOLA BECCI My work is really an exploration of decoration using many sources of inspiration, the main ones being the rich symbolism of the Catholic Church, the trappings of royalty, playing cards and chess, calligraphy and the language of symbolism. Food and confectionary are the source for some of my most recent pieces.
	CLARA BREEN Based at Cockpit studios, London. Works with found paper and silver, exploring the sentimental value attached to maps and leaflets. Outlets include: Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool; Gill Wing jewellery, London; Museum of Contemporary Arts shop, Chicago, USA. Exhibitions include: Craft Case, Rochester, Kent; Craft2eu Gallery, Hamburg, Germany; Architecture centre, Bristol.
	ADELE BRERETON Adele Brereton is a London based Jeweller and Silversmith. She has recently been awarded the Crafts Council DevelopmeAward. Adele's work will be in forthcoming exhibitions at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Black SwaArts Frome, Goldsmiths' Fair and Origin, London.
	JESSICA BRIGGS Sheffield. Silver with 18 and23.5 carat golds. Inthe collection of the Cohn Foundation, USA. Work bought by Will Young, James Nesbitt and Michael Stipe.
	NINA BUKVIC London based. Works in gold, oxidized silver, rough diamonds, pearls. Outlets include Electrum, CAA - London. Design Yard - Dublin Scottish Gallery - Edinburgh, Alternatives - Rome, Barneys - USA.
	LILIAN BUSCH Scotland. Danish-born, works in silver & gold using pearls from the Orient, with emphasis on surface treatment. Won the prestigious Tahitian Pearl Trophy in 2005, in all three categories. Outlets include Robert Feather, York; JAM, Eton & Electrum, London & Williamson Brown, Newcastle upon Tyne.