Dazzle@Dovecot
Our eighth year at Dovecot Studios on Infirmary Street for the Edinburgh Festival. We will be opening on 2 August until 26 August with an opening party on Thursday 1 August. The light and airy gallery upstairs in the Ladies Baths will be filled with our usual mix of established and new designers, showing the best of contemporary jewellery in a huge variety of materials. We will also be showing a selection of prints by Dundee based artist Anne Skinner and lambswool scarves designed by Green Thomas and made in Scotland. All this and a cafe serving delicious cakes and coffee downstairs!
Image Hayley Grafflin Pyramid earrings
Dazzle Late Night
The organisers of Dazzle Exhibitions, Tony Gordon and Christine Bola will be joined by maker Jenny Llewellyn to talk about their experiences of organising Dazzle for almost 40 years. A history of changing times in the jewellery world.
Date 7 August 18.00-19.00 Tickets https://dovecotstudios.com/programme/modern-british-jewellery-40-years-of-dazzle/
Green Thomas Scarves
Green Thomas are design duo Emma Green and Alan Thomas Dibble graduates of the prestigious Central Saint Martins in London. Their scarves are luxurious, contemporary and colourful, made using the finest merino lambswool, designed and made in Scotland.
Anne Skinner Printmaker
Anne Skinner is a printmaker and painter based in Dundee, Scotland and is a graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art. Anne specialises in screenprints and screenprinted collages. Her work has been exhibited throughout the UK and internationally and is in public and private collections.
Dovecot Gallery
GRAYSON PERRY
Julie Cope’s Grand Tour: The Story of a Life by Grayson Perry
Dovecot presents the work of the ever-popular artist, celebrated Turner Prize winner, and self-styled ‘unapologetic fetishist’, Grayson Perry.
Julie Cope’s Grand Tour comes to Scotland for the first time bringing the complete set of tapestries designed by Perry for A House for Essex. The exhibition explores the creation of the house, designed by Perry with FAT Architecture, as a secular chapel dedicated to Julie Cope, a fictional every-woman. There is also an opportunity to listen to Perry’s ‘Ballad of Julie Cope’, which retells in the artist’s own words of ‘the trials, tribulations, celebrations and mistakes of an average life’.
Set in the context of Dovecot Studios, one of the world’s leading tapestry studios, the exhibition delves into both handwoven and machine-woven tapestries, as well as the different crafts, skills, and techniques used to produce these extraordinary works of art.
Image A Perfect Match, Grayson Perry, 2015. Crafts Council Collection: 2016.18. Purchase supported by Art Fund (with a contribution from The Wolfson Foundation) and a donation from Maylis and James Grand. Courtesy the Artist, Paragon Press, and Victoria Miro, London. © Grayson Perry.