Hag. Knowledge, Power & Alchemy Through Craft
Fife Contemporary are pleased to announce Hag. Knowledge, Power & Alchemy through Craft, an exhibition …
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For the closing of the Hag exhibition at Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries, Fife Contemporary are excited to partner with Ostrero for a Making Circles Workshop, taking place 1-3pm Sunday 8 June 2025.
This workshop took the vinyl banners used to promote the exhibition, and repurposed them to create new objects to take home, such as bags, pencil cases and wallets. The workshop included an introduction to the Circular Economy, and by working with professional designer-makers, participants learnt techniques to continue to create objects at home using circular design principles.
At Fife Contemporary we are committed to reducing our carbon footprint, and look to sustainable and environmentally positive practices wherever possible. We are proud to say that Hag opened at Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries with the entire exhibition generating only one bag of waste for landfill, with all other materials being recycled or repurposed. We are pleased to be working with Ostrero again to save more of this promotional exhibition material from landfill, and for repurposing it in creative and useful ways!
Ostrero works to grow the Circular Economy in Scotland through mindset change and education. We raise awareness of what the Circular Economy is and how it is vitally important to Scotland’s economic and environmental wellbeing. Ostrero is based in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was created in 2016 by Mary Michel and Marian Brown, who are both passionate about the tangible and positive changes that the Circular Economy can create.
Provocatively titled but thoughtfully curated, Hag. Knowledge, Power & Alchemy through Craft brings together the work of 13 of Scotland’s most inventive, creative and impactful women craft artists, including Lise Bech, Judith Davies, Caroline Dear, Claire Heminsley, Fiona Hutchison, Ruth Elizabeth Jones, Gilly Langton, Jo McDonald, Susie Redman, Patricia Shone, Carol Sinclair, Amanda Simmons and Emma Louise Wilson. Celebrating the knowledge, power & alchemy mediated by their work, the exhibition will celebrate craft skills and approaches to practice developed by these significant women over decades of work and personal endeavour.
Hag. Knowledge, Power and Alchemy through Craft was presented at Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries 8 March – 8 June 2025
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Making Circles Workshop with Ostrero
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