Craft Pods

Craft Pods

What are the Craft Pods?

Designed and created by Nick Millar and James McLardy in 2009, the Craft Pods tour small, museum quality displays of high quality craft to non-gallery venues around Fife, allowing new audiences and more people to discover art in unexpected places. In line with our environmental aims, reclaimed timber was used for their construction. They were modified in 2024 to allow them to be transported in smaller sections lowering the carbon footprint of the Craft Pods tour still further.

How We Choose Artists

Craft Pod artists are invited by Fife Contemporary to exhibit their work in the pods, generally through involvement in our other projects. These can include artists from our larger exhibitions, or emerging artists and makers who took part in our Materialise programmes, a project started to support new graduate makers in Scotland.

In 2024 jeweller and designer Lucy Pearl Petts showcased their vibrant 3D printed jewellery, and in 2023 textile graduate Francesca Rea exhibited her nature-inspired embroidery.

Explore Past Exhibitions

Previous Craft Pod Artists

Over the past 15 years the Craft Pods have brought the work of some extraordinary artists to Fife’s community spaces, libraries and schools. With continued support we plan to keep this popular project going long into the future.

Who Funds the Craft Pods?

The Craft Pod tours are possible through our regular funding from Creative Scotland and Fife Council. We also rely on local venues to provide a space for the Pods.

Keep scrolling to find out where the Pods have been and how you can host the Pods at your venue.

How do the Pods Move?

We contract freelance art technicians to help our small staff team shift the (heavy!) Pods on each changeover day. They ususally stay in each venue for six to eight weeks.

We recently adapted the Craft Pods so they could fit in a smaller vehicle, and trialled an electric van for the moves, cutting the carbon footprint of moving the Pods by over 70%!

Craft Pod Venues Across Fife

  • Adam Smith Theatre
  • Auchmuty High School
  • Bellbaxter High School
  • Cowdenbeath Library
  • Dalgety Bay Library
  • Duloch Library
  • Dunfermline Learning Campus
  • Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries
  • The Ecology Centre
  • Falkland Estate
  • Forgan Arts Centre
  • Glenrothes High School
  • The Hive Kirkcaldy
  • Inverkeithing Library
  • Kirkcaldy Galleries
  • The Larick Centre
  • Leven Library
  • Levenmouth Academy
  • Lochgelly Centre
  • Madras College
  • Main Library University of St Andrews
  • Methil Heritage Centre
  • Parkgate Community Centre
  • Pittenweem Community Library
  • Rosyth Library
  • Rothes Halls
  • St Andrews Botanic Garden
  • St Andrews Town Hall
  • Valleyfield Library
  • Viewforth High School
  • Woodmill High School

Become a Craft Pod Venue

We are always looking out for new locations for our Craft Pods to land! If you run a venue in Fife that you think would be perfect for this futuristic duo, get in touch. They are quite tough and robust – an indoor space with access to a power supply is all that is required.

Get in Touch
The Craft Pods at Adam Smith Theatre in 2024, featuring work by Lucy Pearl Petts

Support Us

The Craft Pods are seen by an average of 12,000 people across Fife every year. If you enjoy seeing our Craft Pod tours around Fife and would like to help us reach more venues, please consider supporting us! This could be through sharing what we do with others (social media, word of mouth, or directly to organisations you think could help) or by donating to us. As a registered charity in Scotland we can claim back Gift Aid on donations from UK tax payers; that’s an extra 25p for every £1 donated!

Ways to Support Us