The highly successful Elements Festival \u2013 Scotland\u2019s biggest celebration of jewellery, silver and gold \u2013 is staging its first ever event in Aberdeen this weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While most of this year\u2019s festival is digital, due to COVID-19, a series of pop-ups are taking place which will allow people to meet some of the finest emerging and established designers and makers from Scotland and the rest of the UK. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This Saturday and Sunday Aberdeen Art Gallery will be hosting four Scottish makers selected for this year\u2019s festival:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Emma returned from Glasgow to live and work in her native Aberdeen two years ago and the work she will have on show includes exquisite hand-made silver bowls, enamelled with designs inspired by the area\u2019s dramatic skies and seascapes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The makers are looking forward to the pop-up as an opportunity to meet the public and show their work \u2013 in a superb location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Emma said:<\/strong> \u201cIt\u2019s lovely to be able to have an in-person event like this, especially with the opportunity to show at the art gallery \u2013 it\u2019s an absolutely stunning venue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019m really looking forward to meeting people and showing them not just my finished work, but something of the process that goes into it, like the sketches I make after walking in places like Aberdeen beach and how these inspire my designs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Emma, who has loved enamelling since the age of 10, studied silversmithing and jewellery making at Gray\u2019s School of Art. <\/p>\n\n\n\n She is renowned for her fine silver and enamel jewellery, as well as hand raised bowls in fine silver or copper with enamel decoration. She uses traditional techniques like hand-raising and enamelling in a contemporary way, producing work which is beautiful and modern and something to be treasured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Visitors will also be able to browse a dazzling array of jewellery and silver by three other makers and designers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Edinburgh-based jeweller Ruth Leslie creates contemporary, sculptural jewellery in a variety of metals including silver, gold and titanium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Christina Hirst, a jewellery maker from Leith, uses precious metal clay (PMC consists of minute metal particles suspended in an organic binder and water) which transforms into pure metal when fired in a kiln. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Glasgow-based jeweller Rhona McCallum creates signature statement collections of contemporary jewellery, which are inspired by Scotland\u2019s landscape, geology and history using recycled precious metals and ethically sources gemstones. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Ebba Goring, Chief Executive of festival organisers The Scottish Goldsmiths Trust, said:<\/strong> \u201cWe are delighted to have the chance to come to Aberdeen to showcase some superb work by exceptional Scottish designers and makers \u2013 especially at a time when people will be looking for extra-special Christmas gifts.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cElements has a well-deserved reputation for being the place to find some truly extraordinary work by some of the very finest emerging and established makers and designers.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis year\u2019s event blends the on-line and the in-person so that people can browse the gold, silver and jewellery at their leisure and in the way that suits them.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Elements is organised by the Scottish Goldsmiths Trust in partnership with Lyon and Turnbull auctioneers. Elements brings together work from some of the finest established and emerging makers from Scotland and across the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n – Ends –<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Notes for editors<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n About the exhibitors<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n For more about the pop-up participants see:<\/p>\n\n\n\n About the Elements 2021 partners<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n For information about SGT contact Ebba Goring Chief Executive on 0131 557 6938 or 07881 623 826 or ebba@scottishgoldsmithstrust.org<\/a>. For media information contact Matthew Shelley at SFPR on 07786704299 or Matthew@ScottishFestivalsPR.Org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n scottishgoldsmithstrust.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n