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Contemporary jeweller John Field is exhibiting his new digital tech range at Edinburgh International Arts Festival Fringe at the well-known Dazzle jewellery exhibition in Dovecot Studios. His new ‘Pebble’ range of brooches, pendants and earrings are 3D printed with the hollows coloured gold and white, contrasting with the grey of the polymer and is quite a departure for him. It was not until this year that he plucked up the courage to try 3D digital technology, specifically Anarkik3DDesign to 3D model objects, and 3D printing to produce the units for his new work. As he says ‘In my early days as a jeweller I mainlyRead More →

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This post summarises a collaborative project about the value of play and purposeful play for our creativity. We briefly describe the mini residency we self funded last year to explore ‘play and the impact of play and flow on our creativity and on our practice as makers. ‘We’ are Allison Macleod and Ann Marie Shillito – designer makers/applied artists/jewellers, living and working in Scotland. Wee Paired Residency Sept/Oct 2024 The project ran over two 4.5-day in-person residencies (Play and then Purposeful Play themes) plus five online Zoom sessions over several weeks. Our approach centred on creative play, specifically exploring the relationships between play, flow, tacitRead More →

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World Bee Day is celebrated on May 20th each year. It is all about raising awareness of the absolute importance of bees and other pollinators for our ecosystem and our food supplies. This special day highlights the critical role pollinators play in not just essential agriculture but also for biodiversity. It’s about looking after bees, their fellow creatures and all their different habitats. It’s about the urgent need to take action to protect pollinators from multiple threats such as habitat loss, pesticides, and climate change. World Bee Day encourages individuals, communities, and governments to take steps to support bee populations and ensure their survival forRead More →

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By Ann Marie Shillito This second post is about creating Ava’s accessories and garments, about my digital and VR process producing her accessories, while Little Peril Studio’s Megan Mackay created our avatars’ gorgeous garments. This image is Ava, my avatar and one of six created for the HiddenFloors project introduced in my first post. HiddenFloors was an amazing project to be part of. I gained so much from this project as it offered the opportunity to be more expansive, to scale up, play in new ways and collaborate with designers in the fashion sector. I wanted to explore further the potential for creating virtual piecesRead More →

From the HiddenFloors project, a virtual fashion event with 6 model avatars, this image shows Ava avatar modelling a shiny lilac coloured skin-tight top and shorts under a full length diaphanous lilac coloured gown created by Little Peril Studio. Her huge and sumptuous head dress of flowing multicoloured swirls floats above her red hair and as she walks she is followed by numerous colourful flying pet objects. She also wears a large decorative front piece of shiny metallic swirls.

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HiddenFloors Project showcases world-wide the collaborations of 12 amazing fashion designers and applied artists, using digital & immersive media to connect to audiences & international buyers without the costs and environmental impact of travel and organising physical exhibitions and runway shows.

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Sustainable products from explorations Sustainable me means Ann Marie having valuable time, space and a smidgen of time pressure to not only explore and experiment with different processes and materials but to also add value to the abundant waste and scrap around us and create things that others can own and treasure. A VACMA award gave Ann Marie Shillito just this. Closing the Loop‘s “MATTER | Earth, Material and Making” exhibition at the Barn gave purpose and a deadline. Fold, the shop at the Barn, gave an Ann Marie the opportunity to develop her explorations into finished pieces. The image on the left shows aRead More →

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Ann Marie Shillito intends within this series of posts to provide information on the purpose and methods behind work she made for “MATTER,” Closing the Loop’s exhibition. WIthin her work she is finding creative solutions towards zero waste within her practice as a maker where 3D printing adds desirability and value to waste materials.

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This post is part one of a series to provide information to complement Ann Marie Shillito’s work, some currently in Closing the Loop’s ‘MATTER: Earth, Material + Making’ exhibition, at the Barn, Banchory, Scotland. This is about the process behind her work exploring environmental wellbeing through making, cherishing our resources, repurposing waste material.

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OK. What do you think about men wearing jewellery? Generally. This is Terry sporting a statement pin to complement his gorgeous jacket. We think he looks stunning. We also loved that Shaun Leane, one of the two judges for ‘All That Glitters: Britain’s Next Jewellery Star’, wore different pieces of his own designed collection at each session. The earrings that he wore are so much more interesting, imaginative and distinctive than much of jewellery advertised for men. I would expect this of Shaun Leane as a designer who has worked with Alexander McQueen – but his jewellery is very discreet compared to Terry’s pin. AreRead More →

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3D Printed jewellery with a twist. Birgit has an incredible gift for creating 3D printed jewellery that is a little bit different. Playful, quirky and full of character, she often uses Anarkik 3D software to design her pieces, 3D Prints her models and hand finishes them with colourful dyes. Video below of Birgit’s Anarkik Creations jewellery: “What keeps coming back in my work, and which has become very important for me, is the strong, pure line. Through form, in which my ideas are expressed, apparently I strive for a certain aesthetic. I love to be playful and humorous, I work with projects and choose subjectsRead More →