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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 →

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.