The Trades Hall building is really beautiful and it looks great when it is full of all the craft exhibitions:
Everything is exhibited, from milnery to musical instruments, from fashion to stained-glass. North Glasgow College swept the board this year in fashion and jewellery, I am delighted to say!
The overall prize - the "Deacon Convener's Prize" - as well as the prize for silversmithing went to my student, Inness Thompson for his "Sea Stack" salt-cellar, a remarkable construction which he made entirely by himself; design, construction, polishing and setting. The great thing about this piece, for me, is that the hinges are on a slant, so the lid doesn't lift square to the base...
Helen Whyte, one of my first-year students also won the prize for the non-advanced jewellery with a piece which, as you can see, is fairly advanced!
Other pieces of note were the bangle by Carol Docherty, based on the "Garden of Eden" and the pendant by Wesley Zweip:
I also really liked our non-advanced silverwares entry, Linda Hazlie's little easel showing one of her own miniuature paintings:
I even managed to enter a piece by Ross Menzies, one of my students on the supported learning course!
My degree students are not forgotten. They are mired in creative mayhem, arranging their degree show. I need say nothing. These pictures are worth a thousand words!
