Scottish Potters Open Exhibition June 2010

SCOTTISH POTTERS ASSOCIATION

All Fired Up

SPA’S MIDSUMMER OPEN EXHIBITION

at Alloa Makers Village

SATURDAY 12 – 27 JUNE 2010

GALLERY OPEN 10:30AM TO 5PM DAILY

JANET ADAM, ALAN AITCHISON, ROGER BELL, VAL BURNS,

FIONA BYRNE-SUTTON, ALICE BUTTRESS, AMY BUTTRESS,

JEFF BUTTRESS, SUZANNE DAVIS, HILARY DUNCAN,

CAMILLA GARRETT-JONES, HELEN GILMOUR, NEIL HALLEY,

CHRISTINE HOCKEY, JANE KELLY, HANNAH MCANDREW,

FRAN MARQUIS, DONALD MCINTYRE, DAWN NEWBIGGING, VERONICA NEWMAN,

MARIA NORDGREN, JOANNA NOWAK, SUSAN NUTTGENS, STUART ORR,

SJARIFAH ROBERTS, KAREN ROSS, JULIA SMITH, SUSAN WADE-FRENCH, MICHELLE YOUNG.

FULL DETAILS OF THE EXHIBITORS & ITEMS: www.makers.org.uk/pottery/alloahandlist

START THE SHOW ON SATURDAY 12 JUNE BETWEEN 1 AND 5PM

We opened. Pictures of the exhibition and opening here

The Clay Station is a new ceramic workshop with studio space, kilns and equipment for hire, part of the Alloa Makers Village at the old Claremont School at A907 Ludgate roundabout (FK10 2DE). It was set up with finance from the Clackmannanshire Alliance: glassmaker Elin Isakson also has a studio and furnace on site. The Alliance is keen to build on longstanding glass and ceramics traditions in Alloa: the town sits on clay and silica beds and has the oldest glassworks in Europe still working.

The Clay Station at Alloa Makers Village is being run by Fiona Byrne-Sutton who has offered it to SPA as our 2010 Open Exhibition venue – you can reach her at 07856694126 fbs.ceramics@googlemail.com . Exhibition organiser is Jane Kelly at 01968 677854 jane.kelly2@virgin.net ; Alloa-based SPA member Joanna Nowak keeps the rota at 07972 878036 .

Details of exhibitors & items: www.makers.org.uk/pottery/alloahandlist

-exhibitors please check the list and invite lots of guests to join us at

www.makers.org.uk/pottery/alloainvitations

Exhibition website is right here at: www.makers.org.uk/pottery/alloa

Exhibition entry form now closed: www.makers.org.uk/pottery/AlloaForm

The Alloa show was postponed from spring to allow the premises to be finished.

Fiona Byrne-Sutton, whose enthusiasm has carried us thus far, is moving into the Clay Station (which our exhibition is using) as we speak. We had a look on 14 May at the Clay Station and the Makers Village under construction, and at some of the exciting things happening around MakeSpace in Alloa town centre.