Edinburgh | 2023

Dazzle@Dovecot

Dazzle@Dovecot

4 - 27 August 2023

We are delighted to be back at Dovecot Studios for the Edinburgh Festival 2023. An exciting lineup of shows has already been announced for both the International and the Fringe festivals so it feels like the festival will be back to it's lively and vibrant self.

DATES & OPENING TIMES

4 to 27 August

Open 10am to 5.30pm (last entry 5pm)

Thursday lates until 8pm.

Entry to Dazzle is free and there is no need to book tickets.

Scarf by Olive Pearson. Print by Laura Boswell

We are excited to be showing a number of designers new to Dazzle this year as well as our stunning selection of Dazzle regulars. Plus works by leading Printmaker Laura Boswell and Textile designer Olive Pearson.

Jewellery - Petra Bishai. Photo Simon B Armitt

Top Image: Necklace by Rentaro Nishimura. Bangle by Lynne MacLachlan, Brooch by Emily Kidson. Bracelet by Eve Balashova, Ring by Faye Hall

Image middle: Earrings by Isla Gilham

Image bottom: Rings and Bangle by Petra Bishai

Image above, left to right: Earrings by Holly Clifford, Necklace by Rentaro Nishimura, Brooch by Faye Hall

Designers
	KAROLINA BAINES Edinburgh-based designer/maker, Karolina Baines views jewellery as sculptures that move with the wearer, Karolina seeks to create engaging visual and tactile experiences that instil deep personal connections, with a deft use of texture, colour and linework.
	EVE BALASHOVA Eve Balashova explores repetition, movement and manipulation of shape and form in her statement jewellery. She combines strict geometry with soft flowing curves to create unique, vibrant and energetic pieces.
	ROSINA BEECH Rosina finds beauty and colour in unusual functional industrial materials and components. In her Luna collection she combines Sterling Silver with Architectural Aluminium to create unique statement pieces of contemporary jewellery.
	PETRA BISHAI Silver & gold jewellery inspired by urban city life
	LAURA BOSWELL Laura Boswell is a printmaker working with linocut, woodblock and traditional Japanese woodblock printing. The prints are focussed on weather, light and ideas of space and scale, printed in multiple transparent layers, evoking a sense of place and time in the viewer.
	RUTH BROWN Glasgow based jeweller Ruth Brown creates sculptural, geometric work from silver, aluminium and resin, inspired by the distorted and fragmented reflections within the architecture of her urban environment.
	SUZANNE CLAIRE Contemporary jewellery lovingly French knitted and crocheted by hand. Suzanne Claire is a Manchester based jeweller. Outlets include Gill Wing, London, New Ashgate Gallery, Surrey, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno, Ruthin Craft Centre, Denbighshire, SH Jewellery, Edinburgh, MCDC, Manchester and Victoria Sewart, Plymouth
	TANIA CLARKE HALL Tania Clarke Hall crafts her jewellery from leather. Her cutting edge designs are versatile and playful yet retain a timeless elegant quality. Working from her central London studio.
	HOLLY CLIFFORD Holly combines traditional skills with modern making techniques, to develop innovative and unusual collections of work, using a combination of resin and silver. Holly’s inspiration originates from botanic gardens; the beauty of the plant life & the ethereal quality of glasshouses.
	BECKY CROW My work has always had a strongly illustrative leaning. It grows out of drawings and sketches some observational, some imagined.