Alan Grieve magazine

Nine Trades of Dundee artist Alan Grieve and Laura Simpson had a really interesting meeting with designer extraordinaire Tara Wainwright of University of Dundee's Design Print Marketing unit earlier in the year. Alan wants it to have a balance of fashion magazine design, trade skills and humour and had brought along lots of examples of great looking page layouts. Alan has been working on the storyboard for the magazine and will get to grips with InDesign this week. The magazines will be distributed to Hair Salons around Dundee (please get in touch if you want your salon to be included on the list), and will also be available at the Final Gathering event at Centrespace on the 17th July.

See more about Alan's project : http://ninetradesalan.blogspot.com/

Clare Thornton waxes lyrical about waxed cotton

Clare Thornton's project is progressing well and we have been lucky enough to have seen some samples of the waxed cotton that Halley Stevensons produce. Clare also did a presentation to DJCAD Textile Design students in advance of their Craft Festival Scotland project called Craft Interventions. The students art interventions, were specially made for different sites around the college and were unveiled on the same night as the Craft Research Exposition which opened last week: http://craftresearch.blogspot.com/2010/03/future-craft-invite.html

Clare has already met with DJCAD staff and visiting lecturers Frances Stevenson (see her work in the Research Expo mentioned above) and Fiona Jardine (artist based in Glasgow).

More about Clare's visits (including a great post with images from gent's outfitters on Reform Street which was once called Saville Row of the North) at Clare's blog: http://ninetradesclare.blogspot.com/

Final Gathering announcement

Nine Trades of Dundee project team are pleased to announce that our celebratory event - to mark the end of the Nine Trades of Dundee project will be called the Final Gathering and will take place in Centrespace downstairs in Dundee Contemporary Arts. The event will take place on Saturday 17th July 2010 and is open to the participants and artists, their friends and family and also to the general public and others who have helped the project along the way. In short - You are Invited!!!
There will be information and representations from each of the nine projects so you can learn about whats happened in each of the locations.
More details to follow - please put the date in your diary.

David's coming to town

This week will see the return of Nine Trades of Dundee artist David Yu to Dundee. last time he was here he paced the streets and propped up the bars of Dundee, speaking to publicans across the city. Loads of bars were up for working with him and he has selected a good variety of locations. He will be talking to staff and working with them to produce video and audio footage. Editing this footage and including these within physical installations within the pubs is the aim. The footage from each will be swapped with the other pubs.