Glisk gallery - Susy's silk and wool
I’m going to make a lot more use of the blog here on the Glisk website, both for the gallery and for my own work happening in the studio next door. Actually I don’t just make my work at the studio - but i’ll get to that on another post!
So some posts will be titled Glisk Gallery Space, and others will be Glisk studio. Readers can choose whether they are interested in what’s happening in either space, or in both. I’m starting with a gallery post. Susy Kirk is a fabric artist who also has a studio in Burntisland. She is currently in the Platform Studios which are managed by Fife Historic Buildings Trust, however at the beginning of December this year (2021) she is moving her studio to a lovely space on the High Street within ‘The Space Upstairs’ which is above The Roasting Project Cafe. She says of herself”
“After a lively foundation year at St Martin’s in the 70s, drawing Maison Bertaux cakes and coral reef fish, I survived a ceramics degree at Bath Academy of Art and then lived a nomadic life in the South Pacific, Asia and Italy, before returning home to Scotland....Images seen on my travels, on land and underwater, tumble out of my brush. I hope these fragments of pattern bring joy and gentle warmth to the wearer.”
She stocks some of her beautiful scarves at Glisk, in fact she was one of the first artists to join me in putting her work here. Some of her work is hanging on the walls, like paintings. Why not? No one says you have to do with these beautiful pieces of (wearable) art.
