Creative Spring Market & Open Studios at Perth Creative Exchange!

20/21st May 2023

Perth Creative Exchange artists and makers are thrilled to collaborate this year with Perthshire Artisans to bring you a superb market and open studios event for all to enjoy this Spring!

Come along and discover 17 Perthshire artist/maker market stalls PLUS 8 artists’ studios open for you to have a look round! Chat with the professional creatives behind the all the work on show and purchase beautiful items from the creatives themselves.

You can discover some artistic techniques, bombard us with questions and catch some demonstrations such as print-making and pottery throwing. (And if you were a pupil or teacher at this former St John’s Primary School, you might want to see what we’ve done with the place!)

Oh and if that wasn’t enough we will have two exhibitions running: a group display from students at UHI and Future Ancient by Katie Hallam.

Enjoy our pop-up cafe for coffee, tea and delicious cake to keep those energy levels up and do bring your friends for a super day out!

Free Entry
Dogs and Kiddies Welcome
Disabled Access

Perth Creative Exchange
Stormont Street
PH1 5NW

Kinkell Byre (St Andrews) Xmas Market with Exclusively Highlands

Crawling to the finish line, market-wise for 2022.

But FIRST… check this extremely beautiful St Andrews venue, namely Kinkell Byre! Looking forward to being in it!

The LAST event for me of 2022…. can’t lie, looking forward to a wee lie down in a tub of mulled wine.

10-3pm daily.

Entry £2.50

Kids free

Experience priceless

Beaches nearby

Details here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/857803181794741/873587680216291

Creative Winter Market at Perth Creative Exchange!

Sat 3 & Sun 4th December 2022
Artisan Christmas Market & Open Studios with bonus group exhibition and pop-up cafe!
10-4pm daily

Yes, totally join us at Perth Creative Exchange artists’ studios and creative hub this weekend! We’ve been toiling mightily to bring you a lovely creative market with coffee and cake and a truly beautiful joint tenants’ exhibition, ‘Winter Exchange’…. that’s just on the ground floor!
Upstairs there’s more! (yes we do have a lift!) Want to see what goes on behind the artists’ studio doors? Step this way to see a bit of pot throwing, sniff the turps in the painting studios, check out all the fascinating jewellery making tools and chat about the mysterious processes of printmaking and animation. And more…. we’ll have a few refreshments upstairs to keep you going.

Perth Creative Exchange
Stormont Street
PH1 5NW

Small peek inside some of the Creative Exchange Studios .

Small sample of our guest market stallholders.

Please do come along and support your local small creative businesses this festive season!

Follow the event on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/events/812088913250624

Follow the Creative Exchange page here: https://www.facebook.com/StJohnsCreativeHub

Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/perthcreativeexchange/

Blair Castle Christmas Market

…with Exclusively Highlands

4th, 5th, & 6th November
Entry £4 & children free
75 of Scotland’s best craftspeople and food producers, all gathered in a magical setting!

Join me at Blair Castle, Blair Atholl, in the heart of Highland Perthshire for this magical, festive event! I’ll be bringing the Totey Vases (see below) of course, plus some new Christmas decorations and a range of ceramics, large and small for any purse.

Details here: https://www.exclusivelyhighlands.co.uk/events/blair-christmas-fair/

Potfest in the Pens

October 28th, 29th & 30th 2022

10am – 4.30pm daily

Hands on sessions and activities

Adults £5 / Accompanied under 16’s free

Kicking off this weekend and it’s going to be a good one! Celebrating all things ceramic, this year Potfest comes to Penrith for the time in October. Get that Christmas shopping started early or treat yourself. You deserve it. If you love ceramics it’s the destination for you with over 100 potters showing their wares.

Details: https://potfest.co.uk/visit/potfest-in-the-pens-penrith-oct
Location:
Skirsgill Auction Mart,
Penrith, Cumbria
CA11 0DN

Open Studios at Perth Creative Exchange!

Wed 7th – Sun 11th September 2022
Come see me in my studio where I’ll be doing some throwing on the wheel and chatting about my work!

Details here: https://www.waspsstudios.org.uk/events/open-studios-perth-creative-exchange

See below for the full list of participating artists and our individual opening hours:

Wasps Summer Artists and Makers MARKET!

Perth Creative Exchange artists studios are hosting our annual Summer Market this weekend: 30/31st July 2022!

I’ll be joining some wonderful artists and designer/makers with a fab selection of my ceramics, so do come along!

Time: 10-5pm daily. Location: Stormont St PH1 5NW Free entry. Ramp access.

Potfest Scotland

10-12th June 2022 – please join me at Potfest Scotland from this Friday 10th June in the beautiful grounds and gardens of Scone Palace! Potters and ceramic artists from all over will welcome everyone with an incredible array of work from mugs to sculpture and everything in between!

Book your tickets at https://potfest.co.uk/visit/potfest-scotland/ or pay at the gate. A truly wonderful day out for all the family with dogs on leads welcome… nay, encouraged (by me 😄).

Potfest Scotland at Scone Palace

Open Studios at Perth Creative Exchange

My first event of the summer season is just around the corner: Open Studios at Perth Creative Exchange takes place over the weekend of May 21st & 22nd. Sixteen of Perthshire’s most creative and talented artists and makers will be opening their studios to the public, and it’s a fantastic opportunity to get a little insight into their process…and entry is free!

Click on the image above to find out more about Open Studios and more upcoming WASPS events. Looking forward to seeing you there!

Ukraine Fundraiser at Creative Exchange

Artist Fundraiser for Disasters Emergency Committee – closing Monday 14th March

🇺🇦 Prize Draw Fundraiser for the Disasters Emergency Committee in support of Ukraine. 🇺🇦

I haven’t found the will or words to post anything much these last few weeks, really. But while we watch helplessly on with this shadow over us, we would like to do the small something we feel we can at Perth Creative Exchange studios… so please do buy some raffle tickets for your chance to win a piece of our work.

My contribution is this white earthenware cushion pot which you know you want to have. It’s 6.5x10cm, wheel-thrown, sgraffito decorated and glazed.

Please buy as few or as many tickets as you can afford to… (please contact me if you have any problems)
THANK YOU so much and good luck! 💙💛
 
How to enter:
1. Donate directly to the Disasters Emergency Committee at www.dec.org.uk . £5 buys you one entry, you may donate to the value of however many entries you would like.
2. Take a screenshot as proof of your donation and DM or email it to ceriwhitestudios@gmail.com
3. The prize draw will remain open for 1 week until Monday 14th March. Prizes will be drawn on Wednesday 16th March and winners will be contacted by DM or email to supply their postal address for shipping (UK only please).
4. Please like, comment or best of all please share this post to reach as many people as we possibly can, thankyou! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🇺🇦

Your entry will go into a general pot for the draw, unless you want to specify an artist (see pictures below for who’s who)… in which case it will be first come first served. 🙏🏻 Trying to keep it simple but fair!).
 
Participating artists/makers:
@ceriwhitestudios
@libbyscottart
@jennamcdonaldjewellery
@susan.hutchison132
@janhdy
@lizmyhillartist (Liz has thrown in extra cards too)
@alisonpriceartworks
@susie_johnston