FOR the first time work produced at the Fife Craft Collaboration in October 2014, has gone on exhibition at the Lochgelly Centre, with the it running until the 19th April.

The opening times are from Monday to Friday 9am to 9pm, and Saturday 9am to 3pm.

Living Lomonds Landscape Partnership (LLLP) delivered the Fife Craft Collaboration in October 2014. The event brought together more than twenty local and international artists and crafts people to make new work and try out new materials, providing an opportunity for the participants to push artistic boundaries, to learn, to celebrate creativity and to develop inspirational collaborative pieces. Internationally renowned crafts people Joan Carrigan (Canada), basket maker, and Martin Brockman (England) wood carver, acted as facilitators for the collaboration.

Over the course of five days, the artists and craftspeople, worked collaboratively across disciplines to develop a wide range of pieces, which combined metal working, wood, weaving with a range of fibres and print.

After an intensive week of collaboration the completed works were exhibited in a ‘Meet the Makers’ exhibition staged at Falkland Centre for Stewardship.

The work on show includes pieces from some of Fife’s best known artists and crafts-people such as Dot Sim, Jeanette Sendler, Mihai Cocris and Jim Shears, along with work from passionate newcomers such as Tess Darwin, Penny Sinclair and Liz Keltie.

Penny Sinclair, Artist and Craft Collaboration participant, said, “It is wonderful to see the work we produced brought together in such a great setting. The Lochgelly Centre provides a wonderful exhibition space.” The hope is to tour some of the pieces in a mobile exhibition, which will visit a number of venues across the Living Lomonds area, details of this will be published in the coming weeks. To find out more about the Fife Craft Collaboration and to see examples of the work produced visit www.livinglomonds.org.uk. If you have a venue and would like to display some of the stunning pieces contact ask.us@lllp.org.uk.

Tara O’Leary, who co-ordinated the Fife Craft Collaboration and is managing the touring exhibition commented, “We are grateful to the Lochgelly Centre for providing a venue for our craft pieces and we hope visitors to the Centre will enjoy the exhibition and gain an insight into the wider work of the Living Lomonds.” If you can’t visit the exhibition there is an online gallery at http://www.livinglomonds.org.uk/projects/fife-craft-collaboration/ where the more of the works can be viewed.