• About
  • Collections
  • Shop
  • Contact
  • Journal
Soizig Carey
  • About
  • Collections
  • Shop
  • Contact
  • Journal
Shopping Basket

soizigcarey

⚫ artist curator designer maker
◼️ contemporary and handmade jewellery
〰️ @fairminedofficial and recycled
⚫ mindful making
It's the last day to visit ‘If only we had the s It's the last day to visit ‘If only we had the space’ @platformglasgow 🏠 Including selected records from Castlemilk Womanhouse, held at Glasgow Women's Library @womenslibrary 📚 The Womanhouse project began as a collaborative artwork to address historical and contemporary notions of women’s creativity, within and outside the home. Women artists from all over Britain worked alongside women and children from Castlemilk. During the summer of 1990, four flats in an empty tenement block became a huge living artwork and a  meeting place for women and children in the neighbourhood. Huge gratitude to Glasgow Women's Library for their care, knowledge, support and all the immense work that they do in preserving women's history 🙏🏼 It has been a joy delving through the archives, and what we have included is a tiny tiny representation of Glasgow's housing movements and activism. Image 1 Woman in Stairwell Image 2  'Jobs for the Girls', Rachael Harris Image 3 Castlemilk Womanhouse Exterior View, @claire_barclay_ Image 4 Installing 'A Room of My Own', Annie Lovejoy Image 5 Installing 'A Room of My Own', Annie Lovejoy Image 6 Woman Painting in Hallway Image 7 Castlemilk Womanhouse Booklet ‘If only we had the space’  is curated by Rachel Ashenden, Soizig Carey, Jemima Dansey-Wright and Murray Morrant.  The exhibition will run until 5pm today 🕥 Delivered in association with Craft Scotland, as part of COMPASS: Emerging Curator Programme, and Katy West, Programme Lead.
Three days left to see 'If only we had the space' Three days left to see 'If only we had the space' @platformglasgow ⚒️ Featuring the brilliant Deirdre Nelson @map_making, Jeni Allison @jeniallison_studio, Fionn Duffy @fionn000 and Jack Brindley @pavilionpavilion_ You can see both the original films (captioned) IF ONLY WE HAD THE SPACE and PLACES... OR PEOPLE from the Moving Image Archive @natlibscot beautifully clipped here by Lucy Watkins @gwyneth____paltrow 📽️ As your man from PLACES... OR PEOPLE says 'Glasgow is a unique city. It is exciting. It is interesting.' ‘If only we had the space’  is curated by Rachel Ashenden, Soizig Carey, Jemima Dansey-Wright and Murray Morrant.  The exhibition will run from 17 to 26 October 2024  (Wednesday - Saturday, 10am - 5pm) for more details, see link in bio. Delivered in association with Craft Scotland, as part of COMPASS: Emerging Curator Programme, and Katy West, Programme Lead.
Still super heartened from the very intergeneratio Still super heartened from the very intergenerational launch of ‘If only we had the space’ on Saturday at @platformglasgow 🏠 Expertly led colour and pattern workshops by @jeniallison_studio, and inspiring conversation with @adele.patrick and @map_making on the importance of craft and the politics of urban dwelling 🧶 ‘If only we had the space’ is an exhibition of contemporary craft responding to modern and contemporary politics of housing, property rights and access to ‘space’, including key archives of Glasgow’s housing redevelopments and movements from the 1960’s to the 1990’s.  Curated by Rachel Ashenden, Soizig Carey, Jemima Dansey-Wright and Murray Morrant.  Running until this Saturday 26 Oct! (Wednesday - Saturday, 10am - 5pm) @platformglasgow Image 1: Open Day at Castlemilk Womanhouse 1990 @womenslibrary Image 2: 'Letter from a Housing Scheme: A Mother’s Thoughts', Cathy McCormack, Scottish Child, 1988 @womenslibrary
Delighted to host a special panel with Dr Adele Pa Delighted to host a special panel with Dr Adele Patrick @adele.patrick and Deirdre Nelson @map_making (two of my favourite Glasgow women 💫) as part of ‘If only we had the space’, an exhibition of contemporary craft responding to modern and contemporary politics of housing, property rights and access to ‘space’ 🏠 Join us on Saturday 19 October! 14.00 - 15.00 Platform Easterhouse @platformglasgow Free but ticketed - see link in bio 👆🏼 We’ll hear more about Adele’s decades-long activism and experience in housing projects, including Take Root, a pioneering women’s timber frame, self build housing project ⚒️ Despite developing skills in self-building honed at the Centre for Alternative Technology and Monimail Permaculture Association, being supported by Segal Method architect Mary Kelly and gaining funding and land from Molendinar Housing Association the group’s aims to self build were ultimately dashed by misogynistic councillors and excoriating tabloid press coverage that proclaimed “loony lesbians plan man-free zone”. Known for her ability to translate social commentary into textiles, Deirdre will talk about her work featured in the exhibition. ‘Surplus’ is a bright red knitted money box depicting a new-build house. It was created in response to Irish ghost estates that exist as a result of the 2008 property crash. In 2023, it was reported that 75 ghost estates still haunt Ireland, either unoccupied or in varying states of disrepair or dereliction.  ‘If only we had the space’  is curated by Rachel Ashenden @rachel.ashenden , Soizig Carey @soizigcarey , Jemima Dansey-Wright @jemimadanseyw and Murray Morrant @landscapesoup. The exhibition will run from 17 to 26 October 2024  (Wednesday - Saturday, 10am - 5pm) for more details, see link in bio. Delivered in association with Craft Scotland, as part of COMPASS: Emerging Curator Programme, and Katy West, Programme Lead.  Image 1: Take Root Self Build Pamphlet, @womenslibrary archive Image 2: Adele Patrick, photographed for House Work article in the Sunday Herald Image 3: Deirdre Nelson, photographed by Laura Prieto Martin Image 4: Site planning, Take Root, @womenslibrary archive
Sound on 📢 ‘If only we had the space’, an e Sound on 📢 ‘If only we had the space’, an exhibition of contemporary craft, opens in just over a month at Platform @platformglasgow in Easterhouse, Glasgow.  Thursday 17 - Saturday 26 October Platform Easterhouse  We found ‘IF WE ONLY HAD THE SPACE’ in the Moving Image Archive, held at the National Library of Scotland @natlibscot. This promotional documentary was produced in 1974 to demonstrate how improvements to Glasgow city tenements could be made with the aid of Home Improvement Grants. These grants came in response to a total lack of adequate housing in Glasgow at the time and ‘to provide the ordinary citizen with help and encouragement to make his existing home and its surroundings a more pleasant place to live.’  The phrase ‘If only we had the space’ implies making do with what you have and how you can inhabit the space within the existing walls around you. Although taken from the 1970s, it feels particularly connected to our contemporary conditions today, with another housing crisis exacerbating the wealth gap between renters, landlords, property and land owners, and an economy in recession. Exhibiting makers:  Jeni Allison @jeniallison_studio Jack Brindley @pavilionpavilion_ Fionn Duffy @fionn000 Deirdre Nelson @map_making Curated by: Rachel Ashenden @rachel.ashenden Soizig Carey @soizigcarey Jemima Dansey - Wright @jemimadanseyw Murray Morrant @landscapesoup ‘If only we had the space’ is delivered in association with Craft Scotland, as part of COMPASS: Emerging Curator Programme, and Katy West, Programme Lead @katy_west_design. Supported by Platform, Inches Carr Craft Bursaries and Creative Scotland. Moving Image Poster by Lucy Watkins @gwyneth____paltrow
Back in studio this weekend and so delighted to ha Back in studio this weekend and so delighted to have been awarded the Inches Carr Craft Bursary Established Maker 2024! ✨ A joy to be amongst some brilliant makers. Thank you to Craft Scotland and the panel for the trust 🌱 📸 Torc ring hand carved in Scottish Chalcedony 🪨 Repost @craftscotland 🥁 Announcing the recipients of the Inches Carr Craft Bursaries 2024! Craft Scotland is delighted to present the seven makers awarded prestigious Inches Carr Craft Bursaries in 2024. Congratulations to: 🌟 Emerging Makers: William Threlfall, Marzena Ostromecka, Ruth Mae Martin and Monica Findlay 🌟 Established Makers: Soizig Carey, Viv Lee and Kate Colin. 👉 Learn more in bio @craftscotland Every Emerging and Established Maker showcased work of remarkable quality and was awarded a bursary of £2,000 and £5,000 respectively. This may be used differently by each recipient, with the common purpose of developing their craft practice. Selection panellist Frances Priest encouraged the awardees to “have fun, delve deep, and enjoy the new directions of travel you wish to explore. I can't wait to see where your work will take you next.” Since 2022, Craft Scotland has been entrusted with stewardship of the Inches Carr Craft Bursaries, which were established in 1997 to commemorate the late Deidre Inches and Malcolm Carr. Image 1: Established Maker Soizig Carey/ Photography by the artist Image 2: Established Maker Viv Lee / Photography by Gabriela Silveira Image 3: Established Maker Kate Colin / Photography by the artist Image 4: Emerging Maker William Threlfall / Photography by the artist Image 5: Emerging Maker Monica Findlay / Photography by the artist Image 6: Emerging Maker Marzena Ostromecka / Photography by the artist Image 7: Emerging Maker Ruth Mae Martin / Photography by the artist #ContemporaryCraft #InchesCarr #CraftScotland
Very excited to co-host textile makers @vegamaatta Very excited to co-host textile makers @vegamaattasiltberg and @matilda_dominique with co-curator Murray Morrant @landscapesoup - for an online conversation around craft as escapism and an intervention in relation to our domestic and working spaces.   Wed 5 June, 6 - 7.30pm BST (7 - 8.30pm CEST) Register now at the link in bio! Free to attend, limited tickets available. Hosted via Zoom.  Vega Määttä Siltberg will share more about the ‘Shibori Room’, a dyed textile installation as part of the Workflow exhibition at Konsthantverkscentrum in Stockholm. In the words of the maker herself, ‘this room is a calm space where your mind can focus and let go of stressful thoughts’. The installation’s placement at the window is intentional, an invitation to the passerby to come inside and investigate this whimsical tent-like object.   Matilda Dominique will share more about ‘Memories of a Kitchen Towel’, her article from the Swedish Weaving Magazine in 2022. Dominique’s eloquent essay explores texture, touch and familial heritage: ‘My own personal memories of texture are most strongly connected to my grandmother. Her interest in weaving is the very reason I began to weave myself. I remember her large floor loom that always had a warp on when I came for a visit. It is the same loom that now lives in my studio’.   About Workflow  Workflow is a Konsthantverkscentrum members’ exhibition on now until Sat 31 Aug 2024 at The Swedish Crafts Centre, Bellmansgatan 5, Stockholm.  Curated by @soizigcarey @landscapesoup @rachel.ashenden @jemimadanseyw, supported by @konsthantverkscentrum @craftscotland @katy_west_design
Documenting craft, objects and things to hold and Documenting craft, objects and things to hold and touch from 2023... Expressions of tangible love (non religious meaning!). 1 Gaza Birdhouse from @disarmingdesign picked up at @themosaicrooms 🕊️ This Gaza-made traditional birdhouse is for small birds and widely used in people’s gardens and on their terraces. The birds’ freedom of flight and movement is in sharp contrast to the experience of the people of Gaza, often referred to as an ‘open air prison’, long under military siege imposed by the Israeli occupation and now under total bombardment and destruction. This birdhouse is handmade by visually impaired people in the Open Studio of the Red Crescent Hospital in Khan Younis, in the Gaza Strip.  2 Kåsa, Stockholm Highly unusual resin impregnated traditional mug (kåsa in Swedish). The woodworker saw not only an easy-to-hold drinking cup, but also a face looking back up at the drinker. From Lima, Dalarna county, dated 1817. 3 Ebba Flies, Stockholm Ebba Hedqvist was a prominent Swedish painter and sculptor, the daughter of a sawmill worker Ernst Johan Hedqvist. In 1961, she formed  Stiftelsen Konstnärshem (the Artists Home Foundation), which in the Svalgången neighborhood on Södermalm in Stockholm provides housing for older,  sick and disabled artists. This commemorative plaque by Batte Sahlin is installed on the facade of the house. A public dedication.  4 From the River to the Sea (Palestine will be free)... 🫒 🍉 Textile from Xaytun Ennasr’s multimedia installation, Revolution is a forest that the colonist can’t burn. Part of the stunning In the shade of the sun @themosaicrooms. Celebrating trees as symbols of resistance and devotion.Trees are situated not as resources waiting to be extracted but as beings that are loved and that love back.  #endtheoccupation #freepalestine
'In the media, Gaza is an abstraction, a space des 'In the media, Gaza is an abstraction, a space designed for the violent death of an abstract people inhabiting it. This death comes at the hands of a natural, impersonal force—not one of the most powerful armies in the world propped up by the most powerful state in the world, with a government, and a people electing this government. It is a convenient framing, one that shifts guilt away from Israel. The destruction comes from above, and those who die are meant to die. All is as it should be. To that, we offer a correction: Gaza is not an abstraction. It is a shore and beaches and streets and markets and cities with names of flowers and fruits, not an abstraction but places and lives and people that are being bombed into oblivion.' GAZA IS NOT AN ABSTRACTION Karim Kattan @thebafflermag Strongly encourage a read of this article..what it is to experience a century long campaign of erasure. Thank you to a friend for sharing. Free Palestine 🇵🇸❤️ Images: Wildflowers of Palestine from @librarycongress
Chunky curved Torc rings in @fairminedofficial Sil Chunky curved Torc rings in @fairminedofficial Silver and Chalcedony stone. Carved by hand this summer with @charlottedesyllascourses. #elementsfair #elementsedinburgh #fairminedsilver #designermaker #scottishdesign #chalcedony #contemporaryjewellery #contemporarycraft
Tension set Fairtrade Garnet and @fairminedofficia Tension set Fairtrade Garnet and @fairminedofficial yellow Gold ring. Nestled amongst beautiful sculptural works from the brilliant @chalkplaster. Ask me about Fairmined this week at Elements fair or get in touch! Fairmined is the highest standard of ethical and responsible mining, guaranteeing traceability, aimed at preserving the environment and supporting artisanal and small scale mining communities. #elementsfair #elementsedinburgh #fairminedgold #contemporaryjewellery #designermaker #scottishdesign #goldtobeproudof
Coming to Edinburgh this week to Elements Festival Coming to Edinburgh this week to Elements Festival for the first time! Come and see me, some classic works and new works.... 27 + 28 October 11AM - 5PM 29 October 11AM - 4PM Bringing together forty-eight of the UK's finest Jewellers and Silversmiths for a fair, exhibition and series of events. From functional and sculptural metals to colourful, one of a kind jewellery, Elements celebrates the vast range of expert craftsmanship and innovative design of makers from across the UK. Join us at Lyon + Turnbull's showroom. Tickets available online and at the door. Elements is a partnership project by the @scottishgoldsmithstrust and @lyonandturnbull #elementsedinburgh #elementsfair #scottishdesign #contemporarycraft #contemporaryjewellery #fairminedgold #fairminedsilver #designermaker #mindfulmaking
Good morning Fife. Had the pleasure of visiting @c Good morning Fife. Had the pleasure of visiting @chalkplaster in their studio last week with @stefaniecheong and talking pigments, plaster and making. Meandered up the hill to the most regal view point. #contemporarycraft #scottishcraft #plaster #sculpture #designermaker
More from the archive on magical Eigg. Looking up More from the archive on magical Eigg. Looking up to Sweeney's Bothy @bothyproject from Eigg Organics
When we cast spoons in a barn with the foundry mas When we cast spoons in a barn with the foundry master Ginny @hutch_vc and the @bothyproject on the Isle of Eigg 🥄 🔥 We had intended to cast in the sand on the beach but Scottish weather had other ideas of course. Remote casting in a barn was still pretty magic.
Portraits taken in 2022 by @gabiesilveira who I ju Portraits taken in 2022 by @gabiesilveira who I just think is such a generous and brilliant photographer and soul who I’ve had the joy of encountering 📷 I do not believe in ‘new year, new you’ but it is as good a time as any to keep myself accountable, honest and jot down some difficult learning that I need to remember… The passing of an important influence in 2022 sparked some necessary reflection, over 10 years since graduating from art school. ‘I’m still making….!’ That’s actually pretty great, in whatever form that making takes. 1 Doing what you love and care about for a living is really hard, and it will keep being hard. You are all invested in everything you are doing all of the time. Scheduled hours to do the scheduled creative task rarely works out. Don’t squeeze the hours because you will squeeze yourself ⚖️ 2 Making often drains me, and I am forever having to remind myself this happens. Mentally and physically. Stop being surprised! 🔨 3 People might use the same vocabulary as you, but not they are not necessarily speaking the same language. Keep checking. (EG is recycled, recycled? From what though? ‘Co-creation’ is now really up there with ‘unprecedented’.) 😑 4 Where is your vocabulary coming from? Keep checking that too.🧐 5 I love being a maker and will never not do it. I’m so grateful to all of you who have commissioned and trusted me. Please know it means everything! ♥️ 6 Slow Focus and @maria__somerville on @nts_radio are everything 🌝
Circles everywhere ⚪ Circles everywhere ⚪
Settling in to a long awaited residency at @cove_p Settling in to a long awaited residency at @cove_park, postponed from 2020 to now 🌈 Very grateful to have this time (and space!) to rest, re set, read, make....
Today we said goodbye to Dot. Most likely the grea Today we said goodbye to Dot. Most likely the greatest teacher and mentor and creative influence I have ever known. Dorothy was an exceptional artist and maker, internationally renowned. She led life and practice with the greatest empathy and kindness. She was endlessly astute and generous. I aspire to be all these things. She will be so missed but her blueprint will be long lasting on this earth. 'A basic function has to be observed when experimenting with ring design, there is a requirement for the ring to go onto the finger in some way. It must be like designing a chair where a function defines its role. How much one can tease the function makes the design challenge interesting.' Following Modernist design ideology, she looked to design pieces that were a reaction against highly precious jewellery. Feeling if anything her approach could be best described as Constructivist, this is where the design or form develops in the artists' hands, as the forms developed in her hand's piece by piece in a three-dimensional way. Like other Nordic Modernists designers, one of Hogg's greatest influences came from the environment she grew up in: 'Windswept landscape, transient skies falling into dark seas, with tones of grey and silver.' - Dorothy Hogg's description of the west coast of Scotland Dorothy Hogg, 1945 - 2022
Just a couple of Pendulum (detachable) earrings le Just a couple of Pendulum (detachable) earrings left in stock before the Festive season. Available in @fairminedofficial gold plated or silver 🌠 #tbt this gorgeous shot by @gabiesilveira taken at the @chalkplaster studio for the Still Lifes exhibition last winter #pendulum #statementearrings #contemporaryjewellery #designermaker #scottishcraft
Follow on Instagram
  • Contact
  • Customer Care
  • Newsletter

© 2025 Soizig Carey.

Facebook Instagram