Cro + Kow is the joint creative space of photographers Sylwia Kowalczyk and Simon Crofts.

Sylwia studied photography at the Krakow Academy of Fine Art and Edinburgh College of Art, and Simon studied law at Oxford. We have a wide range of editorial, commercial and publishing clients, and we are also working constantly on our personal photo projects. More of Sylwia’s personal work is at http://www.sylwiakowalczyk.com, and Simon’s is at http://www.simoncroftsphoto.com.

We are available for photography assignments, whether in Scotland or abroad. Outside Scotland, we have a particular speciality of assignments to Ukraine, Russia, Poland and other Eastern European and former Soviet countries. Apart from English we speak fluent Polish and Russian and reasonable French!

Award winning performance company, Curious Seed, was formed in 2005 by Scottish choreographer and Artistic Director, Christine Devaney.

Curious Seed’s vision is to create engaging, thought provoking, uncompromising performance work with physical expression at its core. The company is committed to exploring new ways of challenging and developing the scope of movement-based performance. There is an emphasis on engaging in a process that evolves and is appropriate to each project. Curious Seed has a history of collaborating with a core of outstanding artists across the arts – musicians, actors, dancers, designers and filmmakers.

The material goods we collect, use and abandon can speak of desire, hope and loss. If we step outside of our familiarity and dismissal of such objects, we can begin to appreciate them as artefacts and consider their value beyond monetary worth. The importance of things is exemplified in the collections that routinely furnish domestic worlds but also in the items we purchase in moments of upheaval. In response to death and birth we look for ways to channel grief or joy, and to alleviate loss of control.

In a cemetery, mass-produced creatures reveal the presence and absence of those who mourn. Sentinels to keep forgetting at bay, fighting the inadequacy of a neat, etched plaque. In the nearby homes of new parents, surfaces become cluttered with products bought to lessen the anxiety that comes with caring for a new being. Bpa-free nipples, spoons and teethers. A mound of easily lost, thrown, disposable, sterilised plastic that seems necessary in order to fix feeding, sleeping, or sanity.

Making becomes my way to meditate on the role of material culture. The time spent looking at, drawing and sculpting the everyday discloses a significance that belies our readiness to discard. The transformation into fragile ceramic material, subject to cracking and warping, mirrors a state of mind, a portrait of the self. By foregrounding the emotional context of material culture, my work invite others to engage with this collection and to share their own narratives.

Scottish composer, pianist & vocalist.

Defaux is an unique online vintage clothing store and boutique. We curate a wide variety of beautiful handpicked vintage and secondhand fashion pieces. Recycling and reusing clothing that has already been produced is an ethical, sustainable and environmentally friendly way to shop.

Designers on the Run provide graphic, web design and related services with an ethical and environmental twist.

Dirty Earth Pottery Classes, Edinburgh

The Dirty Earth studio is a fully equipped ground floor pottery studio in Edinburgh focusing on hand building and sculpture classes for everyone aged 1-100.

Dirty Earth was founded in April 2016 by Bonnie Fairbrass, where she now teaches pottery classes in Edinburgh.

Classes are small and intimate with a focus on creating a fun and relaxing environment.

Lessons are creative and informative with each participant receiving the skills and encouragement to undertake exciting projects in clay construction that result in beautiful, functional and sculptural pieces to treasure or to share.

Using adornment and contemporary jewellery design to explore mental health, illness and recovery.

Printed textile designer working across digital and analogue media

Hello! I’m Emily MacKenzie, an illustrator based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

I live in a multi-coloured world full of brightly patterned objects, boldly printed fabrics, and exotic papers which fuel my inky fingers and feed my passion for screen printing.

My illustrative work draws from childhood memories, everyday observations, and my vivid imagination. In my mind, bears eat ice cream, seagulls talk and sausage dogs wear t-shirts! I work mainly with ink and watercolours on paper, but also enjoy bringing my characters to life in the form of 3D screen printed and hand-embroidered plushes.