Artist Directory
Out of the Blue currently houses over 200 artists, arts organisations and other creative businesses at The Out of the Blue Drill Hall, Abbeymount Studios, NMR Studios (Niddrie Mains), Meanwhile in Leith and Out of the Blue Music Studios. The list below is a selection illustrating the range and quality.
Artists: To update your directory entry or add content, email marketing@outoftheblue.org.uk
- Listing all artits tagged: Abbeymount
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Anneleen Lindsay Photography
Categories: Arts Education, Photography, Visual Arts Anneleen Lindsay PhotographyOut of the Blue Abbeymount StudiosContact: Anneleen Lindsay
Anneleen Lindsay is a photographer working in portraiture, documentary, location, fashion, performance, architectural and art photography. She works with commercial clients, creative organisations, charities and individuals, whilst also pursuing her own independent creative work which has been widely exhibited and published internationally.
Her work reflects upon ways individuals and communities engage with their surroundings; particularly looking at wild, natural and urban landscapes and personal or emotional connections to specific places. In her creative portraiture and fashion photography these themes are often expressed through imaginative visual storytelling. In her documentary photography Anneleen explores memories, environmental and land ownership concerns and physical marks and traces left on places by people.
Anneleen’s photography has been published in multiple newspapers, books and magazines.
She has won and been shortlisted for several juried competitions, including the British Journal of Photography’s ‘Portrait of Britain’, the Julia Margaret Cameron Awards and the Royal Photographic Society Documentary Awards.
Anneleen also tutors and mentors about photography and creativity, in group workshops and one to one settings.
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Moody Monday debuted to critical acclaim in 2014, led by designer and creative director Eliza Kesuma.
After graduating with a degree in Textiles & Design from Heriot-Watt University, Eliza undertook multiple freelance projects and work experience opportunities with notable design companies. In 2008, a major interiors company recruited her as part of their communication and design team.
Noticing a niche in the interiors market for distinctive designs that challenged traditional creative concepts, Eliza began developing a signature style that was innovative, stylish and luxurious. By embracing individuality, she strives to subvert people’s expectations of interior design with her highly original and provocative collections.
Moody Monday’s core philosophy that beauty can come from the unlikeliest of places underpins each design, product and project Eliza creates. Her ‘Secret Music Collection’, inspired by the hidden inner workings of an abandoned musical organ, produced exquisitely compelling designs that received widespread praise at exhibitions across the UK.
Along with a bespoke service that tailors design concepts to fit the specific needs of clients, Moody Monday welcomes the opportunity to collaborate with innovative interior companies, global brands and businesses.
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Sarah Kwan
Categories: Design, Illustration, Painting Sarah KwanOut of the Blue Abbeymount StudiosSarah Kwan Artist is a freelance Illustrator based in Edinburgh who specialises in portraits, food illustration, design, murals and signwriting. Her most recent ‘East Meets West Series’, explores the connections between Scottish / British and Chinese culture in a fun and playful way – with decorative patterns and pops of bright colour.
She graduated with BA Hons Fine Art Drawing & Painting from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design in 2008. She’s exhibited in galleries such as The Royal Scottish Academy and The Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
As well as painting portraits Sarah works with brands to create signs, chalkboards, murals, live painting events and painted window displays. Brands such as: Ruffians Barbers, The Naked Grouse, Wemyss Malts and Dram & Smoke have used her skills in their events and product launches. She is open to new commissions that include portraits, design or painting, and can help create eye-catching designs for your business or events. Please feel free to get in touch anytime to discuss a project.
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Alison Williams
Categories: Crafts, Painting, Physical/Mental Wellbeing, Visual Arts, Writing Alison WilliamsOut of the Blue Abbeymount StudiosMy paintings are often three-dimensional, and my sculptures two-dimensional. I have two parallel ways of working – on paper and on leather. My paintings and drawings celebrate the natural world, exploring close-up the detail of its patterns and its beauty, capturing the wind. I’m fascinated by the flow of energy in nature – how it is always moving and always the same. A burn coming down a hillside is forever moving – your eye is drawn downwards the whole time – but the shapes the water makes coming past the rocks is unchanging. A clump of grasses is shaken by the wind and your eye follows them along the wind’s direction; but the shape of the grasses is unchanging. I work on capturing this paradox, drawing very small things – like the grasses – and then painting them very large, often monochrome from my sculptural training. The flow of energy in nature helps me to find the flow of energy in people, in myself and between people. This flow I capture in leather. My embroidered leatherwork hangings are inspired by my lived experience of Native American Vision Quests, and capture the flow of power and energy and spirit in the lives of the people they are made for, the individuals who commission them.
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Holly Summerson
Holly SummersonOut of the Blue Abbeymount StudiosContact: Holly Summerson
Specialising in hand-drawn, mixed-media and experimental styles, Holly is an animator, illustrator and community artist. Her freelance work includes short films, music videos, advertising, projections for events and theater, illustrations, interactive online art, and community workshops.
She is an award-winning filmmaker, interested in using fantastical and surreal visuals to explore emotional subjects. Her most recent project as an animator-director is ‘Living With It’ – a dark comedy short about disability and acceptance, with funding from the BFI and Screen Scotland through the ‘Sharp Shorts’ programme. It follows Lee, who lives with a disease – brought to life as a chaotic supernatural flatmate, and will premiere in June.
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Illustrator, printmaker using visually witty images to bring a smile to faces, pages and walls.
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Helen Miles trained with mastercraftsmen in Greece who taught using traditional methods with a focus on Byzantine iconography. She later became interested in Roman mosaics and now makes contemporary pieces inspired by ancient designs.
Born in Glasgow in 1963, Helen studied English at Oxford University before moving to America and the Middle East to work as a journalist. It was in 2003 while living in Thessaloniki in Greece, a UNESCO city famous for its concentration of Byzantine churches, that she began to study mosaics in the Byzantine tradition. This led to an interest in Roman mosaics and her passion for them went on to become a full time profession.
Helen Miles is based in Edinburgh and specializes in using Greek stone and marble as well as Winkleman unglazed porcelain. Her aim is to preserve the simplicity and directness of early mosaics while producing works which suit the way we live now.
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Robin Paine
Robin PaineOut of the Blue Abbeymount StudiosRobin Paine is an artist noted for original and accomplished figurative drawings and paintings. She has developed her own lexicon of imagery drawn from her interest in mythology, anthropology, social history, Art history and Natural history.
“My paintings would probably be best described as “figurative” or “realist”. I work from life whenever possible and I have found that this is essential when I’m painting people.
I have been affected by works of art from many periods, ranging from Roman Egyptian painted portraits to paintings of Gwen John, but I would also cite film (i.e. the early films of Jean Luc Godard) and photography (the German photographer August Sander) as sources of inspiration.”
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Edinburgh ceramics workshop is and open practice pottery dedicated to providing learning opportunities and practice space for people who are passionate about working with clay.
Our open studio allows you space and time to develop and refine your pottery practice.
Our members have a wide variety of aims and objectives from simply exploring a creative passion through clay to working towards building careers in the creative Industries as studio potters.
We work in partnership with Edinburgh design school who teach our pottery courses, classes and workshops. Edinburgh design school is an approved Scottish Qualifications Authority teaching centre.
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Karina Pasiut is a contemporary Textile and Print designer.
Her artistic creations are rooted in drawing, painting, screen printing, dyestuff and tapestry taking inspiration from travels and observation of everyday life.
A handmade approach to design is crucial in her practice, stimulating her creativity and exploratory nature, although often supplemented with Photoshop and Cad designs.
Karina is highly passionate about screen print and works with reactive dyes, taking care of all stages from drawing to finished textile print to create unique and original prints.
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Frances Priest
Frances PriestOut of the Blue Abbeymount StudiosMy current work explores and interprets languages of ornament from different cultures, places and periods in history. From my Edinburgh studio I create intricate and colourful ceramic objects that celebrate this fascination for ornament and pattern, using clay as a canvas on which to build richly drawn and layered surfaces of inlaid line, glaze colour and enamel decals.
Beyond the studio I develop projects and commissions that respond to people and places, using my interests as a platform from which to engage with new environments. This approach has lead to work in varied and sometimes unexpected settings, from an English Tudor banqueting room in Sheffield, to a country home on the Scottish Island of Raasay.
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Award winning designer Judy R Clark is famed for her exquisite hand tailored womenswear designs comprising of Harris Tweeds, Scottish lace and antique fabric.
Tipped by British Vogue as one to watch, Clark has carved a credible name for herself in the fashion industry designing womenswear pieces with an eccentric edge in her signature tailoring. The designer has created installations, exhibitions and bespoke ranges for several companies resulting in a series of prestigious accolades for her innovative and creative approach to fashion design.
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Trista Yen is an illustrator/ children’s book author from Tainan, Taiwan. After graduating from the University of Brighton in Sequential Design and Illustration MA in 2015, she focused on Children’s illustration and published several children’s books in Taiwan. She’s always interested in education, psychology and mental health. Trista enjoys drawing animals, especially bears. Her main clients are children’s publishers. She is also developing her skills in greeting cards and surface design. She works digitally but picked up her painting brushes again recently to explore more possibilities of illustration.
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Painting, mostly in oils, in Edinburgh and East Lothian. Inspired by the light, weather and seasonal phenomena. Occasionally also by strange beasts and plants.
Each painting is influenced by the preparation of the surface and materials, often based on very old recipes and techniques.
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The single most important attribute a professional photographer has and a client needs, is a point of view.
It’s the product of hard graft, experience and years of passion for creating high quality, relevant, memorable and cost effective images.
I work documenting people, finished pieces and projects through photography or film, working either in my studio or on location with whatever format is appropriate.
I take attention to detail and accurate colour reproduction; clients can rest assured that their project is handled with enthusiasm and an understanding of time and budgetary constraints.
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Dried is a small, independent business based in Edinburgh Scotland, that was born out of a love for all things floral. Like many people, I’ve fallen head over heels for dried flowers and the beauty they deliver year after year.
Unlike fresh cut flowers which are mass produced to have a short-life cycle, dried flowers are a more sustainable option that last years and years. All of our dried flowers are sourced sustainably and responsibly in order to have as little impact on the environment as possible.
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By Jen Byrne
Categories: Fashion Design/Dressmakers/Textiles By Jen ByrneOut of the Blue Abbeymount StudiosSlow fashion, sustainably made in my Edinburgh studio. I create one of a kind pieces upcycled from existing textiles as well as a made to order collection which is available in size UK 6 – 26 or custom sizing, made in low impact fabrics. Each piece is created around the core value of genuine sustainability, without compromising comfort, quality or style. I also offer bespoke upcycling and repairs to extend the life of your already owned garments.
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Francesca is a Maltese illustrator and picturebook maker based in Edinburgh. She is fascinated with heightening everyday life and the mundane, through whimsical & emotional characters and stories. The themes surrounding inclusivity, mental health and wellbeing are an important part of her practice. She often combines her illustrative work with material such as textiles and paper cutting as an additional layer for her storytelling.
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Mauda
Categories: Fashion Design/Dressmakers/Textiles MaudaOut of the Blue Abbeymount StudiosContact: Carla CostaTimeless and contemporary fashion design for today’s modern woman. At Mauda the aims are simple. Create great quality, contemporary fashion pieces for women and maximise the cooperation of local craftsmanship, business and skills. We’ll know that we’ve got it right not just by thriving on our own but as we watch collaborators grow through our journey together.
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Sew Ho Studios
Categories: Fashion Design/Dressmakers/Textiles Sew Ho StudiosOut of the Blue Abbeymount StudiosContact: Kate and NikkiSew Ho’s specialise in clothing construction, alterations, embroidery and print for workwear, eco and upcycled uniforms, team wear, one off gifts and accessories. Kate and Nikki want to create great products while focusing on growth and wellbeing for every person involved in the process.
