RSA Talks

RSA MCICH TALKS 

The Royal Society of Arts [www.theRSA.org], via its Fellow-led Media, Creative Industries, Culture & Heritage Network, offers three free talks in the lead up to the Borders Art Fair 2022. Delivered by ‘Zoom’ and open to all, prior registration is essential and each allows time for Q&A.


The RSA is a multi-disciplinary organisation founded in the Coffee Shops of Fleet Street in 1754. It has over 30,000 Fellows in 90+ countries across the world, albeit the majority in the UK. RSA Fellows are found across the full range of creative industries as defined by DCMS and include theatre and film design (and all screen industries), print and digital media; graphics; fashion and product design; heraldry; landscape and urban design and much else. The RSA also runs a respected annual Student Design Award. In 2019 there were 705 entries from 22 countries and in 2020 534 entries from 16 countries.


Tuesday 15th March 2022  6pm - 7.15pm

Heritage Crafts in Scotland and the "HCA Red Endangered List"

Speaker:    Mary Lewis, Endangered Crafts Manager, Heritage Crafts Association

Mary Lewis comes from a background steeped in craft. From an early age she could be found in a coracle or on a shave horse and is now a keen knitter and occasional basket maker. She took up the role of Heritage Crafts’ Endangered Crafts Manager in 2018; making interventions, raising funds and developing projects to prevent heritage crafts skills and knowledge from becoming extinct. Mary leads on the Red List of Endangered Crafts research and administers the Endangered Craft Fund. 


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Monday 21st March 2022  6pm - 7.15pm

The Art of Craft: a new age of making?

Speakers:    Catherine Holden - Chairman, Craft Scotland

Irene Kernan - Director, Craft Scotland

Craft Scotland is Scotland’s national development agency for craft. It provides support for the whole craft sector, from individual makers to workshops supporting craft processes, from curators to businesses that drive the craft economy. It works to ensure the craft sector is valued as culturally significant, economically important and meaningful to communities. Craft Scotland’s Chairman and Director will discuss perceptions of craft, and how these relate to this innovative, dynamic and forward-looking sector. Developments within the sector during the pandemic and as we move forward, and what future impacts these may have on makers and craft businesses will be discussed.



Catherine Holden is (since 2016) a strategic consultant, facilitator and coach. She provides insight and support to individuals, teams and organisations, founded on extensive experience in leadership roles for major creative institutions. Her practice spans organisational change, governance, personal and team development; brands and marketing; capital and revenue fundraising; and visitor engagement. Her clients include a wide range of national and local culture and heritage bodies, including museums, galleries, festivals, visual and performing arts organisations and heritage bodies. She is a trustee of Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket Gallery. Previous full-time leadership posts include NMS plus, in London, the Natural History Museum, Tate and National Theatre. 


Irene Kernan joined Craft Scotland in 2018. Previously, she was Director of Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop where she oversaw the development of a major capital project to create a new purpose-built sculpture facility. In that role she also set up Scotland’s Workshops, a national network of eleven open access visual art production facilities spanning sculpture, print-making, film and glass. Before that Irene worked in the theatre sector in Dublin, at Dublin Theatre Festival and for the independent theatre company, Bedrock Productions, which established the Dublin Fringe Festival


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Tuesday 22nd March 2022  6pm - 7.15pm

A Perspective on Scottish Art

Speaker: James Knox, Director, Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation

James Knox, an Art History graduate with an MBA from INSEAD, will highlight works from the Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation, which promotes Scottish art and creativity across the UK and beyond.
 

In so doing he will consider the characteristics of Scottish artists - and expect asides and anecdotes about his long involvement in the art world given that previous posts including running the ART NEWSPAPER for ten years. 


As a consultant he commissioned a massive sculpture park as a millennium project for Boots. His books including the biography of Robert Byron, an illustrated life of cartoonist Osbert Lancaster and two books for the Fleming Collection. Trusteeships have included the Scottish National Galleries and the National Trust for Scotland.   


The event will alert RSA Fellows and guests across the UK about the Foundation’s spring/summer touring exhibitions (Scottish Women Artists at the Sainsbury Centre and A Window into Scottish Art (at the Lightbox in Woking).

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The RSA is a charity in England and Wales no. 212424 and in Scotland no. SC037784
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