Well done to all the runners who took part in today's Edinburgh Race for Life raising money for Cancer Reasearch UK!
We have a selection of new jewellery and accessories by home grown talent Custom Made. All items are lovingly made in Anna's studio and we think they're the perfect accompaniment to any summer wardrobe. Here's a wee sneak peak of what you can find in store, with prices starting from £14 how can you resist? See our online shop for more of Custom Made's work too!
“Don’t panic Pike”, you’ve still got 2 weeks and we’ve got just what you need for making Daddy a happy chappy on his special day!
Sunday’s are about coffee and roast dinners, so what about one of our tea towels celebrating ‘Coffee or The Great British Roast’. For those Dads with fuzzy faces, The Malcolm and Dennis cushions above boast proud bushy beards and make excellent companions too!
… or maybe just a wee card ??
Just in, these lovely prints by our resident racey bike artist Rebecca Kaye CLICK HERE
Everyone Favourite Clock is now back in the gallery!
As soon as we heard that May 17th’s RBS Museum Lates was themed as a Dino-Night, The Red Door Gallery knew it was the perfect event for jewellery designers Tatty Devine to host their first workshop in Edinburgh.
Museum Lates is a quarterly event in The National Museum of Scotland, when Live Music is played, Food and Cocktails are served, Faces are Painted and The Red Door Gallery offers Workshop Events. Previously we have created giant mosaic murals with Robbie Porter, DIY Owl Masks with A Wooden Tree and Viking Badges with Astrid Jaekel. The Tatty Devine collection combines art with fashion and fun – just what a workshop needs – so we were just delighted when the ever talented Tatty Devine co-founder and Creative Director Harriet Vine accepted our invitation and began working on an unique, dinosaur themed necklace design, just for this event! We have been working with Tatty Devine for a number of years now, as we showcase their wearable art pieces in our bricks and mortar gallery and online. One of our favorite statement pieces from Tatty Devine is their on- theme Giant Dinosaur Necklace.
The Red Door Team of Jason, Claire, Lindsey, Ashley and Nicky were joined by Harriet Vine and the lovely Flo from Tatty Devine to help the museum visitor’s join in with the workshop and Beat the Clock Jigsaw Competition. The Red Door Gallery presented Dinosaur Themed exhibition of illustration of prints by Hanna Botma, Robbie Porter, Belle and Boo and 1973. These works are all available in our online shop and were very well received on the night.
Our Beat The Clock Jigsaw Competition was a timed jigsaw assembly challenge. Made from an illustration by Hanna Botma, Dino Trip 2 (above) is by Hannah Botma, to see and buy the whole Dino Trip series, click here. Hannah will graduate from Edinburgh College of Art’s Illustration Masters this year. The fastest person to assemble the jigsaw and winner of a £30 gift voucher for The Red Door Gallery was Vicky Wren who completed her jigsaw in a remarkable 36 seconds! Second place went to Viv who finished in 40 seconds, Viv was the reigning champion for most of the night, but was pipped to the prize post!
The Tatty Devine Dino Bone Workshop was a roaring success, with over 100 people seated and through the workshop in the 3 hour long evening. As you can see from the great photographs above everyone was captivated, focused and we had a lot of very keen customers!
Not only was this necklace designed by Tatty Devine especially for The Red Door Gallery’s workshop, but no two necklaces will be the same! There was such a variety of colours to choose from plus the option of adding your own finishing details with an array of marker pens. Some clever cookies decorated one side of the bones and left with a unique, double-sided necklace, worth at least £35!
Towards the end of the evening, Nicky Brooks Creative Manager at The Red Door Gallery introduced Harriet Vine to an eager audience in the Lecture Theater! We were very pleased to be able to host the first Art & Design lecture to be held at RBS Museum Lates. Harriet told the charming and inspirational story of Tatty Devine’s early days, gave us a glimpse at their design process, business model and a *sneak preview* of the highly covatable Autumn/Winter ’13 collection, due into The Red Door Gallery and online mid August. It was a privilege to hear Harriet talk in person and we are very pleased she made the journey from London to offer our workshop event and deliver a enjoyable presentation in person.
Needless to say, The Red Door Gallery Team had a huge amount of fun working with Tatty Devine at RBS Museum Lates and we have had a fabulous response from our audience and regulars regarding the event. Our sincere Thanks to everyone involved, on the night and behind the scenes.
Our event photography was taken by the eagle eyed AJL Ansell photography studio and prints are available to purchase. Please email andrew@ajlansell.co.uk for more information or to book a sharp shooting photographer for your future event.
The RBS Museum Lates has become one of our favorite events in the calender and we are already planning our next workshop! To hear more about our upcoming events, please join our mailing list, follow us on twitter or find us on facebook.
If you have an event coming up which you would like The Red Door Gallery to be involved with, please email nicky@edinburghart.com
Wow, wow, wowzers, wow, in-case you haven’t heard yet, we have the fabulous jewellery designer Tatty Devine up here in Edinburgh on Friday for the RBS Museum Lates Event (more info here) and lucky for us, they offered to do a workshop right here at Red Door HQ on Saturday afternoon.
We have just 2 places left on our FIRST EVER Tatty Devine giant Dinosaur Necklace workshop, to be held in The Red Door Gallery this Saturday! Places are selling fast however, so sign up here quick smart should you want to grab one of the last chairs (let’s be honest, who wouldn’t?).
To celebrate this Tatty Devine weekend of fun, we are offering a very rare ‘money off’ promotion valid on all of our Tatty Devine jewellery collection over the weekend. All you need to do is to sign up to our mailing list and we will send you this exclusive ‘promo code’ tomorrow!!!
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We like to keep our ear to the ground when it comes to new music here in the gallery, even better when it's a local band we get to shout about!
Digital Jones are new on our radar and we're quite big fans! They describe themselves as Dark Disco, Bass Driven Soul. A Sound that you have and haven't heard.
The band are, Phil McBride, Chuck Dearness and stylish front woman Nikki Kent, part time model and recent cover star of The List Magazine's Style Issue.
Their influences are broad from Daft Punk to Stevie Nicks
New E.P Flock will be launching at the Caves on Niddrie Street, Next Saturday 18th May.
Tickets are £5 10pm - 3am
They will be colaborating on the night with Chapel Perilous Art System, bringing their team of sound, light, visual artists & technicians. Adventures In Light will also be collaborating on the night, bringing a magical feast for the eyes with their bespoke live visual set including 3D projection mapping.
It looks set to be a sound and vision spectacular! Definitely not to be missed!!
