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Creative Coathanger
Everything Festival 2016

Mapping the Borders
November, 2017

CREATIVE COATHANGER MAKING FESTIVAL
DECEMBER 2017 - JANUARY 18

CREATIVE COATHANGER LIFE DRAWING
SPRING 2018

Creative Coathanger Everything Festival 2016

The Everything Festival was a community arts festival in Galashiels which brought together creatives, local businesses and partner organisations to hold a colourful, inspiring eight-day event to energise the Town Centre. The town was transformed through murals, popup shops and open door days across many venues. The festival provided a platform for artists to showcase their work, an entertaining visitor attraction, and an opportunity to come together as a group of Borders artists.

Councillor Vicky Davidson:
“The Festival showcases the very high quality of Border designers, artists, creative businesses and general creative talent so abundant here in the Borders. There are too many highlights to hang on one coathanger – this is a whole designer wardrobe full of creative delights.”

Mapping the Borders November, 2017

Mapping the Borders was a week-long programme of events hosted by Creative Coathanger and curated by Inge Panneels that took place in November 2017 in the Scottish Borders, during the UK-wide Being Human Festival. Mapping the Borders interrogated the border culture through an exhibition of artworks by different artists (Zoe Childerley, Mike Collier, Alec Finlay, Kate Foster, Claire Money, Inge Panneels and John Wallace) paired with maps from the National Library of Scotland, guided walks, talks, mapping workshops and an experimental art performance (Claire Pencak and Felicity Bristow). This project was funded by Creative Scotland and the Being Human Festival. It was supported in-kind by the National Library of Scotland Map Collection, the University of Sunderland, CABN and local businesses.

The Festival took place at Venue 50 and Macarts in Galashiels and at The Bakery studio and Jedburgh town centre.

View a short film about the exhibition here

Creative Coathanger Making Festival December 2017- January 18

The Making Festival took place at Venue 50 in Galashiels as a means of highlighting the diverse offer of creative making that goes in the Scottish Borders. There was an art fair, life drawing classes and introductory taster sessions to making: from printmaking to knitting and glass engraving.

Creative Coathanger
Life Drawing Spring 2018

During 2018, Creative Coathanger ran a series of evening life drawing classes at Venue 50 and Macarts in Galashiels. It brough a diverse group of people together to explore life drawing with tutored session by local artist Deryck Henley from the Borders Life Drawing Club.