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What's happening at the museum? Our staff are getting ready for our upcoming show "A Sterling Renaissance: British Silver Design 1957 to 2018." One of the featured artists, Angus McFadyen, paid us a visit to personally drop off one of his magnificent works of silver art.
This image was posted on September 20, 2018.
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"What I am trying to do, and what four or five others in my field are trying to do, is to recreate an international image of English silver in modern terms...what we want to do is to bring the whole craft up-to-date with all the skill in the making that made the earlier silver famous."
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"Making and creating is part of my daily cycle…The making process is an inspiration in itself.
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"Behind the world of the artisan is…that desire to take an inanimate material, and bring it to life in a form or image that will sing out; that desire to pay homage to my surroundings, to my creativity; that thanksgiving to that first bite into the apple of awareness."
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"In recent months, I have been moving closer to traditional silversmithing, but I'm still keen to combine this with advanced technology…to bridge the gap between the two different approaches so that they become integrated, with the finished work having a natural feel without any hint of fabrication."
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Ryan McClean was raised on the shores of Scotland’s Loch Nevis and became fascinated by nature from an early age.
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Tara Coomber hand-raised many of Martyn Pugh’s designs from 1999 to 2004.
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