Giles Watkins

Tea Culture : An ongoing project aimed at creating an immersive teahouse space. Using historical references surrounding tea in the UK as a tool for aiding communal dialogue.  can physically interact with the work. The space offers a meditative break to escape the high paced, anxiety-inducing pressures of the digital age. A core intention of the work regards our societal and individual perceptions of mental health. With a focus on how dialogue and tea can offer an environment for a group discussion regarding these matters. Giles Watkins

Giles has created steam bent maple and oak based stools and chairs with glazed stoneware seats and porcelain tea sets for his degree show at GSA. 

Sophia Sheppard

BOAT (Work In Progress) from Sophia Sheppard.

Yesterday I visited Glasgow School of Art's Degree show and watched the finished version of this beautiful documentary about Skiffs made by Sophia Sheppard

Boat Build & The Launch from Sophia Sheppard on Vimeo.

The Scottish Coastal Rowing Project, based at The Scottish Fisheries Museum in Anstruther was an initiative intended to encourage boat building and revive rowing racing in Scottish coastal communities. Iain Oughtred was commissioned to design a suitable clinker ply boat based on the lines of the Fair Isle skiff and to be called the St Ayles skiff. Alec Jordan of Jordan Boats has Iain Oughtred to design a suitable clinker ply boat based on the lines of the Fair Isle skiff and to be called the St Ayles skiff, while kit supplier Alec Jordan of Jordan Boats has been commissioned to construct the kits.