TENANTS

The Marchmont Silversmithing Workshop includes space for 4 tenants as their main workshop on two-to-three year contracts.

Read below to discover more about our first cohort of silversmithing tenants.

Ryan McClean
Master Silversmith

Ryan McClean is interested in the mathematics of nature, looking at fractals and the golden ratio, applying them to his work. These rules govern the growth of the natural world. He makes pieces that have a familiarity to nature using maths. In his newest collection he has been designing the pieces in a computer and then 3D printing the design. He then uses the 3D print as guide and replicates it as close as he can using the age old-methods of raising and chasing.  Ryan has always pushed the boundaries of the possible, using a combination of traditional and cutting-edge techniques.

Katie Watson
Early Career Silversmith

The designs for Katie Watson’s work start with a walk, through woodlands, along the coast and across mountains. Mainly around her hometown of North Berwick and The Isle of Arran in Scotland. On these adventures she draws and studies anything that captures her attention in detail, and creates a design enriched by her imagination.

 Using silver as a canvas, Katie translates the drawings on to the metal surface using chasing and repoussé and produces wonderlands of nature in unique pieces of jewellery and silverware. Her work transports you on a journey outdoors, immersed in nature and surrounded by wildlife.

Images by Shannon Tofts

Scott Smith
Early Career Silversmith

Scott Smith is an award-winning silversmith and contemporary maker whose works explore the importance of meditative craft through the processes of carving, raising and casting. Scott uses precious metals and reclaimed wood alongside a variety of repetitive and meditative practises, traditionally favoured by ancient Scottish craftspeople, to interrogate early Pictish carvings, contemplating mark making and the authenticity of replicas.

Responsiveness to environment and reflective practises have emerged as qualities in Scott’s recent works, often producing pieces of handheld silverware that sits comfortably on both the dining table and in the wild Scottish landscapes that shaped their designs.

Images by Stacey Bentley

Hannah Keddie
Early Career Silversmith

Hannah Keddie is a contemporary silversmith and maker, whose work is influenced by organic themes of growth and proliferation. Since graduating from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design in 2021, Hannah has worked as an apprentice and continues her practice in her studio in the Black Isle.

Hannah finds relentless inspiration within coastal settings, where she searches for texture, form and sensory qualities to apply to her work. Most prominently inspired by sessile and colonial sea creatures, she reinterprets these creatures’ characteristics to cast and hand raise playful and tactile vessels crafted from silver. 

Images by Stacey Bentley; Hannah Keddie