Open House at Sculpture House
March 25, 2024
Please join us this coming Easter Monday for a special Open House event at Sculpture House. We'll be celebrating all we've achieved in our pilot year of the Dye Garden by showing examples of the hard work of the Ferguslie Dye Gardeners as well as inviting you to help us sow some seeds for our 2024 season.
DYE GARDEN SOCIALS EVENT #006: CAVAN JAYNE - in Conversation
November 02, 2023
The Dye Garden Schools Project
October 16, 2023
My natural dye and colour project with the two local primary schools in Ferguslie Park came to a close today after six sessions working together over the growing season....
Dye Garden Socials Event #005 - Eco Dyeing on Textiles: an Enthusiasts Introduction with artist Laura Aldridge
September 20, 2023
Doors Open Day 2023
August 24, 2023
This September Sculpture House and the Sculpture House Dye Garden are opening their doors to take part in Renfrewshire's Doors Open Day event.
Printing Day with Charlotte Linton
August 15, 2023
Charlotte and I met over a decade ago whilst both on residencies at Cove Park in Argyll. We were both there working away on our textile based creative practices and discovered we shared a mutual love for early nights, being outside and the Moomins...as well as many things textile related....
The Sculpture House Dye Garden - August 2023
August 07, 2023
It's August already...our dye garden is looking lovely! The Japanese Indigo is thriving (pictured below) as are many of the other dye plants and flowers...
Dye Garden Socials Event #004: Local Colour - a natural dye workshop
August 04, 2023
The Ferguslie Dye Gardeners
August 01, 2023
The Ferguslie Dye Gardeners is a free, fortnightly group for residents of Ferguslie Park to learn, grow, share and create natural dyes and print pastes from flowers and plants we cultivate together in the Sculpture House Dye Garden throughout the growing season.
Introducing Charlotte Linton
July 26, 2023
Introducing Charlotte Linton - a designer, anthropologist, and Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at All Souls College, University of Oxford and living between Oxford and Glasgow, Scotland who I'm very lucky to be working with as a mentor on the Dye Garden project...
DYE GARDEN SOCIALS - EVENT #003 - An Allotment to Dye for: a talk by Teresinha Roberts of Wild Colours
July 15, 2023
Our third Dye Garden Social event is now live...
Discover the beauty and advantages of natural dyes. You will learn how to use them, as Teresinha shares the secrets of bright colours from natural dyes. This talk covers the history of dye plants and how to grow them. You will be able to see actual dye plants and find out which colours they produce with samples of dyed silk and wool.
DYE GARDEN SOCIALS - EVENT #002 - Botanical Printing with Elisabeth Viguie Culshaw
May 26, 2023
Our second Dye Garden Social event is now live! This time we're bringing you a one-day workshop with local natural dye and indigo expert, Elisabeth Viguie Culshaw...