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DES Talks with Susanna Beaumont

Design Exhibition Scotland

DES Talks, a new podcast from Design Exhibition Scotland in which we explore through conversation the lives and work of designers, makers and artists from across Scotland. https://www.designexhibitionscotland.co.uk/

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46:24

Celebrating the artist Donald Locke

DES Talks with Susanna Beaumont ·

2025/12/30

Welcome to DES Talks, lively conversations celebrating creativity from Design Exhibition Scotland. In this episode Susanna explores the life and work of the outstanding artist Donald Locke who studied at Edinburgh College of Art in the 1960s. Born in Guyana in 1930, Locke's work in ceramic, on canvas, in sculpture and film meld together materials, ideas and politics. It's radical, powerful work. Locke died in 2010. Susanna is joined by Brenda Locke, Locke's wife and manager of the Donald

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36:50

Exploring Bard, Custom Lane & Brown's of Leith

DES Talks with Susanna Beaumont ·

2025/12/12

Welcome to DES Talks! In this episode Susanna is out and about in Edinburgh's port Leith, which lies to the north of the city. It is where the Water of Leith from its source 20 miles south in the Pentland Hills, flows into the Firth of Forth and the onwards into the North Sea. It was once a place of ship building, trade, sea transport and travel - a place of glass works and bottling, soap factories and barrel makers and warehouses.Today many of these former spaces have been transformed into

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36:27

Thread Memory: Embroidery from Palestine - V&A Dundee

DES Talks with Susanna Beaumont ·

2025/11/26

Welcome to DES TalksIn this episode of DES Talks, Susanna explores the exhibition Thread Memory: Embroidery from Palestine, which is currently on at V&A Dundee until April 26th, 2026. To discuss this beautiful and powerful exhibition, Susanna is joined by Thread Memory curator Rachel Dedman, writer, art historian and since 2019 the Jameel Curator of Contemporary Art from the Middle East at V&A, London; together with two contemporary practitioners whose work features in Thread

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40:40

Harvest - a celebration of contemporary craft from...

DES Talks with Susanna Beaumont ·

2025/10/09

Welcome to DES Talks, our lively exploration of making and creating from across Scotland. In this episode we celebrate Harvest. A showcase of work by 80 makers and designers, Harvest is a thrilling new initiative from Craft Scotland. From furniture to jewellery, ceramics to basketry, woodwork to glass, Harvest is an ambitious exhibition which champions both rich craft traditions and the energy, innovation and skill of contemporary makers from across Scotland. Harvest celebrates the power of

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42:17

Bernat Klein - Gráinne Rice talks the life & times of...

DES Talks with Susanna Beaumont ·

2025/09/18

He was visionary, energetic and exacting. He delighted in colour, texture and the great outdoors. He pushed boundaries and challenged conventions. In our latest DES podcast, we chat to Gráinne Rice about all things Bernat Klein, the Serbian-born textile designer and artist who for over 60 years lived and worked in the Scottish Borders. Gráinne has long immersed herself in the life and work of Bernat Klein. She first came across the designer and textile manufacturer in 2001 as a young

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42:47

Studio potter Cara Guthrie talks clay, the personal...

DES Talks with Susanna Beaumont ·

2025/08/30

Cara Guthrie is a studio potter based in the town of Dunkeld, Perthshire. Born and raised in Scotland, she first studied Human Geography before a chance encounter with clay at a pottery taster class in London in her late 20s convinced her that this was the material she wanted to further explore and work with. Cara went on to become an apprentice in the celebrated studio of KHWurtz in rural Denmark before returning to the UK where she worked with the Anglo-Japanese, Cumbria based potter,

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57:46

The Hugo Burge Foundation - celebrating making &...

DES Talks with Susanna Beaumont ·

2025/07/02

The Hugo Burge Foundation is a brilliantly energetic and ambitious charity supporting the arts and crafts. Located in a green and lush stretch of the Scottish Borders, near to the town of Duns, the Foundation was launched last year and celebrates the life of the late Hugo Burge, a dynamic and passionate entrepreneur and supporter of creativity. Over the last 10 years of his life, Hugo turned his home here on the Marchmont estate, into a buzzing haven for makers and creators. Orbiting a

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43:24

The Marchmont Workshop talk chair making, rush...

DES Talks with Susanna Beaumont ·

2025/06/18

The Marchmont Workshop's Rich Platt & Sam Cooper are celebrated as the saviours of the rush-seated chair. A centuries-old art, the craft of rush seating was by the late 20th century in steady decline. Rich & Sam's journey in rush-seated chair making began in 2018 when they became apprentices to Lawrence Neal, one of the last remaining rush seaters in the UK. In 2020 thanks to an invitation from the philanthropist, Hugo Burge, they opened their own workshop in a former Robert

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40:46

Chris Dobson & Guy Philips talk the making of...

DES Talks with Susanna Beaumont ·

2025/06/04

Welcome to DES Talks, a new podcast from Design Exhibition Scotland where Susanna Beaumont celebrates making and creating in a series conversations with designers, craftspeople, makers and artists, who share insights into their working life, delights, influences and ideas. In this episode, Susanna talks to architect Chris Dobson and Guy Philips, founder of Highland Heritage Woodworks who discuss the making of Monolith, a bold beauty of a bench sited in the grounds of Mount Stuart House on

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44:44

Stefanie Ying Lin Cheong talks jewellery, geology and...

DES Talks with Susanna Beaumont ·

2025/05/21

Welcome to DES Talks, a new podcast from Design Exhibition Scotland where Susanna Beaumont celebrates making and creating in a series conversations with designers, craftspeople, makers and artists, who share insights into their working lives, delights, influences and ideas. Stefanie Ying Lin Cheong is a Glasgow-based designer and maker who explores geology and rock formations. Curious about materials both ancient and modern, she studied jewellery and silversmith at Glasgow School of Art,

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46:15

Frances Priest talks ceramics, delighting in the...

DES Talks with Susanna Beaumont ·

2025/05/21

Welcome to DES Talks, a new podcast from Design Exhibition Scotland where Susanna Beaumont celebrates making and creating in a series of conversations with designers, craftspeople, makers and artists, who share insights into their working lives, influences and ideas. In our first DES Talks, Susanna chats to Frances Priest, the Edinburgh-based artist maker and designer who works in ceramics. A graduate of Edinburgh College of Art, Frances talks through her early years, her delight in working

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