Grant McCaig MA RCA
Grant McCaig is a silversmith and artist with an organic approach to finding extraordinary beauty in metals and the idea of function and preciousness associated with materials such as silver.
Silversmithing CV
Awards
2012 The Lewton Brain Fold Form Award USA - Honourable Mention
2009 Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust
Scottish Arts Council Professional Development Award
2008 Young Designer of the Year Award British Silver Week (runner up)
2007 Scottish Arts Council Creative Development Award
2004 British Jewellers Assoc. Silver Award, Chelsea Crafts Fair (runner up)
1998 Richard Hubbard Arrol Memorial Prize, July Goldsmiths’ Craft Council Designer Silversmith
Goldsmiths’ Craft Council Designer Silversmith (junior) First Place
1995 Glasgow Art Club Drawing Competition Second Place
Public Collections
Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen
Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths’ Modern Collection, London
National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
10/10 Silver Collection Incorporation of Goldsmiths‘, Edinburgh
Bute House Collection, Edinburgh
Birmingham Museums and Art Galleries
Led Workshops
The Big Craft Giveaway, Inverness Art Gallery 2013
Spoonerism, Imagination Club, August 2008
Spoon making workshop with Friends of Aberdeen Art Gallery, in parallel with the exhibition ‘Cutting Edge’ two day workshop and lecture.
National Museum of Scotland, 500 years of the Edinburgh Assay Office
Live Demonstration/workshop for Craftscotland at The SECC Glasgow
Silver Sparkles, Saltcoats Museum Ayrshire
Chess Workshops Vennel Gallery, Ayrshire Scotland
San Francisco Academy of Arts, Lecture in parallel with 100% Proof exhibition
Talks
‘In conversation with Grant MacDonald’, Prime Warden of Goldsmiths Hall London, in conjunction with 500 Years of Assaying Exhibition, National Museum of Scotland.
Gallery of Modern Art Glasgow in conjunction with Cutting Edge Exhibition.
Exhibitions
Solo Shows
2007 New Silver, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh;
International Shows
Ongoing Silver of the Stars, touring exhibition:
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; The Forbes Galleries, New York;
The State Hermitage Museum St Petersburg, Russia; The World Art Museum Beijing, China; Museum of Kyoto, Japan; The National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh;
2014 Schlegelschmuck, Gallery Schlegel Munich
2013 Spoons are the Mirror of a Culture, Galerie Lemaire and Galerie Ra in Amsterdam
Love Spoons, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Wales
2012 The New Silver, Galerie RA, Amsterdam
25 Years of Galerie Cebra, Galerie Cebra, Dusseldorf
Kilkenny Arts Festival Craft, National Arts Gallery Ireland
Meer Seen, (Sea More) craft2eu - Agency and Gallery for European Craft & Design Hamburg
The Tree, Galerie Handwerk, Munich
Meister De Moderne, Handwerkskammer für München und Oberbayern, Germany
2011 The Culture of Drinking, Handwerkskammer für München und Oberbayern, Germany
Not Pretty, male jewellery; touring, Australia and Scotland
2010 Effe Kijke “welcome to the body”, Marzee Gallery, Holland;
4 O’clock Tea, Four Person Show Gallery Cebra, Dusseldorf Germany;
2009 Silver Art Foundation, Schoonhoven the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany
Connections with Objects, LOD Metallformgivnings Sweden
Three UK Silversmiths, Velvet Da Vinci Gallery USA
UK/OK: Exploring Traditions in Contemporary Design, Oklahoma USA
Effe Kijke “The Overcoat”, Gallery Marzee Holland;
2008 Treasure from the Twenty First Century, Silver from Goldsmiths Hall1999 2009, touring exhibition; Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales; National Museum of Ireland;
2007 The Pleasures of the Table - Museum fur Künst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany;
2005 – 06 100 % Proof 2: International touring exhibition, Mobilia gallery, Massachusetts; Velvet da Vinci Gallery, San Francisco; Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales;
2003-05 Chess, touring exhibition Velvet Da Vinci, San Francisco; Vennel Gallery Irvine, Scotland; The Gallery Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales; The Crafts Council Gallery at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; The John Michael Kholer Arts Centre, Wisconsin; Thomas Mann’s Gallery, New Orleans; Fuller Craft Museum, Massachusetts;
2002 Talente, Munich, Germany;
2001- 02 100 % Proof, curated by Prof. Dorothy Hogg MBE: touring exhibition: Flow Gallery, London; Mobilia Gallery, USA; New York School of Interior Design; Velvet Da Vinci San Francisco; The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
Shows in Britain
2015 The Silversmith’s Art, The Goldsmiths Co. Modern Collection, National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh.
Modern Masters, the Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
Elements Fair, the Incorporation of Goldsmiths and Lyon & Turnbull Fine Art Auctioneers Edinburgh
Collect 2015, The Saatchi Gallery, represented by Contemporary Applied Arts London.
2014 London Design Festival Sarah Myerscough Gallery
Collect 2014, Saatchi Gallery London Sarah Myerscough Gallery
London Art Fair Sarah Myerscough Gallery
2013 Contemporary Craft, Sarah Myerscough Gallery
British Ceramic Bienial. Stoke on Trent
Coronation Festival, Buckingham Palace London with QEST,
Mad For Tea, Fortnum & Mason
Fundir, focus exhibition at the Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
2012 Focus, Contemporary Applied Arts, London
Domestic MATTERS, Contemporary Applied Arts, London
From Table to Wall, Flow Gallery London
Made in Scotland, Fleming Collection London
2011 Mindful of Silver; Goldsmiths Hall, London;
Silver from Glasgow, curate by Amanda Game, Lyon and Turnbull, Edinburgh
2010 Collect 2010, The Saatchi Gallery, represented by The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh.
Handmade, Fortnum & Mason
2009 Silver with a Pinch of Salt, Goldsmiths’ Hall London
Collect 2009, The Saatchi Gallery, London, represented by Lesley Craze Gallery of London
Silver Maker, Contemporary Applied Arts, London, curated by Amanda Game
Spoons, The Scottish Gallery
The Birthday Party, Flow Gallery London
La Creme, Lesley Craze Gallery
Transformations, Flow Gallery London
Desire Art Fair, Fleming Collection
2008 Collect 2008, The Victoria & Albert Museum London, represented by The Scottish Gallery of Edinburgh
Fresh Forms, Lesley Craze Gallery London
Treasures of Today, Silver from Goldsmiths’ Hall 1980 – 2008, Ruthin Craft Centre Wales; National Museum of Ireland.
Stanley Hill Retrospective, Bluecoat Display Centre Liverpool
At Table: Part II Contemporary Tableware in Metal work and Silver Blackwell Arts & Crafts House, England
9 Create, Curated by Adrian Hope at the Scottish Gallery
Silver in Translation, curated by Ralph Turner Glynn Vivian Gallery, Wales
2007-08 Cutting Edge: touring exhibition, National Museum of Scotland Edinburgh;
Dick Institute, Kilmarnock; Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow;
Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen;
2007 Silver in Translation, curated by Ralph Turner, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Wales;
2003 – 04 New Wave 2, Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales touring to The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh;
2003 Collect 2003, The Victoria & Albert Museum, London represented by Velvet Da Vinci Gallery, San Francisco;
EMPLOYMENT
Silversmith
Self-employed - see attached document for exhibitions, talks and taught workshops
2000- present
- Working to private and public commission
- Exhibiting in galleries internationally
- Specialist in hand raising and forging, tig welding with silver
Edinburgh College of Art, Department of Silversmithing & Jewellery
Lecturer, part time
1998- present
Escuela de Artes y Oficios Santo Domingo, Colombia. Visiting Lecturer 2011
Aberdeen Art Gallery, Visiting lecturer 2010
The Scottish Gallery Edinburgh 2003 – 2005
EDUCATION
University for the Creative Arts, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Post Graduate Certificate in Creative Arts Education 2013 - 2015
Royal College of Art 2009 - 2011
MA, Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork and Jewellery
Glasgow School of Art 1994- 1998
BA Hons, Design and Applied Arts, Jewellery and Silversmithing, First Class
PUBLICATIONS
Ton Newydd, Cymru - Yr Alban 2/New Wave, Wales - Scotland 2: ISBN1900941627
Stanley Hill Retrospective, ISBN 978-0-9560937-0-7
Building Bridges, Scottish Arts Council support for crafts in Scotland: ISBN 1 85119 1275
The Cutting Edge, Scotland’s Contemporary Crafts: ISBN 978 1 905267 07 1
