Meet Your Maker at Cambo Estate

Sunday 22 March 2015, 10am to 5pm

In an effort to raise awareness of future opportunities at Cambo Estate, a day of craft demonstrations and workshops for all ages will be held on Sunday 22 March 2015. The event will offer visitors an opportunity to see work being created, join in with workshops and buy craft.

Six makers will be on hand to demonstrate their work and hold workshops, giving visitors a behind-the-scenes look at their practice in this unique location. The makers work will also be available for sale, and the plans for the conversion of the Stables building at Cambo Estate will be on display, allowing visitors the chance to discover the potential for future arts and craft activities at Cambo.

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Art Exhibition

Following the success of an art exhibition held in the Cambo stables for the popular Snowdrop by Starlight event, organiser Frances Erskine has decided to extend the exhibition at Cambo house until the end of April 2015.

A variety of work from two Fife art collectives, East Neuk Open Studios and Open Studios North Fife, was displayed throughout the beautiful old stable buildings on Cambo estate for the duration of the woodland illumination event. A number of pieces were sold so the display has now been extended and moved down to the pblic spaces of the main house starting next to the Cambo café.

Following a well attended atrist preview night last Thursday,  the exhibiton is now open to the public. A wider selection of pieces in a variety of mediums celebrating Fife’s rich artistic culture are now on display at Cambo and will be until the 30th of April and will feature the following artists.

Alexandra Warsop, Mo McKiddie, John Davie, Jonathan Dowling, Kate Laundon, Florence Royer, Heather Cunningham, Marlene Patrick, Ann Watson, Kate Hajducka, Susan Forsyth, Frazer Reid and Siv MacArther.

Meet Your Maker

Sunday 22 March

Meet Your Maker is a national celebration of Scottish craft making.

Meet your Maker is part of Craft Scotland's flagship campaign to connect craft makers at work with the public. It's a campaign that aims to showcase the skill, quality and creativity of Scotland's talented makers.

During the event, makers give a rare, behind the scenes, look at their craft work. Demonstrations and workshops will on ongoing throughout the day.  

Meet the makers and learn about their inspiration, practices and profession. See the design, process and techniques behind their craft. Discover their creativity, skill and dedication.

Find out more about our markers below. 

Cally Booker -  Julia Complin - Leonie Macmillan - Paul Dodman - Sally Grant - Sarah Jacobs

http://www.craftscotland.org/about-us/our-work/meetyourmaker/Cambo-Eastate.html

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Heritage Lottery Fund gives Green Light for Cambo Stables Project.

After three years of planning, Cambo Heritage Trust (formerly Cambo Institute) in Fife has been given the go-ahead by Heritage Lottery Fund to commence work on the replacement of the Victorian range of glasshouses in the Walled Garden and also to take the Cambo Stables Project to tender.

Work to dismantle the glasshouses will commence in February 2015 and a series of activities/workshops is being planned around this.  Work will then begin on their replacement and it is anticipated that the new glasshouses will be in place and ready to use by August 2015.

Architects Page/Park have now been commissioned to further develop the plans for an education and training centre based in the historic stables buildings on Cambo to create a visitor hub providing improved facilities for the growing number of school and community activities, student gardeners, volunteers and visitors benefiting from and enjoying the Estate and its historic landscape. Established in 1998, the charity now provides a host of learning and volunteering opportunities in heritage, the environment, arts, culture and horticulture.

Currently, the Trust provides work experience and training for garden students, holds weekly sessions in Green Gym, Forest Education and regular art and environmental workshops for local schools throughout the year.   The Victorian gardens, and breathtaking snowdrop woods, now have a worldwide reputation and the demand for horticulture placements and volunteering has outgrown the existing facilities. 

The beautiful buildings, dating from 1765 and unused since before the Second World War, will be given a new lease of life to provide a hub for Cambo Heritage Trust and its ever increasing training and educational activities.   

Fundraising is now in full swing to raise the remaining shortfall required to begin work on the restoration of the stables buildings in the autumn of 2015. 

Sir Peter Erskine, Chairman of Cambo Heritage Trust, was delighted to hear the good news saying,

 “It is so exciting, after many months of hard work overcoming all the obstacles, to have final permission to start the rebuilding of the glasshouses and to commission the architects to take forward the drawings for the reincarnation of the stables to the next stage - going out to tender. The family are delighted with this huge step which will see the estate becoming once more a social, economic, artistic and training hub in a 21^st century reflection of the functions of estates such as Cambo in earlier centuries.”

Find out more about Cambo Heritage Trust

Mad Hatter, Grey Matter Winter Talk Series

Thursday 13^th November, 6.30pm – Cambo House

Mad Hatter, Grey Matter Winter Talk Series

On Thursday 19^th February 2015, 6.30-8pm, Dr Lynne Duncan & Dr Conny Gollek, from the Languages & Learning Lab at Dundee University will share their research on language development

Tickets £3.00 to include a glass of wine

All cats are animals, but not all animals are cats – how children learn the meaning of words

Children naturally acquire the language spoken in their environment while growing up. They don’t have to be taught or even encouraged to try. Merely exposing them to social interactions enables most children to develop speech. Around the age of 12 months, infants begin to utter words and understand their meaning. They start with individual words, split into terms for objects, people, actions and social routines and rapidly acquire a large vocabulary.

But how children add meaning to an utterance is widely debated. How do they find out that the “cat” is the family cat and doesn’t mean “patting” (her head) or “scratch”. How do children then come to understand the family cat can be referred to as “the cat” or “Milly”? And how are even more complex relations like sister, daughter and cousin, when all applied to one person, mastered?

Research into word learning presents us with a variety of theories. One view is that children have an innate set of word learning principles which they apply to make sense of novel words. Another is that young children are early mind-readers, trying to read the context of conversation and the speaker’s reference to determine meaning. The talk is going to address these and further theories around children and their understanding and use of words.

Dr Lynne Duncan

After completing her undergraduate degree in the School of Psychology, University of St. Andrews, Dr Duncan was awarded an MRC studentship to study for a PhD on the topic of developmental dyslexia. She has been conducting research and lecturing in the School of Psychology at the University of Dundee since 1999. In 2009, she held a post as a Visiting Lecturer in the Unité de Recherche sur l’Evolution du Comportement et l’Apprentissage at the Université Charles-de-Gaulle Lille 3 in France

Lab Website: Language and Learning lab

Dr Duncan’s current research takes a cross-linguistic perspective on language development in relation to visual word recognition and developmental dyslexia. Recent studies have investigated the influence of speech rhythm on phonological development and the relationship between orthographic depth and rates of reading acquisition in a wide range of European languages including Danish, Finnish, Greek, Icelandic, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian Spanish and Swedish

Dr Conny Gollek

Dr Gollek’s general interest in research focuses on development in preschool children. She graduated from the University of Stirling in 2014 with a PhD in Developmental Psychology. Her research thesis was concerned with word learning effects in preschool children. Before this, she graduated with a First class Honours degree in Applied Psychology from Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh in 2010, being awarded the Watt Medal.

Dr Gollek is currently employed as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Dundee. The project she is involved in aims to develop a measure to assess language and literacy in preschool children and examine the effectiveness of early interventions. The project runs in cooperation with Fife council and Education Scotland.

Advance Booking Required Call 01333 450054 or email cambo@camboestate.com

The third and final event of the Mad Hatter, Grey Matter Winter Series will take place in March and we are delighted to be offering a very fascinating and exciting conclusion to the first Winter Series.

On Saturday 14^th March 2015, 2-5pm, Professor Ian Deary and Dr Robin Morton, from the Centre for Cognitive Ageing & Cognitive Epidemiology, Edinburgh University, will provide an afternoon of fascinating insight into The Living Brain

“The Living Brain”

Tickets £12 to include afternoon tea

There will be a showing of a short film /The Living Brain, which tells the inspiring story of William and Jean and their involvement in two unique studies of the ageing brain in Edinburgh (The Lothian Birth Cohorts 1921 and 1936). The film will be followed by a facilitated discussion about what the brain means to us, different kinds of intelligence which change differently with age and what the implications of this are for all of us. Some brain changes with age are inevitable, but there may be some things we can do to limit those changes

After the presentation, visitors will have the opportunity to test their own brains and interact with virtual and 3D printed brains from our brain box (@brainboxone <http://twitter.com/brainboxone>).

Dr Robin Morton, Knowledge Exchange, Communications & Impact Manager, University of Edinburgh

Prof Ian J. Deary FBA, FRSE, FMedSci, is a Scottish psychologist known for work in the fields of intelligence, cognitive ageing, cognitive epidemiology, and personality.
Deary is Professor of Differential Psychology at The University of Edinburgh. He is Director of the Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology and co-Director of the Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Research Centre

Advance Booking Required Call 01333 450054 or email cambo@camboestate.com

To stay up-to-date on these and other Mad Hatter, Grey Matter events please follow @MHGMFestival                         OR               Email    madhattergreymatter@gmail.com

Hortiventure: Cambo Garden Estate

Hortiventure: Cambo Garden Estate: 16th - 31st May Front of the main house & estate where there are meadows and wild horses running around picturesquely. Cows are some...

New Exhibition at Cambo Stables - Voices and Images Of Islay

Poet James Knox Whittet was born and brought up in the Hebridean island of Islay where his father was the head gardener at a castle. Although he now lives in Norfolk, many of his poems are inspired by his Hebridean childhood.He was educated at Newbattle Abbey College and Cambridge University, has received many awards and was awarded a Hawthornden Castle Fellowship in in 2013.

In 2012, he collaborated with the artist and photographer, Margaret Bathgate on an exhibition of traditional sonnets and photographs on the people and places of Islay calledVoices and Images Of Islay. This exhibition was displayed on the island for two months and attracted a good deal of attention from both islanders and visitors. Voices and Images of Islay, to include artwork and music, will be now be displayed by Cambo Heritage Trust at Cambo Stables near St Andrews. 

The Exhibition runs daily from 3 to 10 August from 10am to 4.30pm.Margaret Bathgate, who graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2006 and has exhibited widely, is no stranger to Cambo having exhibited her exciting artwork at Cambo as part of the Heartwood Exhibition in 2012 and also during Snowdrops by Starlight on more than one occasion, but this will be the first occasion her photography will be on display.

BIOGRAPHY OF JAMES KNOX WHITTET

            James Knox Whittet was born and brought up in the Hebridean island of Islay where his father was  the head gardener at a castle. Although he now lives in Norfolk, many of his poems are inspired by his Hebridean childhood. He was educated at Newbattle Abbey College and Cambridge University.

            In 2004, his pamphlet, Seven Poems for Engraved Fishermen (Meniscus Press) was shortlisted for an award from the National Library of Scotland. In the same year, he received an award from the Society of Authors.

            His anthology, 100 Island Poems (Iron Press) was published in 2005 and was nominated by The Scotsman as one of the Books of the Year and received a major award from the Arts Council of England. A companion volume, Writers On Islands (Iron Press) was published in 2008.

          He won the George Crabbe Memorial Award in 2004, 2005, 2008 and 2011. In 2009, he won the Neil Gunn Memorial Award for poetry and an award from Highland Arts.

            In 2012, he collaborated with the artist and photographer, Margaret Bathgate on an exhibtion of traditional sonnets and photographs on the people and places of Islay called Voices And Images Of Islay. This exhibition was displayed on the island for two months and attracted a good deal of attention from both islanders and visitors. Voices And Images of Islay will be displayed during the Aldeburgh poetry festival in Suffolk in 2014.

            Also in 2012, his collection, Whe Kafka Met Einstein (Iron Press) was published and was  described by the distinguished poet, Pauline Stainer as 'a quietly amazing collection of poetry.'          

            His poems have appeared in two series of Sue Anderson's Hebridean calendars and his short sea poems have been engraved on stone by two Norfolk sculptors.

                       In 2013, he was awarded a Hawthornden Castle Fellowship.

Margaret Bathgate Curriculum vitae 

Enrolment at Edinburgh College of Art                  October     2002

RSA  Open Exhibition                                            December 2005Performance piece

RSA  Student Exhibition                                         Spring       2006

BA (Hons) Drawing and Painting                           June          2006Edinburgh College of Art

The Barclay Church Arts Festival                          August       2006Edinburgh“Hope and Celtic Spirituality”Invited Artist

RSA  Barns Graham Award                                   October     2006

RSA   Roter Salon Exhibition                                 Nov/Dec    2006

British Airways Collection                                       Dec           2006Four pieces for Edinburgh AirportV.I.P. lounge

VAS  Exhibition, Edinburgh                                    March        2007RSA Building

Pittenweem Arts Festival                                       August       2007Outer Harbour

SSA  Exhibition, Edinburgh                                   March         2008RSA Building

Aberdour Arts Festival                                           July            2008

Cupar Arts Festival                                                October      2008

VAS  Exhibition, Edinburgh                                    Feb/Mar     2009City Art Centre

SSA  Exhibition, Dundee                                        May/June   2009Vision Building

Ex Terra Vis Exhibition                                          July             2009Glenrothes

Big Tent                                                                  July           2009Falkland Estate

Edinburgh Art Festival                                            August       2009
The Embassy

VAS Members ExhibitionDumfries                                                                Oct/Nov      2009

ESSA  Exhibition                                                   December  2009Edinburgh

Luiginos                                                                 April           2010Falkland

Heartwood                                                        September      2010Blairgowrie

Wasps Open Studios                                            October       2010                                                  Newburgh

Cambo Estate                                                     Feb/Mch       2011St Andrews

Beechgrove Garden                                              April           2011
BBC  TV

Wasps Open Studios                                           October       2011Newburgh

Encounters with Place                                        Oct/Feb        2011/12Threshold Art SpacePerth Theatre

Snowdrops by Starlight                                       February      2012Cambo EstateSt Andrews

North Fife Open Studios                                        May           2012
Newburgh

Voices and Images of Islay                                 June/July     2012St Columba CentreIslay

The Enchanted CastleAberdeen                                                            November     2012

Snowdrops by Starlight                                       February       2013Cambo EstateSt Andrews

North Fife Open Studios                                        May           2013
Newburgh

Past Funding

Hope Scott Grant                                                 December    2008

Fife Council Craft Artist Grant
in  partnership withThe Scottish Arts Council                                     March         2009

The Scottish Arts Council                                    December   2009

Fife council Craft Artist Grant
In partnership withCreative Scotland                                                March          2012