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GMan: contemporary craft made in response to the Gunnister Man Story.
gman craft: a new take on heritage product...
To coincide with the Gunnistermans artefacts returning to Shetland Museum, 10 contemporary shetland makers, a journalist, graphic designer and a retired policeman researched the Gunnister man find and his story. Makers working in textiles, wood and jewellery are exhibiting their new range at Shetland Museum October 2009-February 2010. Makers explored the theme of identity which has led to ideas surrounding contemporary identity and using social networking sites such as twitter, facebook and blogging .
The makers are cecil tait, donna smith, emma blain, claire henry, shona millar, suzanne shearer, andrea williamson, anne eunson and textile students jennifer tait and hilary seatter.
There is a commissioned audio piece by Mary Blance (local shetland journalist and broadcaster) involving makers talking about the process of forming and exchanging ideas in response to the subject
http://shetlopedia.com/Mary_Blance
hazel hughson shetland arts
deirdre nelson artist
http://twitter.com/gunnisterman
designing for gman
'in most cases noone on the design team has talked directly to users to find out who they are, so designers come up with an idea of a user type. The resulting personas are like the designers imaginary friends.'
persona non grata . dan saffer
To coincide with the Gunnistermans artefacts returning to Shetland Museum, 10 contemporary shetland makers, a journalist, graphic designer and a retired policeman researched the Gunnister man find and his story. Makers working in textiles, wood and jewellery are exhibiting their new range at Shetland Museum October 2009-February 2010. Makers explored the theme of identity which has led to ideas surrounding contemporary identity and using social networking sites such as twitter, facebook and blogging .
The makers are cecil tait, donna smith, emma blain, claire henry, shona millar, suzanne shearer, andrea williamson, anne eunson and textile students jennifer tait and hilary seatter.
There is a commissioned audio piece by Mary Blance (local shetland journalist and broadcaster) involving makers talking about the process of forming and exchanging ideas in response to the subject
http://shetlopedia.com/Mary_Blance
hazel hughson shetland arts
deirdre nelson artist
http://twitter.com/gunnisterman
designing for gman
'in most cases noone on the design team has talked directly to users to find out who they are, so designers come up with an idea of a user type. The resulting personas are like the designers imaginary friends.'
persona non grata . dan saffer
gunnisterman @ the shetland museum
on 12th may 1951 two Shetlanders were cutting peat near Gunnister, Northmavine when they came across the remains of a body buried in peat . While the acidic conditons in the peat has ensured there was little left of the man other than some hair , fingernails and bone fragments , it kept his clothes and other items well-preserved. His death was dated to around 1700 and the artefacts have provided many clues about the life of the unidentified man. However over 50 years after his discovery, mystery still surrounds the Gunnister Man: who was he? How did he die? Shetland museum.
www.Shetland-museum.org.uk/exhibitions/200909_GunnisterMan.html
links
- shetland museum
- shetland museum archive collections
- shetland arts trust/craft
- text-isles
- text-isles on flickr
- donna smith
- emma blain and claire hendry
- cecil tait
- susanne sheerer. phat sheep textiles
- north rock gallery
- andrea williamson
- jono sandilands
- mirrie dancers
- mary blance
- shetland organic wool
- shetland dictionary
- gman on Twitter
- deirdre nelson
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