MADELEINE'S HEP HERD

Klein Bottle Originally uploaded by MadeleineS . Here is what I hope will be the first of many felted Klein bottles. I'm looking forward to many more adventures in knitted topology. Readers who know their science fiction will hopefully be interested to see my rendering of the planet from Christopher Priest's Inverted World . I plan to have it ready for my exhibition during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year. I took the picture during a shoot I set up for a new gallery that will be exhibiting my work. rm art opens in just under two weeks and looks like stocking a lively selection of Scottish fine and applied art. As well as large scale paintings, there will be functional and sculptural applied art. This Klein bottle is only a prototype and so won't be there. Pop in to the website or better still the gallery in St Stephen's Street, Edinburgh to see what she does have. If you can't wait till rm art opens come and ask me at the Arts Market on 31 May where I...

A Bestiary of Authors Originally uploaded by MadeleineS . A quick snap of my exhibition just before opening - not to a fanfare or a private few(view) but to the general Monday morning in July shoppers. Sunday 29 July was spent getting the final pictures into frames and breaking my nails in the process (girly boo hoo!) then getting everything hung up at Transreal. Mike was great at accurately positioning all the big framed photos like these ones and worked really hard to get it done in some awkward places. There's a real mixture of work on show - fifty two items altogether. If you need a justification for that mixture then it reflects the variety of people in the exhibition as well as the development of my practice over many years. I've been taking photos of SF & F authors for about ten years with no real plan behind it. When we decided to have the exhibition it was a big job just finding all the potential candidates in the archive and picking out a representative selec...