Inches Carr Award
Showcase Exhibition

2–6 July 2025

Dundas Street Gallery, Edinburgh

The Inches Carr Craft Development Award Showcase Exhibition at Dundas Street Gallery highlights extraordinary creativity, technical skill and original design from a breadth of disciplines across Scottish applied arts.

16 shortlisted crafters and makers will exhibition a current body of 2D and 3D work from 2nd – 6th July.

The award, and £14,000 prize fund, enables 2 winning artists to develop their practice to a higher level, consider innovation and introduce new materials or techniques to their existing practice.

Exhibitions/Events

Common Ground;
The Living Landscape

31st January 2026 - 10th May 2026

Kirkcudbright Galleries, Dumfries and Galloway

Future Folklore;
The Art and Craft of Storytelling

28th March 2026 - 27th May 2026

Maclaurin Art Gallery, Ayr

Natural Collection Exhibition, with Scottish Ornithologists Club

29th April 2026 - 7th June 2026

Scottish Ornithologist Club, Aberlady

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