Doon the Barras 'n' Briggait...

Have you heard what folks are up to at the Barras? No, not talking about the wheeling and a dealing in a fakery DVD kinda way but the all new Barras Centre?

This new venture is headed up by Camille Lorigo, a New Yorker who relocated to Scotland five years ago and runs Che Camille.  The centre will house around 15 shops with fashion designers, jewellers, and more.

Yesterday the Ding Dong gals popped along to have a wee peeky peek at the new Made in the Shade weekly market ventre Supermercado which is in the courtyard of the Barras Centre (situated beside the antiques part of the barras). As usual, a great selection of quality crafty types, as well as yummy cake stalls mmm mmm. 

Ding Dong Designs will be there on Saturday 30th October, this will be our only Glasgow market date before christmas so if your looking for something a little different for some pressies then get yourself down!

Once we had filled our pockets with goodies, we made our way down to the open day at the brand new Wasp studios The Briggait. What an amazing space for artists and creative types to have their own studios. A hive (mind the pun) of activity with a great community feel in a beautiful building. What more could you want?

The open day consisted of you having the opportunity to wander through floors full of artists studios, see their work and have a chat to them. Yan Wang and Katie Johnson were two artists that particularly stood out to me. But on one of the floors we were lucky enough to find Angharad McLaren behind her colourful loom. 

Angharad McLaren is a textile designer and I was in awe of her beautiful fabrics. The colour combinations, textures and patterns were truly amazing. I'm definately goin to get one of her scarfs.

Yan Wang's work was dream-like and romantic. In her studio your greeted with little clouds of cotton wool hanging from the ceiling. Her large painting, which I didnt get a note of you can see on her website. 

I really loved Katie Johnson's work. I thought the images were like ghosts trying to get through the canvas, just stunning.

Unfortunately we didnt get to go through the whole place as our car ticket was due up and the blue meanies around Glasgow are definately mean! They have regular open days at the Briggait if you fancy a little pop down!