Image: Duncan McGlynn
Hannah Keddie is an emerging designer and silversmith based in the Scottish Borders with the Marchmont Silversmithing Workshop. In 2021 she graduated from the Jewellery & Metal Design programme at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design.
Growing up in the coastal terrain of the Black Isle was a creatively formative experience for Hannah, which soon led to a fascination with the ocean’s flora and fauna. Her work celebrates the resilience and peculiarity of the living world through the tactile qualities of silver, while strongly focusing on form. Her most recent works take inspiration from colonial sea creatures found within Scottish waters. After reinterpreting and manipulating the visual attributes of these creatures Hannah practises an ancient metalworking technique called raising to create sculptural vessels which materialise as a creature of their own kind.
The Marchmont Silversmithing Workshop
In 2022 Hannah was awarded a 3-year placement by a panel of master silversmiths, the trustees of the Hugo Burge Foundation and the Scottish Goldsmiths’ Trust, taking residence on Marchmont Estate as one of the three founding tenants of the Marchmont Silversmithing Workshop in January of 2023.
This placement was designed by the Scottish Goldsmiths’ Trust and The Hugo Burge Foundation to create a nurturing environment for graduate silversmiths, providing unlimited access to a fully equipped workshop, a pursuit which is becoming increasingly difficult and unaffordable for young silversmiths. This opportunity was made possible through the kindness of the late silversmith Graham Stewart, who donated the contents of his workshop to the Scottish Goldsmith’s Trust before his passing.
The Marchmont Silversmithing Workshop is the newest addition to the Hugo Burge Foundation’s creative spaces in the Scottish Borders.
