Modern Heroine

3 March 2022 - 26 March 2022

In March 2022 The Scottish Gallery celebrated the outstanding artistic achievements of Dorothy Hogg, MBE.

Dorothy Hogg was recognised internationally as both an artist jeweller and an outstanding and influential art educator. She served as head of Edinburgh College of Art’s Jewellery and Silversmithing Department for almost 20 years from 1985 – 2007. Her work is held in numerous public and private collections.

‘Dorothy Hogg has always demonstrated an intense involvement in the processes of furthering new thinking in the jewellery field backed by her own evolving conceptual position and characteristically fastidious technique.’ – Professor Elizabeth Moignard

Born: 1945
Place of Birth: Troon
Died: 2022

Dorothy Hogg studied at both Glasgow School of Art and the Royal College of Art and was Head of Jewellery & Silversmithing at Edinburgh College of Art from 1985 until 2007.

In 2001 she was awarded an MBE for services to jewellery and silversmithing and in 2005 won the Brilliantly Birmingham Jewellery Award; awarded to the jeweller who has made the greatest contribution to the world of designer-maker jewellery. Dorothy Hogg passed away on the 4th April 2022. She was one of The Scottish Gallery’s favourite contemporary jewellers and will be greatly missed.

Public Collections include: National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh; Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Museum of Arts and Design, New York; Goldsmiths’ Company London; Crafts Council, London; Birmingham Art Gallery and Museum; Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art; Musee Des Beaux Arts, Montreal, Canada.

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