Portrait of a Gallery - The Scottish Gallery

Dorothy Hogg MBE
Brooch in the Artery Series 2009 silver and red beads 13.5 x 9 cms
Photograph: John K McGregor
Born in 1945, Dorothy studied at Glasgow School of Art and the Royal College of Art and was course leader
of silversmithing and jewellery at Edinburgh College of Art from 1985 until 2007. In 2001 she was awarded
an MBE for services to jewellery and silversmithing and in 2008 was appointed as the first Emeritus
Professor of Edinburgh College of Art. She spent six months at the Victoria and Albert Museum as their
first ever artist in residence in 2008.
Dorothy created a centre of excellence in jewellery practice in Edinburgh and with it brought an
international audience to degree shows. The gallery benefitted greatly from this creative vision and her
distinctive graduates are an integral part of the jewellery that we show today. In a statement from her 2004
10 year retrospective exhibition she writes:
‘My intention is for the pieces to come alive when worn by interacting with the movement of the body
and by establishing the wearer centre stage. I am creating austerely sensual pieces, which involve the sense
of sight, touch and hearing.’
Public collections include:
Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Middlesborough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesborough; National
Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh.
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