Adam Booth: You can always find another client but you are unique
3rd February 2012DUMFRIES & GALLOWAY ARTIST / MAKER
Based near Castle Douglas, Adam Booth has participated in Spring Fling every year since we started in 2003 and decided to take a year out for Spring Fling 2012. Adam has exhibited and been commissioned throughout the UK and internationally as a professional blacksmith for the past 25 years and his work has gained great recognition. He is now competing in the Craft & Design Selected Award.
SF: What do you make?
High Quality contemporary forged metal work especially gates
SF: Where do you make?
In an old outbuilding at the back of my mother's home
SF: Why do you make where you do & How long have you worked here?
I was living there when I started the forge in 1987 only a temporary space?
SF: What inspires you?
The plasticity of hot steel and the rigidity of cold steel
SF: What is on the horizon for you locally?
the Sun on the way to work and the Sun on the way home (the A75 runs east west)
SF: What is on the horizon for you nationally / internationally?
I have been invited to become a Freeman of the city of London and was named as one of the world's top ten blacksmiths
SF: What advice would you give to an up-and-coming maker?
Enter every meeting with a client knowing you are there because they want what you can do. you can always find another client but you are unique
SF: What’s currently playing on your studio ipod / cd player / tape deck / record player?
Its Radio all the day, 6 Music or radio 2 I work in a noisy environment it s easy to miss something if there is thread to follow
SF: Tell us something not many people know about you
"apparently I'm going bald, but I can't see it myself"
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