For more information and prices, you can contact me any of the following ways:
Inside UK
Phone - 01225 402021
Fax - 01225 402022
Outside UK
Phone - 0044 1225 402021
Fax - 0044 1225 402022
jimtoys@aol.com
Postal Address
2e Riverside Business Park, Lower Bristol Road, Bath, UK. BA2 3DW
If you are interested in my work, please contact me.
As the information below shows, the possibilities are endless!
Born
1948 Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland
Crafts Council Listing
Index of Selected Makers
Materials used
Birch ply, pine, acrylic paint, non-toxic wood stains
Techniques used
Hand cutting and construction, and individual painting
Training
1969-73 Aberdeen University
1973-76 York University
Books
Martina Margetts, CLASSIC CRAFTS, Conran Octopus, 1990
Jim Edmiston, MIZZY AND THE TIGERS, Dent, 1992
Jim Edmiston, HUFF, PUFF, AND RUFFLY, Dent, 1992
Jim Edmiston, MIZZY AND THE ICEBERG, Orion, 1993
Jim Edmiston, LITTLE EAGLE LOTS OF OWLS, Orion, 1993
Jim Edmiston, MONKEY AND THE MOON, Barefoot Books, 1995
Jim Edmiston, THE EMPEROR WHO HATED YELLOW, Barefoot Books, 1996;
reprinted 1998.
Exhibitions
1982 Toys, Prescote Gallery, Banbury
1983 Toys, Proto Arte, Stockholm, Sweden
1983 Toys, Broughton Gallery, Biggar
1984 Toys and Theatre pieces, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
1987 Christmas Exhibition, Judd Street Gallery, London
1988 Moving Parts, touring Arts Council exhibition, Artsite Gallery, Bath
1989 Toys, Hitchcock's, Bath
1990 Christmas Exhibition, Laurimore Gallery, Boxford
1991 Mobiles, Haslegaard, Aarhus, Denmark
1991 Ten Boxes, Southern Arts touring exhibition
1992 Toys, Tridias, London
1993 Stars, Southern Arts touring exhibition
1995 Out of This World, Crafts Council, London
1996 Mobiles for Calder Exhibition, Aldrich Museum, Connecticut
1997 Automata exhibition at Fitch's Ark, London
1998 'Boundaries and Frontiers' - new work, Hitchcocks, Bath.
Commissions
1982 Selection of automata for Yorkshire Education Authority
1984 Zoo for Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood
1985 Noah's Ark for Le Galerie Des Jouets, Louvre Museum, Paris
1987 Woodland mobile for Forestry Commission visitor's centre
1990 The Creation mobile for Glasgow City Council
1992 Noah's Ark for Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery
1994 2 Mobiles for Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
1997 Poster design and exhibition pieces for Bath Festivals Trust.
Collections
1987 Automated Noah's Ark, Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood
1988 Wooden animals and Fairytale boxes, Crafts Council, London
1990 Mobiles, Wiltshire Education Authority, Trowbridge
1991 Roundabout, Somerset Education Authority, Taunton
Also, many private collections.