The Collective gallery have just opened it’s doors to it’s new home on Calton hill on Edinburgh’s iconic City Observatory site. A few of us brave enough to battle the horizontal rains and winds on top of the hill that day went to go check it out. We chattered to Katie Reynolds the learning producer and…
Category: Exhibitions and Talks
Thinking & Taking inspiration from others
We often like to take inspiration from practicing artists, going to see exhibitions, and discussing our ideas about the artwork and how it relates to things going on around us that we’re interested in. Here we are at Emma Hart’s current show BANGER at The Fruitmarket Gallery. Emma Hart BANGER The Fruitmarket Gallery 27 October 2018…
Hidden Door Arts Festival
Ellie and Lee and Curious Routes are doing some research around video projection and thought we’d visit Hidden Door Festival for some inspiration. We’re deciding whether to make our own wooden screen for projecting onto… Hidden Door is an arts organisation which aims to open up urban spaces as a platform for new and emerging…
My Dunfermline – Vic MacRae Exhibition
We have known Vic and her creative practice for many years. She’s a talented artist, designer and illustrator. Through Artlink, Vic first met with the artist Alan Grieve, when we visited him at his studio/gallery and hairdressing salon in Dunfermline. Vic’s now a local resident in Dumfermline, and has gotten to know Alan more and…
Archipelago Exhibition
Alex and Franco are cooking up a storm in exchange for creative talks with artist Alan Grieve about his current Archipelago Exhibition at Summerhall.
Documentary Film Maker – John Samson GOMA
We’re thinking around how we want to document elements of the project, Lee Ritchie is really interested in working in film making and so it made sense to go and see documentary film maker John Samson’s show at Gallery Of Modern Art in Glasgow. Lee is starting to capture people’s individual stories in film. http://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/museums/GoMA/exhibitions/Pages/Gallery-1.aspx John Samson …
Dazzle Ship
https://edinburghartfestival.com/dazzle Inspired by Adele’s striking drawings and thinking about how you could use design/drawing on a much larger scale we went to visit Ciara Phillips’ Every Woman, co-commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival and 14-18 NOW (the fourth in a series of dazzle ship artworks developed by contemporary artists to commemorate the First World War). We were interested in…
Pehchaan Art from another India
Inspired by the vibrance and pattern in Adele’s drawings Adele, Kevin and Annabel visited the Pehchaan Art from another India Exhibition at Tramway, Glasgow. “Pehchaan (meaning ‘Identity’ in Hindi and Urdu) is an exciting collaborative project at Tramway, which showcases a new collection of North Indian art commissioned for Glasgow Museums. The collection features folk…
Shelters
http://www.fcac.co.uk/event/shelters/ Last week’s Bothy Project trip inspired this week’s visit to Kirkcaldy Gallery for the Fife Contemporary Art &Craft exhibition highlighting the human need and drive to find and make shelter presented as part of Scotland’s Festival of Architecture 2016. Curated by Bobby Niven of The Bothy Project this will introduce the history of Lloyd Kahn’s…