Archived Projects

Apr 1997 to Dec 1997

Sanquhar, Dumfries & Galloway

Upper Nithsdale Community Initiative

A series of public art works created for the Sanquhar Heritage Trail. This project commissioned contemporary artworks that would raise the profile of the town’s cultural, architectural and historical links. These artworks are situated along an established, but now upgraded town walk that is used daily by residents and visitors.

Tagged as: Dumfries & Galloway Regeneration Sybille von Halem

May 1996 to Oct 1996

Prestwick Airport, South Ayrshire

Prestwick International

A sculpture was designed by Aberdeen-based artist Carole Gray for Prestwick International Airport and was installed during 1997. The aluminium sculpture is outlined with fibre-optic lights and is located to the front of the main terminal building. The artwork is considered an integral part of the airport improvements programme. It is visible from within and outside of the airport complex and has become a landmark for Prestwick town and Ayrshire.

Tagged as: Carole Gray Regeneration South Ayrshire

Apr 1996 to Jun 1996

Bo'ness, Falkirk

Bo’ness Foreshore

Using 400 tonnes of grey Swedish granite an international team of sculptors spent an intensive two months creating artwork for Scotland’s first granite sculpture park.

Tagged as: David Moore Falkirk Jim Ritchie Regeneration sculpture park

Dec 1995 to Mar 1996

Stranraer, Dumfries & Galloway

Agnew Park Seafront Development

This project contributed to a redevelopment designed to integrate the visual arts and crafts within a prominent public space well used by locals and visitors alike. Stranraer’s Artist in Residence, Sibylle Von Halem provided the impetus for this public art input working with and commissioning local artists to created the permanent arworks throughout the seafront development.

Tagged as: Alison Doyle Andy Frost David Gulland Ken Greirson Regeneration Sibylle Van Halem seafront

Jan 1999 to Oct 1999

Paisley, Renfrewshire

Paisley Town Centre Regeneration

The work of three artists was integrated into an extensive four-year programme of environmental improvements within the town centre of Paisley.

Tagged as: Caroline Broadhead Daniela Granzin Jan van Munster Regeneration Renfrewshire additional grant community consultation

Oct 2001 to Sep 2002

Pollokshields, Glasgow City

Hidden Gardens

Located in the centre of Glasgow The Hidden Gardens is a place of sanctuary dedicated to peace. It has been achieved through an artist-led programme of regeneration involving collaboration with environmnental arts charity organisation, landscape architects, an international team of architects and the local community.

Within this public space artworks are integrated into the overall garden design combined with landscaping and planting.

The entire project is significant in its attention to community consultation, cultural diversity and inclusion. The impact of such considerations can be seen in the smallest of details. For example, in some areas of planting there is a mixture of Asian and Celtic flowers, trees and shrubs.

Tagged as: Alec Hamilton Finlay Angus Farquhar Collaborative Divya Bhatia Gerry Loose Glasgow Julie Brook Regeneration Stephen Skrynka garden

Jan 2001 to Aug 2001

Castlemilk, Glasgow City

Reputations: Commission Plan

The Reputations project was a development phase Public Art and Social Interaction Programme based in Castlemilk. It was a project designed to set precedents in multi-agency working with artists of local, national and international calibre. The programme included commissioned temporary and permanent public artworks, public interaction and training programmes for artists and communities. The training programmes addressed notions of citizenship and identity within the premise of social inclusion. The Reputations Programme was intent on placing equal value on process, participation and product in the creation of new public art. A key aim of Reputations was to explore the impact of the role of the artist in wider terms than the physical environment but demonstrate how artists can work in different contexts whilst improving the social environment.

Arrival

Arrival was planned as a collaboration between Stephen Skyrnka, City Design and Fife Council. It was a public art project that used themes of destination, arrival and belonging in the heart of Dunfermline city centre. Arrival aspired to a series of artworks located in around Dunfermline Railway Station.

Despite securing SAC funding changes in project personnel and other factors meant that the Arrival proposal was not implemented. Described here are details from the original proposal.

Tagged as: City Design Fife Regeneration Stephen Skrynka not realised

Jul 2002 to Jan 2005

Castlemilk, Glasgow City

Reputations

This project builds on previous public art projects in Castlemilk to realise a series of 18 public artworks: five permanent landmark works, ten temporary/artist placement works, two longer term process-based works and one documentation project for the whole Reputations programme. Reputations was curated by Jason E. Bowman and Rachel Bradley on behalf of the Castlemilk Environment Trust.

Tagged as: Glasgow Regeneration

Jan 1996 to Aug 1996

Easterhouse, Glasgow City

The Arts is Magic & Lochfield Park Co-op Partnership Sculpture Commission

A centre-piece sculpture was commissioned bringing a significant artistic focus to the park and demonstrating opportunities for artists to engage with communities and the city as a whole. The project also involved arts and education outreach workshops within the community through a partnership with John Wheatley College, the Glasgow School of Art, artists and educators.

Tagged as: Bevan & Mitchell Glasgow Grove Ken Mitchell Regeneration

Dec 1999 to Sep 2001

Roystonhill & Blackhill, Glasgow City

The Royston Road Project

The Royston Road project was a combination of artist-community collaborations and artist-residencies supporting the regeneration of two public spaces in the North of Glasgow.
Artists Graham Fagen and Toby Paterson worked as part of the design team with landscape architects, Loci Design to develop the two spaces into community parks: The Spire Park and Molendinar Park. Located at opposite ends of the “Royston Corridor” the creation of the parks involved local residents and community groups at the various stages of design, development and implementation of ideas. This involvement inspired an ongoing programme of arts and sporting activities and the forming of a community board motivated to continue the momentum generated by the redevelopment of the area.

Tagged as: Collaborative Glasgow Graham Fagen Regeneration Toby Paterson artist-in-residence park

Mar 1999 to Sep 1999

Portpatrick, Dumfries & Galloway

Portpatrick Seafront Redevelopment

A collaboration between visual artist, landscape architect and the community. The project brought a new sense of place and identity to the site and it concluded with the creation of a Discovery Beach, Play Area, Designed Vantage Point and Landmark Wall and new seating along this redevelopment. These are year-round recreational resources for the local and tourist communities. Local community involvement (including local craftspeople) was key in the development of the site-specific works providing a new destination along the waterfront.

Tagged as: Dumfries & Galloway Muf Rachel Mimiec Regeneration Sam Booth park seafront

Mar 1999 to Sep 1999

Possilpark, Glasgow City

The St Matthew's Centre

The St Matthews Centre is based in the Possilpark area of Glasgow where this project redeveloped the exterior landscape of the centre. Before March 1999 this outside area was in a state of semi-dereliction and decay. Artists were involved in the planning and realisation of key parts of this redevelopment. The artists worked with with the local community and architects to create a well-used community space. This space includes a contemplative seating area, a garden, an artist-designed feature wall, gate, railings and fountain.

Tagged as: Calum Sinclair Glasgow Mary Doyle Regeneration community garden

Jun 2004 to Jun 2005

Creetown, Dumfries & Galloway

Adamson Square

Part of a regeneration programme for Creetown, the public art work created for this project represents an artist-led design solution for the main public square in Creetown. The artist, Hideo Furuta was commissioned by the local community to create a sculptural place connecting distinct natural and cultural themes: granite and metals, ferrythorn and estuary, stake nets and water. The finished space is intended to function as physical and social focal point that reflects the aspirations of the community.

The community-artist process of this project was designed to increase awareness of public art within rural locations and provide a model of contemporary public art practice.

Tagged as: Collaborative Dumfries & Galloway Hideo Furuta Regeneration

Jan 1999 to Nov 1999

Castlemilk, Glasgow City

Gateways and Landmarks

The Gateways and Landmarks project was part of “9 for 99”: a partnership project that sought to boost the perceived image of Castlemilk through the redevelopment of 21 hectares of land and the creation of a civic square. The intention was to develop a visual identity for Castlemilk, creating a sense of place through destination sites. The implementation of “9 for 99” created 21 training places for local unemployed people and the Gateways project proved to be a foundation for a longer-term public art strategy for the Castlemilk Environment Trust.

Tagged as: Doug Cocker Glasgow Kenny Hunter Michael Dan Archer Paul Grime Regeneration Rick Kirby community

Nov 1995 to Mar 1996

Hamilton, South Lanarkshire

Cadzow Linear Park

The Cadzow Linear Park project was designed to regenerate and revitalise Hamilton Town Centre through improving the environment in four phases. Within this particular funding project is the realisation of four artist-designed gateways and markers; an orientation feature and 5 sculpture commissions.

Tagged as: Madeleline Wiener Malcolm Roberston Phil Johnson Regeneration Roasalind Wates Stephen Hicklin Tim Pomeroy

May 2005 to Dec 2007

Raploch, Stirling

Creative Spaces

Creative Spaces is the name given to a series of public artworks conceived and led by artist, Peter McCaughey. The artworks have been created through collaboration between Peter and the community of Raploch. A significant characteristic of this project was the mentoring programme that has resulted in 12 mentees going on to employment and higher education.

The sites for these creative spaces are located along the Riverwalk in Raploch and the project is part of a ten year regeneration programme for the area.

Tagged as: Christian McEwan Collaborative Peter McCaughey Regeneration Stirling community

Jul 2002 to May 2008

Castlemilk, Glasgow City

Reputations

This project looked to build on previous public art projects in Castlemilk to realise a series of 18 public artworks: five permanent landmark works, ten temporary/artist placement works, two longer term process-based works and one documentation project for the whole Reputations programme. Reputations was curated by Jason E. Bowman and Rachel Bradley on behalf of the Castlemilk Environment Trust.

During the process, work of two of the artists were commissioned. These were by artists Edwina fitzPatrick and Esther Shlev-Gerz.

See alos: Archive: Reputations: Commission Plan

Tagged as: Andrew Sabin Angel Bergara Anne Elliot Asier Perez Gonzales Bryndis Snaebjornsdottir Catriona Grant Christina McBride Edwina fitzPatrick Elizabeth-Jane Grose Esther Shalev-Gerz Glasgow John Newling Louise Brookes Mandy McIntosh Moti Roti Muf Regeneration Sarah Tripp Shelley Ouellet Wochenklausur

May 2009 to Apr 2010

Pennywell and Muirhouse, Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh

North Edinburgh Arts

The proposal is to commission artists to engage, influence and inform planners and the community about the possibilities for public art integral to the planned regeneration of Pennywell and Muirhouse.

The areas mentioned are in the immediate vicinity of NEA and are undergoing change and development through new housing, amenities and a new NHS Lothian treatment centre, which may physically wrap around the NEA facility.

Funding covers:
– Artists / Specialists Fees
– workshops, events, study trips and activities
– development of a commissioning plan
– documentation
– Project Co-ordination / admin

Tagged as: Edinburgh North Edinburgh Arts Regeneration