Archived Projects

Jun 2006 to Sep 2007

Golspie, Highland

A Highlands Community Garden

In the village of Golspie, artist Nigel Mullan worked with local school and community groups towards the creation of specially designed features for the community garden. As an artist, Nigel was in a position to influence both the process and outcomes of the garden features, raising awareness of the working practices of a contemporary artist.

Tagged as: Highlands Nigel Mullan community environmental garden rural

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.

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

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

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 1998 to Jul 1999

Glasgow, Glasgow City

Transformations on the Edge

This project represents a collaboration between artists and community through liaison with housing associations in Glasgow. It involved the integration of art into the local public realm in ways that were of relevance to those individual communities.

Tagged as: Glasgow community

Apr 2006 to Sep 2008

Easthall, Easterhouse, Glasgow City

Changing Glenburn Park

The Glenburn Public Art Project (also known as “Changing Glenburn Park”) was devised as an artist-in-residence programme supporting the work of Karla Black over a period of six months. During that time Karla worked with various community groups in the research and development of a series of designs for a piece of of contemporary public art. This collaboration involved residents travelling with Karla to visit the gardens of Mount Stuart, Culzean Castle and Little Sparta

Tagged as: Glasgow Karla Black artist-in-residence community park residency