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Some Of The Things He Has Done
by Danny Holcroft
Danny Holcroft is based at Glasgow Sculpture Studios, and maintains an internationally based practice that is often concerned with the investigation of his position within publi...
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I Am The Space Where I Am: from Subversion to Citizenship
by Sarah Lowndes
In the spring of 1995, artist-organiser James Thornhill staged a series of group exhibitions in a dilapidated tenement on the corner of Glasgow’s Wilton Street and Belmont Street, which in...
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Neville Gabie at the Clanjamfrey
by Neville Gabie / Matthew Hearn
On the 11th and 12th of September 2009, Inverness Old Town Art hosted a two-day
How Not To Commission
by Ray McKenzie
In its information pack ‘Public Art Contacts (VAC2)’, published in November 2008, the Scottish Arts Council lists six organisations in Scotland that describe themselves as agencies for commissio...
ARTISTS AND PLACES – the time for a new relationship and a new agenda
by Andrew Guest
In the new language of ‘place-making’ both artists and architects are now being asked to uncover the unique characteristics that determine sense of place and create places with a di...
Between Conversation and Memory: Collaborative Conversation Making.
by Ruth Barker
In May 2009 I went to the ex servicemen’s club in Huntly, Aberdeenshire, to hear Richard Demarco1 talk about the points at which his o...
Dans l'air du Soir - Notes on Ambient Art
by Neil Mulholland
“The world is full of objects, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more. I prefer, simply, to state the existence of things in terms of time and place.’’
Things made special – sustainable public art making as collective human behaviour
by Michelle Letowska
“To be modern is to be part of a universe in which, as Marx said, ‘all that is solid melts into air’… To be modern is to live a life of paradox and contradiction. It is to be overpowered by ...
The Town is the Venue: The Time is Now
by Patrick Semple
Deveron Arts is an organisation based in Huntly, Aberdeenshire and has as its modus operandi the phrase ‘the town is the venue’. It is the central tenet of a methodology of public arts engagemen...
Advice for the Young At Heart (soon we will be older): Or; Monsters Within The Map
by Anthony Schrag
I don’t necessarily believe in a linear development of a practice. I can’t believe in ‘a path’ that an artist can follow from student, to emerging artist, to established ...
Public / Private Partnership: What crisis of legitimacy?
by Leigh French
Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Visual Art (Gi) which ran from April 11 to 27 2008 was said to be loosely based within the theme of ‘public/private’. It was also promo...
Private Thoughts
by Ruth Barker
Private Thoughts and Public Spaces; Public Acts and Private Places; A free symposium presented by Glasgow Sculpture Studios.
That title is quite long, all things consi...
Throwing Shapes
by Rhona Warwick
‘I imagine a world of inexhaustible, unseen forms’
- Malevich, 19151On a cold January morning in 1919, four years after Kasimir...
Cuimhneachain nan Gaisgeach (Commemoration of our Land Heroes)
by Will McLean
Cuimhneachain nan Gaisgeach (Commemoration of our Land Heroes) was a community-based voluntary organisation formed in 1989 on the Island of Lewis in the Western Isles under the chairmanship of t...
What Have We Learned About Public Art?
by David Harding
Public art has come a long way. What was an occasional event and called public sculpture is now ubiquitous and called public art. It was the recognition of the crucial role of context that gave...