Background The Dark Skies/ Biosphere Project aims to explore the role of artists practice in a meaningful promotion of this beautiful area of Galloway, which has attracted both Dark Skies Park Status and is aiming to secure Biosphere status by Spring 2012. Dark Skies Park means it is one of the best places in the... Continue Reading →
Too Shallow for Diving
Review of the exhibition Too Shallow for Diving: the 21st Century is Treading Water. The review contextualises current environmental and ecological arts practices across a wide range of media. The review discusses in detail work in the exhibition by Tim Collins + Reiko Goto, Carolyn Speranza, Prudence Gill, Jim Denney, Richard Harned, Roger Laib, Jamie Gruzska,... Continue Reading →
Co-Producing PAR+RS
Creative Scotland has just formally announced that I have, along with Trigger (Suzy Glass and Angie Bual http://www.triggerstuff.co.uk) been appointed as Co-Producers for PAR+RS http://www.publicartscotland.com, Creative Scotland's public art development project. So I've got a provocative question to start the ball rolling, is public art a subset of visual arts or is it everything across... Continue Reading →
Transition Design
The creative futures (cf.) research centre at the University of the West of Scotland presents an evening lecture by Gideon Kossoff titled: ‘Early Thoughts on Transition Design’. The event is chaired by cf. Associate Director Graham Jeffery. 14th November 2011, 19.30-21.30 at the University of the West of Scotland, Ayr Campus. Gideon Kossoff is a... Continue Reading →
We need hope through art
I posted this to comment Facebook yesterday, and wanted to connect it to Alastair McIntosh's piece in the Guardian on Saturday, I was in Glorious Govan yesterday for Alastair McIntosh's Kandinsky and Spirituality event. What a difficult subject to tackle in the here and now. Ran into many friends and colleagues. I suppose I wanted... Continue Reading →
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