Creative Scotland has announced details of the 119 organisations that make up its new Regular Funding portfolio, benefiting from regular support over a three-year period.
What kind of studio space do artists require? Traditionally the answer was simple: a big, airy space with north facing windows and affordable. WASPS, a Scottish based charity, aim to provide such spaces and they were in Stirling last week […]
As Scotland votes No to independence, we take a snapshot of the responses of some of the country’s many Yes-voting artists.
In less than four weeks, Scotland will be voting to decide whether to become an independent nation or remain part of the UK. Chris Sharratt speaks to artists and those working in the visual arts in the country and finds thinking that runs much deeper than nationalism, oil revenues and questions of currency.
Former Edinburgh Napier graduate, Alicia Bruce, has been named as the recipient of the £5,000 RSA Morton Award 2014 towards researching and developing a new body of photographic work.
Yann Seznec’s Edinburgh Art Festival commission, Currents, uses recycled computer fans and digital technology to recreate global wind patterns in a former police box. Chris Sharratt finds out more.
Since 2012 the Edinburgh Art Festival has had ‘tourists-in-residence’, Edinburgh-based artists commissioned to create work around the theme of a tour. Richard Taylor talks to this year’s residents, who plan to be gagged and blindfolded for their first tour around the city.
A 12-hour ‘jamming symposium’ in Dundee seeks to explore artists’ collaborations in Scotland through a series of gigs, performances, screenings and readings.
As Glasgow prepares for the 2014 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony at Celtic Park tonight, Chris Sharratt takes a look at Jim Lambie’s new public art piece in the city’s east end, and some of the other visual arts activity taking place during the Games.
New temporary sculptures by Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan get a soft launch in Glasgow tomorrow, before heading north to the Hebridean islands of Skye and North Uist. Part of GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary in Scotland.
Last week saw the official launch of Generation, a Scotland-wide celebration of the last 25 years of contemporary art in the country, with blockbuster summer shows opening in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Chris Sharratt reports.
Now in its tenth year, Embassy Gallery’s Annuale festival in Edinburgh celebrates artist-led collaboration in Scotland’s capital and beyond.
With less than three months to go to the Scottish independence referendum, what does Creative Scotland’s recently published Annual Plan 2014-15 say about the country’s approach to public investment in the arts? Johnny Gailey argues that it represents a significant divergence from the UK narrative of funding cuts, economic benefits and philanthropy.
A Glasgow city centre bar is hosting a week of discussion and debate around the Scottish Referendum, including an evening event hosted by the Scottish Artists Union.
Creative Scotland has launched its 10-year plan for the arts, screen and creative industries in Scotland, setting out its ambitions and priorities over the next decade.
New Glasgow International director Sarah McCrory has stamped her personality on the festival’s programme, but the sixth edition of this biennial with a difference still retains its unique character and sense of place.
Sir Sandy Crombie, the first chair of Scotland’s arts funding body Creative Scotland, is to leave his position after four years in the role.
The sixth edition of Glasgow International, the biennial festival of contemporary art in Scotland’s biggest city, is the first with new director Sarah McCrory at the helm. On the eve of its public launch, she explains why both laughter and tears are important in art.
A new arts documentary film festival produced in partnership with the BBC is to take place in April as part of the Glasgow International festival.
Creative Scotland has announced £9.4million of capital funding for 12 organisations in Scotland, including Collective Gallery, Fruitmarket Gallery, Cove Park and Hospitalfield Arts.
The arts funding body for Scotland is seeking feedback on a draft version of its new plan for 2014-24.
A new, historically sensitive space at Edinburgh’s former City Observatory on Calton Hill expands Collective’s programme of Scottish and international work.
