Poetry, art in the
landscape and artist made books – the Stewartry Arts Hub is certainly covering
a lot of ground in its contribution to EAFS.
Financial support from Fresh Start for the Arts has allowed it to come up with and co-ordinate three highly engaging projects which will take place during the rapidly approaching Environmental Art Festival Scotland.
One of them is Place Identity Memory 2, an international exhibition of artist-made books which (as the publicity picture of a woman Samurai shows) looks likely to take visitors into all kinds of unexpected worlds.
Financial support from Fresh Start for the Arts has allowed it to come up with and co-ordinate three highly engaging projects which will take place during the rapidly approaching Environmental Art Festival Scotland.
One of them is Place Identity Memory 2, an international exhibition of artist-made books which (as the publicity picture of a woman Samurai shows) looks likely to take visitors into all kinds of unexpected worlds.
It’s on at The Bakehouse, in Gatehouse of Fleet, over all four days of the Core Festival
from 30 August to 2 September and is being organised by the IRIS artists’
collective.
Preparations are also
underway for an evening of poetry and prose at The Bakehouse on Sunday, 1
September, celebrating the work of Kenneth White, the father of geopoetics.
In addition to readings, it’s hoped there will be a visual element. This would be a seven panel maquette of an artist book (shown at the RSA in Edinburgh this year) by Will Maclean which was inspired by a poem The Island Road.
This would also be on show at The Bakehouse and would handily sit alongside the IRIS exhibition.
Over at The Mill on the Fleet there will be an event called Middle Distance, again on the Sunday, which really gets to the heart of EAFS themes.
It will consist of a series of short, illustrated presentations about past, present and future projects linking art to the land – and there is an impressive amount of this in D&G.
One presentation will be about Morag Paterson and Ted Leeming’s Zero Footprint enterprise, which involved taking pictures of the landscape each day from the same spot – do have a look at the photos, they are stunning.
Another will be from Anna Johnson, National Scenic Area Officer, who has run a variety of arts initiatives in the region and has done some particularly noteworthy work with school pupils and with the University of the Third Age.
There will also be the chance to find out about plans for A People’s Atlas of South West Scotland, which will allow communities to describe themselves and what makes them distinctive.
● You can now visit the Fresh Start website at www.freshstartforthearts.com/
In addition to readings, it’s hoped there will be a visual element. This would be a seven panel maquette of an artist book (shown at the RSA in Edinburgh this year) by Will Maclean which was inspired by a poem The Island Road.
This would also be on show at The Bakehouse and would handily sit alongside the IRIS exhibition.
Over at The Mill on the Fleet there will be an event called Middle Distance, again on the Sunday, which really gets to the heart of EAFS themes.
It will consist of a series of short, illustrated presentations about past, present and future projects linking art to the land – and there is an impressive amount of this in D&G.
One presentation will be about Morag Paterson and Ted Leeming’s Zero Footprint enterprise, which involved taking pictures of the landscape each day from the same spot – do have a look at the photos, they are stunning.
Another will be from Anna Johnson, National Scenic Area Officer, who has run a variety of arts initiatives in the region and has done some particularly noteworthy work with school pupils and with the University of the Third Age.
There will also be the chance to find out about plans for A People’s Atlas of South West Scotland, which will allow communities to describe themselves and what makes them distinctive.
● You can now visit the Fresh Start website at www.freshstartforthearts.com/
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