Author: Alan Holligan

LOCAL: New art / community project launched in North Edinburgh

NESHG & CAP_ETC first meeting at North Edinburgh Arts

LOCAL is a recently launched ongoing collaborative  project which seeks to establish community links between Contemporary Art students and staff from  Edinburgh College (Granton) and the local communities of North Edinburgh. The project was launched at North Edinburgh Art Centre in September when we met with the North Edinburgh Social History Group (NESHG). The group and local  Community Learning and Development worker Lynn McCabe, gave a fantastic presentation about the ares surrounding the Granton Campus from its time as land of gentry as part of  the Duke Buccleuch Estate, through the industrialisation of the forth ports, the relocation of the Leith Street slums through to the rent strikes and activism of the last 40 years. After a lively Q&A session which spilled over into lunchtime the group brought the history to life during a bus tour of the local area.

At the end of the tour students were given the task of developing artwork/s in response to the presentation the tour and their discussions.

This week the group; Roberta Blaikie, Brian Eddington, Anna Hutchison, Ian Moore, Brian Robertson and Lynn McCabe joined us at the Granton Campus for lunch followed by a presentation of the work the students had produced. The response from the group was overwhelmingly positive and the discussions were fantastic. Speaking on behalf of the group Lynn said;

“We were all blown away by the creativeness of the students work and the relevance of their art  to many of the issues which North Edinburgh has experienced over many years.  It was a really inspiring afternoon and great to see such a positive relationship flourish between the college and  the community”.

Everyone at ContemporaryArtETC is equally delighted with how the project is developing;

“The students have responded extremely well to the brief and we are very happy that everyone has resoponded so well to the project. This is only the first part of what we all hope will be a long, strong and creative relationship”. Alan Holligan Lecturer at ContemporaryArtETC

Images from the initial meeting and the presentation by the students are viewable below. LOCAL will continue and we hope the next stage will involve a public presentation of the work and workshops within the community.

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Say Hello! Wave Goodbye!

The ContemporarayARTetc.com team are delighted to welcome the new AIRetc… Gregor Morrison who moved into the studio today. Gregor will be in residence until the end of January 2013. You can follow what he gets up to at www.AIRetc.wordpress.com and at his own site by clicking HERE

There is a tinge of sadness however as today was also our last chance to wish outgoing AIRetc… Natalie Wilson all the best of wishes as her wonderful show at the Bill Scott Sculpture Centre at ESW came to an end.

Hopefully Natalie will post up some images of the show before she signs off for the last time! Make sure you visit her website to keep up with what she’s up to!

http://www.nataliewilson.eu

AIRetc… Announces 2012 – 2013 Residents

The AIRetc… selection committee have announced the two artists selected for the 2012 – 2013 residencies at Edinburgh’s Telford College. They are Gregor Morrison and Neil Nodzak.

Gregor Morrison graduated from the Masters in Contemporary Art course at Edinburgh College of Art in July 2012 having previously gained BAhons in Fine Art Printmaking at Grey’s School of Art in Aberdeen. Prior to his move to Aberdeen Gregor studied on the Btec Foundation course here at Telford. Gregor’s work is concerned with  found information and materials building layered prints and constructs to reinterpret old disused and abandoned information.

Gregor will be in residence from September 2012 – January 2013

Since Graduating from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in 2011 Neil Nodzak has been producing work in his studio at Tin Roof Studio’s and Gallery in Dundee. Neil was awarded the Tin Roof Internship which included a free studio, exhibition and seat on the organizations committee. Before turning up in the ‘City of Discovery’ not to mention the home of the ‘mince roll’ Neil studied at Telford on the HND and Foundation courses

Neil will be in residence from February 2103 – June 2013

The staff and students here are #cap_etc are delighted that the AIRetc… programme is continuing into next year and we really looking forward to having the 2 residents in the studio next door!

Telford HND Graduate presses ahead in the design world!

Congratulations to HND Graduate Lyndsey Hunter who’s wonderful degree show has earned her 1st Class Honours. Lyndsey studied HND Public Art, the fore runner to Contemporary Art Practice and was able to use her HND to go straight into the 3rd year of the Design & Digital Arts Degree course at Napier University.

Lyndsey’s final project was developed from an interest in the illusionary aspects of high budget theme-park rides and an analysis of data gathered through a survey of the publics deep rooted personal fears. Her response was to produce an multi sensory immersive environment which gives the viewer a very authentic sense of being lost in the woods at night with a distant lightning storm approaching.

As well as designing these immersive environment, which she hopes to be publicly sited in museums, Lyndsey has also started her own print company called The Hunter Press. Specialising in event stationary and print The Hunter Press will be a fully operation print press studio using 3 newly restored Hiedelberg Windmill Presses.

lyndseyhunter.co.uk
lyndseyhunter.tumblr.com
thehunterpress.tumblr.co.uk
@h_lyndsey

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