Queen Bee by Natalie Taylor – NorthLight 2012

North Light Arts are very excited to be able to offer opportunities to artists whose environmental practice is participatory, artist’s who work with the environment and can help us to deliver our exciting new project at Garden Lane.

North Light Arts and East Lothian Arts Service are in the process of developing the John Muir Residency 2016 and events, workshops and projects in connection with the development of a community garden and outdoor environmental arts space at our new Garden Lane project, part of theBacklands Regeneration Project Dunbar.

We are looking for environmental artists who have an interest in the work of North Light Arts; in public art and participatory practice, sustainability, horticulture, food production, recycling and repurposing materials, biodiversity, heritage and community.

The Backlands garden site is located behind Dunbar High Street and is a strip of land off Garden Lane, a name that hints at its heritage. Currently the lane is just a thoroughfare from the High Street to the supermarket and car park but this is a key historical site, the area potentially being on the ground of the gardens of an early monastery for the Trinitarians (Red Friars), which was founded 1240 to 1248; the site still retains small traces of the stone walls of the ‘Monks Walk’. Historically the site is known to have been in continuous cultivation and we aim to restore some of the heritage varieties which would have been grown in the locality as mentioned in various historic records and briefly in John Muir’s autobiography from his childhood years in Dunbar.

We plan to engage the community in the process of researching and developing ideas for this inspiring site and the potential this outdoor environmental arts space offers; perhaps for or shelter, perhaps a project space for participatory workshops, events and public art works. We are collaborating with The Ridge who are developing the community garden as a horticultural training centre and they are currently working on the adjacent site to develop a market garden and a produce market. We also hope to work with as many recycled and repurposed materials as possible working in close connection with Zero Waste Town Dunbar.

We are looking for artists whose environmental practice is participatory, artist’s who work with the environment to deliver workshops and those who work with themes of horticulture, heritage, health and well being, biodiversity and sustainability.

If you are interested in working with North Light Arts please send your CV with Six images of your work and explain how you could work with us to deliver our ambitions for the garden at Garden Lane.

To arrive by 12.00 mid day on Monday 14December 2015
Selected artists will be invited to interview in the New Year.

South Glasgow University Hospital and Royal Hospital For Sick Children has recently been the recipient of an extensive art project aiming to enhance the patient experience and journey through art. Ginkgo Projects has been developing creative processes and works of art and design that aim to connect patients, staff and visitors to the hospital’s social cultural and environmental context.

We visited the site and explored the artworks, speaking to key members of the creative teams in the process. Throughout the second half of July, we’ll be showing these videos and providing a glimpse into the process of creating art within a hospital context.

Stayed tuned for we will be showing the rest of our artist interviews from the Glasgow Open House Art Festival over the next two weeks. Exploring a range of disciplines, the videos display the DIY attitude and enthusiasm for exploring something out with the traditional white cube gallery space.

Find out more about the festival by going here

Over the next few months, we’ll be developing the archive section on Art in Scotland TV. You’ll soon be able to see a large range of films, from places like Dundee, Glasgow and Edinburgh, exploring the arts scene in the early 2000s. We’ll also be adding more recent content from 2012/13.

Much of the content from the early 2000s comes from the local TV channels run by the Institute of Local Television, such as Channel Six Dundee and Edinburgh Television. Set up in 2001 Channel Six Dundee was an innovative TV music and arts channel broadcasting to those parts of Dundee reached by the Tay Bridge transmitter. Where available, the signal was easy to receive on portable as well as main TV sets. Viewers could dial up and select the music videos they wanted to appear on air across the City. With this local engagement viewers shaped the selection of content and local bands as well as artists were encouraged to provide their own music videos and short arts films.

The local TV archive is also in the collection of the National Library of Scotland. The archive includes recent programmes on the Traverse Theatre, Louise Bourgeois, plays by Clout Theatre reflections on the Richard Demarco Archive but stretches back to include the 1980s Red Star Cinema news and documentaries shot on Super 8 and includes examples of local TV programming and discussion from around the world filmed throughout the 1980s and 1990s.

We’re also looking for contributions to this archive. Between the time the local tv channels closed, and the first of our .tv websites were launched, there was a gap of a few years. If you’re an artist or arts organisation, and you have videos of exhibitions or events from the mid 2000s, please get in touch. We’d love to include them as part of the archive.

Contact us at hello@artinscotland.tv for more information.

We’re celebrating 15 years of our arts-news archive with a series of compilation programmes. Arts-news began in 2000 as a way of providing short art and literature related news items for the local TV channels Edinburgh Television and Channel Six Dundee. Several of these short clips were combined into programmes.

Our arts-news channels Summerhall TV, Art in Scotland TV and Writer Stories TV deliver short clips on contemporary art, literature and performances. Our sites are built upon an archive of almost 2000 film and TV clips that stretch back to the 1970s (on www.summerhall.tv).

Summerhall TV will be screening the first edition of Not The Late Review, a film by Robert Morgan featuring a discussion on the arts in Edinburgh chaired (informally) by Kevin Williamson of Rebel Inc and (more recently) Neu Reekie!

Art in Scotland TV will be showing a programme on the 5th British Art Show, an impressive array of contemporary artists showing across Edinburgh in 2000.

On WriterStories TV we have The Book Show comprising a compilation of our earliest author interviews – including Moon Unit Zappa and Terry Jones – from our early days interviewing at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

We’re celebrating 15 years of our arts-news archive with a series of compilation programmes. Arts-news began in 2000 as a way of providing short art and literature related news items for the local TV channels Edinburgh Television and Channel Six Dundee. Several of these short clips were combined into programmes.

Our arts-news channels Summerhall TV, Art in Scotland TV and Writer Stories TV deliver short clips on contemporary art, literature and performances. Our sites are built upon an archive of almost 2000 film and TV clips that stretch back to the 1970s (on www.summerhall.tv).

Summerhall TV will be screening the first edition of Not The Late Review, a film by Robert Morgan featuring a discussion on the arts in Edinburgh chaired (informally) by Kevin Williamson of Rebel Inc and (more recently) Neu Reekie!

Art in Scotland TV will be showing a programme on the 5th British Art Show, an impressive array of contemporary artists showing across Edinburgh in 2000.

On WriterStories TV we have The Book Show comprising a compilation of our earliest author interviews – including Moon Unit Zappa and Terry Jones – from our early days interviewing at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

We’re celebrating 15 years of our arts-news archive with a series of compilation programmes. Arts-news began in 2000 as a way of providing short art and literature related news items for the local TV channels Edinburgh Television and Channel Six Dundee. Several of these short clips were combined into programmes.

Our arts-news channels Summerhall TV, Art in Scotland TV and Writer Stories TV deliver short clips on contemporary art, literature and performances. Our sites are built upon an archive of almost 2000 film and TV clips that stretch back to the 1970s (on www.summerhall.tv).

Summerhall TV will be screening the first edition of Not The Late Review, a film by Robert Morgan featuring a discussion on the arts in Edinburgh chaired (informally) by Kevin Williamson of Rebel Inc and (more recently) Neu Reekie!

Art in Scotland TV will be showing a programme on the 5th British Art Show, an impressive array of contemporary artists showing across Edinburgh in 2000.

On WriterStories TV we have The Book Show comprising a compilation of our earliest author interviews – including Moon Unit Zappa and Terry Jones – from our early days interviewing at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

The Parallel University is a response to an increased volume of student demand for training/mentoring in skills that are relevant for work in the new small-scale TV broadcasting and web based TV industries. This includes platforms providing access to news and commentary via social media feeds such as Facebook and Twitter, as well as dedicated TV sites supported by YouTube or Vimeo.

From its Summerhall HQ, ILT will run a course of forty hours in duration (running part-time over three or so months and to suit student availability) to fine-tune TV skills among students studying TV and Journalism, in preparation for work in local and community TV. Students will get the opportunity to make 8 clips, 2-3 minutes in length. To successfully graduate the student’s TV clips will need to be accepted for screening on one of several approved .tv sites, and/or local TV (initially NvTv in Belfast).

Each 2-3 minute clip will follow a simple template or pattern comprising interview(s) and cutaways. Some clips will be time-critical. Production and editing will be expected to take less than four hours while for time-critical interviews filming, editing and publishing will be completed over the course of a single day.

The primary objective of the course is to bring student TV-making practices up to speed with increasing social demand (in Scotland) to generate alternative sources of TV news and cultural documentation.

ILT’s Director, Dr David Rushton, has been involved with local and community of interest film and TV making since 1979. Rushton taught TV and Communication Policy at Queen Margaret University from 1990-2000, establishing Channel Six Broadcasting Ltd in 1999 with Local TV Masters graduates who ran Edinburgh Television and Channel Six Dundee until 2003. Rushton has long been an advocate of local broadcasting in local hands and his doctorate concerns the demands for an as-yet un-realised local public service television. He has written regularly on applying the principle of subsidiarity to broadcasting in Scotland.

Courses will take place at the Institute of Local Television’s offices at Summerhall, Edinburgh.

For more information, please contact Institute of Local Television on 07906 692506 or local.tv@virgin.net. 

The Parallel University is a response to an increased volume of student demand for training/mentoring in skills that are relevant for work in the new small-scale TV broadcasting and web based TV industries. This includes platforms providing access to news and commentary via social media feeds such as Facebook and Twitter, as well as dedicated TV sites supported by YouTube or Vimeo.

From its Summerhall HQ, ILT will run a course of forty hours in duration (running part-time over three or so months and to suit student availability) to fine-tune TV skills among students studying TV and Journalism, in preparation for work in local and community TV. Students will get the opportunity to make 8 clips, 2-3 minutes in length. To successfully graduate the student’s TV clips will need to be accepted for screening on one of several approved .tv sites, and/or local TV (initially NvTv in Belfast).

Each 2-3 minute clip will follow a simple template or pattern comprising interview(s) and cutaways. Some clips will be time-critical. Production and editing will be expected to take less than four hours while for time-critical interviews filming, editing and publishing will be completed over the course of a single day.

The primary objective of the course is to bring student TV-making practices up to speed with increasing social demand (in Scotland) to generate alternative sources of TV news and cultural documentation.

ILT’s Director, Dr David Rushton, has been involved with local and community of interest film and TV making since 1979. Rushton taught TV and Communication Policy at Queen Margaret University from 1990-2000, establishing Channel Six Broadcasting Ltd in 1999 with Local TV Masters graduates who ran Edinburgh Television and Channel Six Dundee until 2003. Rushton has long been an advocate of local broadcasting in local hands and his doctorate concerns the demands for an as-yet un-realised local public service television. He has written regularly on applying the principle of subsidiarity to broadcasting in Scotland.

Courses will take place at the Institute of Local Television’s offices at Summerhall, Edinburgh.

For more information, please contact Institute of Local Television on 07906 692506 or local.tv@virgin.net. 

Every year, Summerhall hosts a massive programme of visual arts during August and September. This carefully curated programme features sculpture, installation, printmaking, photography, video and much more.

In our Features section, we’ve pulled together a selection of our coverage of this year’s programme, featuring interviews with some of the artists and curators behind the shows.

Click here to find out more about the programme.

GENERATION : 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland is a landmark series of exhibitions celebrating contemporary art in Scotland from the past 25 years. Scotland is an incredible hub of talent, with 5 major art schools boasting Turner prize nominated and winning alumni, and is home to some of the finest art institutions and spaces around. We’ve been busy covering as many of the exhibitions as we can, and have rounded up our selection of videos in the Features section. Everything from installation and sculpture, to printmaking and photography features in our coverage, and can give you an insight into what the Scottish art scene has been doing over the last 25 years, and what it has the potential to do for the next 25 years.

At each festival, Summerhall TV provides news clips on as many Summerhall festival events as we can. These are featured on the main page of our site, and on Summerhall’s festival site as well.

On request, we can also produce archive films of performances, and, subject to discussion, a more televisual version of plays and musical events that take place at Summerhall. In our Features section, you can see a small selection of some of the live events we’ve captured from last year’s festival.

For more details about this service, please contact us on hello@summerhall.tv.

Local TV on Freeview is starting to roll out across the United Kingdom, with Grimsby TV and London Live already launched, Glasgow TV expected to launch in June with Edinburgh TV among a further eighteen due to launch this year.

Local TV offers significant opportunities for volunteering, freelance positions and jobs within this new more localised industry.

The Institute of Local Television has been involved in pioneering local TV since 1989: from researching and representing public demand to drafting amendments to legislation, providing training to programming on local TV in Edinburgh and Dundee.

In July and August, we will be hosting a summer school at Summerhall with Summerhall TV for people who wish to make arts-news for local TV. You will be able to contribute to our sites summerhall.tv, artinscotland.tv and writerstories.tv.

We’ll show you how to construct simple but effective arts-news clips, using a range of HD cameras and editing software such as Premier and Final Cut Pro.

The school will take place from last week of July through till end of August and can address part-time as well as full-time commitment.

If you’re interesting send your CV to hello@summerhall.tv with links to examples of video work you’ve shot and edited. To ensure a rich experience numbers are limited and the closing date for all applications is 14th JUNE 2014.

Interviews will be conducted either face to face or via Skype (if more convenient).

Local TV on Freeview is starting to roll out across the United Kingdom, with Grimsby TV and London Live already launched, Glasgow TV expected to launch in June with Edinburgh TV among a further eighteen due to launch this year.

Local TV offers significant opportunities for volunteering, freelance positions and jobs within this new more localised industry.

The Institute of Local Television has been involved in pioneering local TV since 1989: from researching and representing public demand to drafting amendments to legislation, providing training to programming on local TV in Edinburgh and Dundee.

In July and August, we will be hosting a summer school at Summerhall with Summerhall TV for people who wish to make arts-news for local TV. You will be able to contribute to our sites summerhall.tv, artinscotland.tv and writerstories.tv.

We’ll show you how to construct simple but effective arts-news clips, using a range of HD cameras and editing software such as Premier and Final Cut Pro.

The school will take place from last week of July through till end of August and can address part-time as well as full-time commitment.

If you’re interesting send your CV to hello@summerhall.tv with links to examples of video work you’ve shot and edited. To ensure a rich experience numbers are limited and the closing date for all applications is 14th JUNE 2014.

Interviews will be conducted either face to face or via Skype (if more convenient).

We are delighted to hear that artist Ciara Phillips has been nominated for this year’s Turner Prize. The show for which she was nominated was inspired by artist Corita Kent, who died in 1986. Workshop (2010-Ongoing) explores the collaborative process behind printing by inviting artists, designers and local women’s groups to participate, share ideas, knowledge and experience.

Ciara Phillips is a Glasgow based artist and produces site-specific installations with screenprints, textiles and wall paintings, and often works collaboratively with other artists and designers. Phillips has been involved in collaborative and solo shows, including ‘And More’, which was a site specific exhibition held at Inverleith House.

The Turner Prize is in its 30th year, and awards an artist who has shown an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work in the past 12 months. The prize is for £40,000, with £25,000 going to the winner, and £5000 going to each of the other nominees. This year, the artists nominated work in film, collaboration, performance or installation. The prize will take place at Tate Britain from 30 September 2014 to 4 January 2015. The winner will be announced on Monday 1 December 2014 at an awards ceremony, broadcast live on Channel 4.

April saw the first Glasgow Open House Art Festival, which is a new annual festival providing large platform for the city’s arts community. Exhibitions were held in the flats of artists, in outdoor spaces, and in spaces that were disused, therefore providing an alternative to the more establish galleries that are common within cities.

Planning for the Festival began in 2013. Initially organised by a small group of Glasgow School of Art graduates, the programme now includes over 70 participants from various backgrounds. 34 venues in the South Side, East End, West End and City Centre is connected by use of a map and program made freely available across the city and online.

We filmed several of the exhibitions, and caught up with the artists behind the work on show. We’ve dedicated our Features Archive section to the festival coverage, enabling viewers to see some of the unique and interesting work that was on display.

The artist and printmaker Alan Davie has died at the age of 93. From the Art in Scotland archives, this interview between Davie and Patrick Elliot explores the retrospective exhibition of his work that was on at the Scottish National Museum of Modern Art.

Alan Davie was a Scottish painter and musician. He was born in Grangemouth to a painter and etcher father, so it was no surprise Davie himself would follow a similar educational path. Davie was a prolific painter and produced many works exploring myths and symbolism, in a style that was unmistakably his.

In tandem with the Edinburgh International Science Festival, the Summerhall Visual Arts Programme will be running from the 5th April. Featuring works in sculpture, installation, painting and video, the exhibitions explore many themes within science, from black holes to biological electricity.

You can catch the first of our videos talking to the artists about the work they’ve got on display. Artist Jessica Lloyd-Jones presents her exhibition Hidden Energies.

As part of Hidden Door’s Video Activism Night, Red Star Cinema will be showing some of the films it made in the 80s that covered demonstrations and workers movements that the mainstream media seemed to overlook.

Red Star cinema was established in 1979 to provide coverage of demonstrations and activities supported by the Labour movement and Trade unions in Central Scotland. Short newsreels were made and shown alongside full length feature films hired from the Other Cinema such as Battleship Potemkin and Battle of Algiers. Red Star went on to make short documentaries on the history of workers cinema and in support of CND and the Sandinista Movement in Nicaragua.

The Royal Scottish Academy presents its annual New Contemporaries exhibition, a large showcase of art work from recent graduates from Scotland’s art colleges and architecture schools. Presenting a whole host of works from the many and varied disciplines, this exhibition provides a great platform for up-and-coming artists to exhibit their work to the general public.

We’ve updated our Features section to reflect our coverage of the exhibition. You will find our longer video split into five parts, each part featuring interviews with some of the participating artists, and the Director of the RSA, Colin Greenslade.

Renowned Labour politician Tony Benn died on 14th March, aged 88. A very outspoken member of Parliament, Benn served in politics from 1950 until 2001. He ran for Labour leadership many times, and backed many campaigns in his career as an MP. It was his diaries and documentation of daily parliamentary life that Benn became most known for. Releasing his diaries in volumes, Benn was able to lift the lid on politics and provide insight to those that may not have discovered it before.

We’ve updated our Features section with three videos of Tony Benn, which will give the viewer an idea of the energy Benn had displayed throughout his political career.

The architectural landscape of Edinburgh has seen many changes over the past few years, with the abundance of contemporary architecture nestled amongst the more traditional style that Edinburgh is most famous for.

We’ve dedicated our Features section to showcasing our Buildings and Landscape strand of Summerhall TV, a series of programmes that explore the rationale behind some of Edinburgh’s contemporary architecture, and the debate that some have sparked.

The John Hope Gateway, the National Museum of Scotland’s extension and our very own Summerhall are just some of the examples of Edinburgh’s contemporary and traditional architecture that makes this city unique.

We’ll be running two arts-news courses on the 6th and 7th March for staff and local media graduates at Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum & Arts Centre in Lochmaddy, North Uist, and at Atlas Arts in Portree, Skye.

Our trainer Ben Grieve ran a successful two day course at Summerhall on 29th and 30th January, training up four new volunteers. Since completing the course, two of the participants have gone on to edit two programmes for Art in Scotland TV and Summerhall TV, and continue to cover arts-news.

Leila Frank from Glory Days PR has graduated from training in October, and now provides arts-news from the Scottish Borders. Her most recent clip on an artists retreat-residency in a crumbling mansion near Selkirk will be on Art in Scotland shortly.

To celebrate the life and work of artist Louise Bourgeois, we’re showing our coverage of exhibitions and talks showcasing her work in Edinburgh. From the Scottish National Gallery and ARTIST ROOMS exhibition ‘Louise Bourgeois : A Woman Without Secrets’ to the Fruitmarket’s ‘I Give Everything Away’, we have plenty for you to see over the Christmas period.

Louise Bourgeois was born on Christmas day, in 1911, and went on to become one of the most revered artists in contemporary art. Her work spanned from painting, printmaking and sculpture. Much of her inspiration for her pieces was drawn from childhood experiences, exploration into family roles, and sexuality of the being.

Louise Bourgeois : A Woman Without Secrets is on at Modern One, Edinburgh, until the 18th May, 2014.

Louise Bourgeois : I Give Everything Away is on at the Fruitmarket, Edinburgh, until the 24th February, 2014.

Over the past year, we’ve kept up with artist Rachel Maclean’s work, from her exhibition at Summerhall, to presenting commissioned work for the Edinburgh Printmakers.

In our Archive section, we’re showcasing a selection of videos we made with the artist, which explores her work and practices, giving us an insight into the weird and wonderful characters and themes in her art work.

Rachel Maclean’s work is based primarily in green screen composite film and digital print, in which she creates bright and colourful worlds for her many and varied characters to exist in. All the characters are played by Rachel herself, with the costumes constructed by her too. The audio which accompanies the video is appropriated from YouTube, often from videos that have gone viral, the most famous one being the ‘Double Rainbow Guy’.

Rachel’s Work:

LolCats
The Lion and the Unicorn
Over the Rainbow
I HEART SCOTLAND