Sunday 26 March, 3-6pm
A key part of Art Is Everywhere has been connecting with artists living and working in North Lanarkshire. We want to fill the area with amazing art that is accessible and everywhere. To get the ball rolling, we invited artists to apply for grants to produce work that is relevant to their community and made people think differently about what art is. We managed to fund eight projects in the fields of photography, film, community arts, dance, mixed-media and performance art.
In this session, you’ll hear from the artists involved, see some of them perform and get up close with the people who made it happen. You’ll also have a chance to hear about their vision for the arts in North Lanarkshire.
We’ll be presenting work by the following artists:
David Gilliver Art is Everywhere (if you look closely enough)
David Gilliver is a photographer, artist and recent winner in the macro photography category at the British Photography Awards, 2022. David has created a series of miniature scenes or ‘dioramas’ that question our relationship with the place in which we live.
Eilidh Manson Junk to Funk
Eilidh Manson is a visual arts tutor and mixed-media artist working across North Lanarkshire. She has a passion for giving old things a new life, and worked with community groups across North Lanarkshire turning discarded items into pieces of art.
Emma Ferla Referlished: Trash Art
Emma Ferla is an artist and jewellery designer who cares deeply about plastic waste and the climate challenge. Inspired by the woodlands and nature reserves that surround her home, Emma has created three visual art pieces using plastic waste and bottle tops.
Overdrive Dance Status: Changed
Overdrive Dance Company engages male identifying young people with dance and creative movement. They present Status:Changed – a contemporary dance performance reworked by the young people involved and filmed in various locations around North Lanarkshire.
Holly Worton & Yas Mawer Working (C)Lassies
Holly Worton and Mawer are multi-disciplinary and performance artists respectively. Working C(Lassies) is a site-specific performance art piece exploring stories of Working Class women across the North Lanarkshire area.
Kim Beveridge What does it feel to be a young woman in North Lanarkshire today?
Kim Beveridge is a digital artist, filmmaker, AV designer and part-time lecturer. Kim created and filmed a series of dance performance pieces in collaboration with New College Lanarkshire Performing Arts students. Inspired by the online communities found on social medial platforms, the piece explores themes of self-exploration, class and place.
Ryan Pollock Bluebird
Ryan Pollock is a 23-year-old writer and filmmaker from Wishaw. His film Bluebird tells the story of an unfulfilled litter picker, searching for the meaning that his life has always seemed to lack, and growing concerned at a volatile domestic situation in the neighbouring flat.
Wullie Elliott Positive Images of Ageing
Wullie Elliott took up photography at the age of 67. For Art Is Everywhere, he has created a stunning series of portraits showing older people in a positive light; doing the things that they love, which provide them with purposeful living in later years.
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