Images: EDIT // Project Space 2023 // Look again x WAHS // At This Place 2023 // Look Again Festival 2018 - 2019
// What’s On //
ENGAGE
At Gray’s School of Art
Engage is a creative development programme designed at Gray’s School of Art and delivered in their purpose-built studios and workshops by experienced practitioners and alumni of the school
It is designed to support both beginners interests in art and design, alongside continued professional development for those seeking to enhance their skillsets and expertise.
To find out more about ENGAGE and sign up to workshops - please click below:
EDIT
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Unit 11
Bon Accord Centre
Aberdeen
AB25 1HZ (near Costa)
Edit is an independent lifestyle store celebrating designers, artists and makers from North East Scotland. Each piece in Edit has been made with care, love and craftsmanship and gives you a chance to purchase a variety of bespoke and handmade goods, including ceramics, jewellery, prints, textiles and so much more.
// Opening Hours //
monday: closed
tue/wed/thu/fri: 11am - 3pm
saturday: 10am - 5pm
sunday: 12-4pm
Edit is delivered by Look Again, Gray’s School of Art and Deemouth Artist Studios in Partnership with Bon Accord.
@editaberdeen
Performing the Archive: #Correspondences – Women’s Voices
2025 marks the 140th anniversary of Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen. To mark this significant anniversary, Look Again is thrilled to announce an opportunity for local artists to create new works inspired by the legacies of four pioneering women artist-educators: Barbara Balmer, Joyce Cairns, Frances Walker and Sylvia Wishart.
The works will be shown as part of a special exhibition and associated programme opening at Aberdeen Art Gallery in November 2025.
The opportunity is open to women-identifying alumni of Gray’s who live and work in the AB postcode area.
There are 4 awards of £2,250 available.
APPLICATION DEADLINE:
Monday, 10 February 2025
Performing the Archive: #Correspondences – Women’s Voices is supported by Aberdeen City Council - Creative Funding and RGU Art & Heritage Collections.
// Look Back at Look Again //
Look & Learn
2016
Look and Learn was a professional development programme co-designed and delivered by Look Again and Creative Learning, Aberdeen City Council. This new approach to professional development for emerging visual art and design talent in Aberdeen City and Shire was supported by Robert Gordon University and Youth Arts Collective North East (YACNE), as part of Creative Scotland’s ‘Time to Shine’ initiative.
The Intended outcomes were increased skills, knowledge and confidence, and there was an aspiration from the outset that the selected young creative would continue to practice as a collective in Aberdeen, addressing recognised issues of creative talent retention in the region.
Lead Artist: Jason Nelson
STACK Artist Collective:
Laura Reilly // Claire Paul // Claire Burnett // Grant Anderson // Jess Connor // Donald Butler
// Facades/Fronts //
Emily Speed
2018
Facades/Fronts was a commission for Look Again by Artist Emily Speed working in Partnership with Citymoves Dance Agency. Speed developed the work with choreographer Jack Webb and a group of 13 young female dancers, producing a live performance during Look Again Festival, costumes and a film.
The work took the Year of Young People as a starting point and drew upon the architecture of Aberdeen, using architectural façade as a metaphor for exploring the forming of one’s own identity, particularly as a woman. The dancers performed together, their bodies contrasting with the imposing granite forms that have historically housed patriarchal civic activity.
Dancers: Carly Campbell, Xenoa Campbell-Ledgister, Iseabail Duncan, Katie McFarlane, Melissa Heywood, Bethany Ransom, Isla Reid, Ella Skinner, Neila Stephens, Katie Taylor, Kirsty Tennion, Kirsten Walker.
Flag Up Aberdeen
2018
Flag Up Aberdeen was devised by a group six design practitioners, brought together through a micro-residency programme under the mentorship of Look Again and Marc Cairns from Pidgin Perfect. The project spoke to people all across Aberdeen to find out what it means to like here; what they are proud of and what they dream of for the city. The group gathered these voices and turned them into a series of flags which were located in the city centre, encouraging people to pause and reflect on this ongoing discussion.
Practitioners:
Steven Affleck // Madeleine Edwards // Isla Goldie // Shirin Karbor // Ruth Kirby Organ // Becky Orlinski
// Love at First Sight //
Morag Myerscough
2019
For her first project in Scotland, Morag presented Love at First Sight, a large scale structure; part pavilion, part-stage, that encircled the Mercat Cross in the historic Castlegate, animating it with her signature super colourful work. Love at First Sight puts Aberdeen firmly at the centre of Myerscough’s family narrative. The journey north east was an emotional re-connection with the city where her parents first met, in a chance encounter on the stairs of an Aberdeen boarding house. This new work referenced that pivotal moment and highlighted the traditional role of the Mercat Cross as a meeting point and place of exchange.
Love At First Sight was hand painted by the community and we were, and still are, indebted to the 30 hard working volunteers, without whom this project could not have been realised.
Morag worked with Northeast-based poet Jo Gilbert, who wrote new Doric poems which were incorporated into the structure and curated a series of performances from the local Aberdeen spoken word, comedy and music scenes. Jo also collaborated with Aberdeen Multi Cultural Centre and these new works were powerfully emotional in their outpouring of love for the city.
Super Monday Club
2018
Super Monday Club was a series of workshops designed by STACK Artist Collective for Look Again Festival and Denis Law’s Streetsport, to add art activities to the sports already provided by the highly successful Cruyff Court located at Catherine Street Community Centre.
Super Monday Club workshops were organised by:
Claire Burnett // Claire Paul // Grant Anderson // Grant Anderson
// The Fourth Wall //
John Walter
2019
The Fourth Wall by John Walter was a 360° immersive video exhibited in Virtual Reality. His first VR work, it built on his experience of working in video, animation, computer-aided design, collage, painting and sculpture but abbreviated these approaches into a completely new kind of maximalist aesthetic by compressing and hybridising them.
The setting for The Fourth Wall was the extraordinary Marischal College. It featured within the composition, recurring as a leitmotif that changes scale and character over time much like a melody varies within a song. Alongside historical references such as the obelisk that once stood in the quad, and Aberdeen as the site of a typhoid outbreak in the 1960s, traced to Fray Bentos corned beef, images and slogans from John’s repertoire were conjoined in a complex adaptive system of saturated colour that created a dizzying immersive experience of the site.
