Images: At This Place 2023 // Look again x WAHS 2023 // Look Again Festival 2018 - 2019
// What’s On //
Project Space -
SEPTEMBER - DECEMBER 2023
State of Independence
Are you a freelance artist, musician, designer, photographer, dancer, actor, technician, or all the above and more? Then this event is for you. Even if you don’t make your living solely as a freelancer, your voice is important. You might work hard for your money in another job, we want to hear from everyone…
State of Independence is an opportunity for freelancers and any creative people to start identifying what support the freelance community in Aberdeen might need, what can be done to support them and what the future might look like?
Tuesday 7 November 2023
Location:
Citymoves Dance Agency’s Schoolhill Studio, Aberdeen, AB10 1JS
For more info and to book your free ticket on Eventbrite click below:
Staff Outing III
This exhibition celebrates the exceptional talents of the artists and designers at Gray’s School of Art.
Over 40 staff members have come together to create a diverse fusion of creativity, spanning various mediums from photography and painting, to ceramics, illustration, jewellery, digital art and more.
Opening night:
Friday 27 October 6 - 9pm
* ALL WELCOME *
Exhibition Open:
28 October - 5 November
Sat + Sun // 11am - 4pm
Look Again Project Space
32 St Andrew Street
AB25 1JA
ENGAGE
At Gray’s School of Art
Engage is a new creative development programme designed at Gray’s School of Art and delivered in their purpose-built studios and workshops.
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.
Delivered by experienced practitioners and alumni of the school, the creative development programme kicked off with an online and in-person portfolio building course. A range of weekend activity and evening provisions - beginning with a series of Art Weekenders will start in February 2023.
To find out more about ENGAGE and sign up to workshops - please click below:
NORTHERN LIGHTS
// SPECTRA 2024 //
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
‘Northern Lights’ will be an interactive augmented reality (AR) experience activating urban space around Aberdeen city centre as part of SPECTRA, Scotland’s Festival of Light. This new programme will shine a light on creative practitioners working across multiple artforms who have a connection to the northeast.
Aberdeen based artist Craig Barrowman will collaborate with 10 creative practitioners to allow for the audience to place AR digital artworks in Aberdeen City centre.
Click below to find out more
EDIT
by Deemouth Artist Studios
EDIT is a new retail unit featuring the work of creative practitioners from Deemouth Artist Studios, giving you the chance to access creative talent and purchase goods directly from the studio residents.
#AtThisPlace
LOCATION:
34 Upperkirkgate, Aberdeen, AB10 1BA
OPEN:
Friday + Saturday 11am - 4pm
// 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.
