JUPITER ARTLAND, the art park near Edinburgh, has launched Orbit, a new outreach programme "dedicated to amplifying the voice of Scotland’s youth."
It is to recruit a youth council of 16 to 18-year-olds to help build and develop the new programme.
The Orbit Youth Council will then take an "active role in shaping Jupiter Artland’s outreach offer, bringing large scale art projects to communities across Scotland."
The programme has been designed in response to Scotland’s Year of Young People.
A statement said: "The hope for Orbit is that it offers a step-change in the lives of the young people who participate, their confidence, skills and agency.
"The Orbit Youth Council will carry out research where they live so we can find out find out what culture means to those communities and how they choose to engage with it.
"The nature of the artwork will vary from place to place but will follow Jupiter Artland’s commissioning process of an artist choosing a landscape, urban context or social situation and responding to it."
www.jupiterartland.org/orbit.
A SCULPTURE which marks the contributions of organ donors and honours their families has been acquired by the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS).
Positive Pattern (2016) is the latest artwork by contemporary artist and Turner Prize-nominee Christine Borland to enter Scotland’s national art collection.
The artwork – originally commissioned by the Institute of Transplantation in Newcastle – is currently on display as part of NOW, a series of exhibitions launched at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (SNGMA) in 2017.
Ms Borland studied at Glasgow School of Art (GSA) and at the University of Ulster, Belfast.
In 1997 she was shortlisted for the Turner Prize and over the last two decades her work has been internationally exhibited.
Borland has often collaborated with specialists in other fields, exploring areas such as forensic science, the history of medicine, medical ethics and human genetics.
Positive Pattern was commissioned by the Institute of Transplantation to "honour the courage and generosity of organ donors and their families, who help save and transform the lives of hundreds of people every year."
The artist worked with staff at the Institute and donor families for over two years, and also drew inspiration from the work of acclaimed British artist Barbara Hepworth (1903–75).
Ms Borland said: “As an artist, I connected with the surprisingly visceral but tender descriptions and imaginings of interior and exterior spaces of the body which featured in many of our discussions.
"In particular I was taken by how relatives described the way they processed the loss of a loved one by imagining how they have helped to save the life of another – by offering up a part of their physical being."
www.nationalgalleries.org
MORE than 30 artistic projects have been funded by money from Creative Scotland's Open Project scheme.
The grants, ranging from £1,000 to £89,000, were made in July, totalling more than £792,000 in National Lottery funding.
Art360 Foundation Scotland has received funding to enable ten Scottish based artists to work with them "to safeguard at-risk cultural assets for present and future generations by investing in the skills and expertise of artists and estates."
Glasgow-based Many Studios has received funding towards The Gallow Gate arts programme.
The Islay Jazz Festival has been given a grant towards this year’s programme which includes 15 public concerts, featuring many leading Scottish jazz musicians.
Bogha-frois (Rainbow) has received funding towards a project aimed at LGBT+ folk musicians in Scotland.
The Dark Horse Magazine and Northwords Now were given grants to support their next editions.
Edinburgh-based Surrogate Productions were given support for their their theatrical debut, The Guitar Man – a one-act play with song that follows the story of a nameless busker and his search to be known.
The creative team includes: singer and composer Hanna Tuulikki and director Nora Wardell.
www.creativescotland.com/funding
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