ARTISTS and arts companies are to work in all 23 council wards of Glasgow.
Glasgow Life, which runs museums and galleries in the city, has now made a public call for artists and organisations to take part in the new programme, which will run in 2019 and 2020.
Councillor David McDonald, chair of Glasgow Life and deputy leader of Glasgow City Council, said: "We know that access to the arts brings significant benefits to individuals and communities and that participation in culture – whether it’s watching a play, creating your own piece of art or singing a song - is a force for good that can increase our quality of life, improving health and wellbeing, boost education outcomes or renovate unloved spaces.
"Our new artist in residence programme represents a huge investment of faith and money into the transformational impact of art and culture and we believe it will make a positive impact in every community in the city.
"For the project to work, we first need to understand what communities want.
"We will work closely with our communities to get a deeper understanding of how they see our artist in residency projects working to create real and significant differences to our communities in the ways that benefit them most.
"We are excited to be launching this new project in partnership with Glasgow’s communities and we look forward to seeing local creativity flourishing in every corner of the city."
To apply to take part in the first phase, artists and arts organisations will submit a CV, a project proposal and a breakdown of the proposed use of the allocated budget.
The fee available for each project is £10,000.
www.glasgowlife.org.uk
NATIONAL Museums Scotland has acquired a Bruce-Oosterwijck longitude pendulum sea clock.
The clock, made in 1662, played an important role in the quest for a practical way of determining longitude at sea.
It is one of only two such clocks which survive.
The acquisition was made with help from a grant of £36,000 from the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) and £15,000 from Art Fund.
It is one of only two surviving mechanisms from this pioneering attempt to determine longitude at sea by means of a timepiece.
Alexander Bruce, Earl of Kincardine, commissioned the mechanism for this clock from the Dutch maker Severyn Oosterwijck in 1662.
Bruce lived in the Netherlands as part of the Stuart court in exile and was one of the founder members of the Royal Society.
This Scottish-Dutch collaboration continued for several years, though it was ultimately abandoned as an unsuccessful attempt at solving the longitude problem.
www.nms.ac.uk
EDINBURGH Printmakers has appointed Mungo Campbell to be its new chair, as it prepares to move into a new home in Castle Mills, in the Fountainbridge area of the city.
Acting Chair, Nicola Gordon, commented: "As the first open access print studio in the UK prepares to open one of the largest print studios in Europe, we’ve appointed the very experienced Mungo Campbell of The Hunterian in Glasgow to provide support to the team and lead the organisation at this time.
"Mungo will lead the Board of trustees of Edinburgh Printmakers, and welcome his personal passion for printmaking.”
Mungo Campbell is Deputy Director of The Hunterian at the University of Glasgow.
Before moving to Glasgow in 1997 he worked at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery and in the Print Room at the National Gallery of Scotland.
He said: “I am honoured and delighted to have been asked to chair the Board of Edinburgh Printmakers as it enters an exciting new phase in its history. Enjoying prints and working with printmakers, both their history and their often innovative role in contemporary art practice, has occupied an important place throughout my professional career and in my personal life.
"I am looking forward greatly to working with the Board, together with Shân Edwards and her team, to ensure that, in its new home at Castle Mills, Edinburgh Printmakers is well positioned to build on half a century of excellence and realise its full potential to occupy a central place in the cultural life of Edinburgh and of Scotland.”
Castle Mills in Fountainbridge will open in the spring of 2019.
www.edinburghprintmakers.co.uk
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