Making Space - Towards a new public artwork
Jun 30, 08:05 PM
Thanks to support from the Scottish Arts Council’s Public Art Fund Glasgow Women’s Library will host two Artist in Residence opportunities. The Residencies will enable artists to develop ideas, visuals and participatory working methods that can inform GWL’s ambitions to realise a public artwork for their new premises at the Mitchell Library, Glasgow and will support the artists’ investigation of Women’s histories and representation in the Public Realm. Key to the project is establishing means of engagement and consultation with diverse constituents of GWL, including Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Women’s Groups, Adult Literacy and Numeracy (ALN) groups, Women Make History groups, homelessness and Violence against women projects), as well as utilising GWL’s rich archive and wider resources.
fugitivespaces has been working with GWL to develop the Making Space project and will be involved with library staff, learners and artists over the next year to support project delivery and new developments from the artists’ research, in particular to inform a public art brief for the new building. Further outcomes from the residencies are new learning materials linked to programmes of engagement with Public Art, as well as a planned Exhibition for April 2010 and a parallel seminar discussion event that extends and disseminates approaches and outcomes of the Residencies with a wider audience of practitioners, policy makers and funders.
The Residencies are set to begin late September of this year and applications are currently being sought. More information and application information can be found here