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 A creative visual arts collaboration between contemporary artists, pupils, staff and local authority departments was held recently at the Dick Institute in Kilmarnock.
For the last twenty weeks, visiting artists have been working with pupils and teachers in East Ayrshire Council, exploring, making, designing, and enjoying contemporary arts! Funded by the Scottish Arts Council’s Children and Young People Fund, the project is aimed at raising awareness of contemporary visual arts in Scotland and the potential links this has in the school curriculum. It also aims to increase participation amongst young people in areas often isolated from cultural activity.
Around one hundred and forty children and young people have been working with the artists exploring the spaces around us through 3D animations, sculpture, photography, language and drawing. All of the projects challenged the participants’ ideas of what contemporary arts could be, by working in a range of media and fusing this with new technology.
The project is a central part of the Cultural Co-ordinator programme in East Ayrshire Council and was developed in partnership with the museums, arts and theatre service.
Participating Schools
Virtual Environment
The secondary schools Doon Academy and Loudoun Academy collaborated with artists and web designers Gaylie Runciman, Deborah Norton and Keavy McMinn to create imaginative 3D virtual environments that are being developed into a web site.
Sculpture Installation
Lainshaw Primary and Drongan Primary schools worked with artist Cath Keay to create large-scale sculptural installations and digital photography, responding to the heritage of their local environment.
2D drawing and Language
Children in the Gaelic class at Onthank Primary school worked with local artist Eoghann MacColl to explore drawing, language and poetry in response to their local and national environment. This project included a visit to the Scottish Parliament to draw on site, in contrast to explorations of their local area.
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