Artists at the 'CAD'
Robert Douglas Kerr (Harpist) playing at the first of the CAD Exhibitions at the 'Adams' U' in the Kingsgate in July
Gill Low - Article from the Donau Kurier
Pinselstriche für die Städtefreundschaft
Ingolstadt (DK) Ein ungewöhnliches Projekt hat der Ingolstädter Unternehmer Bernd Arndt angestoßen. In seinem Haus an der Siemensstraße stellt er kostenlos Wohnraum und Atelier für Künstler aus den Partnerstädten zur Verfügung. Zurzeit logiert Gillian Low aus dem schottischen Kirkcaldy dort. Translated : Brush strokes for the city friendshipIngolstadt (DK) is an unusual project of the Ingolstadt businessman Bernd Arndt has launched. In his home on the street he Siemens provides free housing and studio space for artists from partner cities. Currently, Gillian stayed low in the Scottish Kirkcaldy there.
Ingolstadt (DK) Ein ungewöhnliches Projekt hat der Ingolstädter Unternehmer Bernd Arndt angestoßen. In seinem Haus an der Siemensstraße stellt er kostenlos Wohnraum und Atelier für Künstler aus den Partnerstädten zur Verfügung. Zurzeit logiert Gillian Low aus dem schottischen Kirkcaldy dort. Translated : Brush strokes for the city friendshipIngolstadt (DK) is an unusual project of the Ingolstadt businessman Bernd Arndt has launched. In his home on the street he Siemens provides free housing and studio space for artists from partner cities. Currently, Gillian stayed low in the Scottish Kirkcaldy there.
CAD Artists did well..
Five artists who met through CAD are had their own exhibition in the Gladstone Gallery on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh. Lainy Allison, Corine Maxwell, Scott Hunter, Mary Johnston and Michelle Denholm were showing paintings, sculptures, photographs and glassware in the interesting surroundings of the Gladstone Gallery, upstairs at 477B Lawnmarket EDINBURGH for a week in October. It was definitely worth a look!
Invasion of the Mannequins
Dunfermline welcomed it's newest visitorsDUNFERMLINE High Street had some unusual visitors on 19th June as a number of painted mannequins could be spotted by visitors and shoppers around the town centre. These nine mannequins were decorated by CAD members and placed around the High Street as a fore-runner to a summer of Arts Events in Dunfermline being spearheaded by Fife Council. Other up and coming events include Art in Shop Windows, which several CAD members will be involved with - more news on this later, and our own CAD Gallery in the Kingsgate Centre (see above). For those of you that couldn't make it to the High Street to see the Mannequins, they WILL be back, but in the meantime here are a couple of photos, you can see the rest of them on our facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/This.is.CAD or in our scrapbook - many thanks to the photographer Andrew Gregor for sending them in to us.
Archived News - Art in Shop WIndows 2010 - Article from FIFE DIRECT
Dunfermline High Street had some unusual visitors at the weekend (19th June) as a number of painted mannequins could be spotted by visitors and shoppers around the town centre.
The nine mannequins, which were sited throughout the town centre, were the first part of the ‘Art in Shop Windows’ project – a creative initiative which brings art to the community through transforming unused shop fronts with innovative displays of art.
The project, spearheaded by Fife Council’s Development Services working in partnership with local professional artists, is also funded through the Celebrating Fife 2010 year-long programme of events and officially launches on 3rd July. The specially commissioned art works are being produced by Dunfermline based artists Contemporary Art Dunfermline (CAD).
The aim of the initiative is to enthuse and inspire communities, schools and visitors. Like every other town in the country, the recession has impacted on Dunfermline High Street and this project hopes to bring a new form of vibrancy to the heart of the town, rejuvenate the high street and will provide an interesting talking point. A similar project ran in Kirkcaldy earlier in the year.
The project will feature an art gallery, run by local art group Contemporary Art Dunfermline, which will be located in the old Adams children’s store in the Kingsgate Shopping Centre. There will also be an ‘Art Trail’ leaflet available to promote the initiative and provide a map and information on the window displays which will feature a diverse range of art works, from canvasses celebrating the mundane of life, a series of staged photographs based on an anti-racism/pro multi-culturism theme and the setting of the Dunfermline Tate modern.
Andrew Walker, Economic Adviser, Development Services, who has been leading the project said: “Culture has a unique ability to lift people and places and will hopefully attract new visitors to the town centre and in turn boost the local economy. Art in Shop Windows will help celebrate Fife’s hidden gems and help make contemporary art accessible to a diverse range of people and fill the slack spaces in our city with colour, art and laughter.”
Councillor Brian Goodall, Chair of Housing and Communities Committee, added: ““This is very exciting, ever since I saw the positive impact and reaction to a similar project in Kirkcaldy earlier this year I've been really looking forward to this exhibition starting in Dunfermline. It'll be great to see just what the artistic community in our city can deliver. I really hope that everyone who lives, works and visits the city centre will be inspired by the art they see and take the chance to visit the gallery and walk the art trail.”
Local artist Lainy Allison, talking on behalf of Contemporary Arts Dunfermline (CAD), added: “We are working towards re-awakening Dunfermline’s culture and its need to be recognised as a town of wonderful artistic talent, with great Scottish artists such as Joseph Noel Paton being born here and events such as the one by Scotland finest sculptors Ann Henderson. In 1969 Ann was instrumental in mounting an International Open Air Exhibition of Sculpture in Dunfermline, believed to be one of the first of its kind in Scotland.”
The project wias officially launch on 3rd July with the opening of the gallery in the Kingsgate Shopping Centre and the unveiling of the shop windows. The gallery space was initially to open from the 5th of July and run for 6 weeks. But, this project/gallery was so successful that it continues to remain open until at least January 2011. There was also a series of workshops taking place in the Abbot House at the same time.
The nine mannequins, which were sited throughout the town centre, were the first part of the ‘Art in Shop Windows’ project – a creative initiative which brings art to the community through transforming unused shop fronts with innovative displays of art.
The project, spearheaded by Fife Council’s Development Services working in partnership with local professional artists, is also funded through the Celebrating Fife 2010 year-long programme of events and officially launches on 3rd July. The specially commissioned art works are being produced by Dunfermline based artists Contemporary Art Dunfermline (CAD).
The aim of the initiative is to enthuse and inspire communities, schools and visitors. Like every other town in the country, the recession has impacted on Dunfermline High Street and this project hopes to bring a new form of vibrancy to the heart of the town, rejuvenate the high street and will provide an interesting talking point. A similar project ran in Kirkcaldy earlier in the year.
The project will feature an art gallery, run by local art group Contemporary Art Dunfermline, which will be located in the old Adams children’s store in the Kingsgate Shopping Centre. There will also be an ‘Art Trail’ leaflet available to promote the initiative and provide a map and information on the window displays which will feature a diverse range of art works, from canvasses celebrating the mundane of life, a series of staged photographs based on an anti-racism/pro multi-culturism theme and the setting of the Dunfermline Tate modern.
Andrew Walker, Economic Adviser, Development Services, who has been leading the project said: “Culture has a unique ability to lift people and places and will hopefully attract new visitors to the town centre and in turn boost the local economy. Art in Shop Windows will help celebrate Fife’s hidden gems and help make contemporary art accessible to a diverse range of people and fill the slack spaces in our city with colour, art and laughter.”
Councillor Brian Goodall, Chair of Housing and Communities Committee, added: ““This is very exciting, ever since I saw the positive impact and reaction to a similar project in Kirkcaldy earlier this year I've been really looking forward to this exhibition starting in Dunfermline. It'll be great to see just what the artistic community in our city can deliver. I really hope that everyone who lives, works and visits the city centre will be inspired by the art they see and take the chance to visit the gallery and walk the art trail.”
Local artist Lainy Allison, talking on behalf of Contemporary Arts Dunfermline (CAD), added: “We are working towards re-awakening Dunfermline’s culture and its need to be recognised as a town of wonderful artistic talent, with great Scottish artists such as Joseph Noel Paton being born here and events such as the one by Scotland finest sculptors Ann Henderson. In 1969 Ann was instrumental in mounting an International Open Air Exhibition of Sculpture in Dunfermline, believed to be one of the first of its kind in Scotland.”
The project wias officially launch on 3rd July with the opening of the gallery in the Kingsgate Shopping Centre and the unveiling of the shop windows. The gallery space was initially to open from the 5th of July and run for 6 weeks. But, this project/gallery was so successful that it continues to remain open until at least January 2011. There was also a series of workshops taking place in the Abbot House at the same time.