March 2012
108 posts
Visit Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Good morning delegates #allbeingequal @engagevisualart
Hope you slept well & are feeling refreshed.
Scottish National Portrait Gallery
The newly redeveloped Scottish National Portrait Gallery on Queen Street is a must see and Meg Faragher, Learning Coordinator, at SNPG will be available between 10am-12noon on Wednesday 21 March to show you the fantastic new education facilities. This is...
Conference dinner
Visitors trying chicken with haggis, rubbledethumps & whiskey sauce for the first time. Yum!
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What else will we take away?
‘Re-evaluation of signage’ Rod Bugg ‘I have a notebook full. Flexibility & creativity in approach as well as talking & sharing. That’s what really chimed with me’. Lesley Hepburn ‘We are all here as individuals & reps if organisation. What will Steven of Creative Scotland & Sarah of engage will take away’ ‘We need to look at what our...
“We need to think of the people who aren’t here too”
– Kate. #allbeingequal
What will we take away from today?
Ju: two ideas for new work!
Rachel: feel inspired from meeting loads of folk. Ive met people I can call upon for my diversity project at Talbot Rice. I’ll feed back to my fellow staff.
Fiona: great to hear directly from galleries & artists. I’ve met so many people I want to keep in touch with through my curatorial work at The Scottish Parliament.
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Steven Palmer of Creative Scotland reflects
Everyone has been a really good catalyst.
How do we move on? Has the project made a difference in terms of board members & inclusiveness.
I want to embed this practice in everything we do. We need to look at the shifting if responsibility.
We have a richness in the visual arts. We need to keep this in the framework. Look at impact .
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Caroline Bowditch reflects on the day
Being human
Being brave
You don’t learn much by standing in your comfort zone
Plan OUT of planning
Every organisation should instal an irritant! Someone to question & prod.
Disabled artists, like everyone, sometimes get it wrong.
Try it
Do it
& do it again
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“I’m not saying we’ve cured all these folk.”
– Ritchie Cumming discusses ‘Mirrors | Prison Portraits’. #allbeingequal
Richie Cumming, Outreach Officer at NGS takes to...
Discussing an arts I’m prison project with Motherwell College.
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“Our ad for the residency said ‘dca is actively seeking two disabled...”
– Sarah Derrick, dca
“Understand when people get it wrong & gently guide them.”
– Kevin Harrison
“Ask the artist.
I’m not ‘a person with a disability’ but I...”
– Ju Godling #allbeingequal
“What are your feelings about the use of the term ‘disabled’?”
– Grey Vass
“I once heard of a gallery displaying photocopies of the braille signs as they...”
– Jo Verrant (the audience gasped & chuckled) #allbeingequal
“CALLOUT: I’m currently looking for an artist to help me make raised...”
– Rosita McKenzie #allbeingequal
“It’s up to artists to pave the way.”
– Rosita McKenzie #allbeingequal
“Access has always been embedded in my work. In Scotland, as an artist,...”
– Rosita McKenzie #allbeingequal
“Artists need to make their work accessible to. They are responsible!”
– Ju Gosling, artist #allbeingequal
“I’m focusing on key partners who have kit & time to make these things...”
– Sarah Derrick #allbeingequal
“Important to have key colleagues in organisations & on boards who understand...”
– Jane Sillis #allbeingequal
“What happens to the legacy of an education project when staff leave & are...”
– #allbeingequal
Action Planning in Action
Panel conversation with:
Jo Verrant
Ju Gosling
Sarah Derrick, Head of Education at DCA
Kevin Harrison
Jane Sillis, Director of engage
Wasps?
They are made of plasticine.
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A picnic has arrived ...
… featuring wasps!
Ask Jo Verrent…
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“Case study on Enlightenments exhibition in Edinburgh in Summer 2009
See...”
– Ju Gosling, artist #allbeingequal
“I’ve been in galleries where I hear a large print version of the wording...”
– Ju Gosling, artist #allbeingequal
“Subtitling is about access for all in a gallery context.”
– Ju Gosling, artist #allbeingequal
“Step free access for all needs to be embedded in arts organisations.”
– Ju Gosling, artist #allbeingequal
“Less than 4% of employees in the arts in England are disabled.”
– Ju Gosling, artist #allbeingequal
“I’m not here today to talk about how the English do things better. ACE...”
– Ju Gosling, artist #allbeingequal
David Feeney
Discussing his research into the impact of visual impairment on an individuals capacity to engage with visual art. Language can’t take you all the way there with a work of art.
Sight-Sim : a measure of the clarity of someone’s vision. You can use this programme to adapt photos of your environment to see it as the visually impaired person sees it based in their sight levels.
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Kate & Rosita | Soapbox
Discussing a collaborative project between two visually impaired photographers with similar goals. Andrew Fellows, Melbourne Rosita McKenzie, Edinburgh They will exhibit at Old Ambulance Depot, Edinburgh in August. ‘obviously it would be difficult for two blind artists on opposite sides of the world. Andrew’s bush fire project inspired me to make work which compliments his giving both...
