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07 July 2008
Making Spaces touring Fife in MAC - Outdoor Art Events
JULY/AUGUST- 'ART OUTDOORS'
'Making Spaces' is on the road. Organised through a partnership between Fife Contemporary Art & Craft (FCA&C) and Fife Council Libraries & Museums the 'Making Spaces' exhibition and workspace is touring Fife in MAC, Fife's mobile museum.
The 'Making Spaces' exhibition explores the different working spaces used by artists and makers past and present. The spaces where artists' work can be as varied as the art they make and the bus provides a new energetic base from which to work and display art.
One of the five artists in residence accompanying Making Spaces as it tours Fife this year is Kevin Reid.
During July and August Kevin, originally from Kelty, Fife, is organising a variety of original art activities in public spaces on high streets and at festivals. Kevin's work has always been about taking the work outside of the studio and then 'dragging the results back in'. Collaboration plays a big part in his inspiration. Working with the public audience in the changing venues he intends to explore the beauty and uniqueness of language, locality and outlook of the people he meets. Collected material is re-threaded into abstract pieces of narrative used in film and performance.
Described as a 'multi-disciplinary artist' Kevin explains, "I often work under singular or collective pseudonyms from the flamboyant, bravado fuelled antics of Harry Butler Stuntman Extraordinaire to group strength of GANGHUT an instigated super installation group". Since Kevin's first review in a-n magazine, March 2005 he has continued to show work at national and international level. He has taken his work from Memphis, USA to Melbourne Australia and was awarded the Scottish Arts Council's Amsterdam Residency 2006- 2007.
Catch Kevin and the MAC bus on tour at Big Tent Festival Falkland 26, 27 July and Pittenweem Arts Festival, Pittenweem 2- 4 August.
Diana Sykes, Director of FCA&C said, "Making Spaces is an exciting new Fife-wide project combining an exhibition with accompanying artists in residence. The tour started in March and continues right through until December visiting a wide variety of schools, colleges, care homes, festivals and other community venues. It's a great way of reaching new audiences."
Support from the Ernest Cook Trust, the Robertson Trust, the Friends of the Crawford Arts Centre and the Regional Development Challenge Fund (Digital Resources Development Team) has made this complex project possible.
September to December the artists on Mac will be printmaker Elspeth Lamb and ceramicist Frances Priest.
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