Deveron Arts
Deveron Arts is based in Huntly, Aberdeenshire and serves as a catalyst for contemporary arts in the rural community. The organisation invites artists to engage in projects that are both of local and global concern. It also awards fellowships to high profile international practitioners from across the artforms.
Dalziel + Scullion have been commissioned by Deveron Arts Fellowship Projects to make an artistic response to the current debate surrounding the planning proposals for over 200 new wind turbine sites in rural Scotland. Their current exhibition, Dalziel + Scullion: Breath Taking features their latest work in response to the proposal. It will be on show on billboards from 22 May in 11 locations across the UK which include:
Aberdeen, Birmingham, Cabrach, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, London, Manchester and Newcastle.
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The project will feature a photographic image that looks at the rural landscape, observing the advance of the turbine installations as one of a series of events that will radically alter the area. |
The turbines represent another wave of change that follows earlier events, for example glacier movement, tree felling, agriculture, quarrying etc.
| In the creation of their image, the artists have been influenced by the 'Romantic Sublime' - a time in our cultural history when mankind was both recklessly exploiting natural resources and also coming to marvel at nature's grandeur. |
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The artists invite us to contemplate the shifting environment and increasing urbanisation of the population and consider the impact, both social and cultural, of these developments.
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Breath Taking discussion: Landscape, Energy and Wilderness
Sunday 22 May 2005 at 2pm
Ex-Servicemen’s Club, Huntly, Aberdeenshire
Trip to Clashindarroch, site of a proposed Wind Farm, and starting point for Dalziel + Scullion’s Breath Taking. Followed at 4pm by a public debate in which leading figures from the worlds of visual arts, architecture, landscape and energy come together to explore the issues raised by Breath Taking
Entry free. Booking essential: 01466-794494 or deveronarts@aol.com. |
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