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symbolic spaces

Symbolic Spaces was a creative visual arts collaboration between contemporary artists, pupils, staff and local authority departments

For 20 weeks, visiting artists worked with pupils and teachers throughout East Ayrshire exploring, making, designing, and enjoying contemporary arts.  The project aimed to raise awareness of contemporary arts in Scotland and increase participation amongst young people in areas often isolated from cultural activity.

Around 140 children and young people worked to explore the spaces around us through 3d animation, sculpture, photography, language and drawing. Each project challenged the participants ideas of what contemporary arts could be, by employing a range of media and fusing this with new technology.

www.symbolicspaces.org.uk

virtual environment

Secondary schools, Doon Academy and Loudoun Academy collaborated with artists and web designers Gaylie Runciman, Deborah Norton and Keavy McMinn to create imaginative 3d animations that can be viewed on the specially developed web site.



installation

Lainshaw Primary and Drongan Primary worked with artist Cath Keay to create collaborative sculptural installations, animations and digital photography responding to the language and heritage of their local environment.

2d drawing & language

Children in the Gaelic class at Onthank Primary 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 with explorations of their local area.

This project was developed by the Arts and Museums Section and the Cultural Co-ordinator for East Ayrshire Council.

Project is jointly funded by: