[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” text_font_size=”14″ use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] Jenny Smith What is the most important decision you have made? Jenny Smith’s site specific work, “What is the most important decision you have made?” was developed through a series of workshops with children at Cupar’s Castlehill Primary School. Collecting their written replies to the question in order to form the basis of the work, she created a largescale wooden stencil of the children’s handwriting which was then used to cut a text-based artwork into the grass in the local park, an undertaking which the… Read More »Jenny Smith

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” text_font_size=”14″ use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] Kenny Bean Tempting Fate A video projection on the steeple of St John’s Church was based on a visual study of the River Eden, which flows through the town, interspersed with underwater footage which was filmed with swimming attendants at the local leisure centre. The video imagery relates to the symbolism of immersion in water, and explores the links between this and religion: submergeance as an acceptance of fate and a state of cathartic renewal. [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_3″][et_pb_slider admin_label=”Slider” show_arrows=”on” show_pagination=”on” auto=”off” auto_ignore_hover=”off” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”off”… Read More »Kenny Bean

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” text_font_size=”14″ use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] Caroline Dear The Cupar Coat A coat of good luck, made from Bog Myrtle, was created by Caroline Dear and worn by the community of Cupar throughout the 2013 Cupar Arts Festival . The coat passed from person to person with instructions sewn into the lining about how to document the experience of wearing the coat. Some of those interactions, stories and experiences of wearing the coat were then posted on a dedicated Facebook page, giving the coat a virtual presence. When not being… Read More »Caroline Dear

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” text_font_size=”14″ use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] Carolyn Scott Inside One time Champion body builder, Michele Caira became a student of Fine Art at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee University, graduating in 2009. He enrolled on The Master of Fine Art Programme at the same university the following year but failed to complete the course when he was arrested and imprisoned. He is now serving an eight-year sentence at HMP Glenochil, Clackmannanshire. Michele was commissioned by the Prison Governor to create two large-scale (16’x4) paintings for the prison walls.… Read More »Carolyn Scott

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” text_font_size=”14″ use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] Anthony Schrag Pigheaded Cupar Justice In the weeks prior to the festival, Anthony Schrag ran a number of workshops in the town with the local Scout group, schoolchildren and youth groups. Discussions also took place with people involved in preserving Cupar’s heritage, the police, and those working in the legal sector. Talks and activities all centred around one key issue: After centuries as a judicial town, what did it mean for Cupar to be losing its Sherriff Court next year? Anthony’s time in Cupar… Read More »Anthony Schrag