Joanna Foster Ticket Line/ Just Passing Through Joanna Foster adapted the waiting room at Cupar Railway Station to cater for the mental state of waiting, with an invitation to participate in an interactive exhibition. Foster describes the waiting room as a place of potential in which to share the unwritten maps we carry with us, a meeting point which also reflects a historical change in movement with the coming of the Railway and present day narratives coming in and out of Cupar, forming a living history. Using the structure of the ticket, this project invited… Read More »Joanna Foster

Kate Downie Public Artwork, Exhibition, and Durational Drawing Event. Kate Downie was one of the festival’s Invited Artists. Born in North Carolina and trained at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen, she lives and works in Edinburgh. Best known for drawing, printmaking and painting, Downie explores themes of borders, barriers, crossings, shorelines, un-named places, tourist icons, and roads. Her exhibition in the main hall of the old school on Millgate comprised a series of sketches for her live drawing event “Matchmaker” along with earlier works, some of which were shown in the space as large-scale… Read More »Kate Downie

[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”] Sarah Gittins & Jonathan Baxter If there were anywhere but desert … The title of this exhibition was taken from a poem by Edmond Jabès. The preceding line reads, ‘I would now celebrate trees’. Between these two sentences Jonathan and Sarah situate their practice and in the context of Cupar Arts Festival provided a space for reflection. Drawing attention to the perennial themes of movement and belonging, homelessness and place, they explore issues which include food sustainability and contemporary agricultural practices. How this related… Read More »Sarah Gittins & Jonathan Baxter

Gayle Nelson & Fiona McDonald Always This collaborative work which was installed in the grounds of Hill of Tarvit Mansionhouse is a tribute to the Scots poet Edwin Morgan who died last year. The viewer is encouraged to think about the passage of time and the sense of a continuation of some things. The text used in the piece is taken from Edwin Morgan’s poem ‘The Bench’. This was one of several artworks installed for the first time during the Cupar Arts Festival at the Hill of Tarvit. Gayle Nelson and Fiona McDonald have collaborated… Read More »Gayle Nelson & Fiona McDonald

Chad McCail Level Wages / Even Rations With the political spectrum so highly compressed and elected leaders functioning as managers for the financial markets, mainstream political debate isn’t really worth listening to. The young, finding no-one to represent their views and feeling disenfranchised and frustrated, begin to act beyond the law en masse. Unless discussion broadens to include different visions and possibilities the slow-motion breakdown looks likely to accelerate. My intention is simply to try to widen any debate about what is possible by proposing a different vision.