Fife Contemporary Art & Craft

Fife Contemporary Art & Craft (FCA&C) is a contemporary visual art and craft organisation based in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. Its main activity is artist support and exhibitions.

Organisation and funding

Fife Contemporary Art & Craft is part of Creative Scotland's portfolio of Regularly Funded Organisations (RFOs),[1] a group of 118 arts organisations receiving three year funding, currently between 2015 - 2018.[2][3]

FCA&C came into existence in 2006, but has its roots in another organisation called the Crawford Arts Centre - a long established venue in St Andrews that closed in 2006.[4]

Venues

Its programme is not delivered from a single venue but presented across Fife in museums, galleries, other venues and offsite locations. FCA&C works in partnership with a wide range of organisations within Fife, the UK and internationally to develop projects and is part of several networks including Scottish Touring Exhibitions Consortium.

Venues and partners in Fife have included St Andrews Museum; Kirkcaldy Galleries;[5] MAC (Fife's mobile Museums & Arts Coach);[6] Rothes Halls; Fife Libraries and Civic Centres; Fife Adult Resource Centres; Fife Schools; The Steeple, Newburgh; Falkland Centre for Stewardship; Buckhaven Beehive; Buckhaven Community Centre; Fife College; University of St Andrews;[7] the Byre Theatre; StAnza international poetry festival; Fife Coast & Countryside Trust; Fife Council; Fife Cultural Trust;[8] NHS Fife; Scottish Fisheries Museum.

National and International partners have included Bradford Museums and Galleries;[9] Crafts Council; Craft Scotland; Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop; European Society for Oceanists; Marzee Collection, Netherlands; Oriel Davies Gallery, Wales; Polarcap.[10][11]

Support activities

The organisation supports artists with advice,[12] information (opportunities e-bulletin), annual symposia, residencies and through administering an artist and craft maker grant scheme. They also support children, schools, and students in a variety of projects including a summer art school,[13] placements for students, and schools workshops.

Selected projects

Past projects include a 2016 exhibition with artist Bobby Niven, as part of the Festival of Architecture, which was inspired by Californian self-build pioneer Lloyd Kahn and included a talk by Lloyd Kahn in May 2016;[14] an exhibition and 'multiple' project by Robert Callender (1932 - 2011),[15] organised with his wife Elizabeth Ogilvie in 2015;[16][17] a touring exhibition with Toby Paterson[18][19][20] as part of GENERATION 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland in 2014; a digital commission entitled Six Years of Mondays from Thomson and Craighead in 2014; Causing Chaos an exhibition curated with artist Claire Barclay in 2010; Placement - Ceramic Connections: Wales & Scotland, a collaboration with Oriel Davies Gallery in 2011;[21][22] the first solo photography exhibition by Stanley Wong in 2011;[23] The Marzee Collection at St Andrews in 2009.

References
  1. "The Portfolio". Creative Scotland. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  2. "Regular Funding Visual Arts Portfolio 2015-18". Creative Scotland. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  3. Burdge, Richard (31 October 2014). "Creative Scotland funding news has 'sting in the tail' for some". The Courier. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  4. "End of an Era for Crawford Arts Centre". Fife Today. 2 June 2006. Retrieved 5 January 2016.
  5. "The art of the Lang Toun ..." Fife Today. 3 May 2014. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
  6. Cox, Roger (27 September 2012). "The arts diary: Brands Hatch, Two-part marathon". The Scotsman. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
  7. Bunn, Stephanie. "Seeing in a Wider Sense". St Andrews University. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
  8. Alexander, Lindsay (16 February 2014). "We're creating a better Fife". Fife Today. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
  9. "Where boundaries of art and design meet". The Courier. October 2012. The exhibition Unnatural Selection is a Bradford Museums and Galleries touring exhibition by Chen Hangfeng and is part of a wider programme of environmentally related art called Steep Trail organised by FCA&C together with partners Polarcap and Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
  10. Adamson, Liz. "Research - Steep Trail Portfolio" (PDF). University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
  11. Mansfield, Susan (9 May 2015). "Art reviews: Julie Brook, Steep Trail, Carol Bove". The Scotsman. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
  12. Brian Goodall, Chair Fife’s Cultural Consortium (May 2011). A Strategy for Culture in Fife (PDF) (Report). Fife Council. p. 20. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
  13. "Pupils at first summer art school". Fife Today. 6 July 2012. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  14. Avery, Jonathan. "Lloyd Kahn Talks Shelter in Kirckaldy". Tiny Houses Scotland. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
  15. "Obituary: Robert Callender, artist". The Scotsman. 12 August 2011. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
  16. Ritchie, Gayle (31 July 2015). "Robert Callender A2B". The Courier (Perth & Perthshire Edition). Before his death in 2011, Robert Callender - arguably the best-known beachcomber in British art - and his wife Elizabeth Ogilvie discussed a retrospective of his work... Diana Sykes, director of Fife Contemporary Art and Craft, helped curate the exhibition.
  17. Horton, Julia (4 June 2015). "Artist's work to be combed over in Fife". The Times. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
  18. Cox, Roger (4 May 2014). "Paterson shows the shape of things to come". The Herald. Retrieved 5 January 2016.
  19. Jeffrey, Moira (10 May 2014). "Art reviews: Navid Nuur, Toby Paterson". The Scotsman. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
  20. Sutherland, Giles (8 May 2014). "Finding the spiritual in mundane objects". The Times. This show is part of the Generation project that aims to introduce the last 25 years of Scottish art to a new audience.
  21. Broadley, Cara. "Placement – Ceramic Connections: Wales & Scotland (part 1) Review". a-n. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
  22. Sutherland, Giles. "Ceramic Connections". Ceramic Review (March - April 2012). This one day symposium, Ceramic Connections: Wales and Scotland, complemented the touring exhibition Placement, a collaboration between the Oriel Davis Gallery in Newport, Wales, and Fife Contemporary Art & Craft in St Andrews.
  23. "St Andrews Museum secures exclusive Stanley Wong exhibition". The Courier. 10 January 2011. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
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