Nine Trades of Dundee is an inspiring and engaging art project

Hello All who have recently started looking at this blog - here is an introduction to our project Nine Trades of Dundee (main website can bee seen at http://www.ninetrades.com/ ).

'Nine Trades of Dundee' brings trade and art together, commissioning nine UK/EIRE artists with second non-art trades to lead collaborative art projects with workers from that particular trade in workplaces across Dundee from July 2009 – July 2010. The project is supported by The National Lottery through the Scottish Arts Council's Inspire Fund.


Most of the projects are underway in some form or other and you can see info about each individual project on the artists' blogs which are listed to the right of the page - please have a look!

‘Nine Trades of Dundee’ aims to increase arts access and participation for non-arts audiences in Dundee by bringing art activity and creativity to the heart of the workplace. A shared trade with its language, skills base, and working experience is the common factor that brings artist and group together overcoming that initial barrier of what art is and preconceptions of who can be an ‘artist’. Each project then develops through engagement and artistic experimentation to create a significant, inspiring and ambitious exchange and collaboration for both parties. The output may be a jointly produced artwork; a shared strategy for the workplace; an artwork multiple distributed through wider trade; or a permanent intervention in the work environment.

Our curatorial strategies are inspired by ‘The Nine Incorporated Trades of Dundee’. This organisation, operating since the 1400s, represents nine trade groups: Baker, Cordiner (Shoemaker), Glover, Tailor, Bonnetmaker, Flesher (butcher), Hammerman, Dyer and Weaver.

Nine Trades of Dundee team

Carey Young - a series of works with call centres

http://www.careyyoung.com/past/speechacts.html


Speech Acts, a solo show of works on a telephonic theme, was installed at at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis from May 8 to Aug 2 2009. The main element of the show was a series of ‘call centre art works’ that were accessed by phones installed in the museum. The works feature many of the familiar elements of a call centre - such as live agents, scripted or pre-recorded info, call waiting and menu options. These are modified by including absurd, poetic and critical content, giving them a twisted utility. The caller’s experience may range from the uncanny to the playful and, in places, the unexpectedly cinematic.

Call for submissions, The Juice Magazine, 'Part time job - full time artist'

Call for submissions, The Juice Magazine

Yorkshire Closes Wednesday 17 March 2010  Contact: Lois Whitehead the.juice@live.co.uk
    

Description

The Juice Magazine
Submission Brief
The Juice Magazine is a new publication being brought together by a group of young graduates and students, with a background in the arts.  The focus of the magazine is to represent and support the growing community of emerging artists in Leeds and the wider area of West Yorkshire.
With our first issue we have taken inspiration from our own position in life and chosen a theme to reflect this, ‘Part time job, Full time artist’.
Thinking of Van Gogh vs Hirst, how do we manage life as an Artist and support the creative path we choose? Do we compromise on our ideals to sustain an art practice? Can we effectively manage our earning time with our creative energies?  Are there specific qualities that can separate one art graduate and elevate them to success whilst their contemporaries struggle to make ends meet?
This open brief is what we are hoping you will respond to. We are looking for submissions from artists, writers, photographers, illustrators, designers and anyone creative, who can respond to this brief. The one stipulation on this brief is that you must be living, studying or working in West Yorkshire. Also please be aware that we are only printing in black and white, so any images need to be appropriate for this medium.
All submissions should be sent to the.juice@live.co.uk and as we are aiming to be printing in April we need all submissions in by mid-march.
If you don’t feel you have anything to contribute but you would like to know more about us then please feel free to get in touch as well.

another classic favourite work painting

I really like this image (which is part of a few of floor scrapers at work) by Gustave Caillebotte

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Caillebotteraboteurs.jpg

Work and Struggle. The Painter as Witness

I found this image in a book about realist painters at the turn of the century. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shearing_the_Rams

http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/Work-And-Struggle.-The-Painter-As-A-Witness.-by-Edward-Lucie-Smith-&-Celestine/0448226162.htm

A reminder that art and work have always come close together and reflected on each other - not always in the same way or with the same motivation....

Peeping Tom exhibition - Pippa Koszerek

Peeping Tom exhibition including Nine Trades of Dundee artist Pippa Koszerek:

http://www.vegasgallery.co.uk/upcoming/?exhibition_id=2697

Thanks to Graduates' Council

The University of Dundee Graduates' Council has very generously supported our Nine Trades of Dundee apprenticeship scheme and our Final Gathering event.

Here is a link to the Apprentices page where the info from each of the students will build up as they input to the project. The profile pages are designed as an easy way for the students to build a web presence for themselves. Fiona Blair is leading the way...

The Final Gathering will be a celebration and showcasing event at the end of the project and will happen in Dundee in July. This will be an opportunity for all the participants, artists, friends and family and a broader public audience to come together.
We want the Final Gathering to be inspired by the projects so have not finalised plans yet - you will hear about it first here though for sure.

Secretaries LP cover - they don't make em like this anymore....

 

All admin staff welcome to the 2nd of Nine Trades of Dundee artist Pippa Koszerek's Lunch Clubs - see info here