'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
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