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Links & Information Sources
- www.scottisharts.org.uk/1/information/newsletters.aspx
- subscribe to information on national funding and opportunities
- www.scottisharts.org.uk/1/information/publications/1003587.aspx
- Scottish Arts Council international opportunities email
- glasgowprojectroom@yahoogroups.com
- Glasgow Project Room. You have to join the group first
- www.a-n.co.uk
- ‘a-n’ the artists information company, comprehensive information on opportunities and professional development
- www.visitingarts.org.uk
- Visiting Arts
- www.britishcouncil.org
- British Council
- www.axisweb.org
- Axis the leading online guide to artists practising in the UK today. As an artist you can apply to have your profile and work online
- www.engage.org
- Engage - National Association of Gallery Education
- www.sau.org.uk
- Scottish Artists Union
- www.artshub.co.uk
- Arts Hub, arts jobs
- www.artquest.org.uk
- Art Quest - Aimed at London artists but gives advice for International working
- www.vaga.co.uk
- The Visual Arts and Galleries Association, open to individuals working in this area too, has info on policies and arts jobs
- www.e-artnow.org
- an electronic information service distributing world- wide selected information related to contemporary visual arts
- www.publicartscotland.coms
- Public Art Resource+Research Scotland (PAR+RS)
Funding and Awards
- www.dvaa.info
- Dundee Visual Artists Awards (DVAA) offers £1000 grants to artists living in Dundee
- www.edinburgh.gov.uk/internet/Leisure
- Edinburgh Visual Arts & Crafts Artists Awards Scheme, offers grants to artists living in Edinburgh
- www.csglasgow.org
- Glasgow Visual Artists Grant Scheme, Arts funding for Glasgow-based artists, awards up to £1000
- www.scottisharts.org.uk
- Scottish Arts Council has three fixed levels of bursaries available: £1,500, £3,000, £5,000. Also run residencies in Amsterdam and New York – see website for deadlines
- www.royalscottishacademy.org
- The Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh offers the RSA Alastair Salvesen Scholarship of up to £10,000 for a Scottish artist to travel abroad.
- www.murraybeith.co.uk
- - Hope Scott Trust.
- www.thecrosstrust.org.uk
- open to students (eg for travel for projects) and young people
International
- www.transartists.nl
- Trans Artist Database – Worldwide Residency Opportunities
- www.resartis.org
- Worldwide network of international residencies
- www.art4eu.net
- ‘Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes’, international young artist residency programme
Some Arts Organisations
- www.dca.org.uk
- Dundee Contemporary Arts
- www.generatorprojects.co.uk
- Generator Projects, artist-led organisation in Dundee
- www.heidigilboy.com
- Heidi Gilboy
- www.yucknyum.com
- Scottish Art fanzine
- www.fcac.co.uk
- Fife Contemporary Arts and Crafts
- www.steeplearts.co.uk
- The Steeple, Newburgh, Fife
- www.angus.gov.uk/history/museums/meffan/default.htm
- The Meffan Nuseum and Art Gallery, Forfar
- www.peacockvisualarts.com
- Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen
- www.limousinebull.org.uk
- Limousine Bull, artist-led group, Aberdeen
- www.stirling.gov.uk/changingroom
- Changing Room, Stirling
- www.collectivegallery.net
- Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
- www.embassygallery.co.uk
- The Embassy, Edinburgh artist-led gallery
- www.edinburghsculpture.org/
- Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
- www.trg.ed.ac.uk
- Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
- www.transmissiongallery.org
- Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
- www.sorchadallas.com
- Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow
- www.marymarygallery.co.uk
- Mary Mary, Glasgow
- www.themoderninstitute.com
- The Modern Institute, Glasgow
- www.tramway.org
- Tramway, Glasgow
- www.thecommonguild.org.uk
- The Common Guild, Glasgow
- www.myspace.com/lowsaltglasgow
- LowSalt, Glasgow
- www.swg3.tv
- SWG
- www.waspsstudios.org.uk
- Studio complexes across Scotland
- www.mediascot.org
- New Media Scotland also creates international opportunities mostly in digital media and advertises wider opportunities to its networks via a newsletter email bulletin
- www.mapmagazine.co.uk
- Map Magazine
- hannahmaclurecentre.abertay.ac.uk/
- Hannah Maclure Centre at University of Abertay
Artist Residency Centres
- www.covepark.org
- Cove Park, Argyllshire
- www.ssw.org.uk
- Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Lumsden Aberdeenshire
- www.hospitalfield.org.uk
- Hospitalfield House Arbroath
- www.grizedale.org
- Grizedale Arts, Lake District
- www.artsway.org.uk
- Artsway
- www.wysingartscentre.org
- Wysing Arts
- www.delfina.org.uk
- Delfina Studios, London
- www.braziersworkshop.org
- Braziers is an international workshop:
Other members of Dundee's cultural network
- hannahmaclurecentre.abertay.ac.uk
- Hannah Maclure Centre at University of Abertay
- www.dundee.ac.uk/museum
- University of Dundee Museum Services - historic art and artefacts from the university's collections, regularly displayed across the campus
- www.dundee.ac.uk/museum/caf.htm
- University of Dundee Culture & Arts Forum - informal network bringing together cultural departments across the university
- creativedundee.co.uk
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