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CLiC partnership Summer activities round up

Our Curatorial Leadership in Collections (CLiC) project brings together a network of contemporary art curators from collections across Scotland and shares learning with the wider museums sector. The CLiC Connect and Activate Programme in 2020-2021 supports a new generation of leaders to think about how collections can be both resilient and relevant in challenging times.Read more about the CLiC partnership project.

The CLiC partnership project thinking sessions have brought engaging thought and discussions in July and August, both online and in-person.

In August we were welcomed to the newly refurbished Burrell Collection by Duncan Dornan, Director of Glasgow Museums, and Caroline Currie, Learning and Access Curator at The Burrell Collection.The group were given a tour of the museum followed by roundtable discussions including the following

engaging with museum communities of interest
ongoing processes of visitor surveying
evaluation processes
displaying collections and representing contents of collections

At September's online meeting we invited Jeanie Scott from Culture Radar to discuss the Fair Work Framework with the CLiC partners, following her extensive review of Fair Work for Creative Scotland. The final report will be available in the coming weeks on the Creative Scotland website, along with a range of supportive resources.

Remember to look at the excellent resources created earlier in the CLiC project by network partners.

See the full suite of case studies produced as part of our CLiC Connect and Activate Project in 2021

The case studies

Curators Katie Bruce and Martin Craig at Glasgow Museums’ Gallery of Modern Art share their experience of collecting the work of Rabiya Choudhry during the pandemic, demonstrating how contemporary art inspires communities and future artists.

The Hunterian Art Gallery Curator, Dominic Paterson, invites us to consider Jimmy Robert’s Tobacco Flower as an artistic intervention in the Hunterian Collection, showing us that artists can generate new tools and approaches.

The Team at Glasgow Women’s Library explore how working with artists can allow hidden histories to surface through Ingrid Pollard’s recent residency and exhibition No Cover Up.

Head of Creative Programmes, Emma Nicolson, at the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh shares the Transformative potential of Climate House, gathering art and science together, to imagine a better future.

Snapshot of partners' current activities

Planting the colony, displanting the narrative

by Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Creative Programmes, Friday 23rd September at 2pm. A discursive talk exploring decolonising plant collections and how artists can be involved in the process.

Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh invite you to Planting the colony, displanting the narrative this Friday 23rd September 2pm - a special conversation with artists Annalee Davis, Keg de Souza, Shiraz Bayjoo, and chaired by organic food grower and writer Claire Ratinon, exploring the urgent issues of coloniality, environmental justice and indigenous rights through a botanical lens.
The event has been brought together through a collaboration between the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and the National Trust for Scotland this prescient dialogue will consider how institutions with colonial and plant histories work to address their pasts and what role artists play in that discourse. Tickets available here.

A complete rehang of the permanent collection galleries on the upper floor at Modern One, opening 24th September 2022 at Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Modern One), 75 Belford Road, Edinburgh, EH4 3DR
From 24th September, there are new, replacement displays opening in the ongoing exhibition of recent acquisitions. New Arrivals, on the ground floor at Modern One, includes a room of works by Karla Black that have recently joined the national collection.

Coming up at Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow Sunday 2nd October at 3pm, WHAT DOES THE SPACE KNOW from Farah Saleh & Mirjam Sögnern - get tickets here.

On 25 October, at Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Dr Stephanie Straine, Senior Curator, will be giving a lunchtime talk about the approach to this reinstallation of the national collection of modern and contemporary art - tickets available here.

About CLiC
Our Curatorial Leadership in Collections (CLiC) project brings together a network of contemporary art curators from collections across Scotland and shares learning with the wider museums sector. The CLiC Connect and Activate Programme in 2020-2021 supports a new generation of leaders to think about how collections can be both resilient and relevant.

You can read more about the project HERE

The CLiC Connect and Activate project is managed by the Scottish Contemporary Art Network and generously supported by Creative Scotland, Art Fund and Museums and Galleries Scotland

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