Thoughts from the studio – Entry VI, by Morag MacGilchrist
Between the dates of Wednesday 21st and Friday 23rd of September I was very busy doing public facing work with the museums team for the Unlocking The Extraordinary collection. On Wednesday 21st Myself, Project Ability artist Stuart Low, Claire Coia of the open museum team and Dr Cheryl McGeachan of Glasgow University were at ARCadia. This was a student resource council event in a new building at the university. We had the Art Extraordinary handling kit, information about the exhibitions at Kelvingrove and Project Ability and art activities to take part in. This was a very interesting day as we mainly interacted with students and their shell art was vastly different from that of the younger kids we had worked with previously at Kelvingrove.
Shell cottage project
On Friday I was back at Kelvingrove with Claire and this time we were joined by Kate Davey and Morven Macrae from Outside In as well as art ambassador and fellow exhibitor Brian Gibson. We were there for two hours at an event for Glasgow Museums art history month. We interacted with a few groups of other artists and also the general public, as it was a school holiday that day we had some older children making shell art too. Our collection of shells to send to the Shell Cottage project is now wide and varied. After we were finished at Kelvingrove we traveled to Project Ability to have another look at the exhibition there, this let Kate see it for the first time and some of the others finally saw the publication.
Artmag interview
On Friday I also did an interview with Susan Mansfield for Art Mag, an online Scottish based arts publication. It can be viewed on Page 45 here.
