Arts / Edible art and one-woman show among successful projects for arts funding
TEN PROJECTS have been selected to receive a share of Shetland Arts funding through the Creative Shetland Commissioning Fund.
A total of 47 applicants lodged a bid for the £44,000 funding, which opened for applications in January, with Shetland Arts raising the pot to £46,000 as a result of the high demand.
The fund was open to freelance/self-employed artists and creative practitioners either living in, or able to demonstrate a strong connection to, Shetland.
Applicants could apply for up to £20,000 funding with applications scored and discussed by a panel of four, including two Shetland Arts staff members and two independent practitioners.
Self-taught photographer Austin Taylor, a one-woman theatre show from Emily Briggs and an “edible art, film and science collaboration” were among the successful recipients.
Aidan Nicol will use his grant to create an interactive experience highlighting the “environmentally significant features of blanket bogs”.
“Filmmaker/creative producer Aidan Nicol and storyteller/baker Jenny Watt will undertake seasonal field-work to create film, audio and edible-art pieces which playfully communicate the unique environment, big-picture climate science andspecial landscape features of bogs in Shetland, thereby translating dense scientific data into (literally) digestible narratives,” Shetland Arts said.
“The work will be showcased in an immersive installation at Hymhus and a Sunday teas at the Bigton Hall featuring the bog inspired cakes.”
Emily Briggs, a movement and theatre artist, will use her grant to bring one-woman show Garbanzo to the next stage.
“This multidisciplinary comic-feminist work is designed to be performed in casual spaces such as bars, restaurants and small venues,” Shetland Arts said.
“So far, Garbanzo has had one public, work-in-progress sharing, and, after a period of subsequent remodelling, is ready for its second phase of development.”
The other recipients were musician and composer David Boyter, artist Helen Robertson, Liz Musser and Ruth Oliver, Lucy Wheeler, Lydia May Hann, Peter Ratter and Magnus Stout, and Suzanne Briggs.
Shetland Arts said it was planning to introduce a three-year commissioning programme following their recent successful funding bid to Creative Scotland, which will see them receive £350,000 for the financial year ahead.
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