Art is Everywhere in North Lanarkshire
Look around you. What do you see? That’s art. Art is Everywhere in North Lanarkshire. Not just in galleries and on walls, in books and frames. Art isn’t just a place you go to or a thing some creative people do. It’s in every relationship, every conversation. It’s what makes us human.
Meet The Artists
A key part of Art Is Everywhere has been connecting with artists living and working in North Lanarkshire. We want to fill the area with amazing art that is accessible and everywhere. To get the ball rolling, we invited artists to apply for grants to produce work that is relevant to their community and made people think differently about what art is. We managed to fund eight projects in the fields of photography, film, community arts, dance, mixed-media and performance art.
David Gilliver
Art is Everywhere
(If you look closely enough)
David Gilliver is a photographer, artist and recent winner in the macro photography category at the British Photography Awards, 2022. David has created a series of miniature scenes or ‘dioramas’ that question our relationship with the place in which we live.
Overdrive
Status: Changed
Overdrive Dance Company engages male identifying young people with dance and creative movement. They present Status:Changed – a contemporary dance performance reworked by the young people involved and filmed in various locations around North Lanarkshire.
Wullie Elliott
Positive Images of Ageing
Wullie Elliott took up photography at the age of 67. For Art Is Everywhere, he has created a
stunning series of portraits showing older people in a positive light; doing the things that
they love, which provide them with purposeful living in later years.
Holly & Yas
Working (C)Lassies
Holly Worton and Yas Mawer are multi-disciplinary and performance artists respectively. Working C(Lasses) is a site-specific performance art piece exploring stories of Working Class women across the North Lanarkshire area.
Ryan Pollock
Bluebird
Ryan Pollock is a 23-year-old writer and filmmaker from Wishaw. His film Bluebird tells the story of an unfulfilled litter picker, searching for the meaning that his life has always seemed to lack, and growing concerned at a volatile domestic situation in the neighbouring flat.
Emma Ferla
Referlished: Trash Art
Emma Ferla is an artist and jewellery designer who cares deeply about plastic waste and the climate challenge. Inspired by the woodlands and nature reserves that surround her home, Emma has created three visual art pieces using plastic waste and bottle tops.
Eilidh Manson
Junk to Funk
Eilidh Manson is a visual arts tutor and mixed-media artist working across North Lanarkshire. She has a passion for giving old things a new life, and worked with community groups across North Lanarkshire turning discarded items into pieces of art.
Kim Beveridge
#YoungWomenNL
Kim Beveridge is a digital artist, filmmaker, AV designer and part-time lecturer. Kim created and filmed a series of dance performance pieces in collaboration with New College Lanarkshire Film & TV dept and New Clan Arts. Inspired by the online communities found on social medial platforms, the piece explores themes of self-exploration, class and place.
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Measuring Humanity
Art Is Everywhere is a Measuring Humanity project
Capturing the unmeasurable aspects of human experience and addressing health inequalities through creative community engagement. To find out more about the project, visit out home page or check out out latest news below…
