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CLiC partnership activities return this Summer to round off the project

The CLiC partnership project will be reigniting its thinking sessions between July and November.

Partners have been involved for the last couple of years, spending valuable time together exchanging ideas and experiences on ways of working with Collections both within and outwith their organisations.

We will be engaging the participants to be involved in regular catch up sessions both in person and digitally.

The programme of activities includes a visit to the newly refurbished Burrell Collection from the team at Glasgow Life, review and discussion around the Going Places report from Creative Scotland and Museums Galleries Scotland, and delivery of a useful toolkit.

Artists Connect and Artists Activate: bold case studies highlight new approaches that place artists at the heart of museums and their collections

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

Amie Siegel Bloodlines 2022 © Amie Siegel. Courtesy of Thomas Dane Gallery. Photo: Isobel Lutz-Smith. Bloodlines is on display at Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Modern One) until 4 September 2022.

Amik, a new commission from Glasgow-based artist Clara Ursitti opens at Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow on Thursday 23rd June at 5.30pm. Ursitti often works with scent and social space, creating installations and interventions that challenge our senses.

Opening on Friday 24th June, Workaround, is a solo exhibition featuring new and existing work by Glasgow-based artist Charlie Hammond at The Hunterian Art Gallery. For this exhibition The Hunterian has invited Hammond to select works from the collection that resonate with his artistic practice.

Opening on 2nd July, Climate House at Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh presents new work by art collectives Cooking Sections and Sakiya. In the Eddy of the Stream is a collaborative exhibition seeking to position the history of land struggles in Scotland and Palestine within a wider global dialogue. It is an Edinburgh Art Festival 2022 partner exhibition.

Glasgow Women’s Library's ongoing exhibition, Colour In Motion, by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham is rooted in the environment, the elements and the senses. Barns-Graham’s work is a celebration of texture, colour, fluidity and motion. This exhibition runs until 6th August.

Both City Art Centre and National Galleries Scotland are currently exhibiting works from recent acquisitions that enhance and compliment current collections. New Arrivals at Modern One includes works by Jenny Saville, Amie Siegel and Salvador Dali, whilst Incoming: New Acquisitions at the City Art Centre includes Alison Watt and Rachel MacLean.

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

You can follow the project @ActivateMuseums on Twitter and Instagram

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