Canadian visible artists are invited to use for a singular summer time residency in Scotland for 2025. The Glenfiddich 2025 Artists in Residence program selects artists from all around the world for a three-month, all bills paid residency in scenic Dufftown, Scotland, dwelling of the corporate’s distillery.
This system is celebrating a twenty fourth anniversary in Scotland, and it’s the nineteenth 12 months that Canadian artists have been requested to take part. Taking part artists hail from throughout the globe, and in 2025 will embrace artists from Taiwan, Scotland, China and Africa together with Canada.
“The 2025 Artists in Residence program celebrates the intersection of artwork and the scenic nature of the Glenfiddich Distillery within the Scottish Highlands,” feedback Navneet Bhullar, Model Supervisor, Glenfiddich in Canada. “We stay up for welcoming new voices and visions to the distillery, and we’re honoured to supply this esteemed alternative to at least one expert Canadian artist trying to discover their artistry whereas collaborating with different artists from all over the world.”
Greater than 160 artists from 20 nations have taken half in the summertime artist residency in Dufftown, Scotland because it started in 2002. The picturesque Speyside area of the Scottish Highlands is understood for its lush greenery, rivers and wealthy soil. The identify Glenfiddich comes from Scottish Gaelic — Gleann Fhiodhaich, which interprets as valley of the deer. Briefly, what makes it good for making whisky additionally offers it an environment and heritage that infuses the work that’s created there.
“The Artists in Residence program celebrates the artwork of storytelling, craftsmanship, and creating shared experiences that artwork brings to life,” feedback Andy Fairgrieve, Glenfiddich Artists in Residence Curator in an announcement. “Every year we welcome a brand new group of artists from across the globe on the Glenfiddich Distillery and are constantly impressed by the works they create, drawing upon our wealthy heritage and scenic panorama.”
William Grant based the distillery that also bears his identify in 1887. William Grant & Sons, Ltd. stays an unbiased family-owned distiller, run right this moment by the fifth era. Glenfiddich might be essentially the most well-known of its manufacturers, which additionally embrace Grant’s blended Scotch, Drambuie, and Reyka Vodka, amongst others.
Marla Hlady & Christof Migone – Canadian Artists-in-Residence on the Glenfiddich Distillery (2019):
Andy Fairgrieve: Curator
Unmistakeable in his kilt and dreadlocks curator for the Glenfiddich Artists in Residence program Andy Fairgrieve acts as each coordinator and curator. He takes care of all the main points from artist choice to journey visas, after which connecting the taking part artists with what they want regionally once they attain Dufftown and start to work.
“Briefly I act as an area information, curator and gallery technician. For me whisky is all about relationships, bringing folks collectively and sharing with mates. With that in thoughts it’s a constructive reinforcement of ‘guid’ Highland hospitality that every 12 months, over the weeks and months that the artists are right here, lasting associations are shaped.”
Andy has sorted the Artists in Residence prize since its inception in 2002.
The Jury
The jury usually considers greater than 200 purposes for the summer time residency program.
Dave Dyment
The 2008 Canadian Artists in Residence Prize recipient, Dave Dyment has served on the choice jury panel for Artists in Residence Canada for the previous 5 years. Dave relies in Toronto, the place he works largely within the subject of sound set up, together with multiples and pictures. His work has been exhibited throughout North America and Europe.
David Diviney
David Diviney is the senior curator on the Artwork Gallery of Nova Scotia in Halifax, the place he’s labored since 2009. His resume contains positions on the Southern Alberta Artwork Gallery and Eye Stage Gallery, and he has taught programs at Faculty of Artwork and Design, College of Lethbridge, Thompson Rivers College, and Sheridan Faculty Institute of Expertise and Superior Studying.
Stefan Hancherow
Toronto primarily based curator and collector Stefan Hancherow has held positions because the Mission Director of Characteristic Up to date Artwork Truthful and Assistant Curator of the Sobey Artwork Award. After graduating from NSCAD College, he adopted with an MFA from OCAD College.
Ivan Jurakic
Primarily based in Hamilton, Ivan Jurakic is the Director/Curator of the College of Waterloo Artwork Gallery. He earned an MFA from SUNY Buffalo and an Honours BA from the College of Guelph. He has curated quite a few exhibitions in a 20 12 months profession, together with sitting on the curatorial panel for the 2009 Sobey Artwork Award, and co-curatong Zone C for Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2013.
Joshua Schwebel
Canadian artist Joshua Schwebel divides his time between Montreal (Tiohtià:ke) and Berlin. His work entails direct institutional critique, expressed by way of process-based performances, withdrawals, delegated transactions, and impostors, and has been offered throughout Canada, in Europe and China.
Eunice Luk
Born in Hong Kong, Eunice Luk is a visible artist primarily based in Tkaronto/Toronto whose apply contains installations, sculptures, work, and multiples. Her work explores cross cultural commonalities, and is impressed by the pure surroundings.
Ruth Burns
Programmer, curator, advocate and non-profit administrator Ruth Burns has been the Government Director of Ontario Tradition Days since 2017. Ruth was the founding director of Nuit Blanche Edmonton, which launched in 2015, amongst many different key positions held over a two decade profession.
Particulars
“As an artist, the expertise at Glenfiddich’s Artist in Residence program meant that I may focus solely on the given job: create artwork works influenced by all talked about above. And the way can it not be!? These three months have been extraordinarily inspiring … and utmost heartwarming,” feedback Julie Forgues, Artists in Residence winner of 2024.
The three month residency contains three months of revenue, all-inclusive journey, lodging and challenge supplies, and is valued at greater than $26K CAD. On the finish of the residency, the works are proven in an exhibit on the distillery.
Artists residing and dealing in Canada could apply.
- There’s a five-part software course of;
- It contains a top level view of what they wish to create, and the way it will likely be impressed by the Glenfiddich Distillery;
- Different necessities embrace a brief artist assertion, three-minute video and different particulars;
- The applying deadline is 11:59 EST on January 31, 2025.
Previous Canadian winners embrace Derek Liddington, Dean Baldwin Lew, Annie Pootoogook, Daniel Barrow, Myfanwy Macleod, Damian Moppett, Rhonda Weppler & Trevor Mahovsky, Jon Sasaki, Eleanor King, Lee Henderson, Vanessa Maltese, and Christof Migone & Marla Hlady, who’ve labored in all kinds of media from portray and sculpture to sound artwork, video and efficiency.
- Discover extra details about the Artist in Residence program, and the appliance, [HERE].
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Anya Wassenberg is a Toronto Metropolis Editor at Ludwig Van. She is an skilled freelance author, blogger and writing teacher.