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Researching a range of issues from natural drainage to the need for shelter, five artists were invited to respond to the landscape of the Cairngorms and submit proposals. Each of these proposals aimed at enhancing the visitor experience and understanding the Cairngroms landscape through an engagement with visual art. This project was not conceived as a sculpture park rather as an opportunity for visual art concepts to be incorporated literally into the landscape.

This development project provided the foundation for a later implementation stage that realised the work of two artists selected from the original five.

Artists

• Winifred Lutz
• Arthur Watson
• Dalziel & Scullion
• John Maine
• Elizabeth Ogilvie

Funding

SAC Award amount

£30,000.00

Project total cost

£45,000.00

Funding purpose

Towards the development costs of a project to include artists' work in developing the recreational landscape of the Cairngroms.

(Please note dates and details correct at time of award.)

Consultation & Commissioning Process

This project has been sensitive to meaningful consultation across and between artists, architects, landscape architects, engineers, local authorities and local communities.

A series of presentations took place with various local community groups and an exhibition of artists’ proposals toured the area. This exhibition included drawings, sketchbooks, models and interviews with the artists. The exhibition was staged in community halls encouraging the local residents to respond to the project in its earliest stages.

The Scottish Sculpture Workshop and Dundee Public Art coordinated the commissioning process between artists and Steering Group. From a researched long-list five artists were invited to repsond creatively and sensitively to the particular requirements of the mountain environment. Following four months of research (including extensive walking in the mountains) each artist submitted their vision for the project. The Steering Group selected two proposals for full implementation.

Outcomes

• Series of proposals from five artists
• Two artists selected for implementation phase