September 2011
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Who Are We Writing For? recap
Maybe it’s ironic that a writing symposium has left me hardly able to write a word, to literally render my writing invisible, as I attempt to make myself as the writer visible. What I mean is that this inability to profusely write has been the best thing to happen to me in my nine year span as a freelance writer. Endlessly producing words and tailored copy for everyone and anyone, my value as a...
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A weekend in The Mobile Picture Salon
With each of us wrapping up events in the North East and in desperate need of a break, Rocca Gutteridge and I took her newly refurbished mobile picture salon on the road.
Inheriting the caravan cinema from Ewan Sinclair and Joanne Smithers, Rocca has fixed it up for The Mela Festival as well as holding screenings for various events and youth workshops. Only, in all honesty, she has had to...
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Real Life in Huntly, Interview with Ross Sinclair
Image credit: Ross Sinclair, Real Life Huntly (surveyed from the Clashmach), 2011 (courtesy of the artist and Deveron arts; photograph: Anna Vermehren)
Glasgow-based Ross Sinclair has been the Artist in Residence at Deveron Arts for the summer of 2011 researching the history of The Gordon Clan of Huntly and its relationship to present day Real Life in Huntly. From writing songs encapsulating the...
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Maria Fusco writing workshop*
Coming to the end of this inaugural arts writing gig at Deveron Arts, I am more unsure than ever as to what it is I am actually writing. I know I write, but I know little else. I have no idea what it is I am writing, just that I am definitely writing it. Working on the border of cultural commentaries and creative non-fiction, I am tired of looking, if not legitimating what it is I write, rather, I...
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An Akimbo report on Scotland's art scene
I sometimes write reports from the road for Akimblog, the art review arm of Akimbo, a Toronto-based arts resource site. Below is an excerpt of my Scotland report, and you can read it in full here.
AMY FUNG in Scotland 09/06/11
Edinburgh Art Festival | British Art Show 7 | Ruth Ewan at Dundee Contemporary Art | Helen Cho at Glenfiddich | Graham Fagen at Timespan | Deveron Arts | Who Are We...
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Convergence at Timespan
Helmsdale is an even smaller and more remote community than Huntly. Nestled way up in the North of Scotland with a population in the high hundreds and a history dating back to the early AD years, Helmsdale has a heritage focus on genealogy and geology, and the past is undeniable in this region of the Sutherland.
As it goes, a museum and art gallery was built in the mid 80s and in 2009, Timespan...
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Roman Signer: Now and Then
I first remembering seeing this photo back in the fall of 2007. I had just given notice to the last office job I thought I could ever hold (still true to date) as unforeseen events made me realize I needed to give freelance writing another full-time go. Naturally, I was going to run away first to Berlin for a bit of fun and inspiration, and doing a bit of homework first, this image popped out at...
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The first and last donair eaten in Scotland
This was experienced back in April at the Doric Kebab House — and I have not been back. Nor do I wonder if I am welcome back after I questioned his toum.
It wasn’t toum. It wasn’t tzatziki. It might have just been white oil.
What was actually annoying, besides a waste of a meal, was that he didn’t expect me to know any better, nor did he think he should do any better....