Creative Aberdeen

Hello! Welcome to Deen Scene # 26! If you're paying attention to our facebook or instagram pages then you might have seen the new mail chimp sign up that we launched last week. Indeed after many years we're finally trying to move with the times and doing things a little different. The Deen Scene newsletters have always been about sharing a comprehensive list of up coming events, what's on and other titbits that I found interesting. Being an independent blogger I have no real ties to any one organisation or group so my focus is purely on things that I think are worth checking out or things that I have been to and can recommend.  Connecting with everyday people and trying to make the creative sector more accessible has also been a big goal along with connecting the dots between people, artists, place and orgs. It can be a complicated puzzle and not all the pieces fit together or even want to fit together and that's fine. But where I can I will try to make those connection

Its funny how you can follow an artist or gallery on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, maybe even Tinder if they're into that kind of thing but you still don't always find out what's going on. It was only through an awkward wait in a reception that I picked up a brochure for Below another sky which led to me to Aberdeen Art Gallery for a look. Below another sky has been 2 years in the making and is part of the Commonwealth Games Scotland 2014 Year of Culture . The project took 10 UK artists and sent them off to live and work in different Commonwealth countries while 10 International artists were invited to Scotland to work with the Scottish Print Network. The artists were tasked with a cultural investigation of sorts, exploring and experiencing their destinations and turning those experiences into a piece of work or set of prints. Aberdeen's Peacock Visual Arts were one of the supporting partners in the project along with the Glasgow Print Studio , the DCA in Dundee, Edi

We took some time to visit and find out more about the 'Reframing the Collection' mini exhibition at Aberdeen Art Gallery and its worthy of your attention. The show is the result of work being undertaken across the museum sector to address problematic artworks, some of which are on show in their public gallery spaces but with many squirreled away, their problematic nature keeping them out of sight and often out of mind. These problematic works can range in severity from an outdated and now offensive titles like the 'Negress' or 'head of a Negro' and of course imagery and iconography relating to the British slave trade.  Slavery became a buzz word when looking at racial equality issues highlighted by the BLM movement a few years back, the reductive counter arguement often called for people to 'get over it, it's history' while failing to actually listen to the stories from those who's families had been affected by the trade, regardless of the timel