HERAKUT, 2016 – IMAGE COURTESY THE ARTIST
14, 15, 16 apRil 2017
Street art is without a doubt the most exciting
development in visual art for decades: a ‘movement’
that has caught the imagination of the general public,
collectors, auction houses and curators the world over.
The 11 artists invited to participate in Nuart Aberdeen are
some of the world’s finest exponents of street art, offering
a rich and eclectic insight into the breadth and depth of
this global phenomenon.
Nuart Aberdeen will not only provide a platform for
international street artists but also local and national
artists who wish to showcase their work to the world
through a series of site-specific paintings, installations,
interventions, and temporary exhibitions at venues across
the Granite City.
In addition to physical art production, the Nuart Plus
program – which consists of film screenings, artist
presentations, panel debates, workshops, exhibitions
and more – aims to stimulate debate and our collective
imagination by challenging entrenched notions of what
art is, and more importantly, what it can be. The dates for
Nuart Aberdeen may be Friday 14th – Sunday 16th April
but, long-term, we hope these artworks will become part
of the fabric of the city with Nuart Aberdeen’s legacy
echoing long into the future.
We’d like to take this opportunity to thank Aberdeen
Inspired and Aberdeen City Council for their unwavering
support as well as our partners, wall owners, volunteers
and all those who have dedicated time and resources to
helping us create Nuart Aberdeen. It is only with their
enthusiasm and energy that this event has been made
possible and we are enormously grateful.
Martyn, James, Marisa, and the team at Nuart Festival
PHOTO: IAN COX
WELCOME
Aberdeen City Council is proud to support and intrigued
to see the inaugural Nuart Aberdeen festival take place
in the Granite City, especially as we celebrate Visit
Scotland’s year of History, Heritage and Archaeology.
Aberdeen is a city that has a unique and diverse arts and
cultural community, with many fine local artists and home
to the renowned Gray’s School of Art, Peacock Visual
Arts and Seventeen. It has been the council’s priority to
work with key partners like Aberdeen Inspired to grow
and enhance our cultural events and festivals programme
and to build a greater platform to showcase and celebrate
Aberdeen’s arts and cultural sector. I am delighted that, as a city, we have developed festivals
like SPECTRA, Look Again and the Jazz Festival as well
as the Christmas Village which all ensure the city is a
vibrant, interesting, and appealing place to live, visit and
enjoy all year round. As part of our Event 365 strategy, we
have sought to ensure that Aberdeen benefits from the
very best events and festivals. As we strengthen our twin
city status with Stavanger, hosting Nuart Aberdeen, a UK
exclusive, gives the city a great opportunity to showcase
what we have to offer. Ingrained within the festival a
central focus is to ensure that local residents, artists and
businesses can be fully engaged, involved and understand
the legacy this creates for Aberdeen.
As an international city, we warmly embrace the visiting
artists from across the world, and I look forward greatly to
seeing the street art that is produced and encourage one
and all to visit the city centre on the 14th, 15th and 16th
April (Easter Weekend) to enjoy the iconic street art and
take part in the many new and exciting Nuart Aberdeen
programmes for people of all ages to enjoy.
Jenny Laing
Leader, Aberdeen City Council
and Aberdeen Inspired Board Member
PROGRAM
THURSDAY 13 APRIL
Nuart Plus is an umbrella term for Nuart’s activities
outside of actual art production. It consists of an
international research program, publications, artist
presentations, panel debates, workshops, education
programs, film screenings and more.
The Plus series aims to explore and present issues
surrounding street art practice in all its guises, through
both entertaining and educational projects and programs.
It features contributions from some of the worlds’ leading
street artists alongside academics, authors, researchers,
curators, and other cultural-sector professionals who are
dedicated to exploring issues surrounding new forms of
art and activity in public space.
In Scotland’s year of History, Heritage, and
Archaeology, the Nuart Plus symposium will explore
the role of Street Art and its associated movements in
reflecting, contesting and shaping our shared cultural
heritage.
KICK-OFF AT THE ANATOMY ROOMS
19:00 – late
The Anatomy Rooms
Marischal College
Shoe Lane, Aberdeen AB10 1AN
All events are free unless otherwise stated.
PHOTO: KRISTINA BORHES
Join us at The Anatomy Rooms as we kick-off our
program with a celebration of Aberdeen’s artistic talent
and a special ‘stand-up’ show by Nuart Aberdeen artist
Julien de Casabianca.
Jon Reid of Mood Collapse presents
Follow / Unfollow – a group exhibition of projected
artworks in TAR’s atmospheric Museum Room.
Next door, Gray Square – a collective of students
from Grays School of Art – stage a takeover in
the Project Room with music and visuals.
From 20:00–21:15 join Julien de Casabianca for a “hilarious
and poignant” insight into his practice, process, ideas,
influences, family and thoughts behind the geopolitics
of street art.
Including over 200 images illustrating his career
as a visual artist, filmmaker and founder of the global
participatory art project – Outings Project – de Casabianca
has won hearts and minds around the world with this
deeply personal trip down memory lane.
“Some people cry at every lecture” he proudly
proclaims. Test your mettle, meet Nuart Aberdeen’s
international guests and discover a wealth of talented
local artists at this social evening to mark the beginning
of Nuart Aberdeen 2017.
(Soft drinks and alcohol served on a donation basis.)
FRIDAY 14 APRIL
CONFERENCE DAY 1
ART & EVERYDAY LIFE: HISTORY,
HERITAGE & ARCHAEOLOGY
14:00–17:00
Belmont Filmhouse
49 Belmont Street, AB10 1JS
Nuart Festival is based on the principle that art should
be part of people’s everyday lives. Our events provide a
platform to amplify artists’ voices whose goal is to offer
an alternative and more practical way of engaging with
visual art than art institutions can currently offer. Nuart
are dedicated to creating new dialogues and narratives
between artist and audience in public space, where
people can engage freely and on their own terms.
In order for this to happen we need places and spaces
where new kinds of stories and art forms can emerge.
In this context, Graffiti and Street Art – so often portrayed
as the seeds of destruction – can be embraced as the
creative source of new beginnings.
14:00
Welcome and introduction
By James Finucane, Nuart Festival Manager
14:05–14.45
The Invisible College — Building Communities
of Creative Practice at Kilmahew-St.Peters
Presentation by Hayden Lorimer (UK)
15:00–15:50
Where Heritage Meets Art
Dr Fiona-Jane Brown (UK), Pedro Soares Neves (PT)
Hayden Lorimer, Chair of Cultural Geography at Glasgow
University and active participant in public art group NVA
Dr Fiona-Jane Brown, folklorist, educator, storyteller and
founder of Hidden Aberdeen Tours
16:00–17:00
Panel debate:
Traces of the Future, Memories of the Past
Discussion led by: Pedro Soares Neves
Panel: Hayden Lorimer, Dr Fiona-Jane Brown,
and Diogo Machado (PT)
BROOKLYN STREET ART FILM FRIDAY “LIVE”
18:00–20:00
Belmont Filmhouse
49 Belmont Street, AB10 1JS
Join Jaime Rojo and Steven Harrington (Founders of the
influential art blog Brooklyn Street Art) as they present
their pick of the very best and most recent short films
exploring street art and its associated movements.
FIGHT CLUB AKA THE PUB DEBATE:
Grandstand murals or small scale interventions?
21:30–23:00
Underdog
1 Union Street, AB11 5BU
For anyone who’s ever been to a conference and felt bored
to distraction. For anyone who ever felt too inhibited to put
their hand up during a Q&A. For anyone with an opinion
about power structures in public space but without
a platform to voice them. Fight Club is for you.
Inspired by the original Greek Symposia where
debates took place fuelled by copious amounts of wine,
Nuart introduce a current hot topic in Street Art culture
to be debated by two opposing teams made up of artists,
academics and industry professionals, all lubricated by
alcohol. The audience are invited to participate and settle
the score at the end of the discussion by voting for the
winner.
Pedro Soares Neves, researcher, designer, urbanist, and
co-founder of the Street & Urban Creativity International
Research Topic.
SATURDAY 15 APRIL
STREET PRINTING, WITH RAUBDRUCKERIN
11:00–15:00 (drop in session)
Market Cross, Castlegate
Transform your old clothes with street-inspired
graphic designs!
Street Printing is a printmaking workshop that invites you
to make unique patterns and designs on clothes, fabrics
and paper using manhole covers, grids and other street
level surfaces.
Hidden features of Castlegate will provide the
inspiration for unique urban designs and outfits. Hosted by
the Berlin-based art collective Raubdruckerin, every piece
is hand printed on-site using eco-friendly ink, water-based
and 100% free from petrol.
Bring your own items to print on (t-shirts, tote
bags, tea towels etc). Just beware that the ink can stain
clothing, so wear working clothes or be very cautious
when printing!
NUART ABERDEEN PUBLIC OPENING
12:00–13:00
The Green, AB11 6AD
Bring the family and join the fun at the official
opening of Nuart Aberdeen!
Witness the unveiling of Herakut’s monumental mural
on the façade of Aberdeen Market before embarking
on our first guided Street Art tours from 13:00.
Local breakdance group Bring It Boys will be
performing a ‘Street Art’ inspired routine created
especially for the event, music will be provided by
up-and-coming talents from Aberdeen, and local
radio station Northsound 1 will be on hand to hear
your thoughts about the artwork and events.
Grab a drink from one of the many local
businesses in the area or a snack from Café 52’s
legendary barbecue and join the celebrations in
Aberdeen’s historic Merchant Quarter!
STREET ART WALKING TOURS
13:00–14:15 or 14:00–15:15
Departure point: The Green, AB11 6AD
PHOTO: BRIAN TALLMAN
Join Nuart Aberdeen’s guided tours on our opening
weekend – before the paint has barely dried on the walls!
Learn about the roots of the Street Art movement and take
in work from 11 leading international artists from across
the spectrum of Street Art.
Our guides will take you on a 75-minute walk around
Aberdeen city centre that takes in smaller, hidden
artworks as well as the talking points behind
the larger murals created at this year’s festival.
CONFERENCE DAY 2
ART & EVERYDAY LIFE
14:00–16:00
Belmont Filmhouse
49 Belmont Street, AB10 1JS
14:00
Welcome and introduction
By Evan Pricco (Managing Editor, Juxtapoz Magazine)
14:05–14:45
DIY Interventions into Public Space
Evan Pricco in conversation with the artists Nipper (NO),
and Robert Montgomery (UK)
15:00–16:00
Rights to the City
Evan Pricco in conversation with the artists Jasmin
Siddiqui (Herakut/DE), Alice Pasquini (IT), and
representatives of the activist-based movement
Brandalism (UK)
SAVING BANKSY UK PREMIERE (SCREENING)
16:00–18:00
Belmont Filmhouse
49 Belmont Street, AB10 1JS
Tickets £10
Concession Tickets £8
Saving Banksy is the true story of one misguided art
collector’s attempt to save a painting by infamous British
street artist Banksy from destruction and the auction
block. It asks the question, ‘What would you do if you woke
up one morning and found a million dollar Banksy spraypainted on the side of your building?’
Join us for a showcase of cutting-edge music to
celebrate the opening of Nuart Aberdeen, featuring
artists from the roster of Fine Grains Records.
From experimental beats to dark futurism via Berlin,
The Highlands, Moscow, Santa Domingo and beyond
– label mates CAIN, T_A_M and Uraki Riddim will serve
up an eclectic evening of genre-bending electronic music.
PHOTO: BRIAN TALLMAN
LAUNCH PARTY WITH FINE GRAINS RECORDS
21:00 – late
Cafe Drummond
1 Belmont St, AB10 1JR
SUNDAY 16 APRIL
CHALK DON’T CHALK WORKSHOP
11:00–15:00 (drop in session)
Rooftop Garden, St Nicolas Centre
Chalk Don’t Chalk is a participatory Public Art project
where children of all ages will be given the “freedom
of the city” to create their own chalk street art pieces,
with professional artists on hand to teach and guide
children on their designs.
Chalk Don’t Chalk encourages the re-imagining and
re-purposing of public space in a dynamic, participatory
and creative manner. Drawing inspiration from the likes
of Picasso to Banksy, Brancussi to Sir Ken Robinson, we
hope that children and families will embrace the project
wholeheartedly and join in with this celebration of street
art in one of it’s purest forms.
EASTER SUNDAY STREET ART HUNT
13:00–14:00
The Green, AB11 6AD
Join us for a special Easter Sunday Hunt – Street Art
edition! Belgian street artist Jaune has been busy hiding
his mischievous bin men and women around Aberdeen
city centre. Find six hidden artworks by following the
‘hints’ provided and win a special Easter Sunday prize!
‘Hints’ will be revealed on the day via Nuart
Aberdeen’s social media channels and available on paper
from Café 52 (52 The Green, AB11 6PE). Take a photo of
each piece you find as proof and then return to Café 52
to receive your prize!
STREET ART WALKING TOURS
13:00–14:15 or 14:00–15:15*
Departure point: The Green, AB11 6AD
* signed by North East Sensory Services for the deaf
Join Nuart Aberdeen’s guided tours on our opening
weekend – before the paint has barely dried on the walls!
Learn about the roots of the Street Art movement and take
in work from 11 leading international artists from across
the spectrum of Street Art.
Our guides will take you on a 75-minute walk
around Aberdeen city centre that takes in smaller, hidden
artworks as well as the talking points behind the larger
murals created at this year’s festival.
BEAUTIFUL LOSERS (SCREENING)
16:00–18:00
Belmont Filmhouse
49 Belmont Street, AB10 1JS
Tickets £10
Concession Tickets £8
Beautiful Losers celebrates the spirit behind one of the
most influential cultural moments of a generation. In the
early 1990’s a loose-knit group of likeminded outsiders
found common ground at a little NYC storefront gallery.
Rooted in the DIY (do-it-yourself) subcultures of
skateboarding, surf, punk, hip hop, and graffiti, they made
art that reflected the lifestyles they led. Developing their
craft with almost no influence from the “establishment” art
world, this group and the subcultures they sprang from
have now become a movement that has been transforming
pop culture.
Starring a selection of artists who are considered
leaders within this culture, Beautiful Losers focuses on the
telling of personal stories…speaking to themes of what
happens when the outside becomes “in” as it explores the
creative ethos connecting these artists
and today’s youth.
Program is subject to last minute change — please refer to nuartaberdeen.co.uk for up to date details. Early arrival recommended to ensure access.
UK PREMIERE
SaviNg BanKSy
Tickets:
belmontfilmhouse.com
NuARt PlUS
at Belmont Filmhouse
Three days of film screenings,
artist talks and debates shining
a light on Street Art and DIY
culture.
FRIDAY 14 APRIL
Conference Day 1
Art & Everyday Life
– History, Heritage & Archaeology
14:00–17:00
Free entry
Brooklyn Street Art Film Friday
“Live”
The very best and most recent short
films exploring Street Art and its
associated movements.
18:00-20:00
Free entry
SATURDAY 15 APRIL
Conference Day 2
Art & Everyday Life
14:00-16:00
Free entry
Saving Banksy (UK PREMIERE)
Eloquent Vandals (short)
16:00–18:00
£10 / £8
SUNDAY 16 APRIL
Beautiful Losers
Play by Axel Void (short)
16:00–18:00
£10 / £8
INviSiBlE citieS
“The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains
it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the
streets, the gratings of the windows, the banisters of
the steps, the antennae of the lightning rods, the poles
of the flags, every segment marked in turn with scratches,
indentations, scrolls.” — Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
Each year Nuart proposes, develops and responds to
particular themes. These themes are intended as
provocations, designed to open up a space for debate and
practice. It is testament to Aberdeen Inspired’s genuinely
progressive approach to city development that Nuart have
been invited not only to entertain and inspire, but to also
provoke and challenge.
The last 20 years has seen the global emergence and
growing acceptance of a wide range of independent,
artist-led urban art practices. Taking their cue from the
likes of Graffiti and Skateboarding, these creative actions
challenge the authority of “the city”, particularly with
regards to how we interact with public space.
From the early days of Skateboarding and Graffiti to Urban
Gardening, Yarn Bombing, Flash Mobbing, Parkour and
Free Running, urban interventions, Street Art and more
latterly, the rise of new Muralism, inhabitants of cities
across the globe have been appropriating their shared
spaces in ever more creative ways. Nuart Festival was
established in Stavanger in 2001 as an annual platform
to amplify the very best of these new voices and practices.
Nuart Aberdeen, a new international platform, is designed
to not only present the most interesting and relevant
Street Art of it’s time, but to also activate and inspire
an emergent local scene whilst encouraging creative
collaborations with twin city Stavanger.
“Appropriating” urban spaces for unintended use is
nothing new, though one could say the diversity and
scale of current practice is. At the outset, Nuart set itself
a simple goal: to support and facilitate the production of
as much of this new public art as possible; to participate
in shaping the fabric of the city and to promote the idea
that cities should be for people, not just for profit.
Ultimately, we would hope the messages of the individual
works produced under the Nuart Aberdeen banner add
up to more than the sum of its parts, and rather than the
festival being regarded as merely an “event”, it should
kick-start a re-evaluation of how and who should
participate in shaping the city of the future. In a post-oil,
sharing economy the largest untapped creative resource
is the city’s inhabitants, particularly those independents
who are already challenging the status quo or engaged
in promoting the cities rich cultural heritage.
Nuart encourages agency and likes to boldly state that
the city is as much yours to use as it is anyone else’s.
The extraordinary lengths that the authorities used to go
to in order to hinder, prevent or close down unsanctioned
urban art serves to show the radical potential that
these actions truly have. By recognising the value
and harnessing the creativity within these grass roots
movements, the City has the potential to not only retain
PHOTO: HENRIK HAVEN
the soul of those areas it intends to develop, but to give a
sense of ownership of the city centre - along with a sense
of agency - back to its citizens. Aberdeen Inspired have
given Nuart the opportunity to engage and collaborate
with a truly unique and authentic group of organisations,
businesses and individuals who are obviously dedicated
to building a more inclusive and creative city. It is this that
drives many of the artists we work with.
Building inclusive and creative cities is perhaps one of our
greatest challenges. A key part of the puzzle lies right at
the heart of our urban areas: in our city streets. Streets are
the fundamental public space of every city, whether Union
Street, The Green or Belmont Street, they are the lifeblood
of social and economic exchange and the cultural equal of
any grand museum or institution.
Street Art is, by default, art that belongs to people of
the streets, part of the everyday, breaking boundaries
and centuries of tradition between art and everyday life.
Old industrial buildings, thoroughfares, tunnels and
alleyways are increasingly replacing museums and
galleries as the ideal forums and exhibition venues for art.
With this in mind, Nuart promotes a simple principle:
if you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and
traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people
and places. Nobody yet knows what you get if you plan
your city streets as a dynamic, ever-changing public art
museum, but it’s something that Nuart and Aberdeen
are soon to be at the forefront of finding out.
Martyn Reed, Creative Director of Nuart Festival
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Aberdeen Market, Market Street
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JULIEN DE CASABIANCA (FR)
East Green
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1 Belmont Street
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Guestrow
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ADD FUEL (PT)
ALICE PASQUINI (IT)
Add Fuel is a Portugese visual artist and illustrator who
reinterprets the language of traditional tile design, in
particular the Portuguese ceramic azulejo (glazed tiles).
His unique technique and resulting optical illusions
encourage the viewer to think about the history and
heritage that lies beneath the facades and pavements of
our urban environment.
Alice Pasquini is a multimedia artist from Rome whose
affectionate street art explores the brighter side of human
relationships. Pasquini’s art revolves around the topics of
femininity and independent women, and encompasses
murals, paintings, and illustrations which tell stories about
various acts of kindness and love.
FINTAN MAGEE (AU)
HERAKUT (DE)
Born in 1985 in Lismore, Australia but of Scottish descent,
Fintan Magee is considered one of the world’s leading
figurative street artists. Transporting the viewer beyond
mundane routines and expectations into a world of
unexpected beauty and chaotic balance, his paintings
highlight the extraordinary nature of our everyday
existence.
Jasmin Siddiqui and Falk Lehmann joined forces under the
name Herakut in 2004 and both have roots in the graffiti
scene. Their creative process, which involves each artist
improvising on top of the other, results in heavily stylized,
narrative artworks that are both sensual and savage.
ISAAC CORDAL (ES)
Isaac Cordal is a Spanish artist who since 2006 has placed
miniature sculptures in public places around the world
as part of an on-going series called Cement Eclipses.
Embodying the spirit of guerrilla street art, Cordal’s
installations capture the absurdity of human existence
through the simple act of miniaturization and site-specific
placement.
THE CRYSTAL SHIP PRESENTS:
JAUNE (BE)
Jaune is a stencil artist and urban interventionist whose
work is based on the paradox between the visible and
the invisible. Sanitation workers (Jaune’s ex-profession)
are the protagonists in his humorous installations and
paintings, which find these unsung heroes of our everyday
lives elevated to the role of mischief-makers in chief.
JULIEN DE CASABIANCA (FR)
M-CITY (PL)
Julien de Casabianca is a visual artist, filmmaker and
founder of the Outings Project – a global participatory art
project that embellishes the streets with portraits plucked
from classical paintings. His mission is to merge the
perceptions of canonical and street art, while punctuating
neglected spaces with images of beauty.
M-City is an artist and Lecturer at the Academy of Art in
Szczecin, Poland. He is best-known for his large-scale,
industrial-themed murals, which involve piecing together
hundreds of carefully cut stencils to create a coherent
imagined cityscape. An incredibly prolific and methodical
painter, he has notched up over 700 pieces to his M-City
project alone.
ROBERT MONTGOMERY (UK)
MARTIN WHATSON (NO)
Robert Montgomery has been called a vandal, a street
artist, a post-Situationist, a punk artist and the “poet’s
Banksy”. He is noticeable for bringing a poetic voice to
the discourse of text art through his paste-up artworks,
murals and light installations. Originally from Scotland,
he has exhibited at the 2011 Venice Biennale and 2012
Kochi-Muziris Biennale in India.
Norwegian born and based artist Martin Whatson first
started producing his unique brand of stencil art in 2004.
While studying Art and Graphic Design at the Westerdals
School of Communication in Oslo he developed a strong
interest in graffiti and street art, ultimately combining
them to create his distinctive and hugely popular
visual style.
NIPPER (NO)
CREATE YOUR OWN ‘MISSION
DIRECTIVE’ AND BE A PART
OF NUART ABERDEEN 2017!
Nipper is a Bergen-based artist whose Mission Directives
project focuses on social ideals of sharing, creativity and
citizen-led communication in public space. By questioning
who has the power and authority to communicate
messages and create meaning in our shared spaces,
his work becomes part of a broader conversation
of social significance.
Nipper is inviting artists of all levels to participate
in his ‘Mission Directives’ project. Based on the
MAKE / TAKE / REPLACE philosophy, the project
gives people the opportunity to exchange artwork
with others in public space – turning Aberdeen city
centre into a giant open air gallery!
Paintings, illustrations, collages, drawings,
photographs, stencils, watercolours, zines, stickers…
all types of artwork are welcome as long as they are
no bigger than A5 (14·8cm × 21cm). Sealable, waterproof bags to protect artworks will be available from
the Nuart Aberdeen hub space (Unit 14, The Academy)
from Saturday 8 April (opening hours: 10:00 – 18:00).
Feel free to upload your images to Instagram
using the hashtag #missiondirectives to give
others a clue to where they can find your work!
Visit our website for more details.
HERE’S TO ALL THE REBELS!
by Jon Reid, Mood Collapse
Aberdeen might not be the first place you think of when it comes
to street art yet the signs of an active subculture have always been
there: on a doorway emblazoned with tags; a colourful padlock
hanging on a fence (probably by local artist Dymagate), or the
Francis Vomit stickers which lead you down some interesting side
streets. I’ve been lucky to meet a lot of artists who see the streets
as a playground to be explored and enjoyed, a new canvas on
which to express their ideas and dreams.
Street art is a massively diverse subject with many branches
that can cover politics, religion, social issues, or just be fun.
Aberdeen has played host to some incredibly amusing and
thoughtful interventions over the years, like when Craig Barrowman
wheeled a giant eye ball down Union Street or the time the worldrenowned ‘conceptual’ street artist Brad Downey cut a giant
love heart out of a building tarpaulin on King Street. But the small
moments can be just as significant: like the Wolf Man & Elki stencils
which appeared in the late 90s or the infamous tartan-clad Bag
Piper on Jopps Lane - small acts of rebellion which embody a real
countercultural spirit and inspired a generation of ‘outsider’ artists.
Street art has evolved and changed over the years but its focus
is still the same: to bring art into the public realm, good or bad,
for everyone to experience. With Nuart coming to Aberdeen we’ll
see a new chapter in Aberdeen’s street art history, opening a fresh
dialogue about the Art of Rebellion and everything that goes with it.
Here’s to all the rebels!
PHOTO: JON REID
Jon Reid has been documenting creativity and culture in
Aberdeen since he established the Mood Collapse blog in 2008.
With a personal mission to connect the dots between artists both
new and old; galleries; and events, Jon aims to showcase the real
value of art in the Granite City as well as build connections between
Aberdeen artists and those further afield.
Join Jon for our Street Art tours departing The Green
at 14:00 on Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th April.
As the £30m transformation of Aberdeen Art Gallery,
Cowdray Hall and Remembrance Hall continues,
Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums is delighted to be
working with Nuart and Aberdeen Inspired to bring
striking images from our collections to the city streets.
Pupils from five schools within the regeneration areas in
Aberdeen have chosen artworks currently in storage at
Aberdeen Treasure Hub as inspiration for the work
of Nuart Aberdeen artist Julien de Casabianca.
PHOTO: OUTINGS PROJECT
See the results in Aberdeen city centre from
Saturday 15th April!
For all the latest news about the Inspiring Art and Music
redevelopment, including details of how you
can be part of this ambitious project for Aberdeen
by making a donation to the Inspiring Art and Music
fundraising campaign, please visit inspiringartandmusic.
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