PROCESS : Remembering together fife
In 2022, Greenspace Scotland was given funding by the Scottish Government to initiate and commission artists in every local authority across Scotland to co-create something with communities to sensitively mark the pandemic. The Scotland-wide national project is called Remembering Together
I was privileged to be appointed the role of Lead Artist for Fife, and began a period of community engagement to discover what communities felt would resonate.
Following a period of extensive consultation, communities demonstrated their desire to forge something with a positive impact and legacy in response to acknowledging this difficult shared experience. They decided that the Fife element of the RT project should have a focus on investment in its people at its heart, specifically kickstarting our collective journey to wellbeing. This would provide a path to a positive legacy growing out of a shared trauma.
Communities focussed on the vital role Fife’s landscape played daily during lockdown and were keen to mark this period by co-creating something which celebrates our rich landscape, encouraging us to spend more time outdoors engaging with it. They noted barriers to accessing activities designed to boost our mental health and voiced their desire to overcome this.
Below are online copies of the two handbound books, INLOOK and OUTLOOK, contained in the boxed publicaton PROCESS, documenting Fife’s collaborative response to this project. INLOOK describes our collaboratve journey, and OUTLOOK contains simplified ‘how-to’ instructions of some creative processes undertaken by individuals and community groups for others to share in.
inlook & outlook: ACCESS BOTH BOOKS BELOW
