News
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Climate Action Fund makes a difference
Three artists and curators will develop exciting new projects with a focus on sustainability, thanks to the Mandate Climate Action...
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#ArtUnlocks Placemaking
In our latest #ArtUnlocks article, writer Chris Sharratt finds out more from Deveron Projects Director Natalia Palombo about connecting artists,...
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Scanning the year 2021
We’re here to support contemporary art. We know that artists’ voices, art spaces, and artistic opportunities can help us find...
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#UnwrapArt at the Fruitmarket Book Shop, Edinburgh
As Christmas approaches, writer Chris Sharratt speaks to Allison Everett about the amazing range of books, editions and homeware, uniquely...
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#UnwrapArt and support artists and makers
Our #UnwrapArt campaign highlights the many opportunities for the public to buy directly from artists this festive season. Writer Chris...
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#UnwrapArt with Artists’ Tuck Shop
Our #Unwrap art campaign highlights how, in the lead up to the festive season, artists’ and makers’ markets, online retail...
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#ArtUnlocks Talent
Writer Chris Sharratt speaks to SCAN members and explores how access to visual art at an early age develops vital...
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#UnwrapArt to Support Artists and Makers
Are you looking for unique gifts for your friends and family? You can support Scotland’s creative community at the same...
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SCAN’s Wee Wood…Climate Action and Collaboration
To mark COP26, Scottish Contemporary Art Network planted a tree for each of our members. As all of us look...
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The Long Return, an essay on belonging by Nadine Andrews
As part of our partnership with the Climate Psychology Alliance we are thrilled to share a beautiful essay, The Long...
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A+E Collective on Engaging Creatively with Climate Crises
A+E Collective is a group of creatives working in design, film, food and writing, coming together to awaken people’s imaginations...
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Artists connect and activate in collections across Scotland
Throughout the pandemic SCAN has been working with museums and galleries across Scotland to explore how working with contemporary artists...
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Scotland’s visual arts sector can play a vital role in the recovery – Moira Jeffrey speaks to Third Force News
“Artists and arts organisations unlock talent as well as placemaking, wellbeing, health, international working and environmental action in communities across...
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#ArtUnlocks…Wellbeing
Image: Installation view of The Outside is Inside Everything we Make, an exhibition for Glasgow International 2021 by Laura Aldridge,...
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#ArtUnlocks Climate Action
Writer Chris Sharratt explores creative projects that focus on climate action, and tells us more about how artists and art...
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Thinking and doing, SCAN Director Moira Jeffrey on our #ArtUnlocks campaign
Earlier this year I felt I might be reaching the Covid crunch. Locked down and locked out of the things...
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Meeting MSPs with #ArtUnlocks
This summer our #ArtUnlocks campaign is all about getting MSPs out to see what our members do every day: creating and support amazing art,...
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Miles Greenwood on confronting Glasgow’s colonial past in the Glasgow Museums Collection
Miles Greenwood is Curator of the Legacies of Slavery and Empire at Glasgow Museums. He spoke to SCAN’s Myriam Mouflih about working with the...
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SCAN supports acquisitions by artists from Scotland
We were delighted to be involved in the acquisition of works by Atelier E.B, Rabiyah Choudhry, Jamie Crewe and Alberta...
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SCAN Sparks: New podcast now available
Our SCAN Sparks programme explores how the cultural community can support grassroots activism and equalities-focused working. Later this year we’ll...
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CLiC Blog: An “Action Research Year” for arts funding
On the 25th March, we brought together a range of speakers to explore the dramatic impact of the pandemic on...