GENERATION AFTER GENERATION is a Fresh Fruit, offering audiences an GENERATION Public Engagement Fund and culmination of over nine months of opportunity to experience contemporary OIC Orkney Arts Education Network. 290 Piergroup activity engaging with the art through the eyes of a new and Miles North is supported by Cairn PLC. 2014 cultural programme emerging generation of young artists. GENERATION – 25 years of Scottish contemporary art. The exhibition brings GENERATION AFTER GENERATION has together the many strands of the project been supported by Creative including 290 Miles North, a display of work made by the ’s

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Working with Walker & Bromwich

Throughout the winter and early spring, Piergroup have worked with the artists to discuss and develop ideas and thematic strands for their GENERATION project. These included storytelling, games and zine making workshops.

As part of their GENERATION Two main strands of the Piergroup the upturned face they will use to project Piergroup worked with GENEARTION project – storytelling start the story. Each subsequent artists Walker & Bromwich. and game playing – came player has to continue the story Through a series of practical together in the storytelling cubes. influenced by their choice of workshops, the involvement of face to develop the tale. The final The cubes are rolled ‘dice like’, with ‘games’ as a vehicle for discussion player has to conclude the story the first player selecting which of and development of ideas with the last remaining picture. evolved as a key component for community engagement.

Several consultation sessions were carried out with Kirkwall- based Tuesday Club, to consider the importance of games to young people and what particular elements of playing games were favoured and considered important.

Walker & Bromwich talk Creative collaboration

As well as developing their own programme of activity, members of Piergroup assisted Walker & Bromwich in the making and presentation of a new work displayed during Shopping Week.

Moving the Selkie Pattern cutting

Making the Selkie

Selkie performance

Walker & Bromwich workshop Storytelling & Zine making

Walker & Bromwich workshop Fresh Fruit Residency

As part of GENERATION, Piergroup have exchanged ideas in an informal collaboration with Fresh Fruit, the young people’s forum from the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh. In March, Fresh Fruit travelled to Orkney on a short residency weekend.

Rackwick Beach Workshop in Hoy Kirk Rackwick Beach

Fish and chips! Rackwick Bay Workshop in Hoy Kirk

Rackwick Bothy Journey Home 290 Miles North A selection of works inspired by Orkney, created during a residency by young artists in association with The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh.

Esther Fuentes is a young Spanish artist Rebecca Sharp Working in various media, based in Edinburgh. Her digital images including poetry, found words and black reflect a town where the time passes and white photography, Sharp’s work slowly and which is always surrounded explores our geographical relationship by water. and emotional response to a space. On the Orkney residency she was particularly Annie Greiffenberg’s work is about interested in the challenges of portraying destruction, land and people. Scotland a sense of isolation within a dominant the Brand is embroidery that explores landscape. identity through some of Scotland’s leading brands and phrases. 290 Miles North is a film of footage taken during the Orkney residency by Esther Shannon McIntyre was inspired by the Fuentes, Annie Greiffenberg, Shannon peaceful landscape of Hoy. She made her McIntyre, Jake McNelis, Waddah Osman, painting from memory using photos as Francesco Passiatore and Rebecca reference. Sharp, edited by artist Katie Schwab, who led a programme of activities during Waddah Osman is a student studying the residency. The film documents photography and art. His inspiration is participants’ experiences from their Orkney’s peaceful landscape and sea. own perspective, capturing moments As we entered the mystery land called including the dramatic paper workshop Orkney Island, I began seeing boats and on Rackwick Bay, and reflections on birds everywhere, flying and floating over the trip on the long journey back to the deep blue sea. Edinburgh.

Francesco Passiatore’s comic Yin Presented in association with Fresh Fruit, Yang World uses a manga approach The Fruitmarket Gallery’s programme by to storytelling, taking inspiration from and for 16-25 year olds: http://fruitmarket. Orkney landscapes and scenery. co.uk/learning/fresh-fruit/, artist Katie Schwab and The , Orkney. Piergroup Roadshow

Working with Kirkwall based Tuesday Club, a series of games and storytelling activities were developed that visited four of the County’s agricultural Shows.

East Mainland Show

Sanday Show

East Mainland Show Visitors to Dounby Show

Dounby Show Zine Library

As part of the Piergroup GENERATION points throughout the duration of the Orkney’s rich folklore tradition and their project, participants have been project. own contemporary experience, Piergroup encouraged to make ‘zines’, simple, easy devised a simple games of ‘consequences’ to reproduce publications. The library Following early discussions developed that set up simple narratives for new has been created during workshops from working with Walker & Bromwich stories that could be expressed through and events held at at an early stage of Orcadia and Other zine-making. different Stories, storytelling and the creation of new mythologies and stories became As part of their Summer roadshow, that a a key feature of the project. visited four of the County’s agricultural Drawing on shows, Piergroup invited visitors to make their own zines, amassing the colourful and imaginative selection on display.

Visitors to Dounby Show Field Trip

In August Piergroup headed south to Glasgow and Edinburgh to experience the GENERATION programme, which included a workshop with Fresh Fruit exploring the work of Jim Lambie. Amy Liptrot GENERATION Fieldtrip, ‘writer-in-residence’

At GoMA, a mountain of old tellies plays curiously at our daily lives but on this Being with the young people of the every film has ever trip the tables are turned. In the city, we Piergroup reminds me of a trip I took made simultaneously. In the cacophony come blinking from the isles, dragging in sixth year of school to Glasgow and of noise and flickering light it seems suitcases, trailing guidebooks, wearing Edinburgh to look at universities. The impossible to concentrate on one item. raincoats. On our ‘field’ trip, or rather possibilities of the city are suggesting To begin with, this is how our trip south street trip, we stay in student halls with themselves. We’re learning how to focus to see some of GENERATION - a vast stern notices and vomit stains, and pass amid noise and lights. We meet with contemporary art project across the Alasdair Gray’s mural at Hillhead subway former Piergroup members who have Scotland - feels. There are too many station each day. made the leap and are now students or new things all at once. The 25 years graduates in the city. that GENERATION covers is longer than We have a full schedule. In beautiful the members of Piergroup have been galleries, we are treated to tours. At The long train journey home, finishing alive. But one film, of buoys bobbing GoMA, we step like giants around with miles of empty Sutherland and in a harbour, draws us in and we find cardboard churches - Nathan Coley’s Caithness moors and Atlantic waves everything else cancelled out as we are 286 Places of Worship. At the Fruitmarket hitting the ferry window, cleanses absorbed. For a while at least. gallery, our retinas buzz with Jim Lambie’s our palates. I drew some maps while colours and mirrors. We visit Linda travelling, bolstered in confidence by the When we left on the Hamnavoe ferry, Green in her studio and get a picture of weirdoes and chancers whose ideas and a solitary bonxie was swooping high someone making a living as an artist. creations are exhibited in gleaming city over Stromness. We waved to the Pier centre galleries. If they can do it, why not Arts Centre then watched the gallery The Edinburgh Fringe is on and the us? and town recede. The day’s journey to pavements are busy. It’s an important Glasgow - pushing on into different summer for Scotland and we watch We’ve been reminded that there is a landscapes, fir trees, a glimpse of stag Orcadian lad Brandon, in a play about the world outside of Orkney that these young - was long enough to appreciate its referendum. There’s so much to take in: people are able to step into and take significance. culture overload, sensory saturation and part of, if they want. They are the next the weight of choice. GENERATION. In Orkney, we are used to tourists peering GoMA tour Fruitmarket workshop

Fruitmarket - Jim Lambie

GoMA – Nathan Coley

Tramway - Cathy Wilkes

Bothy workshop

Collective - Ross Sinclair

Picnic in the park Jim Lambie Workshop

texture creating a series of The workshop took place As part of their visit to vibrant and joyful objects. in the gallery in the context Edinburgh, Piergroup took of Lambie’s GENERATION part in a workshop at the Piergroup had previously exhibition at the Fruitmarket. Fruitmarket Gallery, at the worked with Jim Lambie In the spirit of Lambie’s work invitation of their young during the installation of his , the groups worked with junk people’s forum, Fresh Fruit exhibition BEACH BOY at the shop finds and everyday with whom Piergroup had Pier Arts Centre in 2011. materials to reinvigorate collaborated with earlier in them with colour, pattern and the Spring.

AFTER GENERATION GENERATION Exhibition

GENERATION AFTER GENERATION the result of a nine month project undertaken by the Pier Arts Centre’s Piergroup to engage with the Glasgow 2014 cultural programme GENERATION – 25 years of Scottish contemporary art.

The many strands of the project of many of the artists whose residency they undertook with includes artwork, documentation, work Piergroup is familiar with Piergroup in Orkney at the end of reflection and290 Miles North – through the Centre’s collection March. work made by members of Fresh and exhibitions programme in Fruit, the young person’s forum The project culminated in a the context of their peers and from the Fruitmarket Gallery, research visit to Glasgow and in the wider arena of Scottish Edinburgh in response to a short Edinburgh to see the work contemporary visual art.

The Pier Arts Centre is a registered Scottish Charity No SC014815

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