Canadian visible artists are invited to use for a singular summer season residency in Scotland for 2025. The Glenfiddich 2025 Artists in Residence program selects artists from all around the world for a three-month, all bills paid residency in scenic Dufftown, Scotland, house of the corporate’s distillery.
This system is celebrating a twenty fourth anniversary in Scotland, and it’s the nineteenth yr that Canadian artists have been requested to take part. Taking part artists hail from throughout the globe, and in 2025 will embrace artists from Taiwan, Scotland, China and Africa together with Canada.
“The 2025 Artists in Residence program celebrates the intersection of artwork and the scenic nature of the Glenfiddich Distillery within the Scottish Highlands,” feedback Navneet Bhullar, Model Supervisor, Glenfiddich in Canada. “We sit up for welcoming new voices and visions to the distillery, and we’re honoured to supply this esteemed alternative to at least one expert Canadian artist seeking to discover their artistry whereas collaborating with different artists from world wide.”
Greater than 160 artists from 20 nations have taken half in the summertime artist residency in Dufftown, Scotland because it started in 2002. The picturesque Speyside area of the Scottish Highlands is thought for its lush greenery, rivers and wealthy soil. The title Glenfiddich comes from Scottish Gaelic — Gleann Fhiodhaich, which interprets as valley of the deer. Briefly, what makes it excellent for making whisky additionally provides it an environment and heritage that infuses the work that’s created there.
“The Artists in Residence program celebrates the artwork of storytelling, craftsmanship, and creating shared experiences that artwork brings to life,” feedback Andy Fairgrieve, Glenfiddich Artists in Residence Curator in a press release. “Every year we welcome a brand new group of artists from across the globe on the Glenfiddich Distillery and are repeatedly impressed by the works they create, drawing upon our wealthy heritage and scenic panorama.”
William Grant based the distillery that also bears his title in 1887. William Grant & Sons, Ltd. stays an impartial family-owned distiller, run as we speak by the fifth technology. Glenfiddich might be essentially the most well-known of its manufacturers, which additionally embrace Grant’s blended Scotch, Drambuie, and Reyka Vodka, amongst others.
Marla Hlady & Christof Migone – Canadian Artists-in-Residence on the Glenfiddich Distillery (2019):
Andy Fairgrieve: Curator
Unmistakeable in his kilt and dreadlocks curator for the Glenfiddich Artists in Residence program Andy Fairgrieve acts as each coordinator and curator. He takes care of all the small print from artist choice to journey visas, after which connecting the collaborating artists with what they want domestically after they attain Dufftown and start to work.
“Briefly I act as a neighborhood information, curator and gallery technician. For me whisky is all about relationships, bringing folks collectively and sharing with mates. With that in thoughts it’s a optimistic reinforcement of ‘guid’ Highland hospitality that every yr, over the weeks and months that the artists are right here, lasting associations are fashioned.”
Andy has taken care of the Artists in Residence prize since its inception in 2002.
The Jury
The jury usually considers greater than 200 functions for the summer season residency program.
Dave Dyment
The 2008 Canadian Artists in Residence Prize recipient, Dave Dyment has served on the choice jury panel for Artists in Residence Canada for the previous 5 years. Dave is predicated in Toronto, the place he works largely within the discipline of sound set up, together with multiples and pictures. His work has been exhibited throughout North America and Europe.
David Diviney
David Diviney is the senior curator on the Artwork Gallery of Nova Scotia in Halifax, the place he’s labored since 2009. His resume contains positions on the Southern Alberta Artwork Gallery and Eye Degree Gallery, and he has taught programs at Faculty of Artwork and Design, College of Lethbridge, Thompson Rivers College, and Sheridan Faculty Institute of Know-how and Superior Studying.
Stefan Hancherow
Toronto based mostly curator and collector Stefan Hancherow has held positions because the Venture Director of Characteristic Modern Artwork Honest and Assistant Curator of the Sobey Artwork Award. After graduating from NSCAD College, he adopted with an MFA from OCAD College.
Ivan Jurakic
Based mostly in Hamilton, Ivan Jurakic is the Director/Curator of the College of Waterloo Artwork Gallery. He earned an MFA from SUNY Buffalo and an Honours BA from the College of Guelph. He has curated quite a few exhibitions in a 20 yr profession, together with sitting on the curatorial panel for the 2009 Sobey Artwork Award, and co-curatong Zone C for Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2013.
Joshua Schwebel
Canadian artist Joshua Schwebel divides his time between Montreal (Tiohtià:ke) and Berlin. His work entails direct institutional critique, expressed by way of process-based performances, withdrawals, delegated transactions, and impostors, and has been introduced throughout Canada, in Europe and China.
Eunice Luk
Born in Hong Kong, Eunice Luk is a visible artist based mostly in Tkaronto/Toronto whose apply contains installations, sculptures, work, and multiples. Her work explores cross cultural commonalities, and is impressed by the pure setting.
Ruth Burns
Programmer, curator, advocate and non-profit administrator Ruth Burns has been the Govt Director of Ontario Tradition Days since 2017. Ruth was the founding director of Nuit Blanche Edmonton, which launched in 2015, amongst many different key positions held over a two decade profession.
Particulars
“As an artist, the expertise at Glenfiddich’s Artist in Residence program meant that I may focus solely on the given process: create artwork works influenced by all talked about above. And the way can it not be!? These three months have been extraordinarily inspiring … and utmost heartwarming,” feedback Julie Forgues, Artists in Residence winner of 2024.
The three month residency contains three months of earnings, all-inclusive journey, lodging and venture supplies, and is valued at greater than $26K CAD. On the finish of the residency, the works are proven in an exhibit on the distillery.
Artists dwelling and dealing in Canada might apply.
- There’s a five-part utility course of;
- It contains an overview of what they need to create, and the way it is going to be impressed by the Glenfiddich Distillery;
- Different necessities embrace a brief artist assertion, three-minute video and different particulars;
- The appliance deadline is 11:59 EST on January 31, 2025.
Previous Canadian winners embrace Derek Liddington, Dean Baldwin Lew, Annie Pootoogook, Daniel Barrow, Myfanwy Macleod, Damian Moppett, Rhonda Weppler & Trevor Mahovsky, Jon Sasaki, Eleanor King, Lee Henderson, Vanessa Maltese, and Christof Migone & Marla Hlady, who’ve labored in all kinds of media from portray and sculpture to sound artwork, video and efficiency.
- Discover extra details about the Artist in Residence program, and the applying, [HERE].
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Anya Wassenberg is a Toronto Metropolis Editor at Ludwig Van. She is an skilled freelance author, blogger and writing teacher.
