Tomorrow night we have the first pop up networking event in Stirling organised by Joe Hall, a young woman new to the area.
She tells me it is already over-subscribed.
We are delighted.
For those of us who live in central Scotland this area is like a cultural desert for the contemporary art scene, in its widest scene, with little in the way of printmaking, digital, music, performance or film.
OK there are little pockets of activity – MacRobert Arts centre and Changing Room- but no central hub for contemporary artists.
Everything happens in either Glasgow or Edinburgh.
Through Forth Valley Open Studios we created the first ever database of all artists working in the area- and there are over a 100 of us- but most work in the traditional arts and crafts sector.
Hopefully these series of pop-up art events will help create a vibrant artistic community in the central belt of Scotland so that artists no longer feel they have to migrate to Glasgow, Edinburgh, or worse, London on emerging from art college.
