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Creative Scotland Annual Plan: tentative steps towards a new reality
With less than three months to go to the Scottish independence referendum, what does Creative Scotland’s recently published Annual Plan 2014-15 say about the country’s approach to public investment in the arts? Johnny Gailey argues that it represents a significant divergence from the UK narrative of funding cuts, economic benefits and philanthropy.
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A Creative Scotland in waiting
A year on from the implosion of Creative Scotland and a year before the independence referendum, where do things stand at the funding body? Johnny Gailey attends a recent Open Session event in Glasgow hosted by CEO Janet Archer, and finds the organisation caught in a curious state of flux.
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The case for independents in Scotland
As Creative Scotland’s open session events on the organisation’s future gather momentum, Edinburgh-based photographer and educator Johnny Gailey assesses what’s wrong at the core of its remit and makes a case for true artistic independence.