Weekly Club Meeting
Fri, Jul 5th 2019 at 12:45 pm - 2:00 pm
Speaker: Dr Tara Beall - “Dumfries Stonecarving Project”
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dr t s Beall is a socially-engaged artist, researcher, and heritage consultant based in Glasgow and Dumfries. For the past year she has led the Dumfries Stonecarving Project on behalf of the Dumfries Historic Buildings Trust. As Project Manager, she has worked to increase the visibility of Dumfries’ carved sandstone heritage, and to engage a wide range of people through stonecarving courses, archival research, oral histories, and other creative activities.
She has worked for over a decade with diverse communities in Scotland and internationally to develop creative heritage projects. Beall is currently the Lead Artist (Scotland) in a Creative Europe funded project, Memory of Water (2018-2020), which examines artists’ approaches to problems faced by post-industrial waterfronts in six countries. The project focuses on how communities might ‘re-vision’ riverfronts in urban environments, and will gather examples of best practice from each country. Her work as an artist spans a variety of media.
In 2017 she was awarded an AHRC funded Collaborative Doctoral Award at University of Glasgow, working with the Riverside Museum of Transport and Travel, Glasgow Museums. Her practice-led research developed engagement strategies for heritage institutions using creative events which focus on community participation, and where decisions are taken locally. Projects initiated with the Riverside Museum during her doctoral research, which are ongoing, include Fair Glasgow (working with Travelling Showpeople), and Protests and Suffragettes – researching women’s roles in 100 years of protest movements (all 2013-present).
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