This summer sees an exciting collaboration between two of the increasingly visible community bodies working on and for Arran.
Arran Open Studios (AOS), which is now in its seventh year promoting the work of makers and artists on Arran, and the Community of Arran Seabed Trust (COAST) want to celebrate the opening of the new COAST hub in the Old Pavilion tennis courts building in Lamlash. There is proposed a collaborative exhibition which will be both part of the AOS weekend and also the grand opening of the COAST office.
The idea, designed to raise profiles of both groups, also plans to raise funds for COAST in a rather imaginative way.
Artists and makers are invited to submit, anonymously, an artwork based on the subject ‘Something of the Sea’. These artworks will be mounted and hung by COAST in its new premises. Members of the public will be invited to purchase these pieces for a minimum of £25 but not discouraging a voluntary maximum. All money goes to the community seabed trust.