Creatives wanted for Pollok art project
POLLOK residents are being encouraged to get involved with a new creative scheme aiming to ‘explore the identify of the community’ throughout the past year and beyond.
Greater Pollok: Design School is a project created by After The Pandemic, which was launched in lockdown helping creative minds look towards the end of the coronavirus pandemic.
Local artists are being encouraged to get involved with the design briefs that the Greater Pollok: Design School has created.
The briefs are asking for locals to look at how life looks right now, while also looking towards the post-lockdown future of Pollok for inspiration.
Graeme Hogg, director of After the Pandemic, said: “The aim of the project is to explore the identity of the community now and then propose ideas for what Greater Pollok should look like After the Pandemic.
“The feedback we have had so far is that local people and community groups want to see a more vibrant and greener area, and we hope this will be reflected in the outputs of the design school.
“We’ve always believed that creativity, collaboration and communities can come together to respond directly to crisis, and these challenges are the biggest we are facing.”
The group has been able to fund the project with help from the William Grant Foundation, and will work with the local artist in residence, a role funded by Glasgow Life.
After the Pandemic will work closely with community groups to help with outreach, including community group G53Together.
Councillor David McDonald, creator of the G53Together group, praised the project, saying: “The pandemic has given us all time to pause and reflect and in Greater Pollok its also sparked a lot of creative thinking about the future of our community.
“As we emerge our of lockdown and get ready for life after the pandemic, the Greater Pollok Design school working with G53Together can make sure that Greater Pollok leads the city and Scotland into recovery and rebuilding a better, fairer, more creative society.”