Europe. Scotland

Comhla [ Workshop ]

The Comhla Workshop which was a joint venture between the Taigh Chearsabhagh Trust and the Triangle Arts Trust, took place in September 2003 on the island of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides Scotland.

Artists from Cuba, Brazil, Trinidad, Argentina, Tibet, India Japan and South Africa worked with artists from Scotland in this remote and beautiful place to make work and engage in a productive dialogue.

Coordinator: Anne MacKenzie

The Open Day was well attended by a local audience many of whom had engaged with the workshop during the previous two weeks helping and observing. Gaelic TV broadcast interviews and subsequently documentation of the event was shown in Glasgow at the Glasgow Sculpture Studios.

Anne Mackenzie, wrote in the catalogue:

The longer term impact of the project will continue to unfold through a whole new web of contacts linking artists and their countries. Strong friendships and working relationships have evolved which are generating exciting new creative collaborations Such was the energy and creative spirit unleashed by Comhla 2003 that plans are definitely afoot to host future workshops.

More information including essays and a CD-ROM documenting the workshop is available in the Comhla catalogue. Please contact Gasworks to obtain a copy.

Participants:
Analia Amaya Garcia (Cuba)
Kathryn Chan (West Indies)
Melina Berkenwald (Argentina)
GaDé (Tibet)
Langa Magwa (South Africa)
Carla Zaccagnini (Brazil)
Raghavendra Rao (India)
Saki Satom (England)
Brian Kelly (Glasgow)
Julie Brook (Isle of Skye)
Olwen Stone (Isle of North Uist)
Shauna McMullan (Glasgow)
Ian Stephen (Isle of Lewis)
Andy MacKinnon (Isle of North Uist)
Nicola Gear (Glasgow)
Norman Robert Chalmers (Edinburgh)
Colin Kirkpatrick (Orkney)
Stephen Skrynka (Glasgow)