#Five2Watch Glasgow

Urban Agriculture Growing Care, Blair Cunningham, 2015

This week in #Five2Watch we take a trip to Scotland and check out artists based in Glasgow


Selected artists: 

Rosemary Hogarth, Norman Gilbert, James Winnett, 
Blair Cunningham and Katri Walker

  • James Winnett

    James Winnett, 100 Flowers, 2015

    100 Flowers, 2015

    The ten works which form this series have been developed as part of an in depth research process that has seen the artist explore a number of themes linked to the significant cultural, horticultural and emotional role flowers have played and continue to play both locally and around the world. Examining the history and local distribution of wild flowers led the artist to visit the Govan dock areas, access local biodiversity records, study the herbarium archives at Glasgow Botanical Gardens and read up on the complex role horticulture, agriculture and industry have played in introducing a host of non-native species to the local area.

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  • Blair Cunningham

    Blair Cunningham, Urban Agriculture Growing Care, 2015

    Urban Agriculture Growing Care, 2015

    This art work was commissioned as part of a larger body of research looking at Glasgow’s growing community gardens. The larger research project was carried out by researchers at the University of Glasgow (1) that concluded that these gardens were of immense importance in the development of community empowerment, social inclusion, community cohesion and spaces for informal learning. I was commissioned to create an artists book to explore some of these issues and strategies that considers community gardening as an example of what a more caring city looks like. Caring here should be understood as an everyday urban activity, which, as Joan Tronto suggests, involves “everything we do to maintain, continue and repair our ‘world’ so that we can live in it as well as possible” (2). This artwork represented a glimpse of another Glasgow, a Glasgow that generates new forms of value in places and people all too often neglected or exploited by purveyors of the ‘profit first’ logic. 

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Friday 27 November 2015


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