Artists Running: 50 Years of Scottish Cultural Devolution

Dan Brown; Deborah Jackson; Neil Mulholland

doi:10.1080/14714787.2018.1474131

Artists Running: 50 Years of Scottish Cultural Devolution

Dan Brown, Deborah Jackson, Neil Mulholland

Edinburgh College of Art

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Abstract

It is just over 50 years since the Arts Council of Great Britain devolved the governance and subsidy of Scotland’s arts from London to Edinburgh. Dan Brown, Deborah Jackson and Neil Mulholland discuss how artists, curators, arts administrators and the Scottish Arts Council (SAC) learned to co-habit. They examine the tensions between the SAC’s Keynesian values, Scotland’s emerging artist-run organisational culture and its long established Unionist-nationalist arts institutions. What changes and challenges did the cultural devolution of the late 1960s precipitate in Scotland’s contemporary art and how did this impact upon the political devolution that followed in 1999?

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	139-167
Journal	Visual Culture in Britain
Volume	19
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/14714787.2018.1474131
Publication status	Published - 2 Jul 2018
Event	The Scottish Society for Art History’s Study Day 2018 : Art Organisations and Institutions in Scotland - Reid Building, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, United Kingdom Duration: 10 Feb 2018 → 10 Feb 2018

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

Scotland
Contemporary Art
Devolution
Nationalism
Unionism
Artist-run
Artist-led
Workshops
Galleries
Scottish Arts Council
Arts Council of Great Britain
CEMA
Creative Scotland

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10.1080/14714787.2018.1474131

MulhollandEtalVCB2018ArtistsRunning.pdf
This is the Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Visual Culture in Britain on 2nd July 2018, available online at http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14714787.2018.1474131.
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1 Finished

Artist-Run Archive
Mulholland, N. (Principal Investigator)
10/09/12 → 9/08/13
Project: University Awarded Project Funding

3 Chapter
2 Paper
1 Book

The Unlearning Organisation: Cultural Devolution and Scotland's Visual Arts 1967-2017
Mulholland, N., 2 Mar 2018, Artists in the City: SPACE in '68 and Beyond. Harding, A. (ed.). London: SPACE
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Open Access
File
The Unlearning Organisation: Cultural Devolution and Scotland’s Visual Arts 1967-2017
Mulholland, N., 10 Feb 2018.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

Open Access
File
The Cultural Devolution: Art in Britain in the Late Twentieth Century
Mulholland, N., Nov 2017, 2 ed. New York: Routledge. 232 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book

1 Invited talk

Scottish Independents
Neil Mulholland (Speaker)
18 Nov 2011
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk

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Artists Running: 50 Years of Scottish Cultural Devolution

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The Unlearning Organisation: Cultural Devolution and Scotland's Visual Arts 1967-2017

The Unlearning Organisation: Cultural Devolution and Scotland’s Visual Arts 1967-2017

The Cultural Devolution: Art in Britain in the Late Twentieth Century

Activities

Scottish Independents

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