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Aberdeen Programme

The LUX Scotland Aberdeen Programme aimed to support early career Aberdeen-based artists and curators. The programme ran from 2018 to 2024 and has included job opportunities, workshops, screenings and online commissions. The programme was led by Project Manager Rachel Grant between 2021 – 24.

Supported by Aberdeen City Council Creative Funding, this continued our previous work to support, develop and promote artists’ moving image practices across Scotland, and builds on our work in the Aberdeen area.

A colour film still showing a blurred image of a bathroom coloured dark purple, green and brown. The background has a row of sinks and soap dispensers with a mirror above. The mirror is framed by strip lights, creating bright white rectangles.

Jen Clarke on Phoebe Banks' 'Girl in a Pub Toilet'

Writing

We commissioned anthropologist, artist, and curator Jen Clarke to respond to Phoebe Banks’ Online Commission ‘Girl in a Pub Toilet’ (2024).

Enxhi Mandija on Phoebe McBride's 'On Becoming a Water Bat: echoes of an unseen world'

Writing

Recalling: We commissioned writer Enxhi Mandija to respond to Phoebe McBride’s 'On Becoming a Water Bat: echoes of an unseen world'.
A colour film still showing an image of three toilet cubicles, taken at an angle. The walls are tiled white and the floor is dark purple. The door frames are painted black and are slightly worn with age.

Phoebe Banks, ‘Girl in the Pub Toilet’ | Online Commission Screening

Online Screening 1 March — 30 April 2024
A colour film still showing a blurred image of a bathroom coloured dark purple, green and brown. The background has a row of sinks and soap dispensers with a mirror above. The mirror is framed by strip lights, creating bright white rectangles.

Online Discussion with Phoebe Banks

Talk 21 March 2024
A colour film still shows a person, standing on sand dunes and surrounded by long grass. They have blonde hair and are dressed in a long black coat and black hat and carry a mottled piece of fabric.

Amy Liptrot on Hanna Tuulikki's 'Seals’kin'

Writing

Getting Under the Seals’kin: We commissioned writer Amy Liptrot to respond to Hanna Tuulikki​’s ​‘Seals’kin’ (2022).
A film still of a brightly lit pair of hands reaching upwards with open palms. The wrists touch together creating a v shape and they are wearing gold coloured rings. The edge of the frame is dark and the background is blurred black, with green and brown foliage. At the left of the image is text ‘And now I’m thinking about oil’ coloured white.

Through the lens of your own practice | Workshop with Ashanti Harris

Workshop 10 February 2024
A still image, shot on 16mm film, shows a person's foot pressed against a grey floor and sticking out from under a blue curtain. The person is wearing a black sock.

The Foyer | Writing workshop with Rosie Roberts

Workshop 27 January 2024
A photographic headshot of a young Caucasian woman in her 20s. Morgan is looking straight on at the camera and smiling, she has long dark brown highlighted hair and blue eyes.

Morgan Dunbar joins LUX Scotland team

News 31 October 2023

We are delighted to announce Morgan Dunbar has joined the LUX Scotland team as our Project Assistant for the Aberdeen Programme.
A colour film still shows a close up of an estuary. A person is lying on the bank of the river, looking towards the camera. They are dressed in a costume that covers their whole body, leaving only their face visible. The material of the costume replicates the markings of a sealskin and their legs are raised from the ground. On the bank opposite are a group of grey and common seals.

Hanna Tuulikki, ‘Seals’kin’ (2022)

Online Screening 1 — 30 November 2023
A house plant sits on the right of the image, with the focus on the points of the leaves in the foreground. In the background there are grey-ish white strip blinds - the kind that cover large windows in offices. Through gaps in the blinds there is a grey building and some lights, though this area is out of focus. The image is subtitled in white writing that reads “He mouths along to the words, his eyes still focused on the screen”.

Phoebe Banks Online Commission for the Aberdeen Programme

News 3 October 2023

We are delighted to announce a new online commission by Phoebe Banks as part of the Aberdeen Programme.
A colour film still shows a wide shot of an estuary. A river runs across the centre of the image and a colony of seals can be seen in the distance. In the foreground, surrounded by long grasses, a person stands on the sand dunes facing away from the camera, towards the river. They are dressed in a long black coat and black hat, and carry a mottled piece of fabric.

ONE WORK | Online discussion with Hanna Tuulikki

Talk 23 November 2023
A colour film still shows a vase filled with yellow, pink and blue wild flowers placed beside a diamond grid window. The sunlight casts shadows on the stone floor.

LUX Scotland Programme in Aberdeen

News 15 August 2023

We are happy to announce a new programme of support for artists in Aberdeen that will begin in Autumn this year and continue until Spring 2024.
A colour film still of close up images of foliage formed into different shapes and superimposed onto a dark blue sky.

Job Opportunity: Project Assistant (Aberdeen Programme)

Opportunities Deadline passed

We are looking for a creative, committed individual who is passionate about the work of LUX Scotland and our commitment to support, develop and promote artists’ moving image across Scotland.

Online Discussion with Phoebe McBride

Talk 20 April 2023

Phoebe McBride, ‘On Becoming a Water Bat’ | Online Commission Screening

Screening 1 March — 30 April 2023

Sarah Browne, ‘Echo’s Bones’ | Aberdeen Art Gallery

Event 4 March 2023

The Silence and the Swamp | Programming workshops with Alaya Ang

Workshop 18 — 25 February 2023

Splicer | Writing workshops with Alison Scott

Event 14 — 28 January 2023

Phoebe Banks joins LUX Scotland team

News 29 November 2022

We are excited to announce Phoebe Banks has joined the LUX Scotland team as our Project Assistant for the Aberdeen Programme.

Larry Achiampong, ‘Wayfinder’ (2022), at Aberdeen Art Gallery

Event 26 November 2022
A mountainous landscape at sunrise, the sun’s light creating lens flare over a pale blue sky and dark hills.

Phoebe McBride announced as the recipient of the online commission for Aberdeen based artists

News 31 October 2022

We are delighted to announce Phoebe McBride as the recipient of our online commission for an Aberdeen based artist.
Quite an abstract and blurry image showing an underwater scene (a riverbed with small stones)

Approaches to making video | Workshop with Natasha Thembiso Ruwona

Event 14 November 2022

Online Commission for Aberdeen based Artists

Opportunities 5 September 2022

LUX Scotland is delighted to announce a new commission opportunity for artists based in Aberdeen.

Job Opportunity: Project Assistant (Aberdeen Programme)

Opportunities 5 September 2022

We are looking for a creative, committed individual who is passionate about the work of LUX Scotland and our commitment to support, develop and promote artists’ moving image across Scotland.
A hand reaches up to a stone with a hole that reveals bright blue sky dotted with white clouds.

LUX Scotland Programme in Aberdeen

News 1 September 2022

We are happy to announce a new programme of support for artists in Aberdeen that will begin in Autumn this year and continue until Spring 2023.

Špela Drnovšek Zorko on Maja Zeco’s ‘In Search of the Sun’

Writing

We commissioned anthropologist and writer Špela Drnovšek Zorko to respond to Maja Zećo's work 'In Search of the Sun' (2021)

Advice sessions | Aberdeen Art Gallery

Event 9 April 2022

Bursary for two Aberdeen-based artists

Opportunities 9 March 2022

LUX Scotland are delighted to offer two bursary spaces for Aberdeen-based artists to attend our ​‘Developing a new work’ workshop taking place on 20 – 21 April 2022 in Glasgow.

Maja Zeco 'In Search of the Sun' 2021

Online Screening 9 — 31 March 2022

'Shared Resources' at Aberdeen Art Gallery

Screening 9 April 2022