Remembering Across Scotland
Remembering Together came to a close in September 2024, you can find and explore all projects across Scotland below. Please visit the partner organisations website for more information.
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Aberdeen
Aberdeen's memorial is constructed from upcycled local granite and created by George King Architects in collaboration with local communities.
You can find it at Bon Accord Terrace Gardens, Willowbank Road, AB10 1AB
It will be fully installed by Spring 2025, for more information visit the Culture Aberdeen website below.
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Aberdeenshire
Aberdeenshire’s memorial is a new walking route ‘From Mountain to Sea’ with bespoke benches in eight locations from Ballater to Peterhead.
A collection of new music composed by Paul Anderson and a short film to document the memorial project.
For more information and to access the music and film visit the Live Life Aberdeenshire website below.
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Angus
Angus' project is comprised of three interconnected elements: a mobile memory box, a commissioned bench designed by Mickey Fenton and a new website archive designed by Michaela Zoppi capturing the process and communities involved can be accessed below.
The benches are located at Montrose Playhouse, Kirrie Hill in Kirriemuir and the Arbroath Promenade, each site chosen for its accessibility. The Memory Box is held at Montrose Playhouse.
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Argyll and Bute
Argyll and Bute's project took place in 4 locations, led by Emma Henderson in Garelochhead, Luke Winter in Bute, Nina Pope and Karen Guthrie in Mull and Kirsten Millar and Muriel MacKaveney in Campbeltown.
The project culminated in an event across all areas in August 2024. A film by Paul Campbell documenting the process and more information about the projects can be found on the Charts Argyll and Isles website below.
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Clackmannanshire
Clackmannanshire’s project consists of permanent installations in 10 settlements and an exhibition in Alloa.
An annual ‘Healing Together Festival’, the first which will take place on the 1st June 2025, and establishing 'Emergency Information Network' and 'Community Reconnection Days' - where local parks, public spaces and cultural centres host events that encourage people to come together, focusing on social inclusion, bringing together different generations and cultural groups.
For more information visit the Resonate Together website below.
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Dumfries and Galloway
The Dispersed Memorial Forest, consists of trees and planting with one artwork spread over five areas (Stranraer, Sanquhar, Moffat, Dumfries and Castle Douglas) to represent al the communities of Dumfries and Galloway.
For more information visit the Memorial Forest website below.
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Dundee
Dundee’s memorial is a garden and labyrinth with colourful, symbolic and perennial planting and sculptural elements created using long-lasting materials of corten steel and timber.
You can find it at Caird Avenue, Moncur Crescent Playpark, Dundee, DD3 8AW.
It will be fully installed by Summer 2025.
For more information, visit the UNESCO City of Design Dundee website below.
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East Ayrshire
East Ayrshire’s project focused on a ‘living memorial’ with a series of events and workshops, giving people the opportunity to engage with friends, family and colleagues through artists led events and workshops, reaching thousands of participants of all ages and backgrounds in Kilmarnock, Mauchline, Dalrymple, Rankinston, Patna and Auchinleck
A documentary capturing the varied experiences of lockdown was created with a soundtrack created by local musicians and participants.
An exhibition The Dick Institute, Kilmarnock will remain until February 2025. find out more about the exhibition on the link below.
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East Dunbartonshire
East Dunbartonshire's memorial project consists of sheltered seating across 12 different location, accompanied by a 30 min walk and a sound piece reflecting the experiences of communities in each area.
A short film documenting the process can be seen HERE, for all locations, walks and sound pieces see Remembering Together East Dunbartonshire website below.
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East Lothian
East Lothian’s project consist of six walking trails in Dunbar, Haddington, Musselburgh, North Berwick, Preston Seton Gosford, and Tranent.
With way markers, interpretation panels and QR codes linking to a digital and physical archive, with commissioned artwork by Gill White.
For more information and to access the archive visit the website below.
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East Renfrewshire
East Renfrewshire memorial are Stone sculptures in the form of a cupped palm, which will collect natural rainwater, with drawings on stone using a hydrophobic material which become visible when rainwater falls onto the design.
Located in Eastwood Park, Giffnock, and within Carlibar Park, Barrhead.
For more information visit East Renfrewshire Leisure and Culture website below.
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Edinburgh
Edinburgh’s project is a memorial art trail featuring a collection of poetic works in bronze, Scottish whinstone and local reclaimed seawall stone.
Located at McKelvie Parade at Wardie Bay. It is expected to be completed by January 2025.
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Falkirk
Falkirk’s memorial design takes its root in a rising gesture, a rippling upwards and outwards. Two sets of five curved monoliths rise directly from the grass, rising together towards a ‘doorway’ that takes the viewers gaze over the water, towards the woods and into the sky above.
The chosen site for the memorial is in Callendar Park. The location is in front of the former boating pond, with a view across the water towards the treeline beyond.
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Fife
Fife’s project, titled PROCESS, is a bespoke handmade artwork comprising several components, all contained within a working camera obscura. Crafted using sustainable materials to echo the broad range of community engagements undertaken across Fife during the project.
Copies will be available in various civic institutions such as schools, libraries, colleges across Fife for the public to access. An online version will also be available to access on the website below.
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Glasgow
Glasgow’s project is a modular sculpture reflecting participants experience of lockdown and the pandemic.
Located in Queens Park, the sculpture will be installed by Summer 2025 and will be accompanied by community events.
For more information visit the Govanhill Baths website below.
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Highland
Highland’s project, titled TOLL, is a mass participation artwork involving the carrying and ringing of multiple bells, each with a short inscription drawn from activity around the pandemic and vulnerable communities.
For more information visit Lyth Arts Centre website below.
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Inverclyde
Inverclyde’s project consists of five labyrinths sited in Gourock, Greenock, Kilmacolm, Port Glasgow and Wemyss Bay.
Each site-specific, unique and connected with names representing feelings, virtues and aspirations in response to the pandemic.
For more information visit RIG Arts website below.
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Midlothian
Midlothian’s project has created new outdoor spaces at 3 parks in Midlothian comprising a sculptural bench, fruit trees and associated planting. Co-designed by over 100 local people in Midlothian from primary schoolers to pensioners, the benches are installed in Mayfield and Easthouses, Rosewell and Penicuik.
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Moray
Moray’s project consists of 3 parts: A new traditional memorial tune by Duncan Chisholm and Hamish Napier which was unveiled at a concert with young people at the end of September 2023 and performed in care homes across Moray, the score is available in schools and libraries.
A series of Soundwalks reflecting on the pandemic and lockdown and a hardback book (with an audiobook version) available in local libraries and schools across Moray.
The audio can be accessed on the links above.
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Na h-Eileanan Siar
Na h-Eileanan Siar’s project consist of 'Next to You' , an album of original music by Josie Duncan, Alasdair Caplin, Scott C Park and Willie Campbell (launched with a tour to venues in Lewis, Benbecula and Barra).
Additionally a collection of steel fire sculptures has been designed by Robbie Thomson and will be sited with community partners linked with a series of community days across the islands.
The album an be found HERE.
For more information visit Macaulay College website below.
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North Ayrshire
North Ayrshire’s project is an architectural work in stone, designed and constructed by Aeneas Wilder, with 36 newly planted rowan trees. Located at Eglinton Country Park, Irvine.
For more information visit North Ayrshire Council website below.
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North Lanarkshire
North Lanarkshire’s memorial, called The Gathering Space, is a unique structure created within the inspiring setting of Strathclyde Country Park. This Gathering Space was co designed by the communities of North Lanarkshire and includes panels reflecting North Lanarkshire landmarks and artwork created in community workshops.
For more information visit North Lanarkshire Council website below.
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Orkney Islands
Orkney’s memorial consists of five distinct projects across the archipelago, located in Flotta, Kirkwall, North Ronaldsay, Sanday and Shapinsay.
Each one reflecting the individual island community with carved stone, reflective spaces, seating areas and a book of portraits and stories.
For more information visit Voluntary Action Orkney website below.
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Perth and Kinross
The Perth and Kinross project comprises five different memorials representing different local areas and communities. Gregor George has created a series of graffiti art inspired installations in Perth City. Helen O’Brien co-created and installed a series of bronze sculptures around Blairgowrie and Rattray. Helen McCrorie produced a film with communities around Strathearn. Kristie De Garis created a series of multilingual carved stones placed around Kinross. Alec Finlay designed cairn sculptures with communities in highland Perthshire.
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Renfrewshire
Renfrewshire’s project designs were a response to the phase 1 brief of “ It will be a place where you can sit. It will be a place where something new can grow. It will be a place to tell stories. It will be a place of permanence and future history”.
In Erskine the memorial bench will be part of a sound garden with glimpses of the River Clyde.
In Kilbarchan it will be located by the cycle path between established trees with views across farmland and towards distant hills.
It will be installed by Spring 2025. For more information visit Erskine Arts website below.
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Scottish Borders
The Scottish Borders’ project co-created a new tartan design, named Borders Together. This stands as a memorial for the experiences of Borderers in the pandemic, available for public use: the design is freely available online.
The new tartan was woven by a family-run mill in Selkirk, so that it could be used in ten community creative project commissions and displayed in community spaces across the Borders including all NHS Borders hospitals, village halls, museums and libraries, a map of where the tartan is displayed can be found HERE.
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Shetland
Shetland’s project, Mindin’ Tagidder, is a book available across Shetland capturing local experiences of Covid and lockdown and a link to the several projects created in phase 2, including community events, projections, music, soundscapes, a guide to self care, flags, plaques and a film.
For more information visit Shetland Arts website below.
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South Ayrshire
South Ayrshire’s project culminated in a performance on the 26th June 2024. The Bunker was performed at the Ayr Gaiety Theatre to over 350 audience and a community cast performed alongside professional actors after months of workshops and activities with local people.
The text will be available from Ayr Gaiety.
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South Lanarkshire
South Lanarkshire’s project combines natural materials and engraved text. Stone, whilst also having hard-wearing qualities, makes reference to the passing of time and deep memory, marking a viewing point or place to pause and reflect. The design and engraving were influenced through workshops with communities, taking aspects from each groups ideas about what the memorial should look like and what it should convey.
Located in Fernbrae Meadows and Cuningar Loop with another community designed bench in Lanark. To be fully installed by Spring 2025.
A documentary film capturing the process will also be available.
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Stirling
Stirling’s project has been shaped by the seasonal calendar and Celtic Wheel of the Year. This has offered a framework for creativity, nature connection and community- different ways of being together and marking time.
The project focused on experiential activity and events, rather than making permanent objects, and the legacy is mainly around the project film, a book available in hard copy around Stirlingshire, or online and some objects and photographs made in workshops.
For more information visit Scene Stirling website below.
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West Dunbartonshire
West Dunbartonshire’s project, ASSEMBLE is a mobile, pop-up theatre toured around different locations in West Dunbartonshire , where members of the local community could share their experiences of the pandemic and a short film capturing the process.
Activity will be ongoing into 2025. For more information and to see the film visit the site below.
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West Lothian
West Lothian’s project, The Ribbon, is a sculptural seating space with feature wall, situated in Almondvale Park near the Civic Centre in Livingston.
For more information visit west Lothian Council website below.