Govanhill Culture Collective Exhibition Launch

Govanhill Culture Collective presents a vibrant showcase featuring photography and video that brings together some of the results from a year-long collaborative, community-based artist residency programme developed by Street Level Photoworks as part of the National Culture Collective Project.

Lead artist Morwenna Kearsley and support artist Alex Popa have been engaging people across Govanhill in creative projects that range from street photography, experimental filmmaking & cycling in the project CYCLOPS, exploratory self-portraiture in a new women’s photography group My Mother, My Country, still life’s of people’s precious objects with stories around them in FONDS and staged photographic portraiture celebrating inspirational Roma people from history.

The exhibition is a celebration of the collaborative creativity explored through the residencies and a testimony to people’s resilience and determination in post-pandemic times, alongside exploring the role that artists can have in communities in times of recovery and uncertainty.

Creative Scotland with Scottish Government emergency COVID-19 funds launched the Culture Collective pilot programme in 2020 to support creative practitioners, organisations and communities to work together.

Part of Street Level’s Culture Collective programme, funded by Scottish Government through Creative Scotland.

Video courtesy of Greater Govanhill - https://www.greatergovanhill.com/