Meet the Artist: Caspar J Wilson
Remembering Together: Falkirk have appointed their artist to co-create memorials with communities. Meet Caspar J Wilson - Studio Caspar.
Caspar J Wilson is a community artist with many years experience delivering socially engaged projects across Scotland. He has an interdisciplinary skillset that encompasses graphic design, public art, photography and illustration. Most recently Studio Caspar has been working with Creative Informatics and the University of Edinburgh on several projects combining audience engagement with data analytics. Past clients include Sustrans, Paths For All, Living Streets, Transport Scotland, NHS Scotland and many Local Authorities including Glasgow City, Falkirk, Aberdeen City, Moray and Fife.
Image credit: Studio Caspar
Caspar says “As a community artist who has experienced loss due to Covid 19, the themes of Remembering Together are personal for me, as they are for so many in the area. I look forward to listening, learning and working together with people of every background to bring forward a collective vision for a memorial in Falkirk.”
“My approach to the project is about listening to the community and collecting a Library of Stories. Each individual has a story. In Remembering Together, many of those stories will involve deeply challenging experiences of loss. These experiences can be transformed into something positive in the memorial. Each story will be made into a capsule with a simple, consistent design. These will then be displayed as an evolving, growing collection in a public space.
Building from this work, there will be a series of Co-Design Workshops. The workshops will be highly interactive, participatory and creative. Each individual workshop will focus on one particular aspect of the memorial, as we gather towards a collective vision of what the memorial might be.”