Meet the Artists: Caroline Inckle and Graeme Roger
Remembering Together: Moray have appointed their artists to co-create memorials with communities. Meet Caroline Inckle (Studio Constella) and Graeme Roger (Wildbird).
Caroline Inckle
Caroline Inckle is a visual artist and design researcher based in the North East of Scotland. Her practice centres on exploring a material relationship with the natural world through image making, installation and sculpture as well as participatory events. Through her boutique creative consultancy Studio Constella, Caroline draws on her creative practice and deep understanding of the creative process to inform her research and engagement work. She uses ideas of ‘thinking through making’ and utilises workshops along with a tool kit of generative research methodologies to facilitate collaborative working and to co-create strategies and insightful research outcomes.
Graeme Roger
Graeme Roger is a visual artist working across film, public art, performance, photography, installation & theatre. All his projects are collaborative in nature with other artists, musicians, directors and the wider community. Recent projects included the Northern Lights Festival with Lyth Arts Centre, lead artist with Grampian Hospital Arts Trust and project partner in the Moray Culture Collective program. Over the past year he has created multiple public art projection events putting communities at the core of the work. Between 2009 and 2022 he led a team devising and delivering on the Scottish Government’s ‘Cashback for Communities’ program which focused on providing creative opportunities for young people outwith mainstream education or who face barriers in participation.
Caroline and Graeme say:
“Remembering together phase 1 presents an opportunity to work closely with the diverse communities represented in Moray to explore and shape together a concept for a covid memorial which draws on both the lived experience of the Moray community and the specific nature of landscape and place we inhabit together.
Our approach to creative engagement is to create a welcoming, friendly and accessible environment using simple creative tools and activities which create a clear and easy framework for participation and which leave enough space to generate deeper conversations and insights to emerge.
Our approach to co-creation is based on participatory design or co-design methods, which aim to generate new knowledge collaboratively by drawing on the range of lived experience available from participants.
We will draw on the concept of ‘thinking through making’ and use a range of creative tools to actively engage groups and individuals to support collective reflection on the pandemic and its direct and indirect impacts. Drawing on insights generated through community workshops we will develop a clear co-created concept for a Covid memorial for Moray.
Creative tools could include activities such as collaborative drawing, collage, modelling or spatial arrangement with text and images but would ultimately be simple and accessible activities with a focus on process and generating conversation rather than product.”
“We are really looking forward to working with communities in Moray to explore and shape together a concept for a covid memorial. Art has the capacity to create spaces which can hold the whole spectrum of human experience and provide opportunities for individual and collective reflection, and we are very much looking forward to working with people creatively to develop a memorial proposal which draws on both the unique landscape and the diverse lived experiences of the people of Moray.”
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