Arts Case Studies
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13 October 2025
Culture Fund Case Study 2024-2025: Orkney Music and Culture
We requested support to establish a new music event, Water Sound Bluegrass, and Roots Festival based across the Churchill Barriers, on the two linked Isles of Burray and South Ronaldsay, specifically…
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17 September 2025
Culture Fund Open Pot Case Study 2025-2026: Orkney Camerata
We paid for Michael Bawtree to fly up to Orkney on three separate weekends – all of his flights landed on time so there was no disruption to rehearsals, which went ahead as planned. Our guest oboist…
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23 March 2025
VACMA 2023-2024: Thibault Gras
My award was used to purchase an 85mm f/1.8 lens, a flash, transmitter, and a reflector.
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23 March 2025
Culture Fund 2024-2025 Case Study: Soulisquoy Printmakers
The aim of the project was to provide support for Soulisquoy Young Associates to create a safe and welcoming space for other young people to meet and to develop their own creative practice with a…
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23 March 2025
Case Study Culture Fund 24-25: The Orcadian Story Trust
Orkney Storytelling Festival is now well-known and well attended in Orkney. Overall, we were very pleased with the way the Festival went. We organised eight events over four days, and using unusual…
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4 March 2025
VACMA: Solargraphy - Kate Elliot
I placed a few cameras out locally, and some of them took some good pictures. I shared images created at St Magnus Cathedral with staff there, and the same thing with Historic Scotland after having…
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4 March 2025
Culture Fund 2024-2025: Hoy Heritage Centre (Friends of Hoy Kirk)
The fund enabled us to but the artwork 'Hoy & Walls Parish Map' a diptych by artist Sarah McFadyen.
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3 March 2025
VACMA Case Study 2023-2024: Trisha Berry
During this project, I explored making my own pigments for oil, acrylic, and watercolour painting, even experimenting with homemade charcoal beyond my initial plans. I also prepared primers for…
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12 February 2025
VACMA: From Paint to Felt - Matt Haselden
During the first part of the project I spent some time researching different felts and fibres and some of the techniques I could use to develop paintings and drawings from flat works into three…
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12 February 2025
Culture Fund 2024-2025: The Ness of Brodgar Trust – Past, Present and Future Exhibition
The Ness of Brodgar: Past, Present & Future exhibition was a great success, welcoming 62010 visitors. The responses of visitors, as detailed in the Museum Visitor Book, were very positive. We quickly…
