A is for Abbeyhill – a durational public art project set on the grounds of a purpose-built Victorian school at the city centre of Edinburgh. Delivered through a curated artists-in-residence programme, A is for Abbeyhill aims to ensure that all children are entitled to quality cultural learning and meaningful access to contemporary visual and performing arts. Scroll below to find out how and why A … Continue reading A is for Abbeyhill
The installation Ukraine Suite (1996 – 2022) by British contemporary artist, educator and researcher Pam Skelton is comprised of four short films, including Liquidators (1996), Conversations with Liquidators (2001), Chernobyl Mon Amour (2021) and Aftermath (2022), as well as five photographic portraits which utilise Skelton’s own footage recorded during her two research trips to Ukraine in 1993 and 1995. …In Resnais’s film [Hiroshima, Mon Amour], … Continue reading Ukraine Suite
Following my long-standing curatorial interest in the practice of women artists, I initiated and curated the first survey exhibition by multi-award winning Canadian artist and filmmaker Marlene Millar spanning 30 years of her creative practice through a selection of 30 works from 1989 to 2019. Included were a newly commissioned multi-screen installation alongside public engagements with Marlene’s works through poetry, creative and critical writing, live … Continue reading Marlene Millar
Peace Cranes was a project about peace, people and planet exploring the twin existential threats of nuclear weapons and climate change. It was manifested through a series of contemporary art exhibitions and events across Edinburgh and online since 6 August 2020 until 3 September 2022. Through artist’s films, drama, photography, installations and poetry, we explored the humanitarian and environmental consequences posed by the Russia’s invasion … Continue reading Peace Cranes
Movement is a touring screen dance exhibition which paints a collective moving image portrait of the pioneering contemporary dance diva Margaret Morris (1891–1980) and her method of natural movement known as Margaret Morris Movement or MMM, still practised the world over today. This is an homage through six films by Scottish and international contemporary visual artists and filmmakers including Lewis Gourlay, Su Grierson, Brian Hartley, … Continue reading Movement
Having discovered the work of the London-based Estonian artist, designer and activist Mare Tralla in 1996, it has been my curatorial privilege ever since to continue to explore, commission, present and champion Mare’s work through a series of residencies, exhibitions, festivals, publications, essays, interviews, features and talks. Iliyana Nedkova Currently, together with Heather Kiernan, I am co-curating a new Peace & Justice (Scotland) commission by … Continue reading Mare Tralla
Screen.dance – Scotland’s first and only festival of dance film – was initiated and co-curated by Simon Fildes, Iliyana Nedkova and Peter Royston in 2016 and held at Threshold arspace, Perth until 2019 in association with Goat Media and Horsecross Arts. Explore Screen.dance 2019 (formerly known as Perth Screen Dance) by scrolling below In June 2020, Screen.dance migrated to Edinburgh under the curatorship of Simon … Continue reading Screen.dance
An outdoor poetry sculpture trail of six brightly coloured park benches in the grounds of St. John’s Church set in the foothills of Edinburgh Castle rock, at the west end of the Princes Street Gardens with spectacular views to Edinburgh Castle, transforming this quiet urban oasis into an outdoor space for reading, resting and meeting family and friends. The sculptures are designed in the shape … Continue reading Hidden Letters
Once upon a time an awful pandemic gripped the land of thistles. It also spread over the land of sunflowers. Artists-mothers started painting dreamscapes. Their young children were sent on unnecessary quests in the name of home schooling. Lockdowned in this contemporary fairy tale, where is home? Is home the land of sunflowers where you were born in or the land of thistles you have … Continue reading Diana Savova
Associate curator at the Friends of Pskov Association since 2017 – supporting and developing the twinning of Perth, Scotland with Pskov, Russia through people to people diplomacy and a series of Perth, Pskov, Tartu: Twin Cities curatorial projects, including ZOOM IN ON…– six monthly gatherings over Zoom starting on 15 March 2021 aiming to contruct a contemporary art bridge over the twin cities rivers, marking … Continue reading Friends of Pskov
ILIYANA NEDKOVA 