Walls
by Lottie Barker
Image by Joseph Dalton
When: 11am- 5:30pm Saturday 28th June
Where: Gavinburn Primary School Main Hall
Age rating: All welcome
What is a wall? What can it do?
This new interactive installation is inspired by the Antonine Wall; a structure that was built almost 2000 years ago to mark the northern-most frontier of the Roman Empire in Old Kilpatrick.
Working with 285 young people from Gavinburn Primary and ELCC, Lottie Barker has held workshops where the school pupils have designed their own bricks to be part of a new wall built for the village. Exploring ideas of separation and connection, they now invite audiences to play in this space with their resulting bricks.
Through Walls they ask, what needs to be broken down, and what could we build up in its place?
Please note:
This is an interactive installation open all day for you to come and go as you please. There will be a ceremonial dismantling of the wall at 5:30pm.
Created by Lottie Barker
Technical Support by Thom Rees
Participants: P1-7 Gavinburn Primary School
With Thanks to Gavinburn Primary School
About the Artist
Lottie is an artist, facilitator & producer based in Dumbarton. She makes work collaboratively, with people at the heart encouraging participants to feel part of a process of creation.She's been running Clifftop Projects for the past five years focussing on creating accessible artistic opportunities in West Dunbartonshire. Under Lottie's leadership Clifftop has become a well-known name in the community acknowledged for removing barriers to participation.
Lottie was a part of Imaginate’s Navigating the Now cohort in 2020 and took part in National Theatre of Scotland’s Thinking Space in 2022. From Jan-June 2022 she was the Resident Artist at The Phoenix, Dumbarton and is one of three artists on the Remembering Together project for West Dunbartonshire. She has been co- choreographer for Clifftop's Intergenerational Dance Company since 2020 and has directed Together we Dance (screened at DanceLive Oct 22), The Wee Birlin Bannock’s Adventures in Dumbarton West (part of the Scottish year of stories) and Which Way To The Dancefloor? (CIDC's latest film).
Roman Fest is made possible through Creative Scotland's Extended Programme Fund
