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Generator Projects is a non-profit, artist-run exhibition and project space in Dundee.

30/01/2025

📣 Generator is overjoyed to announce we have been successful in our bid for Multi-Year Funding, announced this morning by Creative Scotland ! ⭐️

This incredible support marks a pivotal moment for Generator, ensuring stability for our ambition to champion artist-led activity in Dundee and across Scotland! As a grassroots, non-hierarchal organisation, this funding secures our ability to nurture emerging/ re-emerging artists through our programming and membership, strengthening the community of artists and creatives in Dundee and wider areas!

We want to say a massive thank you and congratulations to all members, associates, past committee, board members and all those who have come in contact with Generator throughout the last 28 years! Your involvement has allowed Generator to grow to the strength it is today! ✨

We are delighted to be joining the portfolio alongside a record-breaking 141 new organisations and look forward to the opportunities this brings for the wider cultural landscape in Scotland! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❤️

(Image throwback to Generator Members’ Show 2001)

17/01/2025

⭐️COMING NEXT WEEK: MFA TAKEOVER⭐️

DJCAD’s MFA are excited to invite you to their exhibition “In the Works” at Generator Projects for an exclusive glimpse into the creative processes behind the ongoing work of 18 emerging artists.

The show will be open Wednesday 22nd, Thursday 23rd and Friday 24th of January (12-5pm) and on Saturday 25th January (12-7pm).

It would be great if you could join them for their closing event at 5pm on Saturday 25th as they’ll be offering an alternative Burns Night with refreshments, performances and an opportunity to chat with the artists about their work.

make sure to come check it out!⭐️

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14/12/2024

💗The Grave In Full Vigour💗

CLOSES THIS WEEKEND! Today and tomorrow are your LAST chances to come see the grave and witness it in all its glory🪦

So what are you waiting for..

The Grave In Full Vigour is open 12-5pm today & tomorrow!

catch you there 🪦

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22/11/2024

HAPPENING TOMORROW💗🍋

⭐️6-9pm⭐️

Didn’t get a ticket? Well don’t worry as there is plenty of online tickets still available here: Poor Artists: White P**e In Conversation https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poor-artists-white-pube-in-conversation-tickets-1075773580739?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=wsa&aff=ebdsshwebmobile

see you there🍋🩷⭐️

09/11/2024

We are very excited to announce an event at Generator this month!

Poor Artists: White P**e In-Conversation
Gabrielle De La Puente and Laura McSorley🍋

Generator Projects
November 23rd 2024
6pm

📣 Get ready for an unforgettable evening 📣
Generator is very excited to be hosting and inviting this In Conversation event with the indispensable minds behind some of today’s most thought-provoking contemporary art commentary. Gabrielle De La Puente of the White P**e and curator, producer Laura McSorley invite you into an inspiring, candid discussion about the White P**e’s exciting new book, Poor Artists. This is more than just another book talk - it’s an honest insight into the lives, challenges and ridicule of what it takes to be an artist today! 🩷

Find out more about our speakers and GET YOUR TICKETS HERE: Poor Artists: White P**e In Conversation https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poor-artists-white-pube-in-conversation-tickets-1075773580739?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=wsa&aff=ebdsshwebmobile 💖

Cant wait to see you all there ✨

05/11/2024

we’ve been busyyyy and what a show we have lined up for you! 💒

These past two weeks we’ve been working hard on installing our brand new show - ‘The Grave In Full Vigour’ by Belladona Paloma and it’s a sight to witness💫

Get ready to sit within the bog and cosy on up to the grave - there’s so much to see that we thought we’d give you a sneak peek…

the install for the show has been in full swing the last week, our hands have been dyed green, the work is being hung, we’re covered in pink paint and oh yes we’re in the bog!

To see more and it all in person, come along to the opening of The Grave In Full Vigour THIS FRIDAY November 8th 6-9pm!!!!

You don’t wanna miss it 💓🪦

29/10/2024

💫COMING SOON💫

🥚🪦The Grave in Full Vigour🪦🥚

A solo show, publication & collective reading event by shetland-based Artist, Poet & Bog-Witch Belladonna Paloma. The Gallery will turn necropolis-cum-reading room devoted to the divine & abject nature of the trans body. The 5th wound open so wide we can pass through into a space which asks; is this coffin a petri dish, no, a digestive tract or veg patch brimming with mulch & humus for the worms to host their feast upon. A digestive tract for your grief to sit fallow in peristaltic shock.

& your Goddess? She’s caked in s**t & burping on a pile of nails.
Piss-soaked & wrapped in a radiant glow.

& the egg? My oh my the egg. Cracked & revolting - revelatory - so listen close because she has something to say.

Opening on Friday the 8th of November from 6-9pm, you’re all invited to join us & engage in some auto-poetic play by the graveside…🪦⭐️

See you there!!!

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08/10/2024

⚠️⚠️⚠️Calling all Pyromaniacs⚠️⚠️⚠️

Burned - a new publication of writings on the cycles burnout, rage and labour of being an arts worker.

With launch event - incandescent - on 12/10/24 at Generator from 6-9pm. Come by get a tinnie and a copy of the book and there might be fire 🔥🔥🔥

Following day we'll be sorting through the ashes of rejection letters and to create some collaged poetry in a workshop led by

And once the ashes have settled we will be picking up the pieces with who will be leading through a session on research-led practices

06/10/2024

🛋️⭐️MEET ONE OF THE ARTISTS - Residence / Residence ⭐️🛋️

Meet Anna Rooney!

Anna is currently one of the artists taking part in the Residence Residence exhibition and residency at Generator!⭐️

Anna Rooney is an artist who has recently graduated with a degree in Textile Design, specialising in knitted textiles. Nature is their main inspiration for their artwork where they highlight the importance of appreciating local environments. Anna’s work is playful and childlike, featuring bright, uplifting colours and bold shapes, often with sculptural elements and mixed-media.

Anna has been using this time at Generator Projects to start a new body of work for a series of small scale quilts. They have mostly produced sketchbook pages where they’ve tried to work more loosely and intuitively, drawing from photos they have taken in their day to day life. In these sketches Anna has tried to focus on the interactions between light and shadow, positive and negative space, and colour. Developments of Annas preliminary drawings has led to some fabric samples featuring embroidery, needle-turned applique and basic patchwork techniques.

We’ve loved getting to know Anna and seeing their work develop over the past few weeks!

Anna’s work can be found here: on Instagram ⭐️

Want to see more of Residence Residence? Well come along to the last viewing TODAY from 12-8pm!🌟 Artwork will be displayed made by the artists who participated in the residency - so come see what they’ve been up to!!!!

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06/10/2024

🛋️⭐️MEET ONE OF THE ARTISTS - Residence / Residence ⭐️🛋️

Meet Jae Lawson!

Jae is currently one of the artists taking part in the Residence Residence exhibition and residency at Generator!⭐️

Jae Lawson is a visual artist and poet from North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Jae studied BA(Hons) Fine Art at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee, Class of 2024.

Jae works primarily in ceramics, text, and drawing. Normally Jae is inspired by interpersonal connections, however in this project has come to explore connections within the self and body, and with the demands of the world it exists in.

Through this residency, Jae had been working on small and fragmented works, organically exploring the effects of a recent diagnosis on their life, and attempts to return to working and making after a long period of illness.

We’ve loved getting to know Jae and seeing their work develop over the past few weeks! 🌟

Jae’s work can also be found here: .lawson.studio on Instagram, as well as on their website, jaelawsonart.uk ⭐️

Want to see more of Residence Residence? Well come along to the closing party THIS SATURDAY from 6-9pm!! 🌟 Artwork will be displayed made by the artists who participated in the residency - so come see what they’ve been up to!!!! there will be some refreshments, music and general good vibes!

see you there 💫

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03/10/2024

🛋️⭐️ RESIDENCE RESIDENCE CLOSING HOUSE PARTY THIS SATURDAY⭐️🛋️

From 6-9pm on Saturday Oct 5th there will be a closing house party for Residence Residence! Come along and see what Anna, Jae and Laura have been up to and hang out! The work that the artists’ produced on the residence will be on display and it’ll be one of the last chances to catch the exhibition and residency in full swing!!

⭐️Following the party, there will be a final viewing on October 6th from 12-8pm ⭐️

Residence Residence is OPEN today, tomorrow and this weekend from 12-8pm daily!

See you there ⭐️💫

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03/10/2024

🛋️⭐️ MEET ONE OF THE ARTISTS- Residence / Residence ⭐️🛋️

Meet Laura Moorhouse!

Laura is one of the artist currently taking part in the Residence Residence exhibition and residency at Generator 🌟

Laura’s work examines disability and chronic illness, through the lens of crip theory. Laura is particularly interested in soft sculpture, zines, crip time and complicated access. She says her visual work has been described as “having a childlike quality, which I actively bring to my practice to avoid the solemnity that often surrounds portrayals of chronic illness and disability – unwell bodyminds can be bold, joyful and playful.”

⭐️Find out what Laura’s been up to: “ I have been using the residency time to create more soft sculptures - my sick day pals. Since finishing my degree this summer, I’ve spent a lot of time at home, unwell. This can be lonely, at times. I see other chronically ill art people online, who have have pets to keep them company. My tiny flat doesn’t have room for a pet, so I’m making these companions as a substitute. I’ve also been reading more about living and working as a chronically ill/disabled artist; writing from Gabrielle de la Puente (The White P**e) and Abi Palmer (particularly Sanatorium) has been really useful in thinking about art/work/illness/time.”

We’ve really enjoyed getting to know Laura and seeing her work within gen over the past few weeks! 💞⭐️

Want to see more of Residence Residence? Well come along to the closing party THIS SATURDAY from 6-9pm!! 🌟 Artwork will be displayed made by the artists who participated in the residency - so come see what they’ve been up to!!!! there will be some refreshments, music and general good vibes!

see you there 💫

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17/09/2024

🌟OPENS TODAY🌟

residence residence is an experimental project looking at entanglements of art, work and leisure, and investigating how blurring the differences between these may offer forms of resistance to the predatory market capitalism of the bourgeois art world.

Or, in less w***y language: What is “being an artist”? What does it mean to pay artists a wage to just “be artists?” What is an art gallery? Are artists workers? What does being a working artist look like? What is the value of art work? How do visitors to nonprofit galleries fit into the art market? How does the current setup of the art world help and hinder art? Who gets to be an artist when art is a “labour of love”?

⭐️Three Dundee-based artists will be paid a wage at union rates to work in one gallery for 37 hours over a three-week period, with no contracted requirement to reach set outcomes for exhibition. The artists will also undertake admin tasks, and will be on display to visitors as they do so. The selected artists are Jae Lawson, Laura Moorhouse and Anna Rooney⭐️

Simultaneously, Generator’s other gallery will house a living room for the city: a comfortable space where visitors are welcomed to linger without the expectation of paying money in a café to justify their existence in a cultural space. Conversely, free food and drink will be available, along with an array of resources about art and work. 🛋️☕️

Visitors will also be free to interact with provided art materials and to contribute to the project through submitting these or admin work. Works by visitors will be hung as part of the exhibition.

residence residence will be open to visitors from Tuesday September 17th to Friday October 4th from 12pm-8pm, Tuesday to Saturday. Each day, an artist will be working in the space.

⭐️The project will end with a closing party on Saturday, October 5th from 6pm-9pm, for which the work the artists have produced will be hung, and a final viewing on Sunday, October 6th from 12pm-8pm.⭐️

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09/09/2024

🩵🌜✨ we’re still dreaming of summer sessions ✨🌛🩵

We want to thank everyone who came along to our late summer sessions event last Sunday night - it was really such a dreamy and lovely night filled with love, joy and some killer tunes!

We want to give a special thank you to Ice Rink, Crab Stab, James Liandu , Marcel & St John, Ed & Lea and our poets: Luis, Liam, Jo, Dominic, James, Hannah, Cat and Morgan! Thank you for sharing your art with us under the stars 🌟 you were all stellar and truly blew us all away!

We also want to thank our committee member Mhairi for planning such an amazing event along with the help of Sam🌟🌞 thank you both!

Late Summer Sessions will be a night to remember as we celebrated the winding down of summer and welcomed autumn with over 120+ friendly faces amongst the haar ✨🌞

thank you so much again to our community and friends for sharing such a lovely evening with us all🌟🌛🌞

See you soon!

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02/09/2024

what have we been up to? 🌞🛠️🧹🛀🏼✨

Over the past few weeks at gen we’ve been doing some MUCH needed maintenance work on our building, community space, gallery spaces and on ourselves!

we’ve given gen a bit of a facelift with some freshly painted floors, installed new lighting and painted the outside a lovely shade of blueeee 🩵

Our outside space has gone under a massive clean and yearsss worth of dirt and grime has been washed away! (thank you so much isla✨) The garden has been weeded and new plants n flowers have been planted alongside some fresh new benches!!🌞🌼 🪴

We’re still working on the inside of gen and updating our library, zine library, shop and community space to make it as welcoming as possible with fun and exciting resources!!🤩🌟 we ultimately want it to be a space for you all to hang out in and enjoy!

more details about our updated community space coming soon👀

we’re still working on maintaining the spaces of generator and ourselves during this late summer period and hope to see you all soon 🌟✨

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16/08/2024

🌞🌻✨COMING SOON: LATE SUMMER SESSIONS🌞🌻✨

We have a fun experimental/folky/poetry/music day planned for the people of Dundee on Sunday September 1st, from 4pm - 9pm! 🌞

There will be live music from .stab.band & , poetry and some late summer fun for you all to enjoy 🌟🌞

We are currently looking for some poets to take part! More info below:
📣Call out to all poets!📣
We are accepting applications for poets
- if you are interested in this opportunity email one of your poems to [email protected]
Each participant will be paid £13 per poetry performance (each lasting around 10 minutes).

This is a free entry event, but donations to Medical Aid for Palestine are very much encouraged. There will be an informational stall dedicated to MAP to continue to raise awareness and support the people of Palestine.

So get your sun cream on, sunnies and come enjoy the late summer fun on September 1st!!! 🌞✨🌻

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14/08/2024

The Scottish Working Class Network is hosting their first event outside of Glasgow with Generator Projects on 14th of August 2024 in Dundee.

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📣Art Night Announce 10 Major commissions, venues and wider programme plans for Dundee!📣 On the evening of June 24th, from 7pm until late, ten major commissions by internationally significant artists and more emergent artists will be presented in civic and public spaces across Dundee Scotland. The commissions will comprise ambitious live events, installations, sound, performance and film. Commissioned Artists are today announced as 🌑SAOIRSE AMIRA ANIS 🌒DANIELLE BRATHWAITE-SHIRLEY 🌓RICHY CAREY 🌔MARIA FUSCO AND MARGARET SALMON 🌕EMMA HART 🌖INEFFICIENT SOLUTIONS 🌗NABIHAH IQBAL 🌘LUCY MCKENZIE 🌑HEATHER PHILLIPSON 🌒TAI SHANI Iconic and unique spaces across Dundee will be used for this wide range of events, from Dundee Contemporary Arts, V&A Dundee, to historic ships the RRS Discovery and the HMS Unicorn, The Little Theatre, Arthurstone Library, Cooper Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design (DJCAD) at the University of Dundee, Baxter Park and Pavillion, and the Keiller Centre as well as outdoors in the city’s streets. Alongside the commissions is Inwith, a series of projects highlighting a cross section of Dundee’s expansive art and communities programming. Inwith comprises 12 projects with partners including V&A Dundee’s Young People’s Collective, Open/Close Dundee in collaboration with EH9 Espresso, Wooosh Gallery, Dundee Community Gardens Network/Grow Dundee, Dundee Heritage Trust’s Creative Communities Network, Dundee Women’s Aid, Hot Chocolate Trust, The Binnn and Volk Gallery with more to be announced.👀 The festival will be brought to Dundee in partnership with Dundee Contemporary Arts. Art Night is also collaborating with V&A Dundee; Creative Dundee; NEoN; Cooper Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design (DJCAD) at the University of Dundee; Leisure and Culture Dundee, GENERATORprojects; Dundee City Council and Hospitalfield, Arbroath. Art Night Dundee is supported by Creative Sc

Megan Goldie LIVE STREAM OF PERFORMANCE at Swing it, Shake it, Move it, Make it (who do u think u r?) ✨✨

Hello! We made a publication to accompany the exhibition ~ grab one tomorrow in the gallery between 12 and 5pm! Also make not to miss ‘Trauma Response Unit’ by A+E Collective between 12 and 3pm! And check out the show of course. 🌱

The Public Image by Michael Curran. Open until 30th Sept. finishing Party 30th Sept. #michaelcurran #murialspark #performanceart #video #dundeeart #generatorprojects #scottishliterature #poeta #liveart #artistsofinstagram #artofig #bestoftheday

The voice of Murial Spark is filling the space. The Public Image, Michael Curran @generatorprojects #murialspark #michaelcurran #generatorprojects #dundee #dundeeart #performanceart #scottishart #artistsofinstagram #soundart

This really is worth a wee detour on your way home today! 6pm Generator Projects, Mid Wynd, Dundee. If you’re quick you might get a beer or glass of wine!

Louise MacKenzie performing this evening at 6pm...

Absolutely brilliant workshop today with Louise MacKenzie. Exhibition and workshop continue tomorrow. Everyone welcome. It really was this good.

Aaand, we’re rollin’

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