Street Level Photoworks

http://www.streetlevelphotoworks.org/

 

Street Level Photoworks is a gallery and open access organisation that promotes the creative use of photomedia and supports artists through gallery exhibitions, commissions, off-site projects, publishing and critical forums. New work in photography and media art practice are promoted by artists from local, national and international sources.The exhibition programme is made up of invited projects and from open submissions. Recent exhibitions include 'Jo Spence Photographer: Works from the Archive' in association with the Jo Spence Memorial Archive; Catriona Grant's 'The Examination Room', in association with Belfast Exposed; Denis Doran 'Common Ground'; and 'The Jump Films' by Mark Neville. Proposals from artists and curators are accepted and collaborative work is particularly sought in the fields of media art and social engagement.

Recognised for its integrated practice, the organisation has education at the centre of its ethos - this includes work with groups and individuals marginalised from participation in forms of mainstream culture. Over the part two years this has included projects with some of Glasgow's transitory asylum seeking community in the North of the City. (http://www.multi-story.org)

Throughout 2006/07 the organisation will be based in temporary premises and will be developing its artistic and education programme through collaboration and new partnerships with artists, other arts institutions, non-art agencies, community and voluntary-sector groups.It is part of the Trongate 105 initiative which involves several arts organisation in the development of the current building into an innovative arts and education complex which will open in 2008.This will see a range of facilities for the production and presentation of new work and a range of access initiatives for the public unparalleled in Scotland.