Free art magazine launched

Inverness Old Town Art (IOTA) shares a final surprise at the end of the empty windows project.

The art project commissioned by IOTA comes to an end this week with artist, Gayle Meikle from one of groups that has been directly involved – Yuck ‘n Yum – taking to the streets on Monday 1st February to freely distribute a magazine for the Inverness public to collect. 

This special free art magazine has affectionately been called the ‘Inverzine.’  The ‘zine features black and white drawings and images by some of the artists involved in making new work for the Inverness empty windows project Getting Up - Windows on the City which was launched in Inverness on 19th January.
This project was co-ordinated by IOTA with support from Inverness Common Good Fund and imaginatively embraced various shops & premises around the  city. Over 130 artists either created or submitted artwork as part of the project.

Local shop-owners and agents have been incredibly generous in enabling the artists to transform key spaces in the city centre.

Susan Christie, Commissions Manager for IOTA said: “All the projects have been designed to get really people talking about art; how it can refresh our perceptions of a place and the different ways that commerce influences our lives, including the kind of visual language that we’re used to seeing on the street.”

Multiple locations around town have been used including Video Drive-In on Church Street where 3 of the 6 art projects were housed with a film projected on the doors by an artist who likes to be known as ‘Inflatable Monster’, tiny glow-in-the-dark woolly mushrooms created by duo Hilary Grant and Mahala le May, and whole new interpretation of the Garden of Eden theme brought to life by Mike Inglis who was also part of Re-Imagining the Centre.

Inverness Old Town Art project began in 2006 and grew out of the city streetscape project.