"Scottish Contemporary Art Network is a member led network committed to championing and supporting the contemporary art sector in Scotland.  Our vision is that the role, impact and benefits of contemporary visual arts are widely recognised as central to society and that sector professionals based in Scotland are informed, innovative and supported to achieve their ambitions. We provide the forum, impetus and support for the sector to pursue knowledge sharing, networking, research, professional development, and advocacy.
Our core, charitable purpose is;

• The advancement of contemporary visual art and culture
• The advancement of education"

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About the Research Catalogue
The Research Catalogue (RC) is a searchable database for archiving, publishing and collaborating on artistic research. RC content is both peer reviewed and self-published. As a result, the RC is highly inclusive. The open source status of the RC is essential to its nature and serves its function as a connective and transitional layer between academic discourse and artistic practice, thereby constituting a discursive field for artistic research.

The RC creates a link between
(1) elaborated documentation of the work,
(2) expositions and comments that engage with the contribution of the work as research, and
(3) creation of individual profiles that present the researchers' work and activities.
Given that the RC is a site for artistic research, to add a work is to make a claim that the work can be seen as research; through expositions, comments and articles the initial claim is transformed into an argument. It is believed that the reflective space provided by the RC can become an essential part of the research process by providing a suitable structure in which to develop the relationship between documentation and exposition. The RC is the backbone of journals, such as JAR, RUUKKU, and the Journal for Sonic Studies. Potential journal expositions emerge from the range of the artistic research activities taking place in the RC. Expositions are submitted for peer-review and development within the RC space itself. Moreover, the RC is used in institutional research management and funding administration and application. If you believe that RC software might also support your research database needs then explore the possibility of using the RC as your repository, by contacting us.

The Research Catalogue is provided by the Society for Artistic Research (SAR).

About this portal
The Journal for Artistic Research (JAR) is an international, online, Open Access and peer-reviewed journal for the identification, publication and dissemination of artistic research and its methodologies, from all arts disciplines. With the aim of displaying practice in a manner that respects artists' modes of presentation, JAR abandons the traditional journal article format and offers its contributors a dynamic online canvas where text can be woven together with image, audio and video. These research documents called ‘expositions’ provide a unique reading experience while fulfilling the expectations of scholarly dissemination. The Journal is underpinned by the Research Catalogue (RC) a searchable, documentary database of artistic research. Anyone can compose an exposition and add it to the RC using the online editor and suitable expositions can be submitted to the editorial board for peer-review and publication in JAR. Read more about submissions or start composing expositions straight away by registering for an account, which is free of charge. JAR is published by the Society for Artistic Research (SAR).

DRAWING 
This 2day experimental drawing, portraiture workshop is designed for the beginner and the creative practitioner who would like to explore and experience portraiture through a variety of abstract ideas and experimental drawing techniques. In a supportive environment the process of drawing portraits will focus on authorship using a range of mark-making methods that employ traditional wet and dry drawing materials. The class structure is interactive and all students are encouraged to suspend their ideas on what traditional portraiture is - to what it can be. 
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 PAINTING
This 2day Still Life in Abstraction painting workshop is designed for the beginner and the creative practitioner to explore the possibilities of Still Life painting using everyday objects and abstract ideas to construct and create individual works of art. In a supportive environment the student will experience a range of traditional and non-traditional materials and painting techniques that will help develop an understanding of spatial and colour relationships. The class structure is interactive and all students are encouraged to suspend their ideas on what still life painting is in favour of what it can become.

Have you ever 'wondered' about Satre's treatise on consciousness? This reading will no doubt provide an experience unto itself, one that will have your brain working overtime. This essay reflects on the phenomenological minefield of what is consciousness, self consciousness and its inherent relationship to the notion of non-reflective consciousness. A study of self is in the offing here as it is this notion, which is at the heart of what is consciousness and our experience of it. I think?? I would love to here your take on this!

 The sharing and receiving of knowledge, within the context of creative praxis sits at the forefront of my interests as a professional artist, researcher and educator.  My recent workshops: Pathways to Abstraction and Experimental Drawing, held in Melbourne, Australia, 2017 proved to be a rewarding exercise for both the students and myself.

Over a 5 week period the students were taught to think - see - do - and to reflect on the processes of making that were intrinsically tied to 'materiality' as both the concept and context for making. My teaching methodology adheres to 'thinking through practice' -  that aims to holistically engage the student in an all over [bodily] experience. In doing so, the student is intellectually enabled to find their own, unique and individual visual voice. At the same time, this process of teaching provides the student with aesthetic and material knowledge that helps shape and inform their mark making strategies. The resulting visual outcomes were a series of deep, aesthetic works of art that spoke of the individual mark, on paper and canvas that celebrated the individual and the collective all at the same time. 

I came across this site and thought that I would share my interest in how 'artists' combine their creative practice within the paradigms of traditional research spheres, Universities. The artist as researcher is not a new phenomena as many artists have successfully combined their pursuit of visual knowledge production for many a millennia outside the University system. However, artistic research and the practice of visual knowledge has found a pathway within the 'system' and in doing so, new knowledge has become somewhat of a 'tacit' argument.

This site, entitled, "Art and Research Colliding", by Teemu Maki a Finnish artist who works across the fields of art, philosophy and politics provides a great platform for the artist as researcher, who is either exploring personal ideas on the question of what constitutes creative research | practice led research or as an educational, research resource. This site may assist the early career creative researcher on their journey towards knowledge production where meaning and understanding is said to be found through and within the process of 'practice' led research. 

I found this site to be a thought provoking read, educational and relevant and, I believe a strong resource for those who are interested in exploring what is and what can be Artistic Research.

https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/49919/49920