Scottish Contemporary Collective

  • Supporting artists. Developing practice. Creating opportunity.

    SCCOCO is a not-for-profit organisation supporting contemporary artists through a three-year programme of mentoring, exhibitions, residencies, masterclasses and professional development.

     

    Based at Tighnabruaich Gallery on Scotland’s west coast, we bring emerging and established artists together to share experience, develop practice and create meaningful opportunities for long-term artistic careers.

  • Our Story: A Vision for Meaningful Support
    The Scottish Contemporary Collective- During Lewis Mackenzie's Alla Prima Masterclass.

    Our Story: A Vision for Meaningful Support

    Why SCCOCO Exists

    Talent alone does not build a sustainable artistic career.

     

    Artists need time to develop, opportunities to take risks, experienced people around them and practical support to navigate the realities of sustaining a professional practice.

    SCCOCO was created to provide that support.

     

    Our three-year pilot brings artists together with established practitioners, mentors and industry experience through a programme of exhibitions, residencies, masterclasses, one-to-one development and shared learning.

     

    At its heart is a belief in long-term development rather than short-term opportunity. We want artists to leave the programme with stronger practices, greater confidence, better professional understanding and relationships that continue well beyond a single exhibition.

     

    Tighnabruaich Gallery gives that development a public platform — connecting artists and audiences, creating opportunities to exhibit and sell work, and generating income that is reinvested directly into SCCOCO’s wider programme.

     

    We are learning as we build, listening to the artists involved and developing a model that we hope can make a meaningful and lasting contribution to contemporary art in Scotland.

     

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