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Latest News!
Love Out of Bounds
exhibition at Scottish Poetry Library Edinburgh 2020
Former Exhibitions
Social Justice Exhibition at
Gallery of Modern Art
We contributed to the major Social Justice exhibition at the Gallery of
Modern Art in Glasgow throughout 2009. The exhibition was entitled sh[out] and
included associated exhibitions of digital storytelling, cartoons, filmed
storytelling performance and recorded oral history extracts.
OurSpace at Kelvingrove
From 2 February - 18 March 2008 OurStory Scotland held an exhibition OurSpace at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow. The Kelvingrove has estimated that the exhibition was seen by more than 10,000 people.
The exhibition was curated by Dianne Barry and opened by Hilary Third of the
Scottish Government's Equality Unit. Following the official opening, visitors
were invited to participate in further storytelling including video diaries.
In addition there was a comic strip workshop on 16 February, where participants
told their story in cartoon form.
Visual storytelling is a way of speaking out
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Exhibitions
Love Out of Bounds
exhibition and storytelling
Words and images from Love Out of Bounds feature in an exhibition that runs from 28 January to 10 March 2020 at the Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh, with an opportunity to share stories at 2pm on Saturday 22 February 2020.
You can also see our Love Out of Bounds exhibition at Maryhill Burgh Halls 1 February - 14 March 2020.
In 2015 we held our Love Out of Bounds
exhibition at Old Gala House, Galashiels.
Love Out of Bounds is an innovative project that crosses the boundaries between communities
and brings us together to share stories of loves untold.
>> see further details of our storytelling
From the beginning, OurStory Scotland has been concerned to have our
stories told to a wider public and in visual as well as verbal form.
Our
very first collective venture was our inaugural exhibition Becoming
Visible which ran from November 2002 to January 2003 at the Glasgow
LGBT Centre.
Our recent exhibitions include:
sh[out]: contemporary arts and human rights
April to November 2009
at Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
including...
Our Vivid Stories: digital storytelling by
young LGBT people (coordinated by Dianne Barry of OurStory
Scotland in conjunction with LGBT Youth Scotland)
Drawn Out & Painted Pink: cartoons by Kate
Charlesworth & David Shenton and previously...
Raiders of the Lost Art in Glasgow:
OurStory Scotland was included in this exhibition of community-based
projects with the Open Museum
RoundABout in Aberdeen
OurSpace at Glasgow Kelvingrove
See the side panels for details...
The Nessie Girls exhibition in Inverness in June 2006 included caricatures by Aileen Graham and episodes by gay women and transgender women in the Highlands, providing a brilliant setting for a Speak Out storytelling performance. The OurStory Ceilidh in November 2006 included a wide range of exhibition materials from our storytelling throughout Scotland. Rainbow Stories in February/March 2007 was an exhibition at the Winter Gardens (People's Palace) in Glasgow. On display were visual and verbal stories collected during our intensive year of oral history and storytelling supported by the Scottish Arts Council Lottery Fund. At the opening of the exhibition, there was a special 'narrative exchange' session, in which the participants chose a story to read out from a wide selection of episodes written in or about Glasgow. Episodes were spontaneously selected across the boundaries that are often assumed to separate us. This was a great way of developing solidarity and demonstrating a genuine sense of community.
Other exhibitions have included In/Out: Crossing
Boundaries for the International Lesbian and Gay Association
(ILGA) Europe conference in Glasgow, October 2003, and the Reach
Out: Stop Discrimination exhibition in conjunction with Reach
Out Highland for the European 'Stop Discrimination' Bus in
Inverness in October 2004. We have also hosted talks by Dr Sharon Chalmers
on her oral history and exhibition work with the LGBT community in Western
Sydney, Australia.
See some previous exhibitions
>> Becoming Visible
>> In/Out: Crossing Boundaries
>> Reach Out: Stop Discrimination
more to come soon!
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Becoming Visible
Exhibition of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender history in Scotland
>> View the Becoming Visible online exhibition
Love Out of Bounds
Exhibition held at St Mungo Museum, Glasgow, February 2012. The exhibition features artwork, paintings, texts and collages from a year's workshops on Love Out of Bounds.
RoundABout in Aberdeen
From 18 January - 18 February 2008 OurStory Scotland held an exhibition entitled RoundABout at the RGU Union, Schoolhill, Aberdeen. The exhibition was opened by the Lord Provost of Aberdeen.
RoundABout was the culmination of our verbal and visual storytelling in Aberdeen from 2005 till 2008. The exhibition was informed by stories told to OurStory Scotland, and incorporated a wonderful variety of visual forms. The exhibition was curated by Mark Duguid and Charlie Hackett, and they ensured that the creation of the artworks was inclusive and collaborative, involving venues that are not normally associated with art workshops, such as bars and clubs.
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