Ongoing Project (2017-Present)
Socially engaged project including exhibition curation, temporary installations, workshops and painted works.
Dumfries, Scotland.

Conversing Building is an on-going project based at The Stove Network, 100 High Street, Dumfries.

Conversing Building explores how projects and artists can interact with the Stove building and wider environments and public spaces. Conversing Building considers all of the spaces in and around the Stove as potential locations for dialogue, activity and gathering, including the Stove café space and in-between spaces of the building, the closes and areas around the Stove, and the buildings main signboard – all of which are regularly changing spaces for creativity.

Through The Stove Café programme, we host regularly changing displays and exhibitions, sharing the wider work of The Stove alongside featured ‘guest’ projects, with visiting artworks, conversational installations, and displays that seek to gather, share, and create discussion in the town centre. We welcome proposals that seek to interact and engage with our café environment and the wider Dumfries town centre.

Conversing Building also looks at creative interventions on and around The Stove building. From temporary murals and installed artworks to the changing signboard on the front of The Stove building, we consider The Stove building as a space for sharing ideas and conversation in many forms.