We’ve been continuing our collaboration with artist and college lecturer Mia McGregor (responsible for the Waste Stories from NCLAN exhibitions in 2024), and as a consequence we have a new exhibition – Art with Purpose – on show in the St Andrews Building for the first half of May – see the events page for Read More…
Category: NCLAN
2026 calendars and new year, new project
Although we’ve been quiet on this blog in the last few months, we’ve been busy in the background working with Dumfries and Galloway College and New College Lanarkshire, setting up a new project, wandering about and wondering about waste. More about the projects with the Colleges soon. We’ve also expanded our range of free merch Read More…
Waste Stories from New College Lanarkshire 2: loss and inheritance
This is the second of a series of posts featuring visual Waste Stories created by students from New College Lanarkshire. In this post, we focus on the related themes of loss and inheritance, which have a special poignancy for George and myself as well as for Mia McGregor, the amazing artist and teacher who made Read More…
Waste Stories from New College Lanarkshire 1 – Nicotine: the waste consequences of addictive consumption
It’s just over a week since our celebration event at the University of Glasgow’s School of Education, marking the exhibition of visual and sculptural Waste Stories produced by students at New College Lanarkshire. The artworks included in the exhibition explored waste from a variety of perspectives. This is the first post of a series of Read More…
Waste Stories from New College Lanarkshire Visual Arts – a celebration
On Tuesday, 27th August, we were delighted to host about 80 students and staff from New College Lanarkshire in the St Andrews Building of Glasgow University, as we held an event to celebrate the artwork produced during a year-long collaboration between staff at the college, led by Mia McGregor, and the Waste Stories project. The Read More…
Waste Stories from New College Lanarkshire
For the last few months, we’ve been working with students and staff in visual arts programmes at New College Lanarkshire to commision and create Waste Stories in visual and sculptural form – plastic arts to explore waste plastic … Some of the resulting work, made by students from both Cumbernauld and Coatbridge campuses, studing in Read More…
