Interview Room 11, Gallery & Project Space Information

Gallery Committee & Co-Directors The gallery project is run by a voluntary committee under the umbrella of The Forest arts charity. Our committee consists of artists and curators, all interested in providing a platform for emerging and early career local and international artists who require a sizeable space in which to show their work and develop their ideas, and who in some way wish to experiment and push the boundaries of their chosen practice. The gallery team are involved in all aspects of facilitating our arts space, including producing and reviewing open submission calls, installations, marketing, catalogue publishing, managing volunteer invigilators, performing various administrative tasks in support of the gallery. Exhibition Programme Our programme consists of a mix of committee run projects, solo and group exhibitions and select invited curatorial projects. We collaborate with the exhibiting artists on curatorial projects to bring exciting new art to Edinburgh audiences, and to support the existing artist community in Edinburgh. Our curatorial stance is ‘productive’ in the sense that each exhibition provides an opportunity for ‘testing’ the work – in relation to a different context, in relation to other practices and in relation to different kinds of work. We are interested in experimenting with exhibition/gallery models and curating in an expanded field of theory and practice which in a contemporary context also means geographical and social expansion. As an artist led gallery and resource space we are acutely aware of the importance and benefit of establishing and maintaining dialogues with similar arts spaces, and we welcome contacts from artist run spaces around around Europe and beyond who share our interests.