Nuart Aberdeen
About Nuart Aberdeen
Brought to you by the team behind Stavanger’s internationally renowned Nuart Festival, the award-winning Nuart Aberdeen returns to the Granite city this April.
Nuart Aberdeen Description
Brought to you by the team behind Stavanger’s internationally renowned Nuart Festival and developed in collaboration with Aberdeen Inspired and Aberdeen City Council, Nuart Aberdeen will provide a platform for local, national and international artists to showcase their work through a series of site-specific murals, installations, interventions, and temporary exhibitions.
The festival takes place from Friday 14 – Sunday 16 April (Easter Weekend) and will be supplemented by a program of talks, presentations, film screenings, walking tours and workshops over three days.
In Aberdeen’s year of ‘History, Heritage and Archaeology’, Nuart Aberdeen seeks to reveal how Street Art can create an environment for a more imaginative use of public space, something Nuart has been dedicated to realising since its inception in 2001.
Reviews
Great Sunday afternoon spent on tour with the McGinty's Meal An' Ale team!
Couple of hours exploring the 2017/18 work before we introduce some newbies in just under 2 weeks...
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Got yout tickets? It's a fascinating film that will warm yer hearts and lift your spirits !
A big part of the festival weekend is the Nuart Plus conference. The two days of artist talks, debates, walking tours and film screenings will hopefully give you a fresh insight into the world of street art and some of the artists who do it. Pop in and out over the weekend and help us make this years Nuart Plus the best one yet!
All the talks are free to attend and f you have a user group or school group who'd be interested in attending let us know. Full details for Day 1 on Friday 19th April can be found here https://www.facebook.com/events/126487965 0354570/
A classic photo from one of our free Street Art Walking tours. We canny wait to kick them off again in a few weeks! Art work by Jaune for Nuart Aberdeen 2017 👵
If we haven't given you enough of an excuse to visit Aberdeen this Easter weekend, check out Scotland Traveloholic's latest blog giving you plenty more reasons to get your trip planned! #doit 😎
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Get lost in your own city. Javier Abarca's Aberdeen is probably very dfferent from the one you're used to. The routes are based on the subjective vision of the environment advocated in situationist writings and turned into everyday experience by graffiti writers and urban explorers. Each tour traverses a parallel city free from the control of capital and oblivious to its predictable spaces of production, transport or consumption. A city where anything can happen.
Hama Woods, Norway's leading female street artists is ready with her stencils. Next stop, hospital or Aberdeen ?
What happens when you photograph a legal graffiti wall for 100 days? This is just one of the projects undertaken by Nuart Plus speaker Dr Sabina Andron. Catch her at the Belmont on Friday 19th April for 'Tales of the City'.
More info and the full run down of Nuart Plus events can be found here https://2019.nuartaberdeen.co.uk/progr… /program-at-a-glance/
The world's on fire with news about Nuart Aberdeen, what have we done ! https://inspiringcity.com/…/cool-things -to-do-in-aberdeen…/…
Nuart family member, tireless champion of Aberdeen's underground DIY culture and a good friend with a big heart. Find out why Jon Reid, his artwork, his blog and his projects, should be on your cultural radar. https://www.blocal-travel.com/inte…/jon -reid-nuart-aberdeen/
We're excited to have a special artist talk from Jan Vormann at this years Nuart Plus conference. All of the Nuart Plus events delve into street art practice and will help give you an insight into what motivates people to place work on the street or in Jans case to repair broken walls and cracks with Lego.
The talk is completely free and is taking place on Friday 19th of April at 1.30pm at Belmont Filmhouse. More details can be found below and be sure to check out the full line up of speakers, films and events for Nuart Plus!
https://2019.nuartaberdeen.co.uk/…/conf erence-day-1-artist…/
'From soaking up the atmosphere of Inspired Nights on the Green, taking part in walking tours, engaging in debate and enjoying exclusive film screenings, there is a lot for the public to get involved with'
Yup, that pretty much sums up Nuart Aberdeen 2019!👍 Thanks to our friends over at Widewalls for their new article, check it out below..
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Here's hoping we get blue skies and sunny days again soon because Aberdeen really sparkles when the suns out! Here's m-city.org hard at work on his piece for Nuart Aberdeen in 2017. M painted two pieces in 4 days side by side next to Bon Accord Aberdeen and it's still looking fresh.
Imaginary City (Premiere) 24 min | UA 2019 Friday 19th April :14:15–15:00 Documentary and Q&A with filmmaker Kristina Borhes of MZM Projects (UA)
Imaginary City is a poetic visual essay which traverses the history of Nuart Festival as a way to explore the magical ability of street art to change our ways of seeing the city, and the stories that we tell ourselves.
A favourite shot of a favourite work from 2018, photo by Nikki Smith
Nuart Aberdeen, Inspiring Cities
Beautiful little tribute to film maker Agnés Varda from friend and compatriot, street artist JR. Catch their wonderfully quirky Oscar nominated Faces/Places at the Belmont during Nuart Abredeen.
We’re delighted to be welcoming artist, craftivist and trouble maker Carrie Reichardt back to Aberdeen where she will be delivering a special artist talk as part of the Nuart Plus programme. Catch Carrie and her ‘Tales of the City’ talk at Belmont Filmhouse on Friday 19th April at 11am. All talks and panel debates are free entry.
For more info check out the website https://2019.nuartaberdeen.co.uk/…/conf erence-day-1-artist…/
#nuartaberdeen #nuartfestival #nuartplus #aberdeeninspired #carriereichardt #craftivist
"Who's filling these boots?" Nuart Team Member Sara always puts her safety first!
Delighted to have CAN Offshore on board as PPE partners for Nuart Aberdeen 2019. CAN are helping with safe delivery of the festival by kitting out our artists and crew with safety equipment including boots, high-viz vests, safety glasses, hard hats, gloves and harnesses. They are also helping by providing advice on safe working practices and risk assessmenents. Great to have the CAN team on boa...rd!
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What a joy to walk round the city today & seeing so many other people enjoying & discovering all the street art. So much work has gone into it this year!!
We had a fantastic guided tour around Aberdeen today looking at all the amazing artworks! Absolutely stunning..and so interesting. The work has really given Aberdeen some much needed colour and it was great to see how well supported the event was too! Well done to all involved..it's definitely getting Aberdeen talking �
Was on the tour today and would recommend anybody to do this and see a different side of Aberdeen
Took one of the guided walks today with my wife and youngest daughter - loved it! Really gets you looking beyond street level and the murals bring some life and originality which the city now lacks.
This week has been great watching all these artworks unfold, looking forward to visiting them all and great to see a lasting impact on the city. The first of many I hope. Well done to all involved.
This was a fantastic day out. Well done Aberdeen on having something different, interesting and inspiring every month! Good job I have already painted a door as a chalk board, one wee man has been inspired! Fantastic street art!
This festival has given ordinary people a chance to see extraordinary art in ordinary places. I was aware of some of the pieces from walking around the city myself but the walking tour revealed several outstanding works that I was completely unaware of despite having passed them several times without realising. I am not from the North East but I am always confused by how willing residents local and non-local are to put the area down. There is a lot of talent up here and Nuart is doing a brilliant job of drawing attention to it and bringing in visiting artists. I recommend a tour highly to anyone with an interest in art.
So much hard work and organisation went into this event. I just wanted to say Thank you all so much for making Aberdeen a beautiful place to walk around. You are an amazing bunch of artists . Please say the art work is here to stay xx
My boyfriend and I did a Nuart walking tour today and absolutely loved it! We had no idea all this incredible street art was on our door step. The fact that we could access a FREE guided tour is amazing. John our tour guide was brilliant at bringing the art to life and really felt like we saw the city in a whole new light. Thanks NuArt Aberdeen, 10/10 recommend!
Lovely afternoon finding all the artwork. Took us into parts of Aberdeen we wouldn't normally head into. Our 7 year old also loved finding all the little figures. Was great seeing lots of people out and about, Aberdeen has needed something like this for a long time.
It looks fantastic! Great to see Aberdeen brightened up a bit & looking more cosmopolitan & cultural.More please! ��
It is amazing festival, again.
We went to see it in 2017 and wet back this year. Our family absolutely love it.
We went for guided tour on Sat. 14th April. It was awesome to walk around Aberdeen and discover those absolutely outstanding works of art and learn the philosophy behind of it as well as learn a little bit about artists. My 2 kids absolutely love it. The guide was really good as well. He was friendly, honest and delivering very interesting talks. We had amazing time. Thank you all
Great tour with john despite the cold and rain! His enthusiasim for the project was infectious. Hope the project continues to make Aberdeen a more interesting place to visit.
Great tour with Jon at weekend, he knows his stuff! Would highly recommend, or at least have a wander yourself and see some amazing pieces!
Fantastic walking round the city centre with so many people all brought together by the wonderful art and colour you have brought to this city. Thank you! Wonderfully delightful!
Best thing Aberdeen has ever done..Well done to all the talented artists who brought us this feast for the eyes. You brought a community together and got us all talking to one another ..
Thank you xx
Amazing!! As an artist and photographer and never quite feeling Aberdeen has anything to offer creatively compared to Glasgow or Edinburgh I am so happy to see NUART coming to Aberdeen. I volunteered to help and met some really awesome people. Watched and spoke to the artists and it was good to see people out and about looking for the art pieces. I hope this becomes an annual thing and is given the funding needed. Aberdeen could be so much better so hopefully this is the start :) Keep up the magic work everyone :)
Amazing! excellent! People are walking and looking for murals ;-) It's very exciting ! All is smiling and talking about it. Well done!
Amazing art work . It brightens up drab buildings .