Rough Cut Nation (4 stars)

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Scotsman.com: Rough Cut Nation | Rose Frain | Joachim Koester | Aleksandra Mir
A striking collaborative multimedia installation, featuring the work of some of Scotland's most talented young artists. Aspects of Scottish history are presented through street art and graffiti, painted, pasted and projected onto the walls of the Portrait Gallery, currently empty due to the gallery's closure for refurbishment.

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Rough Cut Nation Scottish National Portrait Gallery/ 7 – 30 August 2009/ Admission free/ For opening times visit www.roughcutnation.co.uk This unique multimedia project draws together a group of young artists who are constructing a remixed version of Scottish history as informed by street art and graffiti culture, painted, pasted and projected directly onto the walls of the Portrait Gallery. Rough Cut Nation updates William Hole’s 1889 murals within the building and is an exciting new direction for the National Galleries of Scotland, exploiting the evocative empty space produced by the Gallery’s current closure for redevelopment. Rough Cut Nation will feature artwork and designs from Elph, Fraser Gray, Kirsty Whiten, Mike Inglis, Peter Martin, Jason Nelson, DUFI, Machism, Paco, Jo Basford, Janie Nicoll and Skint. The project will also feature artwork produced by young people working with Rough Cut artists on offsite projects.

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Rough Cut Nation

 18 Aug 20094 stars

Graffiti warriors v neo-Gothic architecture

‘No one notices your pointless actions’, read the letters cut out of the floor. That’s not entirely true nowadays. Graffiti culture has entered the mainstream art world. Largely due to Banksy, art that was once firmly associated with lawless…

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Rough Cut Nation

 29 Jul 2009

Music meets art uptown

Gallery gigs are ordinarily bespoke, underground shop-front affairs that flaunt their art-rock credentials like billy-o. The renovation of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery has allowed some of that DIY spirit to mess up its normally plush interior…

Rough Cut Nation

 28 Jul 2009

The National Portrait Gallery may have been closed for refurbishment for the past six months, but this has only served to enhance its appeal as an evocative space. Rough Cut Nation brings together 12 young artists inspired by street art and graffiti…

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