100 Days Project Scotland | Daily Creativity

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i brought the 100 days project to scotland

The 100 Days Project is one of daily engagement in a creative practice.

The project gives anyone, regardless of age or ability, the framework and permission to get creative.  It challenges participants to pick a creative outlet and relies on their willingness to work to achieve a creative boost. As Stephen Hawking said "Half the battle is showing up". Stephen Hawking's quote about life and success rings true; the key to the 100 Days Project, as with many things in life, is starting. Show up every day to a creative task, and simply do.  

In 2011 Emma Rogan, a Graphic Designer in New Zealand, adopted a class assignment originally given by Professor Michael Beirut to his Graphic Design students at Yale. The project has inspired a few versions of daily creativity projects, but Emma Rogan adopted this format and collected some like minded friends around her and set out to complete the challenge. By 2017 Emma had grown a following of thousands, including me and a group of my friends from Edinburgh (I had gathered them around me so I had company in this timezone!)

I announced I would put on an exhibition, and with support from the main project, we put on a show on Day 103, with 22 participants (including several from England, one from Germany, someone from Canada, and my fellow Scots) celebrating the achievement of engaging with the project. The projects below show some of the work on show….

Images above from the 2017 and 2018 shows include my work, David Ingrey’s 1” weaving, Maggie Thomas’s Steven Seagull and his photos on tour with her for 100 Days, Kirsty Venters-Marks’ Podoku (poetry in the form of Sudoku), and the Daily Count which was a collection of images Eilidh Muldoon and I put together to keep the community on track everyday.

With Emma’s blessing, and the knowledge that she was stepping away from the wider 100 Days Project to focus on her new restaurant venture, I began the 100 Days Project Scotland. In 2018 we had an exhibition with 25 participants, and by 2019 I had built some momentum behind the project, with calls for participants going out across Edinburgh and Scottish creative networks; the exhibition was host to nearly 60 participants and was held in the Engine House in the ECA Fire Station. To see more of the work please visit the website at www.100daysscotland.com