We commission new work by asking creative practitioners to respond to some element of Gray’s work, practice or approach, to produce something new that is meaningfully connected but also exists as a new work in its own right.
Throughout his working life, Gray sought to celebrate and declare his influences, seeing them as an integral part of all making. Similarly, we encourage and support creatives to respond to Gray’s work, taking inspiration from it, but making new work of their own, that can stand alone and make it a generative resource.
Deborah Chu
2023 / (in partnership with Gutter Magazine)
This is our first partnership commission with Gutter Magazine, an award-winning, high quality, printed journal for fiction and poetry from writers living in Scotland and also supporting writers from around the world. For this commission we invited Deborah Chu, a freelance arts journalist and writer based in Edinburgh. Deborah has produced our first work of fiction called Present and accounted for in which she creatively exploring objects, the memories they hold and the complications of organising them when someone you love dies. This work was published within the August 2023 issue of Gutter Magazine.