Team Sculpture is our creative engagement programme for schools, community organisations, and care settings, using contemporary sculpture as a catalyst for creativity, confidence, and connection. Through artist-led workshops, visits, and collaborative decision-making.
CAN is a platform dedicated to fostering sustainability and creative exchange within the arts. It connects artists, makers, and organisations to share resources, skills, and materials, supporting a circular economy in the creative sector.
ARMS is a company which includes representatives from across the creative industries, with a collective goal to create new ways for the cultural sector in Scotland to share resources, material and equipment.
We worked with Creative Scotland on a new report, Twoards a Sustainable and Ethical Scotland + Venice, exploring how Scotland’s participation in the Venice Biennale can align with net zero goals and ethical practices. The report sets out practical recommendations and alternative models for more sustainable international cultural exchange.
A series of conversations exploring the intersection of visual art and ecology. Through interviews with artists, designers, organisations and researchers, Material Change reflects on creative practice in the context of the ecological emergency.
The Loan Toolkit is a free resource to help artists and organisations place sculptures from our online catalgue into shared and communal spaces. Since 2018, we’ve facilitated over 70 placements in schools, businesses, community groups and universities. The toolkit offers all the guidance you need to plan and arrange a placement.
The unveiling of Maria Gondek’s The Brolly at Platform in Easterhouse was a collaborative effort, initiated in 2021/22 through a partnership between Platform, Blairtummock Housing Association, and SPG. The aim was to develop a new sculpture for exhibition alongside a permanent installation within a community setting.
Informed by our experience with Floating Head, STEP tested a new commissioning model—an Acquisition Partnership—designed to consider an artwork’s long-term future from the outset. This pilot involved artist Jacqueline Donachie and Glasgow venue SWG3.
Originally created by Richard Groom for the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival, Floating Head is a 26-tonne sculpture reflecting Glasgow’s industrial past. Sculpture Placement Group’s work to refurbish and redisplay the piece reveals the complex realities of commissioning, ownership, and preservation in public art.
Since SPG Club started in 2020, we’ve been growing our community of art lovers, artists and individuals keen to start their own art collections. It’s a community joined by the core purpose of SPG – to make meaningful change in the visual arts.
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