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The Templar Art & Leisure Centre (TALC) was built wholly with Lottery Funding and opened in 2002. It is managed overall by the Trustees, who are publicly elected by the community, but the day-to-day management is undertaken by a management committee, mainly put forward by users of the Centre. TALC is located at the beautiful harbour front in Tarbert – a small fishing village in Kintyre, Argyll.

The aim of the Trust is to facilitate members of the community to form interest groups which will add value to their lives; to provide a building which is available at low cost to these groups and flexible for many uses. The aim of the Trust is to promote and enable access to visual arts, creative technologies, music and dance to the community – for growth and development.

There are several tutors providing classes in arts and crafts and music and approximately 20 community groups using the building.

talc’s project offered young people based in rural Argyll who had an interest in working in the creative industries a series of workshops in a variety of digital and analogue techniques, exhibition opportunities, portfolio preparation courses and work tasters leading to support to complete bespoke individual visual art projects. Additionally, two young people were offered paid youth trainee opportunities. The participants and trainees benefited from this realistic introduction to the experience of working as an artist

The young people from Argyll worked with themes related to the sea. They developed utopian architectural ideas on how it might be possible to live in the sea and took inspiration from the beauty of the sea, waves and drifts to create patterns to be used as a print on fabric, or laser cut as a sculptural element. Their work was displayed at Edinburgh Art Festival in the summer of 2018, at Maryhill Burgh Halls in November 2018 before being exhibited at the Rockfield Centre in Oban on 8/9 December 2018. All the young people’s artworks used a mix of digital and analogue art techniques and were partly responsive — they reacted to the visitor’s presence. Visually they related to contemporary and parametric design, and the sound elements fed back to the visitor’s touch.

One of the projects shown was a collaboration between a young artist and a young scientist, to create an audio-visual piece about sound pollution in the sea.

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