WATCH: Nuart 2018 programme launched

Internationally-acclaimed street art festival Nuart returns to Aberdeen in just a fortnight, with organisers today unveiling the programme for this year’s event, which will run from the 12th to 15th April.

This year’s festival plays host to 12 national, UK and international street artists and an extended Nuart Plus program of artist talks, panel debates, workshops, film screenings, walking tours and events that aims to provide an insight into contemporary debates surrounding the Street Art movement and foreground the site-specific paintings, installations and interventions across the city.

Aberdeen City Council Co-leader Jenny Laing said: “It has been the Council’s priority to work with key partners like Aberdeen Inspired to grow and enhance our cultural events and festivals program, committing significant funding to build a greater platform to showcase and celebrate Aberdeen’s arts and cultural sector.

“We are excited to see the festival develop in future years and to continue to build a strong partnership with our twin city, Stavanger.

“Nuart Aberdeen brings art to the streets and gives us the ability to showcase our city and make art accessible for all. We look forward to the continued support for the festival from the public and would encourage as many people as possible to engage in the extensive program of events on offer.”

Organisers said:“Nuart Festival is based on the principle that art should be part of people’s everyday lives. Our events provide a platform to amplify those artists’ voices who challenge the status quo by offering a more accessible and ordinary way of engaging with visual art than art institutions can offer. Nuart are dedicated to creating new dialogues and narratives between artist and audience in public space, where people can engage with art freely and on their own terms.

“Ordinary in this sense does not mean unreflective, conventional, common sense but rather the archetypal, the public, and the shared.

“Street Art’s call is to reclaim and broaden the terms ‘Art’ and ‘Artist’; to remove the shame that those not privileged with an arts education often feel when employing these terms; a call to reconnect art, as well as language, with the everyday.”