Faculty of Taking Notice Assembly: Meet our Artists in Residence

Come by the Crush Hall to meet the University of Stirling Artists in Residence for 2024-25, Gardner & Gardner.

Heidi Gardner and Peter Gardner are a husband-and-wife artist duo, working under the name Gardner & Gardner. Coming from different disciplines, Heidi from History of Art and Peter from Theology, they have built up a multi-disciplinary art practice over two decades. Their practice responds to community environments and they share a commitment to listening as an artistic discipline.

Gardner & Gardner will work with the Art Collection during their year of Human Experience in which exhibitions will be exploring topics such as climate crisis, displacement and COVID-19 with an emphasis on the human need for creativity and community to build our resilience.

The artists intend to set up the Faculty of Taking Notice, a temporary, fictitious faculty which will exist for one academic year. Through a series of playful actions and interventions, the Faculty of Taking Notice will observe, explore, research and encourage around the narrative of campus as a neighbourhood. Engaging with students and staff, they will offer these creative acts as a catalyst for conversation and co-creation, nurturing the practice of taking notice, of neighbourliness, as a form of care for people, place and planet.

Join us for the first assembly of our new faculty with coffee and cake in the Crush Hall, where there will be an opportunity to hear from Peter and Heidi about their plans for the year.

The Pathfoot Building is accessible, if you have any questions or concerns about being able to join this event, please email Emma at Emma.McCombie@stir.ac.uk.