Tendency Towards

Tendency Towards is an artist-run initiative based in Aberdeen that operates a programme of exhibitions, workshops, discussion and engagement events nomadically across the city. The initiative was founded in 2016 by six Gray’s School of Art students (Yvette Bathgate, Jessica Barrie, Paula Buškevica, Donald Butler, Mary Gordon and Jake Shepherd). With our programme we seek to promote and support emerging talent within contemporary arts practices, carving out a space for experimental approaches to arts production within the cities’ creative ecology.Alongside this programme, the committee actively explores collaborative modes of production as a group, engaging with community and school groups to address civic issues. These methods of collaborative production, and thinking of an artist-run programme as a civic meeting point, are currently being explored by Tendency Towards as part of a year long associates role with Peacock Visual Arts.