Eigg Box

Eigg Box will be a workspace on Eigg for island-based artists and creative businesses to share with visiting artists from Scotland and beyond.  As well as different sized work spaces, Eigg Box might also have a small exhibition area.

Other similar (mainland) projects have shown providing high quality, custom built working space increases productivity, reduces isolation, and offers tenants the opportunity to share costs, collaborate and pitch for work jointly.  Time spent as a visiting artist-in-residence can motivate, transform and inspire creative practice, and bring new skills and perspective to a local community.

For island-based artists and creative businesses, Eigg Box means somewhere better to work, companionship and creative collaboration and a working environment with fewer distractions and more focus than the kitchen table!  Eigg Box also offers the chance to share everything from skills and ideas, to the electricity bill, marketing and training.

For visiting artists, Eigg Box means coming to join a vibrant and supportive group of like-minded creative souls and experience Eigg community life.

For Eigg it means new and more diverse island businesses, providing much needed local employment, helping retain and grow our population and providing community benefit.

Eigg Box is a plan in progress!  By that I mean it’s an idea that people on the Isle of Eigg, and further afield say they like the sound of.

I’ve set up this website to find out what people think, to share  progress and keep you in the picture with what happens on the road from “good idea” to “up and running”.  For up-to-date news, have a read of my Recent Posts.  Or for older news, check Archives.

I look forward to hearing from you!

Lucy Conway