February 2025
Concepts of architectural space and studio practice as publishing and publication are explored in this February 2025 issue of fount. This is the first of three issues of fount associated with the research project titled, ‘Contemporary Art-Publishing Ecosystems of Remote and Rural Scotland‘ enabled by a Carnegie Research Incentive Grant 2024-2025. Interested in submitting to fount? See the submission guidelines here.
Download an interactive PDF for reading on a computer, your mobile phone or tablet. A small batch of print copies will be made available at the Making Publics Press in ATLAS Arts, Portree, Isle of Skye and Birnam Arts, Perthshire.
Alternatively, if you would like to make your own print copy, or if you don’t have access to these places because you live too far away or can’t get to Birnam or Portree, you can download a print booklet formatted PDF at the bottom of the page.
Print at Home File and Guidelines
The PDF below is paginated and includes printers marks. Download this file if you want to print and bind your personally made booklet copy of this issue at home. If you have a printer that can print double-sided (flip along the short edge), all you need to do is fold the pages and trim using the crop mark guides. A long arm stapler will give enough room to add two staples along the folded edge, binding the pages together, although the booklet holds together ok without staples. The trimmed dimensions of the print size of fount are 200x 297mm, so using an A4 printer your home version of the publication will be smaller in scale to printed copies available at ATLAS Arts and Birnam Arts, but that just makes it all the more unique to you and the size and type of paper that you have available. If you want to make a copy closer to the actual size, an A3 printer will achieve that.
Interested in submitting to fount?
fount aims to showcase the creative sources and processes that form art and culture in remote and rural areas of Scotland. If you want to be included in future issues of fount, and you are based outside of the major urban centres of Scotland (i.e., you live in a place with less than 3000 people living in it, and/or, in a place which is more than 30 minutes drive away from the nearest place with more than 10 000 people living there), please get in touch!
Submissions of poetry, flash fiction, zines, one-page comics and samples of new fiction (up to 2500 words and/or 4-8 images) are all welcome. If you would like to submit or would like your practice to be featured through a discussion in a studio visit, please email louisa.preston@stir.ac.uk for more info with ‘fount’ in the subject line. Please also see the submissions guidelines page for more information on submissions.
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