{"id":19289,"date":"2018-06-15T17:51:08","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T16:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=19289"},"modified":"2018-06-15T17:51:08","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T16:51:08","slug":"scotlands-culture-secretary-orders-review-as-st-peters-seminary-future-again-uncertain-with-closure-of-arts-company-nva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=19289","title":{"rendered":"Scotland\u2019s Culture Secretary orders review as St Peter\u2019s Seminary future again uncertain with closure of arts company NVA"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"edinburgh<\/a>St Peter\u2019s Seminary, one of Scotland\u2019s most acclaimed modernist buildings \u2013 with plans featured at the IHBC\u2019s Edinburgh Annual School in 2014 – seemed to have found new hope with the ground breaking arts company NVA, but that future has been derailed since the announcement that the company will close in September this year.<\/h3>\n

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The NVA Board writes:<\/p>\n

\u2018In September of last year the trustees of NVA made the difficult decision to withdraw from the capital project plans to rescue St Peter\u2019s Seminary in Cardross, due to increasing risks, both financial and physical. NVA\u2019s original plan for St Peter\u2019s was universally acknowledged as bold, with creative ambition at its heart. It was also recognised as a high risk venture for a small independent arts organisation. NVA has spent many years working with great passion and determination, with the support of the owners of the site, the Archdiocese of Glasgow, to save this iconic building for future generations. We collaborated with public and private stakeholders, the local communities and an amazing design team. Important work was done to begin to preserve and restore the building and to demonstrate the immense creative, intellectual and community potential of the site\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2018Despite our best efforts we were unable to guarantee the viable future for the St Peter\u2019s Seminary that we had imagined and hoped for. In the end, we had no choice but to bring the capital project to an end.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2026NVA is now \u2018not able to continue\u2019.<\/p>\n

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The Herald Scotland<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n

NVA, an acclaimed and innovative company led by creative director Angus Farquhar, will cease operations this year, months after losing out in the controversial Regular Funding decisions made by Creative Scotland, the arts funding body. Last night, the culture secretary, Fiona Hyslop, asked Historic Environment Scotland to study the former seminary, designed and built by the late Glasgow architects Andy MacMillan and Isi Metzstein in 1966, and report on its \u2018long term options.\u2019 Ms Hyslop said she would like the building to \u2018continue to fascinate and inspire the public\u2019 and noted that she was \u2018very sad\u2019 that NVA is to close, adding \u2018since its foundation 25 years ago, it has earned a reputation as one of the most innovative public arts companies.\u2019<\/p>\n

The building, an impressive and foreboding modernist ruin in the Kilmahew woodland of Dunbartonshire, is A-listed, and the World Monument Fund has it scheduled as one of the world\u2019s most endangered cultural landmarks. NVA staged the Hinterland project in the ruins in 2016, and this year have made a film with artist Rachel Maclean, but its long term \u00a311m project to transform the \u2018stabilised ruins\u2019 into a cultural centre and performance space is over.<\/p>\n

Since 2013, NVA spent \u00a32.3m on the building, including removing hazardous waste and asbestos, the restoration of 80 vaults, improving paths, clearing away invasive plants, and woodland management in the 104 acre site. The building still belongs to the Archdiocese of Glasgow, for which a spokesman said: \u2018We are sorry to learn of the closure of NVA and the subsequent impact on plans to secure and develop the former St Peter\u2019s College at Cardross. NVA were visionary in their hopes for the college site and it is a great shame that these hopes will not now be realised. The Archdiocese will now consider its options and consider any proposal to develop the site in a way which will secure the architecture of the former college and benefit the local community\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n

Read more….<\/a><\/p>\n

For background see the\u00a0IHBC Annual School 2014 – Edinburgh<\/a>\u00a0and the Day School<\/a><\/p>\n

Read more about the announcement at BBC News Scotland<\/a> and Bella Caledonia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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