LINTHOUSE URBAN VILLAGE CREATIVE SHOPFRONTS

Overview
Linthouse in Greater Govan has suffered decline following the decrease in shipbuilding and heavy engineering along the Clyde. The Linthouse Housing Association has set up Linthouse Urban Village (LUV) to encourage a fresh sense of community and foster local initiatives.
LUV believes the long term sustainability of the area depends upon the involvement of local people. The project is focusing on a series of creative schemes to help improve the quality of life within the community.
Initiatives include the creative shopfronts project in which local people, artists and shopkeepers have redesigned 14 shop fronts to help transform the look of the area. Residents are very supportive of the initiative - a survey found that 94.6% of locals believed that the look of their area has been transformed in a positive way as a result of the project.

Facts
ARTIST                                                    Julia Smith, Laura Spring, Geraldine Greene, Blaise Schumacher and the Galgael

SCHOOL & GROUPS INVOLVED         Lorne Primary, Elderpark Primary, Hill’s Trust Primary, Hill’s Trust Learning Academy, The Preshal Trust

COMMISSIONER                                   Linthouse Urban Village

YEAR OF INSTALLATION                     2006

MATERIALS                                            Handmade ceramic tiles, screen-printed transfers, handmade stoneware mosaic tiles

LOCATION                                             Various shops along Govan Road in Linthouse

CONTACT                                               Ingrid Campbell, the LUV Gallery, 1226 Govan Road, Linthouse, Glasgow, G51 4RA
Phone: 0141 445 5100, info@linthouseurbanvillage.com

Click here to read an article by the Glasgow Herald about this project.