Practitioner report: I Gladly Strained My Eyes to Follow You: a guided tour of Pollok House

Abstract

CREATING FOR CHANGE CONFERENCE 2018 Creating for Change: Women’s Impact on the Arts, Screen and Creative Industries in Scotland (1918-2018) The Glasgow Women’s Library, Glasgow Friday 17th August 2018, organised by The Women Creating Scotland Team. The conference aims to celebrate the women who have helped to shape Scotland through the arts, screen and creative industries since 1918, when some women successfully obtained the right to vote within the UK. By celebrating this historic landmark and women’s creative contribution, we hope this event will help to gauge an overview of the impact women have had on Scotland’s rich built environment and internationally renowned cultural and written heritage over the last 100 years. Against a back drop of documentary images taken during the tour I Gladly Strained My Eyes to Follow You, for the Glasgow International exhibition Cabinet Interventions, this presentation, shared a selection of the specially written texts, read by myself as well as recordings of Pollok House volunteers who lead the tours during the period of the exhibition.