Art in Scottish ”new-towns” | Meet You at the Hippos

Art and marketing | Meet You at the Hippos

Malcolm Robertson considers how much of his public art created for Glenrothes evolved from art into advertisments for the town.

Art as a flood defence | Meet You at the Hippos

Denis Barnes discusses the simple ways he created public art initially with zero budget and how some even aided the natural w...

Birth of new towns | Meet You at the Hippos

The post-war government were keen to build communities as well as just housing but equally wanted to reduce the population of Gla...

Concrete Elephants | Meet You at the Hippos

Steve Bonnar discovers his concrete elephants have lost their trunks since he installed them, leaving him philosophical about art...

Concrete Hippos | Meet You at the Hippos

Steve Bonnar reflects 38-years later about his first new town public art project amounting in some concrete hippos.

Environmental art | Meet You at the Hippos

Andrew Dimitrius considers what environmental art is and how that differs from historic public art in the way of plinths and monum...

Episode 1 | The Story of Scottish Art

Lachlan Goudie traces the development of Scottish art. The first episode goes from the sites of the Neolithic era to the period of dest...

Episode 2 | The Story of Scottish Art

Lachlan Goudie traces the development of Scottish art. This episode examines the 18th century, a period that heralded the greatest blos...

Episode 3 | The Story of Scottish Art

Lachlan Goudie traces the development of Scottish art. This episode explores how Scotland's artists challenged the traditions they had ...

Episode 4 | The Story of Scottish Art

Lachlan Goudie traces the development of Scottish art. He explores how it has left a remarkable legacy over the last century through wr...

First Town Artist | Meet You at the Hippos

In the 1970's the town planners of Scotland's new-towns hired "town artists" to make public work that would complement the community.

Mackintosh: Glasgow's Neglected Genius

Documentary in which Glasgow artist Lachlan Goudie examines the life, work and legacy of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scotland's most ce...

The sewing machine | The Singer Story: Made in Clydebank

The rise of the Singer sewing machine and how it became a commercially successful product.

Tourism and art | Meet You at the Hippos

The public art in the new-towns instilled identity, which was challenged when the art was moved or painted much to the ambivalence o...

Town planner or Artist | Meet You at the Hippos

Brian Miller was just a town planner but was adamant to make new towns vibrant with murals and sculptures that all could enjoy.

What's the point in public art? | Meet You at the Hippos

Camille Archer ponders what public art is and why it is important to communities.

S1E4: West Africa | Lost Kingdoms of Africa

Gus Casely-Hayford travels to Nigeria and Mali to explore the story behind a series of magnificent 16th-century bronzes made in t...

Propaganda films | Age of the Image

James Fox explains the method in which propaganda was created to advertise Nazism.

1: Liberty, Diversity, Depravity | The Art of Gothic: Britain's Midnight Hour

In 18th century England, out of the Age of Enlightenment came a Gothic obsession with monsters ...

Charles is Executed | Charles I's Treasure Reunited

Brenda Emmanus discusses the execution of Charles I.