Services
Our Organisational Strands:
Feral Consults - Sharing knowledge, contacts and experience in our field.
Feral Produces - Nurturing artist’s own work and supporting them to achieve a step-change in their practice.
Feral Curates - Instigating creative projects and curating platforms that bring artists work to new audiences.
Feral Residencies – Design Scottish and International residencies programmes to benefit the visual theatre and outdoor performance sector.
PARTNERS & FUNDERS
We have managed projects with funding from:
Creative Scotland (Open Fund and Touring Fund), Made in Scotland, Arts Council England, British Council, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Arts Admin, Glasgow City Council, Glasgow Life, European Championships Cultural Programme 2018, Senate Chancellery for Culture Berlin, Swedish Arts Council and Swedish Arts Grants Committee, The Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Daiwa Foundation, Goethe-Institut Glasgow, PRS Foundation Open Fund, Creative Carbon Scotland, The Work Room, The Scottish Government, Fèisean nan Gàidheal, Dumfries and Galloway Arts Festival, Surf the Wave (Pavilion Dance South West), Renfrewshire Leisure / Council and Place Partnership.
We have worked with the following Heritage, Environment & Third Sector partners:
Glasgow Doors Open Days, Loch Lomond and Trossachs Country Parks, Strathard Community Trust, The Helix, Falkirk Delivers, Muiravonside Country Park, Castle Semple Country Park, St Andrews Botanic Gardens, Sustrans, Future Paisley, Little Assynt with Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape, Historic Environment Scotland, The National Trust, Barrhead Waterworks, Neilston Community Trust, Brodick Castle, The Mill on the Fleet, Glasgow Science Centre, Whitelees Windfarm, Scapa Flow, Summerlee Museum of Industrial Life, Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Strathclyde Country Park, Dalkeith Country Park, Crawick Multiverse, The Forestry Commission, Orkney Science Festival, Festival of the Horse (Orkney), Earl’s Palace (Orkney), Hamiltonhill Claypits Nature Reserve, Lambhill Stables, National Library of Scotland, The Scottish Qualifications Authority, National Museums of Scotland and National Galleries of Scotland.
Contact
To discuss your project with us, contact Jill Smith & Kathryn Boyle at:
weareferal@outlook.com
Arts Sector Testimonies
“Having worked with Feral for the past 3 years I am very happy to provide this endorsement. Finding Feral was a match made in heaven. I had held on by my fingernails for years trying to multitask and manage the administrative, marketing, fundraising, producing complexities that tore me away from my job of being the artist. These tasks have been miraculously and effortlessly removed from my sight by Feral. This has given me the freedom to focus on my part of the jigsaw to create and perform work which has a national and international profile. Hallelujah!”
Liz Aggiss (Dance Artist/Choreographer/Director)
“I have been producing my own choreographic work since 2002 and from 2016 small Interdisciplinary arts festivals. Over this time I have worked alongside many producers both in Scotland and Internationally. Since I started my collaboration with producers Feral arts in 2017 I have been impressed at how open and generous they are with their feedback , support and time. They never tire of thinking creatively how or what a project needs. It’s rare to find people who are so truly committed to supporting artists and the art form. This is what we all need and deserve to thrive!”
Colette Sadler (Choreographer and Director)
"Since partnering with Feral - who have produced, fund-raised, managed and strategically advised on all 4 of our most recent shows - we have been able to devise our most ambitious projects to date whilst concentrating on creativity - receiving multiple funding grants and a Total Theatre award in the process. We highly value their professionalism and artistic eye."
Dav Bernard and Bex Anson (Artistic Directors, MHz Scenography)
“Over the past five years Feral Arts has been instrumental in successfully championing physical and visual theatre in Scotland, nurturing and producing an exciting and eclectic range of artists and their work with consummate professionalism, passion and dedication. It’s always a pleasure to work with Jill and Kat and their talent-spotting skills have enabled us over successive MANIPULATE Festivals to support and showcase up and coming Scottish theatre makers and performers we might otherwise have missed.”
Simon Hart (Former Artistic Director, Puppet Animation Scotland & Manipulate Festival)
“Summerhall has worked with Feral since 2016 on the Autopsy Award, which helps artists making boundary pushing performance work to undertake an Edinburgh Fringe run. Jill and Kat bring their extensive knowledge of contemporary performance in Scotland, their producing acumen and their considerable commitment to the process, making Feral an invaluable partner”.
Verity Leigh, Programme Manager, Summerhall
“Working with Feral was central to the artistic development of my show and vital to the practical elements of touring it and adapting it in many ways over the five years we have worked together. Jill and Kat always cared for me as an artist and put my creative needs at the forefront of decisions, even when we were mired in admin for national tours, the Fringe and working with the Scottish Government. Their care was so valuable for me and helped me to protect my own work in a way I could never have done on my own. On a practical basis Feral are efficient, sensitive, and very capable, with good connections and a passion for the work. I would absolutely recommend working with them to anyone - unbeatable!”
Ishbel McFarlane (Artist)
"My last two shows, Bird and Make A HOO, have seen extensive touring and a Made In Scotland showcase thanks to the hard work and creative producing skills of Jill and Kat. They are clearly dedicated to supporting and developing unique voices within the arts in Scotland and my work has benefited hugely from their combined expertise.”
Sita Pieraccini (Artist)
“Working with Feral has been transformative for my work and its place in the arts. The level of experience, in depth knowledge and interest in contemporary performance that Feral bring to the table is refreshing and exciting. Their working process is collaborative, putting an understanding of the artist's needs at heart of everything and is fuelled by a real passion for the arts. They keep their finger well and truly on the pulse of today's contemporary performance and where it’s going for the future”
Jack Webb, Artist
“Feral are a crucial and key part of the arts ecology of Scotland. Bringing a collected experience of over a decade to the arts, both Kat and Jill produce and support the work of arts from underserved but critically engaging and cutting edge artists and forms that is found nowhere else in Scotland. This, coupled with their copious successful funding applications on behalf of artists and multiple awards have made Feral perhaps the most acclaimed and vital producing outfit in the country. Not only do they consistently produce some of the most important artistic works in Scotland, through hosting producer placements alongside the FST, they are one of the only pathways for emerging producers in Scotland to gain the necessary and vital skills to support the sector. Quite simply, without Feral, the cultural landscape of Scotland would be diminished.”
Conner Milliken (Artist and PhD Researcher, University of Glasgow)