ABSTRACT
This chapter considers a practical example of what has been celebrated as successful "place-making" through offering a rich case study of one of the winners of Creative Scotland's Creative Place Awards, Huntly in Aberdeenshire. David Taylor and Lulu Johnston, who were responsible for the awards at Creative Scotland, explained that the initiative focused on creative activity in areas beyond Scotland's main cities, in particular seeking applications from organizations and places that may have never applied to an arts council for funding or support before. The Caravan Gallery placed in the town square exhibited the artists' bespoke Huntly collection. As Lorraine Grant and Kirsty Duncan made clear, the work in Huntly has required a foundation of trust to be established within the community, of which Deveron Arts and the team that works there are very much a part. The culture that the community produces is representative of and reactive to the idea of place they have constructed at that particular time.
