18/06/2024
Dear Friends of Richard and the Demarco Archive,
Many of you will now be aware of the impending sale of Summerhall. The life’s work of Professor Richard Demarco must find a new home.
We urgently need to transport half the collection to a new location at The Crichton in Dumfries. This estate contains the Dumfries campuses of Glasgow University, the Open University and Dumfries and Galloway University. In the short term, we also hope to maintain and allow access to 7 rooms of art at Summerhall during this year's Edinburgh Festival.
We are now faced with raising the funds needed to facilitate an initial move of half the archive, while continuing to pay rates and rent on the remaining 7 rooms at Summerhall, until the final move to a new permanent home in the Spring of 2025.
A conservative estimate for all of the above, as well as taking this opportunity to do the necessary conservation and repairs of the works damaged in the recent second flooding at Summerhall is estimated at more than £50k.
Please, if you can, consider making a gift now to the Demarco Archive Trust so that we can continue to give life to this important and unique living work of art, and celebrate the life’s work of Richard Demarco as he approaches his 94th birthday.
Would you also please forward this page to any individual or institution you know of who might be supportive of our mission to maintain and expand this life’s work of Richard Demarco which is of national and international importance.
Weʼre raising money to Support the Demarco Archive. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.
