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marc cairns

Marc Cairns is a architectural designer, gallerist and project director based in Glasgow.

Co-founder and director of Pidgin Perfect, a mutli-award winning creative studio established in 2012 and based in Glasgow which places community at the heart of their projects. Pidgin Perfect proudly represented Scotland at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale as part of the project 'Critical Dialogues', the project also received the prestigious Royal Scottish Academy Medal for Architecture.

In Spring 2012 Marc began his role as a director at MANY, an arts organisation and studio provider located in the Merchant City of Glasgow. In this role, Marc also supports the development and programming of The Telfer Gallery, an artist led contemporary art gallery and events space hosted by MANY Studios.

This is a diaristic blog by Marc which documents his working and personal life.

Follow Marc on Twitter and Instagram; @marcgcairns

The Banchetto Pattern design by @pidginperfect @BespokeAtelier and the people of #Glasgow to symbolise the importance of Openness, Equality and Empathy in design. The pattern will adorn curtains, tablecloths and napkins at our #scotlandvenice2012 project ‘Banchetto’, a theatrical open air dinner for the old Venetian community of Castello Basso, at the #Venice #Architecture @la_biennale a week today! #design #print #screenprint #fabric #pattern #pink #pidgin #pigeon #collaboration #venice2012 @architizer (Taken with Instagram at Glue Factory)