“And still we speak of journeying and home; remembering spots where the passing of time was sweet.”

SWEET SPOT is a photography project taking place across Arbroath during July through to end of October 2023.  The Brothock Gallery @ Arbroath Library hosts the complete project in a specially designed exhibition which also features work produced during workshops with schools and community groups. Look out for the free Sweet Spot Arbroath mini-tabloid newspaper and Sweet Spot book that is available to buy from the library and from www.adamgeary.com

Sweet Spot is funded by The National Lottery through Creative Scotland, supported by ANGUSalive and produced by Adam Geary, a photographer and publisher based in Angus.

Sweet Spot has been created from the building blocks that link ideas/place/people and makes connections between objects/images and histories/positions that they occupy in the places we live and/or remember.

SWEET SPOT is based on fictional places of our imagination. A universal town perhaps, with a past, present and future. At the center of Sweet Spot is the central paradox of when ‘Nowhere’ becomes ‘Everywhere’ and how ultimately our sense of place and wellbeing is affected. Living in a digital era, where everything and every place collide into a seeming oneness; time seems to shorten.

During May 2023 Adam worked with P7 pupils in Hayshead and Warddykes Primary schools and also with Reach-Across and The Learning Tree Partnership to explore the ideas behind Sweet Spot and to encourage workshop participants to make images that define in some way their own ‘special’ places/objects/

things. One image from each participant was printed and is displayed at the Brothock Gallery @ Arbroath Library alongside Sweet Spot. A selection of images appear in the free mini-tabloid newspaper.