‘Paul Neagu Performance on Inchcolm Island’, The Demarco Gallery Edinburgh Arts Summer School, 1972.

This year, the committee for the world famous Venice Biennial of Modern Art decided to open the Italian Pavilion to artists of Italian extraction living in different parts of the world, to celebrate 150 years of Italian Unity which falls this year. In collaboration with the various Italian Cultural Institutes throughout the world (89 in total), artists were selected to officially participate in the Biennale di Venezia nel Mondo while exhibiting their work in their country of residence. Seven Italo-Scots artists exhibited at the Italian Cultural Institute and at Craigcrook Castle, seat of the exceptional archives of participating artist Richard Demarco.  The artists were selected by the Italian government and cultural institute from a shortlist of 15, and represent a wide spectrum of media, subject matter and style; however, each was to some degree inspired by Craigcrook.