Digging deep with Demarco

Richard Demarco has long been a prominent figure in the Scottish cultural sphere. He has been a significant cultural progenitor, raising the profile of the visual arts within Scotland. Demarco is well-known for his provocative statements, including fierce criticisms of Scotland’s cultural institutions and “officialdom”. He has, he admits “got up lots of people’s noses” through his thoughts and deeds. 

Above all, he is known for his view that the Edinburgh Festival and Fringe is a pale imitation, if not a perversion of, the original vision of a ‘flowering of the human spirit’ through the language of the arts.