Immersive Lab Dumfries is a new creative playground for artists working across projection, sound, light, animation, digital art, live performance, installation, and immersive storytelling.
Developed through Northern Lights Dumfries, the lab brings together emerging Scottish artists, designers, musicians, filmmakers, dancers, theatre-makers, and creative technologists to experiment with bold new ideas and develop ambitious large-scale public experiences.
Part studio, part testing ground, part collaborative network, Immersive Lab Dumfries exists to support new work that doesn’t sit neatly inside one discipline. The project encourages artists to push into new territory, collaborate across forms, and explore how technology, performance, visual art, music, and public space can collide in unexpected ways.
The lab supports experimentation with projection mapping, spatial sound, digital environments, interactive installations, moving image, lighting design, animation, and site-responsive work. Artists involved will have opportunities to prototype ideas, develop new collaborations, and create work for live public settings as part of Northern Lights Dumfries and future large-scale events across Dumfries & Galloway.
Brought to life by the team behind Dumfries & Galloway Carnival, Big Burns Supper and Le Haggis, four artists will collaborate with the creative team which is led by the award winning team in Dumfries who run the project.
Executive Producer Graham Main said:
“Immersive Lab Dumfries is rooted in the energy of contemporary Scottish culture while creating space for risk-taking, new voices, and cross-disciplinary collaboration. Set against the backdrop of Dumfries town centre, the lab aims to create work that feels ambitious, atmospheric, and culturally distinctive.
The long-term vision is to grow a new creative ecosystem around immersive and digital practice in the south of Scotland – connecting local artists with national and international collaborators while building a space where experimentation, live experience, and contemporary culture can thrive.”
Whether developing a projection piece for a historic building, building immersive audio environments, creating interactive public installations, or testing new digital performance ideas, Immersive Lab Dumfries is about making work that feels alive, contemporary, collaborative, and unexpected
To be eligible, artists need to be from Scotland or Scotland based.
Interested artists can find out more and take part in a webinar on 11th June. Closing date for applications is 23rd June 2026.
