The Stove Network is an artist-led organisation based in Dumfries. Our aims include the support and promotion of all art forms including drama, dance, digital media, music, literature, poetry, painting, film-making, photography and sculpture. Our vision is to expand and support a contemporary art scene in South West Scotland for the benefit of our wider community.

The Stove Network HQ is at 100 High Street, Dumfries. This building is called ‘The Stove’. The Stove is not an arts centre in the traditional sense – rather it is the base for a an ambitious project to use the arts as a means of actively involving the general public in the future of their town.  

The Stove Network develops and delivers public art projects throughout the UK as well as Dumfries and Galloway. The definition of public art, as practiced by The Stove Network, is very wide – ranging from performance to film, from discussions to music, from poetry to education, from Christmas lights to cycle races, from training to train spotting.