Art Walk Projects produces place-centred socially engaged collaborative art working with artists and communities at Edinburgh’s coast and beyond.
Recent Projects
The Resilient Seed
An engagement programme mapping regenerative seed futures for Portobello, involving hands-on workshops and knowledge sharing sessions around soil health, seed identification and plantin…
Portobello Seed Share
A space to save and share Portobello’s local seed at Portobello Library, establishing a seed bank of locally collected seed.
The Held Sea
Katherine Fay Allan, Saoirse Amira Anis, Juliana Capes, Maya Rose Edwards
Ecologies of health and care at Edinburgh's coast
The Neighbouring Orchard
Annie Lord
The Neighbouring Orchard is grown by individuals but rooted in community. Created by artist Annie Lord, it is a dispersed orchard formed of 200 apple trees and grown by more than 170 pe…
Recent Publications
About Us
Art Walk Projects is an artist-led organisation based in Portobello, coastal Edinburgh. We produce year-round site responsive public realm art projects, artist residencies, exhibitions and events embedded within communities of North East Edinburgh. Our emphasis is on environmental oriented new art and coastal futures.
From 2026 our annual festival, Art Walk Porty, is changing to Art Walk Weekends continuing annually in September, and we introduce a new environmental coastal biennial arts festival FORECAST, to commence from May 2027.
Our publishing wing, ART WALK PRESS, produces artists’ books and other publications coming through our residency programme.
We are recipients of Multi Year Funding from Creative Scotland and members of Creative Carbon Scotland’s Green Art Initiative.
Upcoming
Sats 24 + 31.10.26
The Resilient Seed
Sat-Sun 7-8.11.26
The Held Sea
Interim Events
Art Walk Friends
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