All At Sea
2020: a series of outdoor socially distanced artists’ projects over 3 separate weekends during the time of the Covid-19 pandemic. Artists featured: Felicity Bristow & Susie Wilson, Annie Lord, Geri Loup Nolan, Deirdre Macleod & Christopher Kaczmarek, Jenny Martin, Jenny Pope, Iman Tajik, Rhona Taylor, David Williams, together with film projection works The Lockdown Diaries and collective photographic work Two Places By the Sea linking Portobello to Akureyri, Iceland.
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Welcome to Portobello
IMAN TAJIK developed a two-year residency project working with Art Walk Projects, beginning in 2020 with a durational performance ‘Where the Body Meets the Land’ on Portobello Beach as part of our socially distanced All At Sea programme. Iman’s own experience of crossing geographical borders fuels much of his practice, with a strong desire to…
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Gatherings
RHONA TAYLOR At the beginning of 2020, the cruise ship industry was hit by a number of Covid-19 outbreaks, and the ships became known as floating petri dishes – hotbeds of Covid transmission among some of the highest-risk people. On February 20, the World Health Organisation announced that more than half the known cases of…
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Present in this Place
GERI LOUP NOLAN Beach work installation “Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole”Derek Walcott During lockdown amid many reflective walks on the beach thinking about the implicit issues of isolation, wellness, containment, creativity, travel, purpose Geri collected…
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Future Value
Deirdre Macleod has a longstanding interest in how cities work and how those who live in cities experience them. Her research as part of this two-year residency explores how gesture-based performance might help tell the story of cities. She starts from the premise that movement-based performance is a form of enquiry which can help make…
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Material Land
Jenny’s two-year residency as part of our Landmark series, explored the material land of Portobello, from the local historic clay-pits to the pollutant substances once produced in the post industrial land across Western Portobello. The different works developed across her residency collectively opened up previously untold stories whilst inviting us to reconsider the work and…