Art Walk Projects develops social practice year-round projects and residencies working with artists and local communities engaging with the public realm at Edinburgh’s coast in and around Portobello & associated neighbourhoods.
Remedy
Zoe Hamill & Herbal Scotland
Ecology Medicinal Seed Spring Cluster 26
A Medicinal Photo-Arts Community Project with Access to Industry culminating in the creation of a new Portobello Seed Share project and small publication as part of our Spring Cluster e…
Arcade
Circus arts Heritage Puppetry ShowGround Theatre
The ARCADE commissions created in partnership with Nobles Amusements focussed around a series of performance based works delivered for the 2025 Art Walk Porty Festival
Tide & Seek
Edinburgh College of Art (Third year students)
An afternoon of diverse installations displayed across the beach, playing on the theme of Art Walk Porty's ShowGround programme, created by third year Edinburgh College of Art students….
The Portobello Moonlight Revue! with Gretchen Maynard-Hahn and Portobello High School
Gretchen Maynard-Hahn
Puppetry ShowGround Spring Cluster 26
A new partnership with Portobello High School commissioning an artist-in-residence at the school working with pupils to create a multi-arts puppetry parade as part of our March Spring C…
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 which spread across North Ea…
Shore Hunt
Rudy Kanhye & Lauren La Rose
A community shore growing space cultivating native oyster leaf plants, developing a stretch of urban scrubland
5 walks, 5 trees, 5 poems
Jonathan Baxter
A project that began in 2024 with a number of walks deepening our relationship with the natural world through mindful walking, drawing, poetry and conversation with time spent in the co…
Fallow Land
Henna Asikainen, Rudy Kanhye & Lauren La Rose, Hanna Paniutsich, James Wyness
Agriculture Planting Soil health UnderCurrent
A winter residency programme centring on subjects of farming land, soil health and contamination, land ownership and displacement linking historical agricultural land around Portobello …
Flowering Porty
Portobello & Joppa
32 growing spaces participated in our first ever front gardens festival as part of Art Walk Porty celebrating wildlife and pollination across our local neighbourhood of Portobello & Jop…
Deluge
Linde Ex, Dana Olărescu & Oscar Van Heek
Coastal futures Deluge Saltmarsh
Begun in 2022, Art Walk Projects invited three artists to collaborate on a project that would link three saltmarsh locations: in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria; East Lothian, Scotland; and …
Thrift: Climate Conversations
Portobello
Community engagement programme during 2024 Art Walk Porty around access to healthy local food and coastal health
Craigmillar & Communities Walking Residency
Jonathan Baxter
Working with communities in Craigmillar and surrounding areas to explore a range of approaches that embed an ecological way of thinking about Craigmillar’s past, present and future thro…
COAST-R
New resilient coastal communities and seas network announced to generate knowledge, action and resilience for UK coastal communities and seas
Granton Eastern Breakwater Lichen Project
Scientist Toby Mills, in collaboration with artists Frances Lingard, Sam Della-Valle and Finn Rabbitt Dove
An interdisciplinary walking project centring on lichen at Granton Breakwater, produced by scientist Toby Mills, in collaboration with artists Frances Lingard, Sam Della-Valle and Finn …
Field-Studies in Radical Mycography
Myceliart Collective
As part of our ongoing Climate Cafe 'In Hand with the Land' series we delve into the world of medicinal fungi
ecollaborate
Scott Hunter & Keira Tucker
A collaborative art/science project working with participants from Access to Industry led by artist Scott Hunter and scientist Keira Tucker (Ascus Art Science Lab)
Measuring Time through the Fall of Water
Huniti Goldox
An immersive video installation from artist collective HUNITI GOLDOX (Areej Huniti & Eliza Goldox) – Jordan/Germany
Stool to Stool
Murray Morrant
Murray’s ongoing exploration of the built environment and subterranean infrastructure landscapes examines the intricate relationship between the individual and the collective, and its i…
Tired Water
Vira Putri
Vira Putri’s work draws upon jamu, the Indonesian traditional healing practice which the artist likens to cooking, used to cure fatigue and rheumatic symptoms
Slow Coast 500
Claudia Zeiske
Claudia Zeiske’s Slow Coast 500 is a long-distance walk from Dunnet Head to Berwick-upon-Tweed along the entire coast of the North Sea in Scotland.
Repel and attract
Tonya McMullan
Developing connections between waste, water, ecology and scent, Tonya McMullan explores the growth of tomato plants
Wing Cradle
Henna Asikainen
Weaving together myths and politics with ecological concerns, Wing Cradle connects the migration of birds with testimonies relating to lived experiences of human migration.
Braid Walk
Jonathan Baxter, Helen Boden, Sarah Gittins, James Spence
From Mouth to Source: Walking the Braid Burn Watercourse Walking from mouth to source along three adjoining burns: Figgate, Braid and Bonaly, these walks take their inspiration from…
The School of Pedestrian Culture
Lucas Priest
A residency project as part of our Climate Cafe programme providing an expanded walking forum featuring contributions from artists Iman Tajik and Johanna Koen
Buoyancy in unprecedented times
Jenny Pope
Jenny Pope is linking early innovations in maritime travel with today’s climate crisis in order to address questions of collective anxiety and resilience.
Crude Floral
Tonya McMullan
Tonya McMullan has been looking at future plans for the stretch of coast along the Seafield promenade and considering them alongside our need to adapt proactively to radical environment…
ENDLESS/BELLY
Natasha Thembiso Ruwona
Curatorial residency with commissioned artists Tanatsei Gambura, Khadea Santi, Lisa Williams and film programme
Tasting Stories from the Sea
Mahala Le May
By focusing on the production of salt and its use in food, especially as a means of preservation, Mahala le May is connecting the Forth coastal area of Scotland to global questions rela…
I looked out and saw plumes of salty air
Joanne Matthews
Starting from Joppa Salt Pans, a former site of fossil-fuel-powered salt production, Joanne Matthews is exploring connections between capitalism, rising sea levels and over-salination.
PERIPHERI: tending to corners
Elise Ashby & Stephanie Whitelaw
Artists Elise Ashby and Stephanie Whitelaw developed a participatory walking project, that explored the ecology of place and the potential of growth within unmanaged sites on the edge o…
PORT
Henna Asikainen, Louise Barrington, Rosy Naylor, Elspeth Penfold, Stephanie Whitelaw
Connecting together five coastal areas around the UK (Swalecliffe, Kent; Holy Island, Northumbria; Scapa Flow, Orkney; Seafield, Edinburgh; Musselburgh Lagoons, East Lothian) the PORT p…
Welcome to Portobello
Iman Tajik
All At Sea Assemble Migration Place
A two-year residency project with Iranian artist Iman Tajik exploring issues around migration such as freedom of movement, borders and displacement with a series of interventions and in…
Gatherings
Rhona Taylor
An installation in response to the safe haven provided to four cruise ships in the Forth during the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic
Present in this Place
Geri Loup Nolan
During lockdown amid many reflective walks on the beach thinking about the implicit issues of isolation, wellness, containment, creativity, travel, purpose Geri collected 2,020 fragment…
Decorators of Portobello
Nicky Bird
Assemble Heritage Landmark Place
A two-year mult-generational oral history project working closely with Portobello Heritage Trust and a number of decorators who once worked in Buchan Potteries in Portobello during 1950…
Walksy Walking App
Art Walk
'Walksy.' (or Walk & See) offers a creative way to record our outdoors whilst we walk.
Future Value
Deirdre Macleod
All At Sea Assemble Landmark Place
Deirdre Macleod explores how gesture-based performance might help tell the story of cities with this two-year residency as part of our Landmark series.
Material Land
Jenny Pope
All At Sea Assemble Heritage Landmark Place
Artist Jenny Pope led a research based residency from 2019-21 exploring the working conditions and materials used in many of Portobello's industries. Three installations were produced d…
Keeping Shop
Fiona Hermse
An event based project held in Rosefield Park styled around a treasure hunt celebrating many of the old high street shops of Portobello, and the Victorian Splash events which once took …
Carousel
Fiona Hermse, Oi Musica and Portobello Older Peoples' Project
Heritage Place Pleasure Ground
Merry-go-round style sculptures and a musical parade along Portobello Prom involving collected memories of Porty's pleasure industries
Pier to Pier
Greig Burgoyne
Invited artist Greig Burgoyne (Hastings, East Sussex) linked together the pier spaces of Hastings pier with the site of Portobello pier with a series of performative walking based event…
Festoon
Deirdre Macleod
A walk inspired by historical fairground illuminations and exploring our experience of urban darkness
Bandstand Project
Ross Whyte
Heritage Place Pleasure Ground Soundart
8 bandstand soundspaces across Edinburgh & Musselburgh with immersive sound app performances & exhibition.
Inside Lane
Jacqueline Donachie, Nathalie Holbrook, Deirdre Macleod, Rosy Naylor, City of Play
An art engagement project working with Sustrans and East Dunbartonshire Council to draw together public opinion relating to the developing of local public spaces in the centre of Lenzie…
