ART WALK develops social practice year-round projects working with artists and local communities engaging with the public realm at Edinburgh’s coastline in and around Portobello & associated neighbourhoods, many of which feed into the annual Art Walk Porty Festival.
Puppetry artist residency at Portobello High School
Gretchen Maynard-Hahn
A new partnership with Portobello High School commissioning an artist-in-residence at the school working with pupils on a puppetry performance.
Arcade
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
Shore Hunt
Rudy Kanhye & Lauren La Rose
Portobello Promenade, by Pipe Lane
A community shore growing space cultivating native oyster leaf plants, developing a stretch of urban scrubland into a thriving habitat
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 …
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
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
A new interdisciplinary walking project centred on lichen at Granton Breakwater, being produced by scientist Toby Mills, in collaboration with artists Frances Lingard, Sam Della-Valle a…
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
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.
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.
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…
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…
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…
