This new round of residencies will investigate care through an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas that seeks to improve the health of place through times of uncertainty for coastal communities. Lived experience of care work and chronic illness underpins the programme with artists considering environmental care through the lens of illness and notions of the curable. How do we care for our fragile coastal futures, to address challenges for coastal communities? Through a process of slow care, of tending to, each artist will respond to the locality of Edinburgh’s coast, focussed on areas around Portobello & Seafield.

The programme will provide valuable, supported slow time for four artists to develop work within. Each artist’s project will consist of a research-based process, furthering their practice developed across the duration of the residency, whilst involving a participatory or collaborative element engaging local communities.

Project outcomes will centre around our new FORECAST environmental arts festival (May 2027) with a series of events introducing their projects taking place in autumn 2026.

About the artists:

KATHERINE FAY ALLAN (she/her) is a disabled interdisciplinary artist. Her practice grows from her lived experiences of illness to produce artworks that discuss the wider politics of societal and ecological health. With strong influences from science-fiction, and folkloric mythology, her artworks materialise within a distinctive visual language she calls  ‘Future Folklore’. She has recently exhibited work at Collective Gallery, Edinburgh; LifeSpace Gallery, Dundee; with commissions at Hospitalfield, Arbroath.

SAOIRSE AMIRA ANIS (she/they) works across sculpture, performance, photography, film, writing and drawing with a practice that prioritises radical care, informality and empathy. Her work is informed by Black queer literature, her personal ancestry, and her own body as it moves through the world. Saoirse incorporates bodily knowledge and care into each facet of their work, considering the ways in which the body holds ancestral and lived memories. Recent work includes symphony for a fraying body at Dundee Contemporary Arts, breach of a fraying body for Art Night Dundee, and exhibitions at Cample Line, Edinburgh Art Festival and TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, Ireland. 

JULIANA CAPES (she/her)  is a multi disciplinary visual artist with a diverse practice working across sculptural and installation, sound and moving image, description and participation. Her artworks often use the vocabulary of natural phenomena to consider the processes of feeling, seeing and believing. Her poetic descriptive moving image work considers access as an instigating factor, building on her 20 years experience working with Visual Impaired  audiences in Scotland as an Audio describer . She has recently shown work at Jupiter Artland, Sett studios, Hidden Door and CCA, Glasgow.

MAYA ROSE EDWARDS (they/them) combines research, collaboration and site responsive approaches in their practice to explore how landscapes carry histories, identities and shared cultural knowledge. They have developed a reputation for producing ambitious public artworks that focus on the politics of place, forgotten cultures and acts of landmarking through sculptural installation. Maya has shown work in the 13th & 14th edition of Sculpture in the City, London, was awarded the socially-engaged artist residency at Mount Stuart on the Isle of Bute, recently completed an inaugural commission for Hay Castle with Meadow Arts, and is currently working on a three-year commission along Stranraer’s abandoned waterfront.

Supported with thanks to Creative Scotland’s Multi Year Fund.

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Vira Putri’s work draws upon jamu, the Indonesian traditional healing practice which the artist likens to cooking. The vessel itself contains Beras kencur, a jamu tonic made with rice, lesser galangal and water. It is used to cure fatigue and rheumatic symptoms, which not only speaks to the collective fatigue of humanity, but also to the strained resources that our non-symbiotic societies have cultivated.

Vira led two jamu-making workshops inviting participants to join in with making kunyit asem, a general tonic comprised of turmeric, tamarind, and palm sugar used to ease inflammation and increase overall immunity.

Images: Christopher Counihan

Images: Ellie J McMaster

Vira Putri is an interdisciplinary artist based in Edinburgh. She investigates the cultural significance of ingredients through the traditional Indonesian practice of jamu. Exploring the ritualistic movements within domestic spaces, she hopes to blur the lines between the kitchen and the artist’s studio, leading her to question the prescriptive authority of (that) a recipe (has over ingredients as individual objects) as an inherited form of knowledge. Putri’s practice resituates the ingredient as a curative entity.

Past works include In Dialogue: Visual Recipes, shown at Tenderfoot, Edinburgh Palette (2021); She is My Vessel I am Hers, an expanded painting installation at Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) (2021); and Vitamin T at MAFAF*CKERS, ECA (2020). Putri also has a supperclub with Dienu Prihartadi called studio roedjak that hosts intimate dinners of curated Indonesian dishes.

LIST OF WORKS

September 2023 during Art Walk Porty:
VESSEL Group Exhibition, Art Walk Hub Portobello
Jamu Making Workshops, Portobello Promenade & Art Walk Hub

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