Ecology
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Remedy
Working across areas of experimental photo-arts, coastal ecology and medicinal health, Remedy is an exploratory based community project working with a number of participants from Access to Industry. Led by photographer Zoe Hamill, and working in collaboration with herbalists from Herbal Scotland, a series of eight workshops have recently being held in Portobello. Top image…
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Braid Walk
From Mouth to Source: Walking the Braid Burn Watercourse along three adjoining burns: Figgate, Braid, Bonaly What can we learn from walking a watercourse? Between April and August 2023, artist and curator Jonathan Baxter as part of his Craigmillar & Communities Residency led four group walks in collaboration with poet Helen Boden, visual artist Sarah…
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Art Walk Journal 3: Fallow Land
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5 walks, 5 trees, 5 poems
Taking inspiration from signature trees in Craigmillar Castle Park, this series of workshops invited participants to enter more deeply into the life of trees. Through planting, drawing and creative writing, participants developed a deeper understanding of the structures and patterns that inform our relationship with trees, woodlands and the ecologies they entangle. Publication LaunchWe are delighted to announce our…
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Flowering Porty
Across 32 private front gardens, window boxes and community growing spaces, Flowering Porty, brought colour and wildlife to our local streets and communities. Winners now announced, with 312 votes received. First: Garden 14, 36 Marlborough Street Second: Garden 15, 13 Marlborough Street Third: Garden 25, 8A Dalkeith Street Gardeners were invited to create pollinator-rich growing…
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Craigmillar & Communities Walking Residency
‘Walking is about freeing us from our fixity to a standpoint so that we can be more responsive to others and to places in their development.’ (Norman Wirzba) Jonathan Baxter began his residency in 2020 with a year spent walking in Craigmillar and talking with local residents. With an initial research interest in the work…
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Granton Eastern Breakwater Lichen Project
This project focusses around the abundant community of marine lichen species at Granton’s Eastern Breakwater, with the creation of a new walking route from Granton Hub and a lichen guide featured as part of our ‘UnderCurrent’ programme of events at this year’s Art Walk Porty Festival. Scotland is home to >1500 species of lichen, more…
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Field-Studies in Radical Mycography
A series of mycelial workshops and walks led by Myceliart Collective that brought together artists, foragers, gardeners and mycologists to map our social, political, and personal connections with fungi in Edinburgh. Mycography refers to creative processes of documenting fungi. This may encompass techniques such as drawing, recording, or other imaginative methods of rich description. Participants…
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ecollaborate
Over nine weeks participants from Access to Industry (PAGE 2 Group – Photographic Arts Group Empowerment) took part in a series of photo walks collecting plant materials to experiment with different chemical-free photographic processes, aiming to teach new skills, reduce isolation and improve wellbeing for participants. Across the weekly workshops led by Scott Hunter and…
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Crude Floral
Dense with wildflowers, insects, pedestrians and people on bikes who use Seafield for foraging, dog walking, commuting, swimming, running and more, the area has been overlooked for development until recently unlike other parts of the city, possibly because of the stigma and smell attached to the nearby sewage works. McMullan is looking at plants along…
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Quota
Bottom towed fishing vessels are highly destructive to underwater ecologies including living seabed ecosystems which take millennia to form. Physically disruptive of the seafloor and indiscriminately collecting everything in their path, they result in the unintentional catch and loss of non-target marine species and their habitats. Less than 5% of Scotland’s inshore seabed is protected…
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Repel and attract
Inspired by the unexpected presence of tomato seedlings thriving in the water treatment plant at Seafield, Tonya McMullan is currently developing connections between waste, water, ecology and scent. This work also connects to the artist’s love of community gardens, several of which thrive in the areas around Seafield and Portobello and are at the forefront…