Heritage
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Arcade
In response to Portobello’s seaside era of showground entertainment and travelling showpeople culture, ARCADE explored public spaces in and around Portobello Beach and Promenade as a playground for encounter. A series of performance and installation based works were created featuring circus, acrobatics, dance, theatre, puppetry and film. Works were commissioned by Art Walk Projects for…
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Tasting Stories from the Sea
Le May is leading a series of participatory tasting sessions, discussion events and workshops, underpinned by collaboration with local community groups as well as by the artist’s research into modern salt-production technologies and historic salt industries, including at Portobello, Joppa and Prestonpans. Each event aims to celebrate and interrogate the emotional resonance of food and…
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Decorators of Portobello bookwork: In Their Own Words
The Decorators of Portobello project was a two-year mult-generational oral history project led by artist, Nicky Bird, working closely with Portobello Heritage Trust and a number of decorators who once worked in Buchan Potteries in Portobello during 1950s/60s. The project sought to make visible previously unrecorded social histories for these women, using oral recording and…
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Decorators of Portobello
‘The Decorators of Portobello‘ project was a two-year mult-generational oral history project led by artist, Nicky Bird, working closely with Portobello Heritage Trust and a number of decorators who once worked in Buchan Potteries in Portobello during 1950s/60s. The project sought to make visible previously unrecorded social histories for these women, using oral recording and…
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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…
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Keeping Shop
A series of stories about local shops were hidden in old shop tins displayed around the park with handmade badges, portrait polaroid photos and more as prizes for local young participants. The project was supported by funding from City of Edinburgh Council’s Neighbourhood Fund.
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Carousel
Artist Fiona Hermse worked with members of Portobello Older Peoples’ Project to create a series of mobile, merry-go-round style sculptures based on collected memories of Portobello’s pleasure industry past. The sculptures were carried as part of an accompanying musical parade from members of Brass Blast and Oi Musica, with a massed band finale led by…
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Bandstand Project
Lewisvale Park Musselburgh AS I WALK. I GLIMPSE. I HEAR. The bandstand has long served as the public site for community music occupying many of our public parks and promenades. This project invites us to once again find music as we stroll our public parks, to search out the music we hear, focussing on places…
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ArtRail
Four commissions during 2016 that centred around journey making, the past and present spaces of travel, around Portobello & Joppa, with a series of artworks, installations, book publication, sound & planting works exhibited during 2016. Journey Lines was commissioned by ScotRail’s Cultural Art Fund. Chris Dooks A trilogy of works from artist and researcher, Chris…