Place
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PERIPHERI: tending to corners
During winter through to summer 2021-22, artists Elise Ashby and Stephanie Whitelaw designed and delivered a series of monthly art walks, exploring peripheral sites on the edge of Portobello. The project explored the ecology of place and the potential of growth within unmanaged sites, cultivating a collective approach to caring for damaged spaces within cities.…
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PORT
5 ARTISTS . 5 COASTS . 5 WATERS . 5 SALTS Artist/curator Rosy Naylor invited five artists to come together and share dialogue around their walking habitats at a time when there were geographical limits upon the distances one could walk. Together a project slowly emerged with consideration and care around each of the five…
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Welcome to Portobello
IMAN TAJIK developed a two-year residency project working with Art Walk Projects, beginning in 2020 with a durational performance ‘Where the Body Meets the Land’ on Portobello Beach as part of our socially distanced All At Sea programme. Iman’s own experience of crossing geographical borders fuels much of his practice, with a strong desire to…
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Present in this Place
GERI LOUP NOLAN Beach work installation “Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole”Derek Walcott During lockdown amid many reflective walks on the beach thinking about the implicit issues of isolation, wellness, containment, creativity, travel, purpose Geri collected…
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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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Future Value
Deirdre Macleod has a longstanding interest in how cities work and how those who live in cities experience them. Her research as part of this two-year residency explores how gesture-based performance might help tell the story of cities. She starts from the premise that movement-based performance is a form of enquiry which can help make…
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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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Pier to Pier
Pier to pier is a participatory performance, a meeting of one space that is lost and another which is very much in existence. In this case it is the melding of the circumference of Portobello pier (in the form of 129 Metres of elastic chord) which once stood on this site, and the walking of the…
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Festoon
Created by artist Deirdre Macleod, Festoon invited participants to walk slowly in a line, carrying portable lighted frames around the darker spaces of Portobello during the 2018 Art Walk Porty Pleasure Ground programme – spaces that can be lost after dark, to create a walking illumination. Festoon involved two performative walks around Portobello involving the…
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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…