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
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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
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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
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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
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New Decorators of Portobello Bannerwork installed at kilns
We recently worked with artist Nicky Bird, to create this collaborative bannerwork
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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