Waste
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Art Walk Journal 2: Vessel
VESSEL connects Portobello’s coastal ecologies with global questions relating to water, fracture and care in response to the climate crisis. Embracing a wide range of subjects, including collective consumption, climate-induced migration, aridity and drought, tourism, waste processing and more, the nine artists and contributors, working across a range of geographies (including one international digital residency)…
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Stool to Stool
By connecting Portobello’s industrial past sanitary ware manufacturing with the present-day wastewater treatment plant in Seafield, MURRAY MORRANT takes a playful approach to expose the hidden infrastructures that supports our daily lives and envisions the possible future trajectory that lie ahead. Through collective casting workshops on the beach in Portobello to produce transient vessels, and…
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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…