Diary

Exhibition & Conference

DELUGE – Exhibition at Art Gene, Barrow-in-Furness
Artists: Linde Ex, Dana Olarescu, Oscar Van Heek
with writing commissioned from Tom Jeffreys
Fri 28 February to Fri 28 March 2025,
Opening: Thu 27 February 6.30-9pm

DELUGE – A conversation and community conference
that concludes two years of research and work focused around the Deluge project, featuring a series of conversations and presentations from artists, ecologists and salt marsh experts
Fri 28 February 2025, 1-5pm at Art Gene, Barrow-in-Furness

BOOK HERE

Art Walks Jedburgh

Artist James Wyness, one of our current Fallow Land project resident artists, is leading a series of Art Walks exploring the farming hinterland around Jedburgh.

#1 LAND Sunday 26 January
#2 WORD Sunday 23 February
#3 LIGHT Sunday 23 March
#4 SOUND Sunday 27 April

Free to book. Contact James for more info at jimmy1@wyness.myzen.co.uk

New Coastal Garden – Volunteers Meeting

with Rudy Kanhye & Rosy Naylor

Fri 14th March 3-4pm

We’d love to invite local volunteers along to help start to plan out the creation of a new coastal seaside garden by Portobello Prom. The garden forms part of our ongoing Fallow Land project and is looking to plant oyster leaf and a number of shoreline species such as sea kale, sea pea, sea rocket and more. Free refreshments, exact venue tbc soon.

Email Rosy if you’re interested in coming along.

Tree Planting at Craigmillar Castle Park

with Jonathan Baxter

Fri 28th March 1-4pm

Our ‘5 walks, 5 trees, 5 poems‘ project continues with a tree planting afternoon at Craigmillar Castle Park to plant 100 oaks from collected Craigmillar acorns and a selection of native broadleaf trees donated by Woodland Trust Scotland. No need to book.

Fallow Land Exhibition
at mote102 Leith

9-16 May 2025
Opening Thu 8 May, 6-8pm

This exhibition will bring together work created through four research residencies working with artists Henna Asikainen, Rudy Kanhye, Hanna Paniutsich and James Wyness.

Fallow Land centres around subjects of farming land, agricultural waste, land ownership and migration linking historical agricultural and arable land around Portobello & Craigentinny, to current farmlands around Jedburgh, Scottish Borders, alongside questions of marine health, ecological change, safe haven and displacement.

Upcoming

The Tenth Art Walk Porty Festival ‘ShowGround’

6 to 14 September 2024

Our 2025 theme of ‘ShowGround’, celebrates our tenth year with an emphasis on performance, variety entertainment and play in response to Porty’s showground era.

Open calls for a series of artist commissions and Art in Shop strands will be open during April.