Upcoming
The Tenth Art Walk Porty Festival ‘ShowGround’
4 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.
Working in partnership with Nobles Amusements we create ARCADE, a series of commissions, together with a programme of residencies, and our regular Art Houses strand supporting in region of 40 local artists. Full programme announcement due in early August.
Fallow Land Exhibition
at mote102 Leith
9-16 May 2025
Opening Thu 8 May, 6-8pm – All Welcome
Alongside zine publication launch: Journal 3
This exhibition brings together work created through our winter residencies programme featuring artists Henna Asikainen, Rudy Kanhye & Lauren La Rose, 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.
Image: James Wyness
5 walks, 5 trees, 5 poems – Part Two
facilitated by Jonathan Baxter
28 April to 26 May 2025
Our ‘5 walks, 5 trees, 5 poems‘ project continues with a series of drawing, poetry and speculative fiction workshops with artists/writers Sarah Gittins, Helen Boden and Sandy Bennett-Haber
Past Exhibitions
Exhibition & Conference
27 Feb to 28 March 2025
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
2024 Art Walk Porty Festival – UnderCurrent