Venue 6 (Art in Shops)
Wooton Pharmacy, 168 Portobello High Street
Open: 7/8 and 14/15 September
Filter Feeders A window installation that explores marine life through the language of bioluminescence. Invisible during the day, bioluminescent surface
plankton gives breath-taking, timeless, otherworldly glimpse of the real ocean life.
In 2022 Morag sailed across the Atlantic and across the Equator. She witnessed, and surrendered to the waves as an artist, as a sailor, and as a scientist, as well as a swimmer.
Filter Feeders is a fragmented snapshot of the nocturnal ocean across 100 painted squares of bioluminescence.
Morag Edward is a marine artist, postgrad researcher, disability access & inclusion campaigner, sea cadet instructor, and writer. Mo was crippled by the onset of a lifethreatening illness in undergraduate years, and since then lives an unreal life of relapse and remissions. She is happiest in, on, under or at the very least next to the sea, and whenever it is physically possible, she disappears over the horizon. Mo’s home waters are the Firth of Forth.
Recent Exhibitions:
2023:
Land-based residency at penguin colonies in the orca and right whale breeding grounds.
100 Days Project: handmade miniature books from discarded scraps and beach rubbish.
2022:
Fusion: Art meets Science, group exhibition. Anatomical Museum, University of Edinburgh.
Artist Afloat, two month expedition to Patagonia on a Dutch sailing ship.
Outdoor and indoor group exhibitions in Patagonia.
2021:
Commissioned artist for Gorgie Art Collective’s lockdown outreach.
Forthline Project Group Exhibition, Botanical Gardens Edinburgh.
Edinburgh Art Shop’s Guest Artist no.51
2020:
Artist in Residence on board Maverick: Irish Sea, RSPB Rathlin Island, and Scottish Western Isles for two months during the autumn bird migrations. Exhibition Online.
Commissioned artist for Forth Rivers Trust lockdown outreach.
Instagram: @mo_sea_edward
Contact: morag.edward@gmail.com
