Wednesday 20 July 2011
EMERGENCE Exhibition
EMERGENCE : Exhibition of work from the Sculpture Courses run at the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop. These include stone, metal, wood and paper workshops.
Steep Trail : Eco Lab continued...
After the walking tour to the John Muir Grove and back, a series of presentations was held by the various artists involved. What follows is a summary of sorts...
Liz Adamson from Polarcap on the life and work of John Muir, and on Polarcap's activities, including a Scotland China Artists exchange. More information available on http://www.polarcap.org.uk.
Getting people to travel to art, and in doing so traveling to somewhere beautiful.
Seeing what it is that's out there, and bringing it back.
Shanghai 1990
Shanghai 2010
"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread" - John Muir
Casper David Friedrich
The Sublime
Tourism in Antarctica
Natalie Taylor's interest in working with the natural environment stems from a love of nature generally, but more specifically in spending time observing seeds, tubers, bulbs and nuts germinating and growing into plants and trees. She is fascinated by this fundamental process occurring, most usually unobserved, silent, and unrecorded. Her desire to communicate this process and its relevance to modern man has informed a large body of work of 'living sculpture', that is, living plants used as a sculptural material.To document these sculptures, she also creates time-lapse films, botanical studies, and installations. As a freelance artist living and working in Scotland, she undertakes commissions, public art projects, education projects, and residencies.
Emily Dodd
Volunteer for Greener Leith and writer amongst other things.
Rocca Gutteridge
Wednesday 6 July 2011
Steep Trail : Eco Lab
Saturday July 2nd
To be continued....
As part of the two year long Steep Trail project, Polarcap held an Eco Lab event, beginning and ending at the Edinburgh Sculpture workshop. This was essentially a gathering of artists and scientists who's interests and work lies in environmental issues coming together to discuss various causes, with the life and work of John Muir as a central topic.
The day began with a discussion and tour from the workshop to the John Muir Grove at the Botanic Gardens, led and curated by Rocca Gutteridge.
To be continued....
Courses in Sculpture : Wood Carving
Final week of an 8 week evening class in wood carving.
The work of artists participating in the evening classes will be shown in the EMERGENCE exhibition on the 8th and 9th of July at ESW.
More information on evening and weekend classes available here.
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