Tag Archives: environment

Walker & Bromwich

27 March 2025

Glasgow-based duo Walker & Bromwich work with communities or organisations to explore matters surrounding local and global issues. What’s exciting is that they create a collective journey within communities in a festival-like environment to tackle concerns. From unique giant inflatables with titles like Serpent of Capitalism, to totems that manifest positive and negative forces, their work can encapsulate humour, be sombre but always evoke hope.

We have the opportunity to explore the exhibition with Talbot Rice’s Curator James Clegg. The work of Walker & Bromwich will take us on a journey from the working-class communities of Wales to environmental scholars and Indigenous representatives for the Colombian Amazon with a stop off with anarchists in Denmark.

NOW: Katie Paterson, Darren Almond, Shona Macnaughton and Lucy Raven

31 October 2019

This month we will be heading to the Gallery of Modern Art for the sixth and final instalment in their series of NOW exhibitions. The exhibition will focus on the work of Glasgow-born artist Katie Paterson (b.1981). A graduate of Edinburgh College of Art and Slade School of Art, London, Paterson’s work is developed through long periods of research and collaboration with specialists in scientific and other fields from around the world, creating intimate, poetic works that connect people with the environment around them.

The first major showing of Paterson’s work in a public institution in Scotland, the exhibition will explore key themes to her work such as deep time and the cosmos. The exhibition will feature the installation work Totality (2016), a large-scale mirror ball created from almost all known images of solar eclipses captured by humankind, and Light Bulb to Simulate Moonlight (2008), held in National Galleries of Scotland’s collection.

NOW also features work by Darren Almond, Shona Macnaughton and Lucy Raven. The artists’ work shares thematic ties with that of Paterson’s and will be shown within the surrounding gallery spaces.

Joining us to discuss Paterson’s work is Professor Andrew Patrizio from the University of Edinburgh. Andrew specialises in contemporary art exploring Scottish art since 1945 and on art, ecology and the environment.

Nàdar/Prakriti by Ravi Agarwal

27 September 2018

In our September session, we will be exploring the work of Indian artist, Ravi Agarwal, whose work is currently on show at Edinburgh Printmakers.

Ravi Agarwal is an artist, environmental activist, writer and curator and has shown work across the world, collaborating with artists on a variety of ecologically focused art projects. His practice looks into contemporary questions around ecology, society, urban space and capital.

For his first solo show in the UK, Ravi presents Nàdar / Prakriti a body of work including prints, photography and film, created as part of a research residency in the Scottish Highlands in the summer of 2017. Looking at the Scottish landscape from his unique perspective, Ravi draws parallels between eco systems and landscape management in India and Scotland. The work reflects on the human impact on nature and how different types of pressures are managed. The result is a thoughtful portrait of Scotland, and includes new prints commissioned and published by Edinburgh Printmakers.

With Edinburgh Printmakers moving into their new location in 2019, this is a great opportunity for Spin to visit before the move and hear all about plans for the future.


WASPS Artists’ Studios Visit: Louise Fraser, Jenny Pope and Carrie Fertig

25 May 2017

This month, we will be visiting three artists who each have a studio at WASPS on Albion Road. Artists include Louise Fraser, Jenny Pope and Carrie Fertig.

Louise Fraser’s practice incorporates drawing, printmaking and sculpture and is a response to the environment she inhabits. Her work draws people’s attention to the space they are in, the space they consume and the space they leave their imprint on.

Jenny Pope creates sculptural pieces inspired by beach-combing, collecting, bone structures and geology working with a range of materials including porcelain, limecrete and found materials. Through her work she explores the changes that happen in our internal lives and externally in the natural environment. Recently, Jenny has been working within a hospital, creating large drawings and wearable sculptures which explore personal space.

Carrie Fertig uses borosilicate glass as the main material in her practice of performance, film, installation, sound and sculpture. From the 20 May-2 July 2017, she will be exhibiting as part of Summa at the Royal Scottish Academy with an installation, sound and performance based on the physical, social and metaphysical events of death. The work she will be showing us concentrates on sound, including work from her group Torcher Chamber Arkestra, which features live music, fire, and digital manipulation of sound on glass instruments that she designs, makes, and repurposes.

This is a great opportunity to meet artists living and working in Edinburgh and to find out more about their working methods and approaches to their art-making

Studio Visit: Donald Urquhart

30 April 2006 at 6pm

WASPS Studios at Patriothall in Stockbridge open their doors again to Spin: Edinburgh, following on from an enlightening visit in September 2005.

Donald Urquhart is one of Edinburgh’s treasures within Scottish contemporary art. Whilst he is principally a painter, exhibiting internationally, his practice also involves working with architectural space and permanent outdoor installations. Recent projects include the collaboration, An Turas on Tiree, which was shortlisted for the Stirling Prize for Architecture and The Sanctuary at Edinburgh’s Royal Infirmary, which won the Best Building for Public Use Prize at the Scottish Design Awards last year. Donald has completed numerous residencies including one at Grizedale Sculpture Forest and another at the Irish Museum of Modern Art.

This Spin night will be a journey, from polished granite on the east bank of the Tay in Perth, to volcanic landscapes as far away as Iceland, as we will explore Donald’s perceptions of environments and how they enthuse our way of seeing.