‘…No Better Than Its Woods’ at Patriothall Gallery

“This great society is going to smash;
They cannot fool us with how fast they go,
How much they cost each other and the gods.
A culture is no better than its woods.”

– from ‘Woods’, W.H. Auden

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This exhibition brought together work by current MA/MFA students on the Art Space and Nature programme at Edinburgh College of Art following recent fieldwork in the Black Wood of Rannoch, one of the few remaining areas of ancient Caledonian forest in Scotland.

Olivia Tutton

Chrissy Hughes

Russell Beard

Will Urmston

Teddy Hunter

Alex Hackett

Photographs : Alex Hackett

Upcoming One Day Solo Shows in Tent

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Development : An Exhibition by Robert Davies

This Friday 29 January at Tent Gallery, Robert Davies exhibits photographs from his photo essay on Edinburgh’s coastal communities.

‘I set out to record the changing coastline of a city, and found a landscape in limbo, of stalled developments that had little connection to history and community – a landscape of unfinished visions of its future’.

From Robert Davies photo essay of Edinburgh’s coastal communities, Granton, Newhaven and Leith in Volume 2 of The Evergreen: A New Season in the North.

The photo essay is included in the second volume of The Evergreen, amongst fiction, poetry, art and essays, recently relaunched for the first time in 120 years.

The exhibition is open 5-7pm Friday 29 January 2016, at Tent Gallery, Evolution House.

The Blue of the Distance in TENT – Photo Recap

Art, Space & Nature student Flavia Salvador capped of the last of the MFA solo exhibitions in TENT Gallery with her interactive installation work The Blue of the Distance.

The concept of the show is “Similar to the sandplay therapy method” says Flavia, “creating a landscape within a sandbox and a range of objects that I’ve collected from natural environments since I’ve moved to Scotland.”

The last chance to see the show is today (Saturday) from 11am – 5pm.