A landscape that shows Grangemouth consumed by the wilderness in a future when Scotland no longer relies on fossil fuels. My new body of work explores abandonment, in the same way that ancient Mayan settlements were eventually reclaimed by the rainforest, and the deindustrialisation that caused Detroit’s urban decay, only in a Northern setting.
Hey peeps, its Stockfest next week, and we have an exhibition at an award winning contemporary architect’s studio in Stockbridge.
10 Deanhaugh Street,
Edinburgh, EH4 1LY.
http://www.davidblaikiearchitects.com/
exhibition extended until 22/3/2014
by JW Steel
“The Goodliest House” in Edinburgh’s Old Town has a wonderful, colourful history, although its original owner, Baillie John McMorran, met an untimely death when he was shot dead by 15 year old William Sinclair in a riot.
The gentleman’s mansion originally came w gardens whose footprint encompassed the area we now know as Victoria Street and Terrace.
Hidden behind the irregular and characterful facade, the rooms flow magnificently, revealing rare and beautiful features. The green dining room’s ceiling, as well as telling the building’s narrative, depicts many leaves, plants, and flowers. A Patrick Geddes quote solves the mystery “This is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and all dependent on the leaves. By leaves we live. Some people have strange ideas that they live by money. They think energy is generated by the circulation of coins. Wheras the world is a vast leaf colony… and we live not by the jingling of our coins, but by the fullness of our harvests.”
Riddle’s Court is a unique building, it’s survival remarkable. Today it stands at a crossroads – the SHBT have taken a long lease to try and secure it’s future.
Riddle’s Court
322 Lawnmarket
Edinburgh EH1 2PQ
Opening Times : Thursdays, 2-4pm
Free admission.
SHBT http://www.shbt.org.uk//index.php?cID=151
Print available to buy in the Geddes Room.
40% will be donated to the SHBT’s fundraising
.. an eastwards extension known as Burt’s Close ran towards Candlemaker’s Row. Jimmy has reintroduced this forgotten Close giving it a mixed media rework w signature cosmic skies.
The Garret, Stockbridge 2004 – 2013
Huddled up on a cold rockface for company and warmth, these penguins r collectively known as a ‘parcel’.
Introducing the third collaboration between artists Jimmy Steel and Cassandra Harrison.
The geometry and pattern stem from the stripped down, interlocking architectural forms that characterize the Art Deco buildings dotted around Edinburgh.
Golden Hare, 102 West Bow, Edinburgh EH1.
December ’12 – January ’13
Free Admission
Lothian House by Jimmy Steel
We bring word about a future event that you can see in Edinburgh’s Old Town, a new collaborative body of work showcasing Edinburgh’s Art Deco cinemas and other gems. The opening party drops late November, then doors 10am-6pm, most days. We will direct you to the Gallery’s wall in good time. Laters taters!
Dec ’12 – Jan ’13 / Free Admission.
