On display 8th April - 19th April 2026
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In German there is a specific word that describes the feeling of solitude and connection to nature when alone in the forest: Waldeinsamkeit.
It translates loosely to Forestsolitude. I never gave it much thought growing up close to a forest, wandering through it alone was just something that you would do. But now, many moons later, being in nature, alone, is still my favourite way to connect. Even though my art is not the art of words, I often come back to a quote by Ursula K. Le Guin: "I think hard times are coming where we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, who can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine some real grounds for hope. We will need writers who can remember freedom..." The times I'm out getting lost in nature are the times when I remember freedom and hope. With this exhibition, I'm hoping to bring some of that feeling of hope and freedom into people's lives and homes, to share my experience of feeling that we still have a choice. I believe it's important we remember that we can change things, that we are not powerless. We don't have to be swallowed by the high pressure world we live in, or by artificial intelligence or give into the alienation and isolation of contemporary workplaces. We can still choose to connect and choose to listen. So, who sits around your fireplace? Whose stories and voices are you willing to listen to? |
On Display 25th March - 5th April 2026
Risotown was an exhbition celebrating the art or risograph printing run by a group of resident artists at Leith Makers. It was created to showcase over 40 pieces of work made envisioning an imaginary place where things are bright and colourful.
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On Display 11th March - 22nd March 2026
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Maro Hill is a contemporary abstract artist from County Wicklow, Ireland temporarily residing and curating in Edinburgh. His work explores the visual structure of thought and emotion through layered hues and linear brushwork. By building up colour and form, Maro creates compositions surrounding emotional states, gradually evolving into complex, nuanced visual narratives. It’s how he sees his thoughts / inner workings of the mind if visualised.
Maro’s visual language is not to convey a perfect world, but to have a structural fluidity that contains energy and emotion that consults the human condition. COND. CONT’D [Conditions Continued] revisits themes where conditions are conscious. Conditions affect the environment, our mental and physical health. Conditions change, which can derive from ourselves or others. All conditions factor how we think, feel, see, hear. Some conditions are contradictory and metaphorical and other conditions have a sense of subconscious control. Change comes from consciousness. |