It was never going to be possible to include everything of interest in this fascinating part of Scotland. What we have tried to do is give a sense of the structure and folds of the land and of the uses it has been put to.
The map overleaf attempts to place the festival within the underlying context of Dumfries and Galloway context that informs and is informed by environmental art.
First Foot - Dumfries, the Stove Artist Collective
history & context Steering Group Dr. Valentina Bold, University of Glasgow Mike Bonaventura, Crichton Carbon Centre Hazel Campbell, Spring Fling Rebbecca Coggins, Dumfries & Galloway Council Ed Forrest, Southern Uplands Partnership Linda Mallett, The Stove Paula McDonald, VisitScotland Chris Miles, Scottish Natural Heritage Left:The King and Queen, Henry Moore, Glenkiln
Right: Mobile Shrine, Robbie Coleman and Jo Hodges
Once you have finished with this programme, please pass it on or recycle it. Access EAFS is an outdoor festival where we aim to make the use of natural environment. Due to the very nature of the outdoor, temporary locations of each of the commission sites and a number of the evening activities, these are not all fully accessible. An icon showing wheelchair access will be displayed on the listing for fully accessible sites. Each of the four main commissions and a number of others will be represented though film or photography on the EAFS website to ensure that those who cannot access sites are not disadvantaged.
Our Philosophy and Future
Dumfries & Galloway has a long history and heritage of close cultural connections with the landscape, from ancient rock art to Henry Moore’s groundbreaking modernist sculptures at Glenkiln, and more recent commissions such as Andy Goldsworthy’s Striding Arches. @EAF_Scotland using #EAFS Facebook EAFScotland environmentalartfestivalscotland.com Twitter
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“ The region’s landscape inspired great thinkers and poets throughout history, such as Robert Burns, Hugh MacDiarmid, and Thomas Carlyle”
Right up to date the group ‘Do Not Recusitate’ sees collaborative projects between artists and climate scientists, and the region boasts a UNESCO designated Biosphere Reserve and a national Dark Sky Park.
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Environmental Art Festival Scotland will help emphasise the rationale for a centre and raise the profile of the region as an international home for nurturing environmental art practice.
The region is home to Charles Jencks’ Garden of Cosmic Speculation as well as permanent artworks to visit including Hideo Furuta’s Adamson Square project, Matt Baker’s works at Cairnsmore of Fleet and sculptures in Galloway Forest by a number of artists. Currently the landmark sculpture Star of Caledonia is in development for the border crossing between Scotland and England at Gretna, and Dalziel & Scullion’s sensory artwork Rosnes Bench is under construction for the Biosphere/Dark Skies Park. Artist Assistant Annie Crabtree
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getting here & around Dumfries and Galloway is well served by the railway network with train stations at Lockerbie, Gretna, Annan, Dumfries, Kirkconnel, Sanquhar and Stranraer on routes between London, Manchester, Newcastle, Carlisle, Edinburgh and Glasgow. To find out more about travelling to Dumfries and Galloway by train, bus or ferry visit www.transportdirect.info Getting Around For local public transport information, including journey planning, please contact Traveline Scotland (0871 200 2233, www.travelinescotland.com) or download the Traveline Scotland App on your iPhone or Android phone
For press enquiries, please contact Matthew Shelley: +44 (0)7786 704 299 / MJHShelley@hotmail.co.uk
The following are approximate drive times by road within EAFS locations in Dumfries and Galloway:
Keith Muir, Scottish Forestry Commission
Gretna to Gatehouse of Fleet (1 hr 15 mins) Gatehouse of Fleet to Galloway Forest Park (40 mins) Galloway Forest Park to Barony College (60 mins) Hush, Matt Baker
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Funders
Partners
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Sponsors
Galloway and Southern Ayrshire Biosphere member of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves
Trigony House Hotel House o’Hill Hotel
Based in Dumfries and Galloway, Environmental Art Festival Scotland celebrates the creativity and connections with the landscape which artists have made past and present. We aim to build on this year’s festival to create a biennial Environmental Art Festival which extends local, national and international creative practice, connections, and dialogue.
ABOUT THE MAP
We want the region to become an international test bed for ideas and creative action for building a sustainable relationship with the environment that we all share.
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Design
Working in partnership with Creative Carbon Scotland and the Crichton Carbon Centre, EAFS is measuring and monitoring the social, environmental and economic impacts and benefits of all of its work in order to understand where improvements can be made.
This positive climate for debate and creativity comes from the strong partnerships the arts has with environmental organisations. Scottish Natural Heritage, Forestry Commission Scotland, Crichton Carbon Centre, and Creative Carbon Scotland, value the role of the arts in helping to protect and develop our relationship with the landscape environment. The festival will grow and build on these strong relationships to ensure environmental art has a real role to play in imagining a new and better future.
In the interest of clarity, we have made debatable decisions around inclusion. For example, one of the major shaping forces in this landscape is agriculture - it is conspicuous by its absence from the map - it is simply everywhere.
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Jan Hogarth Leah Black Matt Baker Tonia Lu
To find out more about our programme and updates on anything TBC, please visit our website:
For Dumfries and Galloway, the festival along with other projects and commissions is all part of a bigger vision for the region to become an outdoor studio or lab, welcoming debate and creative engagement between art, science, people and landscape. We want to create an environment which is conducive to profound thinking and experimental practice and has the space to imagine and test new sustainable ways of engaging with life.
Map produced by: Matt Baker and Julian Watson
Festival Team
Environmental Art Festival Scotland is committed to minimising its impact on the environment while maximising social engagement for the economic well-being of the region.
The region has plans for a National Centre for Art and the Environment to create a facility and focus for this work.
Map designed by: Matt Baker, Julian Watson, Annie Crabtree and Tim Bremner With much appreciated assistance from: Valentina Bold, David Borthwick, Janet Butterworth, Tim Clarkson, Duncan Close, David Devereux, Jane Gray, Alyne Jones, David Major, James McClay, Archie McConnel, Morag Patterson, John Picken, Ronald Turnbull and John Wallace.
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4 DAYS 4 THEMES 28 ARTWORKS & EVENTS AND YOU
Environmental Art Festival Scotland is a partnership between Wide Open, Spring Fling and The Stove.
Our Environmental Commitment
Environmental Art Festival Scotland (EAFS) builds on the environmental art development and heritage of Dumfries Galloway region. It will see artists from Scotland and around the world, creating work which has a close connection with the environment and often with environmental issues.
Entry to exhibitions are FREE, some events are ticketed, please refer to the individual event listing.
Image: Kim Ayres
about us
At the heart of the four-day Core Festival Weekend (30 August - 2 September) are four clusters of commissions, exhibitions and performances, in four diverse locations spread across this large and beautiful area of Southwest Scotland. The commissions have been awarded to well-known and emerging artists from home and abroad. All have been specially developed to reflect the 2013 festival theme of Energy and the Land.
Each day will see a particular emphasis put on one of the artworks – making it the focus for a host of other activities and events. These will include talks, dance, performance, live music, a picnic and a ceilidh.
Top: Biosphere Drinking Fountain, Robbie Coleman & Jo Hodges Bottom: Striding Arches, Andy Goldsworthy
how to book
Greener Ways to Get Around We encourage visitors to bring their bicycles and walking shoes and hope to arrange cycle and/or walking tours. Please check our website for updated information closer to the time of the festival. EAFS Bus Timed shuttle bus services are available between events on Saturday 31st August and Sunday 1st of September - look out for the bus icon. Day tickets can be booked via our website: www.environmentalartfestivalscotland.com Car Share goCarShare creates an exciting new and greener way to travel. It connects drivers and passengers heading the same way, so that they can both save money, energy and have fun journeys. Visit goCarShare.com to find others who are coming to EAFS. Where to Stay For an array of accommodation options for your stay during EAFS from hotels to B&Bs to self-catering to campsites visit www.dumfries-and-galloway.co.uk