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
Matthew Shelley
“ 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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United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
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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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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
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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
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Focus Points
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The Southern Uplands (East to West across the North of the region - continuing right across Scotland) Four rift valleys and their rivers that cut through the Southern Uplands and down across fertile lowlands to the Solway Firth Areas of granite that have forced their way up through the greywacke rock to form some of the area’s distinctive hills.
The topography of Southwest Scotland is dominated by three main features:
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1. Mull of Galloway - earthworks 2. Kirkmadrine - early medieval monuments 3. Cairnerzean Fell - Bronze Age Settlement 4. Whitefield Loch - Crannog 5. Torhouse Stone Circle - Kirkowan 6. Whithorn Priory - Early Christian Centre and School of Sculpture 7. Barsalloch Fort - earthwork 8. Knockman Wood - Neolithic Cairns and Corn Drying Kiln 9. Cairnholy - Neolithic Burial Monument
In 2012, a large part of the westerly Southern Uplands (also taking in parts of South Ayrshire) were granted UNESCO Biosphere Reserve status in recognition of the unique habitats and biodiversity afforded by this terrain.
450 million years ago Scotland and England were different land masses - when these met and fused together the seabed of the ocean that once separated them was scraped and forced upwards – the greywacke rock that forms the Southern Uplands is the material from that seabed. The actual join between the two different geologies runs practically adjacent to today’s political border between Scotland and England.
1. New Luce ‘Nineveh’ - Matt Baker 2. Rosnes Benches - Dalziel and Scullion (in progress) 3. Dark Skies Residency - Jo Hodges and Robbie Coleman 4. Striding Arches - Andy Goldsworthy 5. Star of Caledonia - Cecil Balmond and Charles Jencks (in progress) 6. Penkiln Burn - Bill Drummond 7. Creetown - various works: Hideo Furuta, Iain Cant, Alex Rigg, The Stove (in progress) 8. Cairnsmore / Dromore - Matt Baker and Mary Smith 9. Crawick Artland - Charles Jencks (in progress) 10. Look North - Andy Goldsworthy 11. Shinglehook - Matt Baker 12. Wickerman site - Trevor Leat and Alex Rigg 13. The Ploughshare - Will Levi Marshall 14. 7 Stanes - Gordon Young 15. Galloway Forest Park - Colin Rose, Matt Baker, Doug Cocker, Jim Buchanan and others 16. Grizedale Forest Sculpture 17. Little Sparta - Ian Hamilton-Finlay 18. Garden of Cosmic Speculation - Charles Jencks 19. Glenkiln - Henry Moore, Auguste Rodin, Jacob Epstein 20. Millenium Cairn - Andy Goldsworthy 21. MacDiarmid Memorial Langholm - Jake Harvey 22. Wanlockhead - Buchanan + Varley (in progress)
Contemporary Environmental Art
1. Miss Flora Stuart of Mochrum pioneer Belted Galloway cattle breeder 2. William Nicholson - poet ‘The Brownie of Blednoch’ 3. Gavin Maxwell - author and naturalist, Monreith House 4. John McNellie - author ‘The Wigtown Ploughman’ 5. John McTaggart of Borgue - author ‘The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia’ 6. James Beaumont Neilson Hot Blast Iron Making - monument, Ringford 7. James Clerk Maxwell - physicist, Parton 8. Emerson and Carlyle - poets, stayed at Craigenputtock 9. Robert Burns - poet, Ellisland 10. Old Mortality - sculptor, Dumfries, Newton Stewart, Balmaclennan 11. J. M. Barrie - playwright, Dumfries 12. James Hogg Poet - St. Mary’s Loch / Ettrick Forest 13. Hugh MacDiarmid - poet, Langholm 14. Kirkpatrick McMillan - inventor of the bicycle, Keir Mill 15. Robert Burns - poet, Dumfries
People and Places
10. Trusty’s Hill Fort - Pictish symbol carvings 11. Mote of Urr - earthwork 12. Dunragit - one of the most important Stone Age sites in Scotland 13. Polmaddy - pre 1700 village 14. Lochrinnie Mote and Bailey 15. Sweetheart Abbey 16. High Banks, Kirkcudbright - Cup and Ring marked Stones 17. Caerlaverock Castle 18. Glenluce Abbey 19. Glenlochar Bastle and Fermtoun - Reiving stronghold 20. Ruthwell Cross - earliest Anglo-Saxon inscription 21. Burnswark - Roman Fort and Ballista siege 22. Lochmaben stone - gathering place and marker 23. Mote of Mark - early medieval Fort and Metal Foundry 24. 12 Apostles Stone Circle - Holywood 25. Nith Bridge Cross - Thornhill 26. Promontory Fort - Caspin
1. Stormont Hall, Gretna Green, Dumfries & Galloway, DG16 5EA • Balmond Studio: Star of Caledonia Exhibition (p5) • The Passing (p5) • Artist Talk: Katie Anderson (p5) • EAFS Gathering #1: Debated Land (p4) • Maxwell in Music (p4) • The Archivist (p12) 2. Phone Box in Clarencefield Village Latitude 55.00505 Longitude -3.42246 • Voice from the Phone Box (p5) 3. Barony Forest access from Barony College Car Park, DG1 3NE • Woodland Activities + Wild Food Forage (p11) 4. Portrack House, Holywood, DG2 0RW • Trip to Portrack House (Departing from Dumfries) (p11) 5. Robert Burns Centre Film Theatre, Mill Road, Dumfries DG2 7BE • Film Screenings: Speaking the Land & Breathing Earth (p7) • EAFS Gathering #4: Why Environmental Art? (p11) • The Archivist (p12) 6. Kippford, Village Hall DG5 4LN • Walking the Tide (Meet at the Village Hall) (p10) 7. Red Haven Beach near Auchencairn Latitude 54.84593 Longitude -3.83487 • Solway Sea Monster (p12) 8. Stroan Viaduct, Galloway Forest Park Latitude 55.006031 Longitude -4.117438 • Things that Befell Us in Those Strange Years (p7) 9. Clatteringshaws Dam, Galloway Forest Park Latitude 55.05074 Longitude -4.27789 • Sporopollen (p7) 10. Murrays Monument, Galloway Forest Park Latitude 55.01971 Longitude -4.36440 • The Dark Outside FM (p6) • EAFS Gathering #2: Sound, Nature, Dark Skies (p6) • The Archivist (p12) 11. Cairnsmore of Fleet Visitor Centre, Dromore Farm, Gatehouse of Fleet DG7 2BP • EAFS Gathering #3: The Land and Us (p8) • Dalziel & Scullion: Rosnes Benches Exhibition (p9) • Rosnes Benches Workshop (p9) • Tenger Gazariin Dund (Sky and Earth) (p9) • The Dairy House (p8) • The Archivist (p12) 12. Mill on the Fleet, 65 High St, Gatehouse of Fleet DG7 2HS • Middle Distance & Stewartry Hub Exhibitions (p10) 13. The Bakehouse, 44 High Street, Gatehouse of Fleet DG7 2HP • Place Identity Memory 2 (p10) • An Evening of Poetry and Prose by Kenneth White (p10)
NB - not all these sites are accessible to the public - more details/references are available on the EAFS website.
(see About this Map - over).
1. Salt Pan Bay - smuggling site 2. Loch Ryan - industry and military 3. The Scares Islands - gathering plastic and guano 4. Garlieston - practice site for D-Day Landings 5. Galloway Forest - commercial plantation 6. Ken Valley Hydroelectric Scheme 7. Tongland - Galloway Car factory and hydro power 8. Dundrennan - military zone 9. Polwhat Rig and Gallow Rig - Windfarms 10. Wanlockhead and Leadhills - lead mines 11. Loch Doon - Aerial Gunnery School 1916 12. Clyde Wind Farm - Elvanfoot 13. Corncockle Quarry - historic sandstone quarry 14. Chapel Cross - former nuclear power station 15. Proposed Data Farm - Ecclefechan 16. Open Cast Mining - Crawick 17. Minnygap Wind Farm - Ae 18. Gretna WW1 Munitions Factory 19. Dalbeattie Granite Quarries 20. Creetown Granite Quarries 21. Robin Rigg - offshore wind farm 22. Stevenscroft - Biomass Power Station, Lockerbie 23. Buccleuch Estates - largest private landowner in Britain
Satellite Events 31st Aug - 27th Sept
Core Festival Locations
Core Festival Weekend 30 Aug - 2nd Sept 2013
An overview of some of the cultural factors that shape, and are shaped by the land in D&G
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1. Luce Sands - ancient gathering place 2. Logan Garden - botanical gardens 3. Portpatrick - closest port to Ireland 4. Purgatory Burn - boundary of leper colony, Glenluce Abbey 5. Corsewall - gardens laid out in troop formation of Battle of Corunna 6. St. Ninian’s Cave - shoreline retreat of Scotland’s first saint 7. Wigtown Martyr’s Stake - Covenanting site 8. Dry Stone Walling Association - founded in Fleet Valley 9. Gatehouse of Fleet - planned settlement 10. Anwoth Kirk - ruin and Wicker Man film location 11. Rhonehouse - ancient horse fair 12. Alternative lifestyles - Laurieston, Orchardton, Kilquanity, Wickerman 13. River Doon/River Dee watershed 14. Wigtown - book festival town 15. Kirkcudbright - artists’ colony 16. Sanquhar - Covenantors’ Declarations 17. Devil’s Beef Tub - covenanting and reiving 18. Sources of Clyde, Annan, Tweed - between Elvanfoot and Moffat 19. Lochwood Oaks - ancient woodland 20. Samye Ling - Tibetan Buddhist Monastery 21. Scots Dyke - Scots/English border 22. Durisdeer - Duke of Queensberry tomb, Covenanter graves and Roman Road 23. Knockengorroch - World Ceilidh 24. Red Kite Trail
Satellite Event Locations
Cinema Sark, John Wallace & Prof. Pete Smith (p4) Beneath M74/M6 River Sark Bridge Latitude 54.994822 Longitude -3.052531 The Rise and Fall of Grey Mare’s Tail, James Winnett (p6) Grey Mares Tail, Galloway Forest Park - A712 Latitude 55.01998 Longitude -4.36207 Gimme Shelter, Pat van Boeckel & Karin van der Molen (p8) Old Kirk at Anwoth, Nr Gatehouse of Fleet Latitude 54.880449 Longitude -4.210644 Glimpse, Will Levi Marshall and Donald Urquhart (p11) Barony Agricultural College, Parkgate DG1 3NE Latitude 55.16750 Longitude -3.53050
1. Powfoot Golf Hotel, Annan DG12 5PN • Tidemark (p14) 09/09/2013 2. Langholm Town Hall, Market Place, Langholm DG13 0JQ • Making the Most of Moorlands (p14) 07/09/2013 3. PIPS Orchard, Moffat DG10 9LS • Lets Live Local: TapRoots (p14) 07/09/2013 4. Moffat Gallery, 21 Well Road, Moffat DG10 9AR • Ephemeral and Everlasting (p14) 07-08/09/2013 5. Whithorn Story Centre, Whithorn DG8 8NS • Wigtownshire Shindig (p14) 14/09/2013 • Shire Charabanc (p14) 15/09/2013 • Henge (p14) 14-15/09/2013 6. Whithorn Primary School, Whithorn, DG8 8PN • Whithorn Lecture 2013 (p14) 14/09/2013 7. A’ the Airts, Sanquhar DG4 6BL • Environmental Art - Upper Nithsdale (p15) 21/09/2013 • Film Screenings: (p15) 21/09/2013 8. Whitesands, Dumfries DG1 2RN • The Stove: The Nithraid (p15) 21/09/2103 9. Lochside, Dumfries (see website) • Dumfries Youth Theatre (p15) 22/09/2013 10. Sandhead Beach, Near Glenluce • Dancing in the Sand (p14) 16/09/2013 11. Castle Douglas Town Hall, Castle Douglas DG7 1DB • Lie of the Land (p13) 27/09/2013 12. Dalswinton Village Hall, Nr Auldgirth, Dumfries • Robin Williamson gig (p15) 20/09/2013 13. Summerhill Community Centre, Dumfries DG2 9EF • Summerhill Land Art (p15) 22/09/2013
Featured Project Locations
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