News

Summer Term

29 June 2010

Loretto Sculpture Day

We visited Loretto school to take part in their sculpture focus day. Nicky Wilson gave a lecture on the formation of Jupiter Artland and afterwards there was an interesting Q and A where careers in art were discussed. We also saw an installation by one of their A level students inspired by Andy  Goldsworthy’s work at Jupiter.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

                   
Ardvrek visit
A group of children travelled from Perthshire to Jupiter for their first taste of outdoor sculpture. They were a very enthusiastic group and did some wonderful sketches of the Jencks life mounds.
 
Where the wild things are
Fiona Houston and Xa Milne led an excellent foraging workshop. The group searched the Artland for edible wild food and tasted delicious nettle cordial made from Jupiter nettles and orange, almond and sweet cicely that had been gathered from the woods.
 
Jupiter Artland Prize
A residency has been awarded to Henry Castle a BA graduate from the Wimbledon College of Art. We travelled to Chelsea College of Art to interview a shortlist of candidates and were very impressed with Henry’s work which investigates buried objects and reveals past stories through unearthed objects. The award has been given by the Jupiter Artland Foundation as part of the University of the Arts London’s Shaping Sculpture year 2010.
 
Jovian Day
A keen group of children came from Cargilfield for literary inspiration at Jupiter. Using Peter Liversidge’s proposal to write stories about an imagined group of people who lived on the land that now forms Jupiter Artland we made word sketches of the Jovians and some very imaginative beginnings to the Jovian stories were hatched. We hope to publish some of the stories on the website when they are finished.
 
 
Wester Coats Nursery visit
A beautiful day welcomed Wester Coats to Jupiter for an outdoor workshop creating dreamcatchers based on Shane Waltener’s “Over Here” sculpture. The enthusiastic group worked in the wild flower meadow next to the Quinn orchid and gathered wool, feathers and flowers to adorn their dreamcatchers.
 
 
     
 
Inverkeithing High School
The Jupiter Artland works of Andy Goldsworthy and Antony Gormley inspired a discussion on different forms of contemporary sculpture for this workshop. The group toured the Artland and then created work in response to the artists permanent works here.
“the best thing about the trip to Jupiter Artland was the workshop. We experienced how real artists work and the processes of making an amazing masterpiece.”
Beth McWhinnie, Inverkeithing High School
“I loved how the trip was all outside as we are so used to being in the classroom...... It was fun and different, it was fresh and clean and celebrated everything to do with nature and our world.”
Lauren McLaren, Inverkeithing High School.
 
Wallace High School, Stirlingshire
A group of young NADFAS higher art students visited Jupiter and had a lecture by Nicky Wilson on the genesis of the collection. How the works were commissioned, constructed, placed and landscaped. After a tour the group spent time photographing and sketching in the Artland
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Cargilfield P2 day
The group visited in May as their third visit to Jupiter Artland. They had visited the previous year as P1s and had seen Andy Goldsworthy at work during the installation of Clay Tree Wall and Stone House Bonnington. They had many interesting contributions to make about the changes that had occured over the intervening year and we enjoyed having the continuity of a group visiting over an extended period of time.
This visit was a focus on Jim Lambie’s work and was a response to his works “A Forest” and his wonderful “Zobop” fluorescent. The children sketched tree skeletons and then created large A1 works in the actual vinyl tape used in the floor. At the end of the day they planted a sycamore sapling in a plant pot to take home.
 
    
 
Duke of Edinburgh Award
St Augustine’s High School from Wester Hailes have visited Jupiter as part of their bronze skills award in horticulture and landscape management. The sessions varied from planting vegetable seedlings, to habitat management, to maintenance of our sculpture.
 
John Muir Award
We worked with Rob Bushby of the John Muir Award to help teachers/providers with some inspiration for outdoor activities to engage people with the landscape. The group enjoyed a tour and talk followed by a workshop on Alec Finlay’s mesostic poems.
               Solid                              
       splaYed
      branChes
              Are
          reMiniscent
              Of
   meteoRite      
     showEr
 
      goldSworthy         
        greY                                                                     
             Crag
            cAught
           aMid
         strOng
           gReen
            lEngths 
 
"Sycamore” inspired by Stone Wood.
 
As well as all of these workshops and activities we have had many groups visiting for tours and lectures on the collection. Nicky Wilson gave the annual David Talbot Rice Memorial Lecture at the gallery in May. We visited the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop to see the ECA 3rd year students’ wonderful proposals for Jupiter Artland. Clifton Hall School visited as part of their John Muir Award programme. Many visits are planned for next term already and the programme resumes during the first week in September until the end of November. Please contact diana@jupiterartland.org
 
Holiday workshops are in the educational events area of the website.

 

 

 

 

 

Jupiter Artland Foundation Education News

10 November 2009

Over the last four months we have had an enormous range of workshops and educational visits here at Jupiter Artland.

Shawhead primary school visit

This image is by Silvy Weatherall of the magic carpet that the Shawhead primary school made on their visit.

Festival workshops
The Festival workshops were kicked off by the artist Shane Waltener leading a hugely enjoyable knit and knot workshop in the woods. The trees were festooned with colourful garlands and both children and adults learnt a huge amount about Shane’s radical craft tendencies!
A very enthusiastic group of children joined our Arts Festival workshop which involved a tour of the Artland followed by some sculpting using found materials in the woods.

Juniper Green primary school visit

Juniper Green primary school visits Jupiter Artland - image by Juniper Green primary school.

 
Duke of Edinburgh
September saw the arrival of our first group of Duke of Edinburgh students. They have joined us from Balerno High School and Simon Duffy, the estate manager, is leading a skills course based on landscape and sculpture management.
 
Edinburgh University
Edinburgh University’s History of Art Masters course has sent us an intern for a 20 week placement. Judith Dunlop is working predominantly on the huge task of our archiving but has been very helpful with anything that comes her way.
 
Juniper Green Primary School
Juniper Green Primary School approached us to help with the creation of their own sculpture garden. Nicky Wilson and I visited the school and were extremely impressed by their new space and their enthusiasm. Over a series of three days nearly 100 Juniper Green pupils visited Jupiter Artland for “inspiration days.” These involved looking at the sculpture, sketching and writing notes to form the starting point for creative writing back at school. We also did three different workshops on the work of Laura Ford, Andy Goldsworthy and Shane Waltener in which the children created group sculpture. We are going to go back to Juniper Green to follow up and will host a performance here of the plays generated from the creative writing inspired by Jupiter Artland. 

Juniper Green primary school visit

Juniper Green primary school visits Jupiter Artland - image by Juniper Green primary school.

George Heriot’s
George Heriot’s School launched their own week long Arts Festival in October and we were very proud to be invited to be part of it. We held a family day on Saturday the 15th of October. A large number of people visited and walked around before enjoying coffee and cake next to wood burning stove in the Proposals room.

Later that week the sixth form art students from Heriots visited and had a guided tour.

Juniper Green workshop on shane walteners work

Juniper Green workshop on shane walteners work - image by Juniper Green school.

 
Edinburgh University Architects
The 3rd year architecture students visited with Mark Cousins in October too. It was a crisp golden day and we walked around to look at the sculpture before the students investigated our gallery space as part of their 3rd year project.
 
Nether Currie Primary School
Nether Currie Primary School’s P5 class visited us to take part in an Appleman workshop. We gathered fallen apples from the orchard and created forms and body outlines. It looked like a weird crime scene for days afterwards!

Nether Currie primary school visit

Nether Currie primary school visit - image by Nether Currie primary school.

 
Queen Margaret’s University
November was soon here and Queen Margaret’s University first year Art therapists group visited us to look around and generally soak up the atmosphere.
 

Shawhead primary school visit

This image is by Silvy Weatherall of the magic carpet that the Shawhead primary school made on their visit.

Shawhead Primary School
We were very pleased to have a visit from Shawhead School in Dumfriesshire. Artists Andy Goldsworthy and Charles Jencks are both based in Dumfriesshire and it was great to have a group undertake such a long journey to visit us. We based our workshop on their topic of magic. We created a fantastic magic flying carpet from autumn leaves with each child creating their distinct part. The resulting carpet had a fantastic range of motifs and tonal colour.

Shawhead primary school visit

This image is by Silvy Weatherall of the magic carpet that the Shawhead primary school made on their visit.

 
 

30 November 1999