Jupiter Artland

The autumn term has been very full and busy so far. We have had visits from Fettes AS level groups, SEASONS mental health group, Anniesland College, Telford College, Clifton Hall, Project Scotland management team, Queen Margaret’s University art therapists group, Morrison’s Academy S2 classes, Napier College, St John the Baptist Primary School, Whitburn Academy, St George’s and Inveralmond High School.

Elderberry Rorschach Prints

Some of these schools came for inspiration and a starting point for projects and the drawings and photographs they made at Jupiter will fill their sketchbooks. Other groups came to engage with the artworks through hands on workshops. We used the work of Cornelia Parker both at Jupiter as well as generally as a basis for several of these workshops. The berry Rorschach workshops were fun and also informative. We looked at toxic and non toxic berries around the artland and used the non poisonous berries to make the prints with as well as learning about their culinary uses.

Hanging Fire After Cornelia Parker

The October Artsparks 2 day course during half term was led by Davina Richardson and she used Cornelia Parker’s work to inspire the course. The course was fun and inspiring with budding artists responding enthusiastically and creating some wonderful pieces for the end of course show.

Little Sparks

Izzie Chappel's Tuesday Little Spark classes continue to be great fun and inspiring - next term's block only has a couple of places left in the afternoon so get booked in!

August saw the launch of our preschool classes at Jupiter. "Little Sparks" is a morning and afternoon weekly session which makes the most of all the wonderful outdoor space at Jupiter to explore nature and art. Alongside the outdoor activities there are singing sessions, imaginative play, drama and stories inside our woodland classroom which help to develop preschool skills. Little Sparks is led by Izzie Chappell and we are so pleased by the lovely emails with great comments and feedback - thank you. 

Shane Waltners piece "Over Here" was vandalised last week and found destroyed in Milkmaid field, the police responded quickly and launched and appeal for information. It's a wanton act of destruction that has highlighted how vulnerable some of the work is.

Shane who is currently showing in Australia will replace the work in the autumn. We were all very sad that such a delicate piece could be so brutally destroyed but thoroughly heartened by all the kind words of support that Jupiter received.

Because Jupiter is an outside space it is entirely at the mercy of the elements and this provides us with a chance to see the work interact with light and shade that is not possible in a gallery space.

But with the elements come the dynamic extremes of frozen fog, drought and of course snow.  As we look out from our office at a winter wonderland we reflect on what a busy year we have had.

FACEBOOK PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION

We held our annual photography competition and the results are splendid.  One thing is for certain our photographers have had a marvellous time experimenting with I phone apps, light and extraordinary angles.  After much deliberation and negotiation (our Head Gardener had used a 50 ft cherrypicker crane for his entry!) we picked Janina Dilny's photograph of Shane Walteners World Wide Web captured in a way that no other photographer has done, we are really impressed.  Janina wins a prize of a two year Friends of Jupiter membership.

The advanced higher English class from James Young High School, Livingston came to Jupiter and wrote wonderful mesostic poems in response to the sculpture.

   

 Three classes of St George's P5s visited and did workshops in response to the works by Andy Goldsworthy and Jim Lambie.

                              

Other educational visits this autumn term have been from Clifton Hall School as part of their John Muir Award, Telford College BTEC Art and Design group to have a lecture and tour and Anniesland College of Art too.  Ardvreck School visited for a tour around as well as Edinburgh University 3^rd year architects as part of their gallery space project.  Harmeny House did an inservice day here on a sunny September day.

Our project with Juniper Green Primary School continues and their excellent editorial team visited to discuss publishing the stories they have written about Jupiter and further website ideas.

 Wester Coates Nursery visited on a blustery October day. They created  "Applemen" outlines  on the colourful background of the Zobop floor.

                           

Woodmill High School from Dunfermline visited and their lovely advanced higher group did a clay twig workshop and had a tour around the Artland in its autumn glory.

Just before half term Napier University general design first years and the Glasgow School of Art sculpture and environmental art 3rd years (alumni include Nathan Coley and Jim Lambie) visited for lectures on and tours of the Artland.

Bryony Farrant-Davis has joined us as an intern from Edinburgh University's History of Art Department. She is doing an Msc in Modern Art: History, Curation and Criticism and  will get involved with all aspects of life at Jupiter Artland from our archiving to helping with educational activities.

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