18/08/2023
KILSTURE ROAMING
An exhibition of contemporary art in collaboration with Kilsture Forest Community Group, 19-20 Aug 2023, 11am-4pm.
Please join us for the opening event on Saturday 19th August.
A free shuttle mini-bus will be running on Saturday 19th August from Wigtown to bring visitors to the forest site. Booking is essential.
Artists: Anne Waggot Knott, Del Whitticase, Frances Ross, Hope London, Jack Ky Tan, Sarah Stewart, Savannah Crosby
KILSTURE ROAMING is a weekend exhibition of site-responsive and public art in Kilsture Forest, which is in The Machars, a peninsula in the West of Dumfries & Galloway. The work in this exhibition includes photography, print, ceramic installation, speculative writing, signage, found objects and audio. The artists tackle themes of memory, belonging, survival, migration, the more-than-human, forestry and landscape, among others, and have practices that span printmaking, sculpture, installation, photography, video and performance.
The exhibition forms the culmination of a yearlong research project by Upland called ROAM (West) to develop and support contemporary art in the region. The project asks whether there is enough support, infrastructure and resourcing for contemporary art to thrive in the West of Dumfries and Galloway. The ROAM (West) artists have been meeting monthly as a supportive peer group who have delivered a skeleton contemporary art programme in 2023: a pop-up show, a public education event, and this final exhibition.
This exhibition is driven by all the participating artists’ passion and commitment for the region and for progressing contemporary rural creative practice in this
place. It acknowledges their desire, their creative labour, and a broad range of intangible benefits.
To find out more, and to book, visit:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/kilsture-roaming-book-your-bus-here-tickets-689983197317?aff=oddtdtcreator
Image: Frances Ross, 2023, ‘connector node field’ (detail). Glazed ceramics, outdoor installation.
At: Kilsture Forest, Dumfries & Galloway. Courtesy of the artist.