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Posted by jcb990 on September 14, 2019 in Uncategorized

Angus Coastal Festival

Glad to be in Arbroath to launch this year’s Angus Coastal Festival (13- 23^rd Sept) with its bio-diverse programme of events, covering all the things I love and enjoy about working within the Scottish Littoral zones, from the geology of cliffs, rocks and pebbles, to investigating rock pools, identifying seaweeds, coastal plants, butterflies and bird life. And importantly connecting and working with people who care and want to help to make our marine environment healthy and sustainable.

Over 12 beach cleans are taking place, already tonnes have been removed from Arbroath beaches and more bottles saved by the Ladyloan Primary School with Turning the Plastic Tide and Our East Haven volunteers for the Angus #LitterCUBES. 60 eager pupils joined me to learn more about sculpture, plastic as a material and its origin in oil and energy. I am asking Festival goers to join me today Saturday 14th threading and weaving the next #LitterCUBES at the Arbroath Signal Tower from fishing net and rope. All welcome.

Posted by jcb990 on September 9, 2019 in #LitterCUBES, Public Engagement, Uncategorized

Shetland Legacy

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My recent Shetland adventure sees the completion of 3 Shetland #LitterCUBES which will go on to be exhibited at Edinburgh Science Festival 2020. Many thanks to Dunna Chuck Bruck volunteers for collecting all the litter and Shetland’s fine Youth Ambassadors who worked with me on the construction of the #LitterCUBES and the delivering of my workshops across the islands. All fantastic young people!

Thanks to the Swan Trust for taking me on an special island odyssey on board The Swan. It was amazing to experience up-close the beautiful marine environment around the islands. Sailing from Lerwick North to Unst and Yell to deliver the #LitterCUBES and marine life/pollution sampling workshops to schools. Thank you to all the people that took part and supporters.

Many thanks for workshop/studio space provided by Shetland Museum & Archives, Lerwick and the Marine Centre, Scalloway, both brilliant places to have far reaching conversations with residents and visitors, discussing the energy value of plastic and changes planned and being planned to #BeatPlasticPollution both in the aquaculture industry and in the home .

Next stop Arbroath Coastal Festival 13-14 September. Arbroath Signal Tower/Harbour Beach, DD11 1AX . See you there!

Posted by jcb990 on August 19, 2019 in #LitterCUBES, Public Engagement, Uncategorized

SHETLAND:

It’s great to be back in beautiful Shetland! Many thanks for the continued support of the Dunna Chuck Bruck volunteers, North Link Ferries for safely shipping me up here and new exciting partnerships with John Lawrie Group, the Swan Trust, Fishing for Litter team and many Shetland friends.

Thousands of the items collected by the Dunna Chuck volunteers collected across Shetland in the annual ‘Voar Redd Up’ beach cleans.

Full speed ahead now washing and processing the ‘Bruck’ clear plastic drinks bottles, plastic strapping, cotton bud sticks in preparation for weaving together to make 4 Shetland #LitterCUBES.

HELP! WE NEED MORE cotton bud sticks – a major litter offender, to be found on a beach near you. If you are walking on the beaches over the next 2 weeks please look closely along the strand lines. Please drop off at the Shetland Amenity Trust, Garthspool, Lerwick.

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I look forward to seeing as many people as possible at the Public events planned at Shetland Museum on Saturday 31^st Aug and Thursday 5th September. More information on the Shetland Press Release

Posted by jcb990 on June 13, 2019 in #LitterCUBES, Firth of Forth shoreline, Public Engagement, Uncategorized

DUNBAR: changing scale

My preparation for my Dunbar event next week goes on at a pace, processing cotton bud sticks. the smallest litter tems that many beach cleaners have been picking up and sending. The vast majority of the cotton bud sticks I am joining together have understandably been collected along the Firth of Forth and Clyde estuary high tide lines. Shorelines closest to the densest population centres, flushing the sticks down the toilets.

Come and join me to see and weigh the #LitterCUBES at Dunbar Harbour 10.30- 12.30 & 1.30-5.30 on Thurs 20th, Fri 21st & Sat 22nd and help complete the next fishing net/rope #LitterCUBE on the south side of the Harbour.

On Thursday evening (20th June) I am taking part in the John Muir Open ‘Dialogues of Change’ series of conversations at the Town House community room. It’s free!

Posted by jcb990 on May 29, 2019 in #LitterCUBES, Public Engagement, Uncategorized

West Highland #LitterCUBES

Tomorrow I will be showing my first #LitterCUBES made from plastic beach litter collected from over 20 beaches in the West Highlands. This is the first of 7 interactive events, where I am asking people to join me to weigh the #LitterCUBES and calculate the energy value of each CUBE in terms of oil and petrol.

Come along and join in on West Shore beach Ullapool 10am-5pm (Thurs30th, Fri 31st and Sat 1st) of follow our findings @LittoralArt

#LitterCUBE start of making process. J .Barton

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The 3 West Highland #LitterCUBES are made from strapping woven together, drinks bottles laced together and prawn boxes sewn together. Everyone is welcome to have ago at tying together pieces of fishing net to begin making the 4th CUBE . Join me here in Ullapool or at one of my next locations. Please share this story .

Thanks to all my supporters and for donations from: individuals, Eyemouth Marine Ltd, rag, Sheihallion, Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape, the Heritage Lottery Fund and Scottish Natural Heritage, Ullapool Harbour Trust and support in kind from Eyemouth, Dunbar, Arbroath, Lerwick, Ullapool Harbours, An Talla Solais, North Light Arts.

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Posted by jcb990 on April 15, 2019 in #LitterCUBES, Public Engagement, Uncategorized

#EDSCIFEST

Great week working with young people at #EDSCIFEST at Dynamic Earth. A chance to examine one of the most common litter items and common forms of plastic PET [Polyethylene terephthalate] that ends up in our seas.

Visitors joined me to calculate how much energy (petrol) we can save by recycling plastic bottle. Bottles weighed 11 – 45 grams and using an Embodied Energy formula for PET we calculated that the energy value of 100 bottles each weighing 30 grams would contain the energy/petrol equivalent to travel 84 km in a small car, or 385 calories, enough energy to walk 7km. Thought provoking images and values to share and make us all determined to make sure we don’t drop but recycle all our bottles. Thanks to everyone who attended, donated bottles and helped out with the event. Looking forward to bringing all the #LitterCUBES to #EDSCIFEST 2020.

Posted by jcb990 on March 11, 2019 in #LitterCUBES, Uncategorized

Spring collection

As the spring tides roll in, I am making a call-out for thousands of plastic litter items with which I will make 12 sculptures #LitterCUBES this year.

Landscape poster with list of litter items If you, your friends, beach cleaning groups, schools, business’s can help please get in touch. I am asking people to collect seven “known offenders” to illustrate the volume, nature and energy contained in the plastic litter on our beaches. collection list I am arranging for collection barrels to be placed in the locations I will be working in and I will send out bags and labels for posting smaller items like fishing line and cotton bud sticks. #LitterCUBES will be completed and shown at the following locations in 2019 dates for blog This project is being made possible with partial funding from individual donations, r.a.g and Schallion co-operative giving collectives, Tayside Biodiversity Partnership , Eyemouth Marine and with much in-kind support from Eyemouth, Ullapool, Dunbar Harbour Trusts and Eyemouth and Ullapool arts centres.

I am waiting for decisions on several applications, but the project still needs your continued support. Please donate using the DONATE button at the top of this page.

Click here for more information about the #LitterCUBES project

Posters available to advertise beach collections – leave a request in the comment box

Posted by jcb990 on January 17, 2019 in Uncategorized

Inspiring…..

…community members of Dunbar joined me at Dunbar Harbour on Tuesday night to hear discuss how I’m planning to make two #LitterCUBE sculptures at the harbour, using discarded, washed up plastic drinks bottles and net ends commonly found in the harbour and along the local beaches. I shared how I want to make the sculptures to highlight the plastic leaking into the sea and the value of this plastic that’s being wasted.

We had a wonderful and exciting exchange of ideas, followed by great suggestions of how to link into the towns many environmental and arts activities . The upshot is we have begun a great supportive net-work, as strong as the net I will be sewing together to make a #LitterCUBE from.

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Residents…… teachers……. arts organisers……. the harbour trustees…….. artists……. marine biologist…… parents and a business manager at the meeting wonderfully offered support and suggested that I aim to stage the event in June, to link into Dunbar Civic week and North Light Arts Sea Change exhibition.

June 10th-23rd : proposed dates for making the#LitterCUBES in Dunbar . More detail about events to be added as soon as I am clear about the funding situation. Anyone can help by collecting materials for the #LitterCUBES which will be stored at the Harbour. Please get in touch if you can help.

Thanks to the Dunbar Harbour Trust (and Quentin Dimmer, the Harbour Master) for hosting the event and North Light Arts for helping with promoting the evening event.

You can help to ensure this event happens by making a donation here on the site . Press DONATE to project at the top of the page. Thank you !

Posted by jcb990 on December 6, 2018 in Uncategorized

Thank you

As the southerly winds blow, whipping up a wild sea in front of my new studio on the NW coast, I am conscious of the challenging year it’s been planning and fund raising for my ambitious #LitterCUBE 2019 work.

So, it’s with great pleasure and relief, that I can announce I have raised over £18,000 worth of support, made up of both cash donations and pledges of equipment loans, peoples time, provision of space, accommodation e.t.c . Fantastically this represents over a third of the whole project costs.

Thank You to everyone and many more anonymous individuals and organisations who have invested in the project. Please do contact me with your postal address to receive a Beach Litter Guide . I will also be posting out 20 surprise prints!

These donations have enabled me to demonstrate the support I have in an application to Creative Scotland for the remaining funding support I need to construct the #LitterCUBES in Edinburgh, Lerwick, Scalloway, Dunbar, Ullapool, Eyemouth and Angus next year. Fingers crossed for a positive decision at the end of January. I am continuing to look for further support to cover the costs of this ambitious project: Any suggestions most welcome.

I will be holding an information event at Dunbar Harbour on Tuesday 15^th January at McArthur’s store meeting room 5-7pm, everyone is welcome. Come along to find out more and here about opportunities to get involved.

My Just Giving page remains open until New Year’s Eve and donations via the blog are greatly received anytime.

Posted by jcb990 on September 21, 2018 in Uncategorized

Public Engagement

Over the past few weeks I have been testing out potential support in new coastal locations where I intend making a number of my #LitterCUBES next year. DlJUsIfWsAARQwP

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Invitations from the Hippodrome arts venue in Eyemouth and the Angus Coastal Festival led me to share my entangled arts/science journey with marine litter in illustrated talks over the past few weeks, in a gallery and during practical workshops on the beaches. Over 100 interested residents eagerly asked questions about my findings and were keen to talk through local beach litter issues, e.g. takeaway food litter in Eyemouth and broken Creel components in Angus- all were concerned about the volume of fishing litter washed up and intrigued to talk through my idea of making big #LitterCUBES out of litter specific to their coast line.

Our East Haven group collecting less easily seen plastic particles Angus Coastal Festival

Such informal interactive events like these are at the core of my work. An Eyemouth resident after studying my working drawings (below) showing how I will calculate the energy loss that a CUBE represents, in terms of litres of petrol – suggested I also calculate the loss of energy in terms of calories. A great suggestion especially for younger members of the the public i.e. this CUBE has the same energy as ’50 fish suppers’

CUBE construction diagram

In addition to ideas and offers of help, many donations were made to my Just Giving #LitterCUBE appeal, which has today reached £1,314. I still need to raise another £686 so please pass on the link to as many people as you can. Take a look at the appeal video showing one of the making processes. Thank you to everyone who has donated!

I am available and happy to give illustrated talks and run close examination beach workshops to groups in return for a fee/donation towards making the 30 sculptures in 2019 Please get in touch. I took the project story south to Anglesey last week and made interesting coastal connections with Bangor U3A & Friends of The Anglesey Coastal Path

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littoral: sci-art project

working to draw attention to our coastal ecology and its sustainability

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Angus Coastal Festival

Shetland Legacy

SHETLAND:

DUNBAR: changing scale

West Highland #LitterCUBES

#EDSCIFEST

Spring collection

Inspiring…..

Thank you

Public Engagement

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