littoral: sci-art project

Posted by jcb990 on April 30, 2019 in #LitterCUBES, Public Engagement

PROCESS VOLUNTEER DONATE

This week the big processing job gets underway starting with the bags of plastic litter collected from West Highland beaches. The most recent from community litter picking events at Ullapool, Badentarbet, Isle Martin and Red Point.

PLEASE KEEP THE LITTER COMING the more items are collected, the bigger the sculptures. Plastic pollution is a massive waste of energy we can save.

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Please get in touch if you would like to volunteer and get involved. It’s always easier with helpers. Processing involves sorting, taking notes, photographing, washing and drying.

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.

I am continuing to seek funding from small trusts, companies and individuals as unfortunately Littoral Art Project didn’t get further funding from Creative Scotland. Please spread the word that Donations are very much needed and can be made here by pressing the orange DONATE button at the top of the page

Press release: is available here. Please help by sending to a national paper or magazine.

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

DlIIFDSU0AARA36 — Eyemouth Harbour & beach

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’

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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

Posted by jcb990 on July 9, 2018 in Uncategorized

Invest in Me

Julia Barton, Portobello photo by Penny Haywood Calder

To make a series of 30 large sculptures #LitterCUBES from plastic beach litter collected from shorelines around Scotland in 2019, to show the link between plastic and oil. I want to engage people in weighing the #LitterCUBES to calculate how many litres of petrol each CUBE represents .

Donations of any amount are welcomed to start the fundraising to make the sculptures, so we can visualise the true cost of plastic pollution. Visit my Just-Giving crowd funding page to learn more and to donate.

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Click below to listen to a Podcast explaining the background to the #LitterCUBES

CUBE construction diagram

There are limited edition prints of small # LitterCUBE surfaces to win.

Please pass on the Just Giving link and leave suggestions of how to promote the appeal. Thank you!

Posted by jcb990 on June 24, 2018 in Uncategorized

Exhibition: Edinburgh’s Shoreline

Edinburgh’s Shoreline

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, the exhibition runs until Sun 23 Sept 2018

My work MARINE PLASTIC OF SCOTLAND [Lothian] littoralis: belonging to the shoreline, is on display at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. It is a collection of common plastic litter items found along Edinburgh’s shoreline. Their classification and display reflecting the herbarium’s taxonomy and preservation techniques. The analogy of colonising species echoes plastic’s living origin – oil.

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh opening times: 10.00 am — 5.45 pm Venue:John Hope Gateway , free entry.

Please visit the exhibition, take a closer look and let me know what you think.

Posted by jcb990 on June 3, 2018 in Firth of Forth shoreline

Shoreline Specimens

Collecting shoreline specimens along the Firth of Forth #BeatPlasticPollution

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Join me along Edinburgh City shoreline on World Environment Day Tuesday 5 June and World Oceans Day Friday 8 June where I will be collecting plastic litter samples to classify for my specimen collection for the Shoreline Project exhibition at the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh opening on 23^rd June.

Please come – all community members and visitors welcome to join me in examining the specimens ready for classification.

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Meet at Portobello beach on Tuesday 5 June 10 – 11am and New Haven/Wardie Bay on Friday 8 June 1 pm

email for other times and locations.

Posted by jcb990 on May 1, 2018 in Uncategorized

Environmental Award

I would like to thank all people involved from Shetland who helped Littoral Sci Art Project win a Shetland Environmental Award 2017

As communities across Shetland tackle the annual spring ‘Da Voar Redd Up’ Beach Cleans, I am happy to share a recent Radio Shetland broadcast on #PlasticPollution featuring a report with Sita Goudie the Shetland Amenity Trust Environmental Improvement officer in which she describes Littoral Art Project’s educational work across Shetland in 2016.

Click here to listen >

This year’s awards were sponsored by Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Scottish Natural Heritage, Shetland Islands Council, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Shetland Civic Society, VisitScotland, Shetland Bird Club and Shetland Amenity Trust. The awards plaques were sponsored and supplied by Cunningsburgh based Enviroglass, which recycles Shetland’s waste glass.

Link to the full programme Plastic Pollution : https://www.mixcloud.com/BBCShetland/beyond-the-briggistanes-thursday-22-march-2018/

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Edinburgh’s Shoreline

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, the exhibition runs until Sun 23 Sept 2018

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