PAST EVENT: This was part of the EAF25 programme.

For EAF25, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop presented Beachheads, a new body of work by Louise Gibson. The work unfolded as a series of monumental sculptures crafted from discarded industrial and household materials, speaking eloquently of the excesses and wastefulness of contemporary consumer culture.

The works drew attention to our complicity in the relentless cycles of production and disposal — and the environmental and social consequences they entail. Each work appeared as a series of dualities — waste and renewal, domestic and industrial, hard and soft, interior and exterior, moving fluidly between states, embodying both energies at once. Rather than positioning strength and fragility as opposites, Gibson’s durable, vulnerable works dissolved the boundary between them, revealing their coexistence within the same form.

Related Programme

See more related events and exhibitions:
→ Leith Day at various venues, East to Leith
→ Megan Rudden + Jenni Fagan: Readings at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, East to Leith

Supported by The Henry Moore Foundation, Creative Scotland and The City of Edinburgh Council.