EDINBURGH.- Jupiter Artland announces its 2015 programme featuring new work by leading international artists and supporting emerging talent. Founded by Robert and Nicky Wilson, Jupiter Artland is a collection of contemporary outdoor sculpture located across 100 acres of woodland and meadows just outside Edinburgh. For the first time since opening, the collection will be open to the public every day throughout July and August.
Highlights for this year’s exhibition programme include a dramatic new installation by New York-based artist, Tara Donovan for her first large-scale solo exhibition in the UK. This will be presented in The Ballroom, a stunning space within the 17th century Bonnington House which will be opened up to the public for the first time. This year’s programme will also see a new permanent commission by sculptor Sara Barker, commissioned for the outdoor woodland, alongside exhibitions by established and emerging international and Scottish artists: Mika Rottenberg, Edwin Burdis, Samara Scott and Lauren Gault.
Contemporary Argentine artist Mika Rottenberg opens Jupiter Artland’s spring programme, opening on 16 May, with a series of imaginative sculptural works for Jupiter Artland’s Goldsworthy Room. Vibrant sculptural monuments Texture 1 and 3 will be presented alongside the playful installation Ponytails. The artist will also present her acclaimed video-work, SEVEN (Jason), a multi-faceted experience following the parallel narratives of a cast of performers whose engagement in a ritualistic physical activity causes the production of a magical substance called “chakra juice”.
Also opening in May, the experimental London-based artist, composer and performer, Edwin Burdis (b.1974) will exhibit a new installation, spread across The Steadings Gallery and into the courtyard and woodland. Incorporating sculptures, paintings and performances, Burdis will orchestrate a ‘cure centre’ to purge cancerous diseases, intending to explore the emotions involved in the process. Alongside this, Burdis will exhibit a series of maquettes in the Tin Roof Gallery.
The summer programme, opening on 1 August, will see Tara Donovan (b.1969) present dramatic installations at Jupiter Artland. Untitled (Plastic Cups), a large-scale sculptural work made entirely from plastic cups, will take over The Ballroom in Bonnington House. Donovan will also present a new work created from Slinkies, the pre-compressed helical spring toy, which will be presented in the Goldsworthy Room. Donovan will also exhibit her internationally-acclaimed sculpture, Untitled (Mylar) in The Steadings Gallery. These works characterise Donovan’s use of everyday industrial materials to create large-scale abstract installations that mimic nature, as if viewed from under a microscope.
For August 2015, Glasgow-based sculptor Sara Barker has been commissioned to create a new permanent work for the collection. Since the artist’s first temporary commission as part of Edinburgh Art Festival 2013, Barker returns to Jupiter Artland with a permanent large-scale sculpture comprised of layered wood and steel. Like all commissioned artists, Barker has a personal relationship with Jupiter Artland and has selected the site where her work will be located.
August also sees the first exhibition in Scotland by London-based artist Samara Scott (b.1984), unveiling new work for Jupiter Artland’s Tin Roof Gallery. Entitled Still Life, Scott will transform the gallery space into an immersive environment where the surfaces will be embellished entirely with painted motifs and textures.
Continuing Jupiter Artland’s commitment to supporting the next generation of artists, this summer will see a new site-specific outdoor installation created by Glasgow-based artist Lauren Gault (b.1986). Lipstick-NASA will include monumental sculpture, sound works and live elements, using a variety of made and found materials themed around the French word ‘terroir’ - translating as ‘a sense of place’ - to engage with Jupiter Artland’s unique history and geography.
