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LL supports young artists and architects and runs a residency program (SCO|JPN)

LL is a cultural trust supporting contemporary creative responses to the environment through an eco-centric spirit of exploration, collaboration and public engagement.

30/01/2025

Just two days left to purchase artworks from our fundraising exhibition of prints, books, sets and editions. All funds received from this endeavour will go toward eco-exhibitions, publications, collaborations and residencies… raising vital climate awareness. Lots begin at only £10.

www.laterallab.org/fundraiser

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15/12/2024

Luis B. Guzmán combines non-human entities such as plants, fungi, marine microorganisms, and artificial intelligence agents as active participants in symbiotic dynamics, creating fractures in the anthropocentric paradigm.

Luis Bernardo Guzmán is a Chilean artist and founder of Radix-Lucis Studio, specializing in aerospace technology, astrobiology, and bioarchitecture, currently residing in England. His work explores the potential of technoplasticity, which he defines as the capacity to adapt and transform technology through artistic experimentation, using the tools of aerospace engineering and biotechnology to expand the possibilities of contemporary art.

Luis, a recipient of our residency and mentor on our correspondence project, presents a print for Ephemeral Terrain. This is finished with a brushed silver aluminium artbox frame measuring 61.2 x 81.2cm, Luna is the first print of an edition of two. A third large scale museum print is the only one besides this edition. The second print of the edition is currently in Araucaria Gallery, Barcelona.

14/12/2024

For Ephemeral Terrain presents an edition that consists of a simple five-word statement written with a typewriter onto a set of white A4 sheets of paper without an ink ribbon, “To define is to confine,” becomes a gradually fading trace of five words, almost in/visible. This single-page edition of 50 with 2 APs is signed and editioned on reverse.

The project was first shown as part of the exhibition Mediated Existence curated by Naoko Mabon in Edinburgh in 2016 alongside work by IChern Lai and Katie Paterson.

Joseph works between between Scotland and his native Malta. He relishes working collaboratively through a multidisciplinary approach, teasing out a process of negotiation and interdependence between the essential and the liminal in art. He is one of our board members and co-founded with mezzo-soprano and they work collaboratively on music and visual art projects. In 2023 Joseph started setting up , his studio in Malta.

13/12/2024

Elizabeth Ogilvie is one of the most significant Scottish artists of her generation, working with a fusion of art, architecture and science, using water itself as her main medium and research focus. Ogilvie’s work embraces universal and timeless concerns, offering her public a sort of innocent pleasure at the same time as underlining critical philosophical and ecological issues.

As part of Ephemeral Terrain, the publication includes texts by Tim Ingold, Andrew Patrizio, Robert McFarlane, Katharine Heron, and others. It documents artist Elizabeth Ogilvie’s visits and research over 6 years in the Ilulissat area of North-West Greenland and her subsequent solo installation of the same name and conference at Ambika P3, London.

The project Out of Ice was specially created for the subterranean spaces of Ambika P3, London, where the installation ran between 17 January and 9 February 2014. The project now includes a film made with Robert Page, and this major publication. Out of Ice – the book – includes essays focusing on critical interrogation of Ogilvie’s work, but also poetry, journal extracts and the artist’s own writing.

12/12/2024

We are privileged to have work by Elizabeth Ogilvie and Robert Page for Ephemeral Terrain. The artists have been working together for 20 years and collaborating for nearly 10 years on cutting-edge commissions, films and artworks which reiterate their shared environmental convictions, engaging audiences in a dialogue concerning environmental issues including their ongoing project, Into the Oceanic, launched at COP26. Ogilvie is an environmental artist working with a fusion of art/science, producing experiential installations using water and video as her main media. Page is an artist-filmmaker whose work blurs the boundaries between documentary filmmaking and fine art, predominantly focusing on human activity in and on the environment.

The print is a limited edition of six from the artists’ current collaborative project Conversation with Our Ocean. Ogilvie & Page are currently artists in residence at the Blue Carbon Research Centre at the University of St Andrews where they are actively engaged in researching blue carbon ecosystems throughout Scotland with the resulting work comprising large-scale video projections, experimental images and experiential installations at home and abroad.

The project engenders hope. At its core is the knowledge that the ocean holds solutions to help tackle the climate emergency. Kelp forests together with plankton, comprise roughly half the organic matter on Earth, and produce approx. half the Earth’s oxygen. Seagrass can store carbon at a rate up to 35 times greater than rainforests, and salt marshes store carbon at a rate about 50 times more than terrestrial forests!

11/12/2024

Alongside Elizabeth Ogilvie, Robert Callender championed emerging artists throughout. A lot of the artists part of Ephemeral Terrain befitted from the residency named after him.

The boxed publication, on acid free archival paper, contains: six large-scale folding images, and several A3 limited edition prints on archival paper; 1 thread sewn bound book of images, writing, and an essay by Professor Andrew Patrizio (University of Edinburgh); 2 bound books; square format images of work; 1 double bound book of artist’s research, texts & poetry; an original, editioned intaglio print, printed especially for A2B by Robert Adam, Graal Press presented in archival sleeve; fold-out introduction to the Robert Callender International Residency for Young Artists; set of 12 mini prints; feature film/filmed interviews/discussions by artist/friends/young recipients of the International Residency established in his name; edited footage of Callender’s work practice and research, filmed at Stoer Point, Gerrards boatyard, studios in Leith and Sea Loft; and a DVD.

The artist was born in Kent in 1932. After a period as a student of medical illustration he moved to the Department of Painting at Edinburgh College of Art, where he became an artist – and would later mentor young artists as a much-loved member of the College staff. An involved member of the Scottish art community, he also exhibited internationally. A unique personality and artist, and a man of principles, Robert Callender was driven by his interest in the craft of making and in the environment – particularly the coast, the sea and those who worked on it. A prodigious and technically accomplished output of paintings, work in three dimensions and printmaking is complimented by his writings – succinct prose and poetry on maritime and environmental themes.

10/12/2024

We are grateful for .art contribution to Ephemeral terrain and to our organisation. Through his endeavour .co we have benefitted in a slick website and this fundraiser.

The publications each explore exhibition projects by artist David Cass. Light on Water and Rising Horizon were exhibited in The Scottish Gallery, while Where Once the Waters – the series from which the two groups of painted tins originate – was presented at the 2022 Venice Biennale. Just like the seascape paintings, the three books above emphasise the need to reclaim and reuse. Each is printed onto recycled and sustainable stock, and each artwork featured within has been created using found objects.

The projects documented in each book explore water, and specifically the issue of rising of sea levels as a result of global heating. The tin-paintings come from a wider set of 365 – one for each day of the year – referencing year-on-year record breaking ocean temperatures. The paintings have been widely exhibited and now divided into curated sets.
The artist splits his time between the UK and Europe. He has exhibited his multi-media artwork in a range of venues and festivals since graduating in 2010: including group showings at Christie’s, The Royal Academy, Royal Scottish Academy, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, MAXXI Museum, Cop21, 26, 27 & 29; and solo presentations at The Scottish Gallery, British Institute of Florence and Venice Biennale.

Cass creates three-dimensional paintings and installations using exclusively found materials sourced at flea-markets and antique fairs; though his practice also involves photography, digital media, writing, sculpture, performance and curation. He has participated in projects worldwide, and has artworks in numerous collections, both public and private. These activities have had an increasing focus on sustainability and the environment, with recent exhibitions centered around the issue of rising sea levels. This year, he became an associate of Lateral Lab.

09/12/2024

Jean Gillespie does invaluable work for our organisation as a treasurer and board member. The artist works mainly as a painter-printmaker although she also makes drawings, writes poetry takes sound recordings. Looking through a different lens at the qualities of poetics through sound or silence has let her re-evaluate how feelings can be conveyed and this is now shaping more of her work. The landscape is marked by processes, materials and energies we often do not recognise. What is largely ignored or overlooked then becomes fertile ground for the imagination and for thinking about our impact upon nature. Here is a sample from her work available for Ephemeral Terrain.

Dappled Light
lithographic print on Japanese paper, 107 x 71mm

The ink is blended to create the feeling of sparkling water.

Night Rhythm
lithographic print on Japanese paper, 107 x 71mm

The ink is blended to create the feeling of an ocean of water at night.

Parataxis - Into the Abyss
silkscreen on paper Somerset paper; 410 x 285mm

A poem print combined with a silkscreened photograph of a cliffside in Shetland. The colours of the cliffside are meant to highlight the emotional content of the work.

08/12/2024

The print captures a closeup extract from Paul Meikle’s original artwork, Arrows (2024) for his contribution to Ephemeral Terrain.

The project explores the delicate ecosystem that defines our city walls. It takes a magnified view of these urban surfaces, focusing on the remnants of posters and flyers that merge with other layers – fragments of text, torn edges, graffiti, and the weathered marks of time. These often-overlooked sites reveal forgotten memories and stories embedded within the decay.

The artist – now based in Edinburgh after a period living in Berlin – can be found wandering often, taking pictures of things that are often overlooked and disregarded. Not content with simply recreating these sites, he combines features from different photos and translates the techniques that caused them to exist, swapping rain and years of corrosion for a wire brush and paint st****er. Materials found on the street feature heavily in his work, chipboard from old flats, scavenged metal sheets or layers of old posters torn from street walls become canvases or mediums which he combines with the fabricated elements of time, grit, and dirt.

07/12/2024

Chloe and Emily Carlton’s great work for Ephemeral Terrain is a print derived from an image captured in their 16mm film titled Stair Hole. Named after the location in Dorset, the image highlights the distinct strata that characterise the site. Composed in three layers of colour, the print reflects the geological depth, vibrancy and intricate variation found in the rock formation. Each piece is unique with subtle differences in texture resulting from the hand-fed printing process. Printed at Risotto Studio, Glasgow.

The project uses in-camera techniques such as single frame shooting and multiple exposure to explore geological vibrancy and liveliness.

The artists – sisters Chloe and Emily Charlton – participated in Lateral Lab’s exhibition series Correspondence. Most recently they were artists-in-residents at Cove Park. Their work has been screened/exhibited in Scotland, Germany and Japan.

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