David Faithful, hosted by the Caldwell-Brock Family @ Marlborough Street
Working with wallpaper, sand and Indian ink David’s installation for the Garden Gallery plays with the effect of the weather creating a subtle metamorphosis over the duration of the exhibition.
Title of work – Seascapes and Sandscapes
Arcade Sandscape reflects the bygone days of beach resorts, the quaintness of terraced guest houses, memories of candy floss and donkey rides, all the childhood summers bathed in the glorious technicolour of nostalgia. And lurking at the opposite end of the beach, beyond the faded Victorian grandeur, a beacon of flashing lights and cold shadows - the Arcade and the Fairground – suggesting the darkness of Brighton Rock to counter any candy striped confection.
And outside as the Arcade Fruit machines clunk and turn their coloured wheels, the restless sands shift and blow, season to season, cutting across the promenade relentlessly.
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Big Things on the Beach is a public art trust in Portobello, a seaside suburb close to the city centre of Edinburgh, Scotland. It was formed by a group of residents in 2003 to explore the potential of the seafront as a site for engagement with public artworks by both emerging and established artists.
