PARTNERS & COLLABORATIONS

ENTANGLEMENTS OF TIME & TIDE
INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERSHIPS 2018-21

EDINBURGH PRINTMAKERS
CASTLE MILLS, EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND
https://edinburghprintmakers.co.uk/about/





Edinburgh Printmakers, Castle Mills, Edinburgh, Scotland
The vibrant Castle Mills complex in Fountainbridge
Edinburgh Printmakers, printmaking studios and facility


Edinburgh Printmakers is a leading centre for printmaking and the visual arts in Fountainbridge, Edinburgh. It’s also home to one of the largest printmaking studios in Europe. It was established in 1967 as the first open-access studio in Britain.

Edinburgh Printmakers is set in Castle Mills, a beautiful heritage building, formerly the headquarters for the North British Rubber Company, and once the city’s largest industrial operation within the British Empire. Transformed by Edinburgh Printmakers in 2019, Castle Mills is now a vibrant and creative global hub for contemporary culture. Castle Mills houses two galleries, with a changing programme of contemporary visual art exhibitions.

HISTORY

Edinburgh Printmakers was established in 1967 as Britain's first open access printmaking studio, and has played a key role in the careers of some of UK's most acclaimed artists. In 2019 the Printmakers moved from its former home on Union Street to Castle Mills, Dundee Street in Fountainbridge, a building which was once the headquarters for the North British Rubber Company.

The former factory employed more than 3,000 people at its peak, producing the first Hunter Wellington boot, tyres, golf balls, hot water bottles and other products. From the start NBRC had a reputation for design and innovation as well as manufacturing. From hot water bottles to air balloon fabric, NBRC’s diverse range of products was exported worldwide. NBRC was more than a business: ‘the Rubber’ was a way of life for many of its workers who lived locally. Rubber production ceased in 1969.

William McEwan opened his Fountain Brewery in 1856. The brewery took over the North British Rubber Company site as part of its 1971-3 expansion on the other side of Fountainbridge from the original brewery (now Fountain Park leisure centre). This housed one of the world’s largest and most automated brewing complexes.

MARINE SCOTLAND
MARINE LABORATORY OF THE SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT, ABERDEEN
https://marine.gov.scot/




Marine Laboratory Scottish Government, Aberdeen, Scotland
Marine Scotland, MPV Jura, research vessel


Marine Scotland is a Directorate of the Scottish Government and is responsible for the integrated management of Scotland’s seas. Marine Scotland’s purpose is to manage Scotland’s seas for prosperity and environmental sustainability, working closely with other government departments. Key responsibilities include:

• Work towards achieving good environmental status, through our marine planning, licensing and other functions, to help ensure a healthy and sustainable environment.
• Promote sustainable economic growth from marine renewables industry and other marine and maritime industries through integrated planning and, where appropriate, streamlined regulatory frameworks.
• Promote sustainable, profitable and well managed fisheries and aquaculture industries in Scotland.
• Ensure sustainably managed freshwater fish and fisheries resources.
• Ensure a sound evidence base to inform the development and delivery of marine policy, planning and services.
• Ensure effective compliance and enforcement arrangements.
• Continue to integrate our functions and resources, and to develop our organisational skills, competencies and capacity to ensure effective and efficient marine management arrangements in Scotland.

Marine Scotland, being part of Scottish Government, exercises a full range of policy/administrative capabilities related to comprehensive engagement with stakeholders and ensures compliance with European Directives relevant to its marine planning responsibilities, including the SEA and Habitats/Species Directives. Through Marine Scotland Science, Marine Scotland operates a fully equipped modern marine laboratory in Aberdeen covering a wide range of disciplines including marine physics, chemistry and biology, marine engineering and undertakes field sampling and research through research vessels Scotia and Alba na Mara (managed by Marine Scotland Compliance).

ASCUS ART & SCIENCE
ASCUS LABORATORY, SUMMERHALL
EDINBURGH, UK
https://www.ascus.org.uk/




Summerhall Arts Hub, Edinburgh
ASCUS Art & Science Laboratory, Summerhall, Edinburgh


ASCUS Art & Science is a non-profit organisation committed to bridging the gap between art, design and the sciences. We work with partners and practitioners to create innovative trans-disciplinary projects to engage new and wider audiences and facilitate innovative public engagement across these fields.

Who we are

ASCUS Art & Science is a non-profit organisation. Founded in 2008 and a registered non-profit company limited by guarantee since 2013, we are an organisation dedicated to building a community of artists, designers, scientists, and other individuals interested in how art, design and science can engage new and wider audiences for both fields. ASCUS is neither an arts nor a scientific body, but an organisation dedicated to developing art-science intersections.

We aim to provide a joint platform for artists, designers and scientists to work together on a diverse array of projects, including science communication, science, art and design collaborative projects, and trans-disciplinary research. ASCUS is based in Edinburgh, but serves as an established hub between like-minded organisations both nationally and internationally.

Vision

We believe art, design and the sciences are innovative fields that can benefit from exposure to a diversity of ideas. We want to foster unconventional thinking and build appreciation for, and participation in, the intersections between art, design, science, and related fields.

As a leading advocate for collaboration across these fields, we create opportunities for artists, designers and scientists to connect with each other providing the time and space for facilitating the exchange of ideas. We create new opportunities for professionals from these different backgrounds to work together, with the aim of bringing this work to new and wider audiences. We achieve this by partnering with organisations, institutions and individuals to create new points of access for people to engage with trans-disciplinary practice through our programme of art-science micro-residencies, events, workshops and exhibitions.

THE PROJECT HAS BEEN SUPPORTED BY
CREATIVE SCOTLAND
https://www.creativescotland.com/what-we-do



Creative Scotland is the public body that supports the arts, screen and creative industries across all parts of Scotland on behalf of everyone who lives, works or visits here.

We enable people and organisations to work in and experience the arts, screen and creative industries in Scotland by helping others to develop great ideas and bring them to life.

We distribute funding from the Scottish Government and The National Lottery.


ENTANGLEMENTS OF TIME & TIDE
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL PARTNERS, 2021

EDINBURGH SCIENCE FESTIVAL 2021
https://www.sciencefestival.co.uk/festival


Edinburgh Science Festival 2021

Edinburgh Science Foundation is an educational charity, founded in 1989, which operates Edinburgh Science's Education and Festival programmes. We are best known for organising Edinburgh’s annual Science Festival – the world’s first public celebration of science and technology as a festival and still one of Europe’s largest – as well as our science education outreach programmes, Generation Science and Careers Hive and our community engagement work.

Our mission is to inspire, encourage and challenge people of all ages and backgrounds to explore and understand the world around them. As leaders in our field of Science Communication, we work year-round to create and deliver dynamic hands-on workshops and exhibitions and inspirational shows, discussions, debates and performances that continually push the boundaries of public engagement with science. Communication and engagement is at the core of all our work and we strive to ensure that this is embedded in all aspects of our organisation.

Edinburgh Science Festival 2021

Our 2021 Festival spanned Saturday 26 June – Sunday 11 July, and explored the theme of One World: Science Connects Us. Despite the COVID-19 restrictions, we teamed up with over 120 speakers both online and in 30 venues across Edinburgh for a diverse programme of over 200 events, including outdoor exhibitions, tours and trails, workshops, discussions and family shows. In a year where we celebrated the role of women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) with our Women in STEM Street Art Trail, we are delighted that 60% of the artists and speakers who took part in our 2021 programme identify as women!

EDINBURGH ART FESTIVAL 2021
https://www.edinburghartfestival.com/


Edinburgh Art Festival 2021

Founded in 2004, Edinburgh Art Festival is the platform for the visual arts at the heart of Edinburgh’s August festivals, bringing together the capital’s leading galleries, museums, production facilities and artist-run spaces in a city-wide celebration of the very best in visual art. Each year, the festival features leading international and UK artists alongside the best emerging talent, major survey exhibitions of historic figures, and a special programme of newly commissioned artworks that respond to public and historic sites in the city. The vast majority of the festival is free to attend. Find out more about Our Programme.

Alongside our main festival programme we run an annual series of learning and engagement activities around our Commissions Programme and partner exhibitions as well as bespoke tours, workshops and projects for community groups and organisations inspired by the work of our participating artists.


ENTANGLEMENTS OF TIME & TIDE
COLLABORATORS AND EXPERTS 2018-21

DR PROFESSOR COLIN MOFFAT
Former Chief Scientific Advisor Marine to the Scottish Government (Retired 2021)
Visiting Professor, Robert Gordon University
Honorary Professor, Heriot-Watt University


Professor Colin Moffat

Professor Colin Moffat is currently Visiting Professor, Robert Gordon University and Honorary Professor, Heriot-Watt University.

Professor Colin Moffat is the former Chief Scientific Advisor Marine to the Scottish Government. Sitting as part of Marine Scotland, he helped shape critical decisions on the future of Scotland’s marine and freshwater environment, natural resources and aquaculture and their contribution to growing Scotland’s economy while working to ensure that Scotland’s marine and freshwater fisheries science base is secure and is developed in support of those areas.

Professor Moffat worked closely with the other Chief Scientific Advisors within the Scottish Government, the Heads of Analysis and others in associated organisations such as: Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH); Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA); Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC); Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA); Natural Resources Wales (NRW); and Northern Ireland Agri-Food Biosciences Institute (AFBI). He also looked to develop active links within the research community in the UK, using the networks already established through the Marine Alliance for Science and Technology Scotland (MASTS).

BIOGRAPHY

Initially studying chemistry, Colin completed a PhD in heparin biochemistry, including links to tumour angiogenesis, before joining Torry Research Station where he investigated the structure of fish lipids and their nutritional benefits. He subsequently investigated organic contaminants in the marine and terrestrial environments, pathological samples, food-producing animals and food products with a specific interest in their biological effects on marine biota.

Colin has specialized in the methodology associated with determining the state of marine ecosystems. He leads on the production the OSPAR Intermediate Assessment 2017, an assessments of the North-East Atlantic, and Scotland’s Marine Assessment 2020. Both utilized new indicators and methodologies, providing an assessment of progress towards achieving a clean, healthy and biologically diverse ocean. Colin was also instrumental in laying some of the foundations for the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021 – 2030).

Colin continues to study contamination of marine systems by microplastics, heavy metals, persistent organic pollutants and pharmaceuticals, as well as the impacts of ocean acidification and climate change. He is a member of the Pool of Experts for the United Nations World Ocean Assessment 2 and recently retired from the post of Chief Scientific Advisor Marine to the Scottish Government.

MIRIAM WALSH
ASCUS Art & Science, Managing Director and Creative Producer


Miriam Walsh

Drawing from over a decade of professional experience within the arts and interdisciplinary practice, her research interests lie in the interface between art, society, the environment, health, and science. She joined ASCUS Art & Science in 2014, before which she curated a series of independent curatorial projects in Scotland and Ireland. As an interdisciplinary creative facilitator and producer with a background in site specific visual arts projects, Miriam has a special interest in non-traditional delivery of the arts within both gallery and non-gallery settings.

She has a background in creative learning programme development and practices, including a multitude of art-science crossover projects within her role at ASCUS Art & Science, spanning diverse creative and scientific themes and topics. Collaboration is central to her methodologies as a creative facilitator and producer, encouraging and supporting inclusive out of the box thinking and discourse throughout the all stages of design, development and delivery.

DR JIRI JIROUT
Soil Microbiologist/ASCUS Laboratory Technician until 2020


Dr Jiri Jirout

Dr Jiri Jirout worked at the ASCUS Lab as lab technician till 2020. He has experiences in soil biology research at the Institute of Soil Biology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences. His research was mainly focused on the community composition of soil microorganisms, their roles in soils and their interactions with larger soil animals.

DR SEONA WELLS

Planning and Environmental Advice Programme, Ecology and Conservation Group

Zooplankton Ecologist, Marine Scotland Science, Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen, UK

https://www.gov.scot/publications/marine-science-directory-of-scientists/pages/dr-seona-wells/

Details of specialism: As a zooplankton ecologist, I am interested in the role zooplankton play in marine ecosystem processes. The primary focus of my research to date has been to analyse the time series of mesozooplankton at the Loch Ewe Scottish Coastal Observatory site.

Within this work my particular aims and interests include:

• assessing long term variation in the zooplankton community at Loch Ewe and the environmental factors that explain these trends

• morphological taxonomic identification of zooplankton

• participating in sampling activities and contributing to SCObs quality management

• exploring the incorporation of molecular techniques to complement morphological based identifications

DR DAFNE EERKES-MEDRANO

Planning and Environmental Advice Programme, Ecology and Conservation Group

Marine Biodiversity Science Advisor, Marine Scotland Science, Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen, UK

https://www.gov.scot/publications/marine-science-directory-of-scientists/pages/dr-dafne-eerkes-medrano/

Details of specialism: As a member of the Ecology and Conservation Group at Marine Scotland Science my primary research focuses on food-webs and the links between pelagic components of north east Scotland food-webs in a context of environmental change. I also work on biodiversity of Scottish marine species and have been involved in research understanding deep sea communities in the deep waters off Scotland. My research has applications in climate change and ecosystem monitoring. I strive to contribute to the Scottish Government’s scientific understanding of marine ecosystems towards appropriate and adaptive management of these systems.

My particular focuses currently include:

• trophic interactions in pelagic ecosystems

• the role of biodiversity in the performance of ecosystem components

• community ecology

• all of the above in context of the environment and possible environmental change

DR BARBARA BERX

Environment Monitoring and Assessment Programme, Oceanography Group

Physical Oceanographer / MSS Climate Change Lead

Marine Scotland Science, Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen, UK

https://www.gov.scot/publications/marine-science-directory-of-scientists/pages/dr-bee-berx/

Details of specialism: I am a physical oceanographer interested in the ocean circulation of the sub-polar North Atlantic and European continental shelf, and its role in the global climate. I currently also have a role as the MSS Climate Change lead, with an interest in the impacts of climate change on the marine environment, the climate adaptation required to address these, and how activities in the marine environment could support the transition to a net zero society.

Within the broad topic area my particular focuses currently include:

• observing currents and water properties, with a particular focus on those originating from the Atlantic Ocean which enter the northern North Sea and their exchange with the Nordic Seas in the Faroe-Shetland Channel

• understanding how circulation and water properties change because of natural variability and because of human-induced climate change

• how variability in the physical marine environment influences the wider ecosystem

ALASTAIR CLARK

Studio Director, Edinburgh Printmakers

Lithography printer and educator

http://www.aclark.org.uk/pages/biography.html

Alastair Clark is the Studio Director at Edinburgh Printmakers, having worked for the organisation since 1992. His role involves working collaboratively with artists, initiating projects and assisting each artist in the generation of their image, he also editions their work as part of the Edinburgh Printmakers print publishing programme. He has worked as lithography specialist, collaborating with artists and producing all Edinburgh Printmakers published lithographs for the past fifteen years. Teaching stone and plate lithography courses, alongside digital imaging courses, he previously taught printmaking at Edinburgh College of Art. Alastair trained in drawing and painting at Edinburgh College of Art working with mixed-media and printmaking. He became increasingly involved in the medium of printmaking and in 1995 went on to train at the Tamarind Institute of Lithography, New Mexico.


© Sonia Mehra Chawla