Edinburgh Festival

Natura Sensus explores relationship between plants and people

  • Source: The List (Issue 662)
  • Date: 27 July 2010
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This article is from 2010.

Natura Sensus explores relationship between plants and people

Edinburgh-based 'Hortisculpturist’ Mairi Gillies at Art Festival

Natura sensus is the current exhibition by Edinburgh-based ‘Hortisculpturist’ Mairi Gillies, whose work explores the relationship between plants and people in sculptural installations created from plant material. Here she tuns her talents to our Q & A

5 words to describe your show at Atticsalt
In the image of nature.

4 visual artists who should be better known than they currently are
Jessica Harrison, Jock Mooney, Stuart MaCaffer and Rabiya Choudhry.

3 shows in this year’s Edinburgh Art Festival programme that particularly excite you
Edinburgh Printmakers Prints of Darkness (I’d love to buy some of ‘The Lonely Pipers’ work); Katie Orton’s work in Magazine 10 at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop and the temporary work by Jim Lambie that’s showing in Jupiter Artland Year Two.

2 artists who have been the most influential on your work
Richard Long and Christine Borland.

1 word that sums up how you feel about making art
Whole.

Mairi Gillies: Natura sensus, Atticsalt, 225 2093, until 4 Sep (not Sun, Mon, Wed), free.

This article is from 2010.

More: Visual art, Art Festival, Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh Festivals, Mairi Gillies, Natura Sensus, Previews, Sculpture

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