Luis B. Guzmán

Joseph Calleja

Elizabeth Ogilvie

Elizabeth Ogilvie & Robert Page

Robert Callender

David Cass

Jean Gillespie

Paul Meikle

Chloe & Emily Charlton

Maya El Nahal

Kaori Matsumura

Martin Crawford

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Luis B. Guzmán

The print 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.

The project Bioarchitecture CosmoEcology was worked on during 2020, centered on sending marine diatoms, specifically the genus Phaeodactylum tricornutum, into a lunar sub-gravity environment aboard the International Space Station (ISS) as part of MIT’s Space Exploration Initiative, Sojourner 2020. The project aimed to investigate the potential for cultivating extraterrestrial life using space technology, while examining the profound implications of space environments on biological evolution. Over the 30-day mission, P. tricornutum was expected to undergo approximately 30 generations, with each daily cycle providing a unique window into ontological and morphological adaptations. Exposed to microgravity, cosmic radiation, and a reduced gravitational field, these diatoms would encounter evolutionary pressures absent on Earth, potentially driving fundamental shifts in their biological structure and function. In this context, these diatoms could be viewed as truly extraterrestrial, developing and evolving under conditions unlike any found on Earth. This project offered a pioneering exploration into how life forms might adapt in space, expanding our understanding of evolution beyond terrestrial boundaries. Learn more at: https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/sojourner-2020/

The artist 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.

Guzmán has two space projects: the first aboard the International Space Station (ISS), as part of the MIT Space Exploration Initiative's Sojourner 2020 project, and the second as a member of the scientific team responsible for PlantSat, a Chilean satellite dedicated to astrobiological research. He is currently developing a new project on the ISS titled The Angel of History.

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Joseph Calleja

The edition 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.

The artist 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 co-founded odekrom with mezzo-soprano Clare Ghigo and they work collaboratively on music and visual art projects. In 2023 Joseph started setting up his studio in Malta under the project 73 | 75 | 77.

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Elizabeth Ogilvie
Elizabeth Ogilvie & Robert Page
Robert Callender

Elizabeth Ogilvie

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.

In the cool cavernous interior of Ambika P3, Out of Ice presented two expansive water pools into which sculptural ice forms slowly dripped then eventually fell and broke the still surfaces; huge panoramic realtime video projections magnified the transitions from ice to water; luminous pieces of ice hung as if in mid-air; and a film projection of ice wall strata appeared motionless with only an occasional snowflake drifting by. Out of Ice was also Ogilvie’s homage to the indigenous people of the Far North. Four films made in collaboration with the Inuit of Northern Greenland reflect on their deep, sustaining relationship with ice and its significance in their cultural and intellectual identity.

Within the installation Ogilvie explored the science of ice research in a film she has edited from footage shot by a NERC funded British Antarctic Survey expedition to Lake Ellsworth, an ancient sub-glacial lake. As well as harbouring strange and unknown forms of life, the very deep lake contains the potential to provide a history of climate change on Earth going back thousands of millennia. Out of Ice is also a narrative about the life of ice; its behavioural and familiar qualities, its role as an agent of evolution and how it acts as a global barometer of temperature, economic and social change.

The artist 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.

Elizabeth Ogilvie & Robert Page

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.

Rewilding and preservation of our ocean to protect it and our planet is at the heart of all Ogilvie & Page do, producing work that engenders hope and positive thinking about our relationship with the world ocean at the same time as underlining the continued and intensifying plunder of the natural world under financial capitalism totally undermining a future where all life can flourish.

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!

This science has the potential for huge positive change in the world, but without the public having knowledge of its capacity, there is little motivation to act. Art by its very nature can encourage this agency and inclusion and is invaluable at communicating often complex cultural and philosophical concepts.

Dumfries and Galloway and the Solway Firth are fortunate to have some of the country’s key carbon sequestering coastal ecosystems. A long-term collaborator with the duo, Prof. Bill Austin, of the University of St Andrews, frequently researches the saltmarshes, kelp forests and seagrass meadows at Dumfries and Galloway’s coastal ecosystems.

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.

Robert Callender

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 project was conceived before the artist’s death in the summer of 2011. Callender and his wife Elizabeth Ogilvie discussed a retrospective of his work, in the form of a publication: A2B. He conceived of this not as a book, but more a selection of small pieces collected in a 'rummage-box' or treasure trove. A2B celebrates the life and significant output of artist Robert Callender. This limited edition, high-quality collection, enclosed in a bespoke numbered box, features books, film and many other items including an original print, editioned especially for A2B.

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.

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David Cass

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.

Among other awards, Cass has received Winsor & Newton’s top prize for his projects in watercolour and the Royal Scottish Academy’s Benno Schotz prize. He’s provided illustrations for books by Mark Haddon and Claudia Roden and worked collaboratively on climate change related projects with artists via the curatorial platform he co-manages, A La Luz.

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Jean Gillespie

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.

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Paul Meikle

The print captures a closeup extract from Paul Meikle’s original artwork, Arrows (2024).

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 stripper. 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.

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Chloe and Emily Charlton

The print is derived from an image captured in Chloe and Emily Charlton’s 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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Maya El Nahal

The artist, born in South London but drawn inexorably northwards, has been based in Scotland since 2009. After achieving their Biomedical Sciences (Neuroscience Hons) BSc, they worked in research publishing before studying for a BA Fine Arts (Hons). Currently based in Glasgow, their award-winning work has been shown internationally, and their writing published in zines, magazines, and books.

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Kaori Matsumura

The print will be selected at random by the artist, from a significant series stemming back to 2011.

The project overall is titled Two Stories Born from Lines. A book encompassing the series will be included with every woodcut purchase.

The artist was born in Shizuoka Prefecture in 1986 and graduated from the School of Fine Arts at Aichi Prefectural University of the Arts in 2011. She is highly acclaimed for her colourful works that mainly use printmaking techniques. She has participated in exhibitions in various locations, including the Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. She is now based in Shizuoka Prefecture.

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Martin Crawford

The print is from a new, limited edition of seven created by Martin Crawford – English literature teacher turned artist.

The project explores the differing visual languages of large scale, public shrines and memorials, and small, intimate shrines – the kind that might be found at a roadside or on a pilgrimage route. The stillness and solidity of one versus the chaos and ephemerality of the other. Codes of symbolism and geometry are broken down, in the inevitable forgetting of that which is designed to remember.

The artist, after a career change from teaching English literature, gained a Distinction award in his Foundation Year and graduated with a First Class Honours Degree from Duncan of Jordanstone. He was awarded the prize for top graduating student, as well as several exhibition opportunities and selection for the Royal Scottish Academy New Contemporaries. Since graduation Martin has exhibited around the world in solo and group shows and had shows in Chile, Japan and Scotland in summer 2024. He was awarded the prestigious Royal Scottish Academy Art Prize for his large installation in New Contemporaries.

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