Clay and paint
Credits: Bobby Sayers (lead artist); Jimmy Turner (artist/researcher); Amrita Puri (artist/researcher); Rachel Green (artist/researcher); Ripple Project staff, volunteers and members; community members from Lochend, Restalrig and Craigentinny.
The final artwork takes the form of a wishing well on which community members could hand clay artworks representing their hopes, dreams and desires for the future of the area.
Led by artist Bobby Sayers and assisted by Amrita Puri (University of Edinburgh Masters student), Jimmy Turner (Binks Hub Research Fellow), and the incredible team of staff and volunteers at the Ripple Project, community members from the local area spent a week creating over 60 clay plaques.
Each plaque expresses the hopes of the individuals and groups who explored potential futures with Bobby, with some made collaboratively over several days with one person contributing the idea and design and someone else making and painting the plaque.
It was a joy to see the community artists behind these individual plaques come into the Ripple and see them fired and exhibited. There are so many intricate and beautiful designs, as well as clear messages for what people want to see more of in the area: community, sociality, nature and the environment, wellbeing, happiness, and the role of the Ripple Project.
The communities of Lochend, Restalrig and Craigentinny, together with the Ripple Project and the Binks Hub, have created a series of artworks exploring the memories, experiences, realities, hopes and dreams of the local community.
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