This is the second of a series of posts featuring visual Waste Stories created by students from New College Lanarkshire. In this post, we focus on the related themes of loss and inheritance, which have a special poignancy for George and myself as well as for Mia McGregor, the amazing artist and teacher who made Read More…
Author: Anna
Waste Stories from New College Lanarkshire 1 – Nicotine: the waste consequences of addictive consumption
It’s just over a week since our celebration event at the University of Glasgow’s School of Education, marking the exhibition of visual and sculptural Waste Stories produced by students at New College Lanarkshire. The artworks included in the exhibition explored waste from a variety of perspectives. This is the first post of a series of Read More…
Waste Stories from New College Lanarkshire Visual Arts – a celebration
On Tuesday, 27th August, we were delighted to host about 80 students and staff from New College Lanarkshire in the St Andrews Building of Glasgow University, as we held an event to celebrate the artwork produced during a year-long collaboration between staff at the college, led by Mia McGregor, and the Waste Stories project. The Read More…
Beside the seaside
We recently visited the beautiful Moray Coast, staying in the seaside town of Lossiemouth. We had read that the series of storms we’ve had this winter, together with high tidal surges, have been eroding the massive dunes that protect the town. George had also read that the dunes themselves were partly constructed out of old Read More…
Waste Stories from New College Lanarkshire
For the last few months, we’ve been working with students and staff in visual arts programmes at New College Lanarkshire to commision and create Waste Stories in visual and sculptural form – plastic arts to explore waste plastic … Some of the resulting work, made by students from both Cumbernauld and Coatbridge campuses, studing in Read More…
Haste Ye Back
George and I walked from Falkirk Grahamston to Grangemouth the other day. I hadn’t set out with Waste Stories intentions, but waste and stories reveal themselves in most places, whether I’m actively looking for them or not. I just can’t take the glasses off. Our route took us along the canal, which of course meant Read More…
Brattea fatua
A story about balloons has been brewing for quite a while. I’ve been promising myself to write something ever since I wrote the story about foiletti and my slightly more ranty but factual post about foiletti and balloons, and there have been various times when I’ve said to myself that I’ve got enough photos of Read More…
Back from a Waste Stories journey
We’ve been a bit quiet recently, partly because we’ve been expressing some of our waste stories energies through our daughter site, Future Archaeologies of Waste, and particularly through our work with the Solway Firth Partnership and the Scottish Islands Federation Marine Litter Working Group on Future Archaeologies of Marine Litter. In that project, we tok Read More…
Many a True Word is Spoken in Jest
contributed by George Robertson Anna has previously posted a story telling of our early encounters with disposable vapes. One fine day, walking along a very rural road in Dumfries and Galloway, we found a partly squashed mettle tube with some wires hanging out of the end, and the remains of some kind of wadding. What Read More…
Mermaids’ Tears
George and I have been going to a lot of coastal areas recently, for Waste Stories and for the Waste Stories daughter project, Future Archaeologies of Marine Litter. The litter that washes up on our shores is incredibly varied, depending on the local currents, windes, topography and geography. In some places, such as Mullock Bay Read More…
