About this Event
Simon Lee Dicker and Mella Shaw Lunchtime Screening Event
Wednesday 11 March 2026, 12.30 - 1.30pm
Research Space at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
Lunch will be provided, including vegan and gluten-free options.
Free, please book.
Join us for this informal screening event to share recent work by Studio Holder Mella Shaw and work in progress from Simon Lee Dicker.
Simon Lee Dicker is our current Reach Scotland Resident, here until 15 March 2026. During his residency he is developing further research into the West and Mid Lothian shale Bings, created through 20th century paraffin oil production. At ESW he is working through experiments with handmade glazes and clay bodies in relation to shale and other waste materials.
During this event Dicker will share a short film which is a work in progress connected to his Bings research.
Mella Shaw uses clay to make objects and site-specific installations centred around reoccurring themes of balance, tipping points, thresholds and edges. This often manifests in publicly engaged environmental work addressing the tipping point of the global climate crisis.
Shaw will show as short film which was made to accompany her exhibition Sounding Line, a large-scale ceramic installation addressing the devastating effect of marine sonar on whales and other cetaceans, made from clay that includes bone from a beached whale.
The films are fifteen minutes and six minutes long and the artists will be present at the event to introduce the works and respond to feedback.
Read more about the artists on our website.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, 21 Hawthornvale, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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