Delighted to meet up with participants, supporters and colleagues who have helped us design and install 3 beautiful sculptural benches in parks across Midlothian Here we are with our new community co-designed bench in Rosewell Park! 🪑 🤩 📸craigmacleanphotography #midlothian

3 new Community-designed benches for Midlothian midlothianview.com/news/3-new-com…

Read more about our recent community project co-creating Covid Memorials for Midlothian here! 📰👇🏻 midlothianview.com/news/3-new-com…

Read all about it! 📰 Great to share the news about our community project co-creating Covid Memorials for Midlothian with MidlothianAdvertiser We've installed new sculptural benches and small gardens co-designed by 100 local residents in parks in Penicuik, Rosewell and Easthouses

Up at the Scottish Parliament for Apple Day! 🍎 Great to chat to our MSP Sarah Boyack MSP about our recent work installing 3 community co-designed memorial benches and fruiting trees at Rosewell, Easthouses and Angle Park in Midlothian 🪑🌳 #Midlothian #community #parks

All 3 of our community co-designed benches are now officially in place in parks in Penicuik, Rosewell and Easthouses and looking amazing 🤩 A big thank you to all the folk who helped co-create our memorial benches. It's been a privilege to work alongside you all 🙏🏻 #midlothian

We are truly delighted, after a couple of years of hard work on the designs, to have just installed two new unique, artist-designed sculptural benches at White Park, Gorgie Road and on Dalry Road. Have a seat! 🪑 📷Craig Maclean #GorgieDalry #community #publicart #publicspace

Great to have the opportunity to show local MSP Colin Beattie one of our 3 new #community co-designed benches installed in #Midlothian #parks! This is Easthouses Park, you can grab a seat in Rosewell Park and Angle Park in Penicuik too🪑

I'm delighted to be working as the Eco-Museum of Scottish Mining Landscapes' Community Artist, exploring the relationship between local mining, place identity, social memory and heritage Follow Mining Landscapes for info! 🖤 #Coal #mininglandscapes

So enjoying being part of Mining Landscapes wonderful project! We had a fabulous time painting our rock trail pebbles this week! #community #art

1/2 Matt BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland is counting down the final weeks of the 1st phase of #MiningLandscpes #Ecomuseum project with his #ecology reports from each of the five community Coalscapes events that took place across the summer ‘24. See 👉mining-landscapes.org/blog #coal #MiningHeritage

2/2 Matt’s series of reports and #MiningLandscapes first phase will culminate in the Five Bings co-produced art exhibition University of Stirling by Yvonne Weighand Lyle inspired by botanical gathering and #cyanotype printing at the Coalscapes events see 👉mining-landscapes.org/news

Much better weather for the The National Lottery Heritage Fund Scotland University of Stirling #MiningLandscape 2nd Coalscapes family event last week Summerlee Museum understanding natural #regeneration, #ecology treasure hunt, finishing with clay pressing, pebble painting, colouring and cyanotypes #Industriallandscape

The next event in #MiningLandscapes summer series of free family workshops exploring #ecology #geology and #industriallandscape with associated art activities is at the former site of Comrie Colliery, #Fife on Wed 30/07/25 For more info/booking👇 mining-landscapes.org/news

If you want an idea of what we get up to on our Coalscapes event have look at our YouTube video from the summer of 2024 youtube.com/channel/UCPtYG…

Still time to book tickets for #MiningLandscapes free fun family workshop exploring #ecology #geology and #landscape with associated art activities at the former site of Comrie Colliery, #Fife Wed 30/07/25. For more info/booking 👉mining-landscapes.org/news

Last chance to view #MiningLandscapes free Five Bings Exhibition co-created by Coalscapes participants from across the summer of 2024 and our project artist YWLStudios Gallery 4 Pathfoot Building Art Collection, University of Stirling A bit more info see 👉 mining-landscapes.org/news/the-five-… #Coal #MiningHeritage

Thank you to Sarah Art Collection, University of Stirling and all the Mining Landscapes team👏👏 Watch this space for updates 👀

Very many thanks for a lovely evening, it was wonderful seeing my painting again and a great privilege to celebrate our mining community 🎉🎨

The The National Lottery Heritage Fund Scotland and University of Stirling #MiningLandscapes #Ecomuseum project’s community artist YWLStudios is celebrating with Kirsty McNeill MP the loan of her painting Pit Head (inspired by the Lady Victoria) from NationalMiningMuseum to the Scotland Office. Brilliant news Yvonne.